course is a theoretical approach to study films as a text. It will include an extended study of film form and provide necessary vocabulary to analyse films. There will also be an additional section on Indian cinema. 2. Text Book: David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson. Film Art: An Introduction. SEVENTH EDITION. New York: McGraw-Hill Inc.‚ 2004. 3. Reference Book: 1. Richard Maltby Hollywood Cinema Blackwell Publishing‚ 2003 2. Ed. R L Rutsky‚ Jeffrey Gieger Film Analysis: A Norton Reader Norton Publishing
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In what ways are Malaysian-made feature films important? Compare and contrast the potential impact foreign-made and locally-made films have on Malaysian audiences. According to the Oxford Dictionary‚ Films are a story or event recorded by a camera as a set of moving images and shown in a cinema or on television. Films from the first world countries which is the western countries like the United States‚ Europe countries to the Eastern countries such as the Republic of China to now the South East
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Matrix (1999). One of the first major differences between the films is the amount of close-ups that are involved in The Matrix and Metropolis. Metropolis consists of very few close-ups and an abundance of wide shots. The wide shots linger‚ giving the audience the ability to see everything happening within that frame composition instead of cutting away to a new angle. One scene in particular stands out with close-ups from this film. While Rotwang is in his lab working on the Machine Man‚ various
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Sometimes distorting it to evoke emotion‚ moods and ideas. Expressionism was mainly an artistic outlet before taking its place in film. It was used as a method of disposing with aesthetically pleasing works and focusing more on the abstract. The artist would often use bright‚ clashing colors‚ messy and jagged lines‚ and flat shapes. This could easily be translated to film to evoke a sense uneasiness‚ anxiety and fear. A great example of this would be The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari‚ it used expressionism
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Film Noir has been around for many years since the 1940’s and the 1950’s‚ during the war in America (Ricci 1). After those years they created films that were considered to be film noir‚ but they were named Neo-Noir. Neo-Noir films are post 1970 films‚ the thing that makes Neo Noir different from Film Noir is that Neo Noir films used modern technology that was unknown to Film noir films (“Difference between Noir and Neo Noir‚ 2016). There are many conventions a film has to have to be considered Film
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Over the course of Hitchcock’s film career that we have viewed in this course‚ Hitchcock’s leading women have become more substantive and developed as characters. This stark difference‚ involving both the characters and filming experiences of the actresses‚ is best exemplified through Joan Fontaine in Rebecca (1940) and Eva Marie Saint in North by Northwest (1959). CHARACTERS Though many of Hitchcock’s first leading women were not forces of nature‚ none was quite to the extent of “I” in Rebecca.
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This would make the film geared to teenage girls who has similar situations as Pariah. These identity issues can be of many reasons such as a conservative family or being casted as an outside by the general public. The word Pariah was used strongly at the beginning of the trailer to indicate that the film would be about outcast especially in the black community. Since Alike is both gay and black‚ these are the two communities that are often overlook in mainstream media. The trailer gives us an insight
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and ethnicities (the screenplay is a low concept film that focuses on the characters to display a point). The motion picture Crash manifests important themes and ideas about the 21st century American zeitgeist and import ideas about life. By textbook definition the film is considered a work of art its original and deals with the important topic‚ case in point‚ racism. Crash also it sets forth a wholesome view of life. Each character in the film is a victim of racial tensions and also demonstrated
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young age Burton has directed unique films. A great example of this is his 1982 Hansel and Gretel‚ which aired only once due to the strangeness in its entirety. Burton uses non-diegetic sounds‚ low key lighting‚ and long shots in his work to display how one who overcomes his fear of being different has the potential for success. Tim Burton‚ in Hansel and Gretel‚ uses non-diegetic sounds to grow an uneasy feeling upon the audience. Throughout the duration of the film‚ Burton developed an evil presence
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THE IMPACT OF FILM Since the start of the 20th century‚ Film has been used to reflect specific cultures as well as affect them. It is an important art form‚ a source of popular entertainment‚ and a powerful medium for educating or indoctrinating citizens because of its visual basis‚ which gives it a universal power of communication. Every country has stories to tell‚ about their past‚ present‚ and what the future will look like through their eyes. Examples of how Film has been used to reflect
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