Film Language The Semiotics of Cinema What is Film Language? Ways in which films tell stories and affect the viewer; the elements of filmmaking employed to tell the story in a particular way Christian Mertz’s theory: film was not a language system but a language. French film theorist Conventions Customary ways of doing things‚ rather than grammatical rules A way in which something is usually done‚ especially within a particular area or activity Example: Canadian tire money‚ where it
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The assumptions this film of High School Musical makes of education or teaching is that they are committed to their extracurricular activities. In the movie made it where if one was into sports and that sports was a big deal and that one could be very passionate about. That meant that the students and faculty had very high amounts of school pride into their basketball team. The boy’s basketball team of East High School showed that they were very excited that they were in the big championship game
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defining performances. Film is one of the most impactful medias of all time; filling our worlds with unthinkable thoughts‚ inconceivable worlds and generally taking us away from the harsh realities of daily life‚ Giving us a great escape to the stuff of dreams. However‚ beyond the glittering lights and propaganda‚ women face inequality in the film industry; both in general‚ both in unrealistic beauty standards and lack of females in the industry. Since the first flicker of film‚ women have been second
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be one of best musicals ever made and one of the funniest movies of its time. This statistic can be attributed to the musical numbers that it incorporates. Singin’ in the Rain uses popular music of its time that people may already be familiar with. It works to seamlessly integrate them into a musical about the transition of film from silent to talkies. Additionally‚ the film is able to utilize them in such a way that every single song contributes to the overall effect of the film in some way. Each
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ADAPTATION AS INTERPRETATION The debate on cinematic adaptations of literary works was for many years dominated by the questions of fidelity to the source and by the tendencies to prioritize the literary originals over their film versions. (Whelehan:2006) Adaptations were seen by most critics as inferior to the adapted texts‚ as “minor”‚ “subsidiary”‚ “derivative” or “secondary” products‚ lacking the symbolic richness of the books and missing their “spirit”. (Hutcheon:2006) Critics could not forgive
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Review of the film The film‚ which really starts a few years before 1492 and closures a few years after the fact‚ begins off with a great deal of grave and traditionally successful scene-setting as Columbus’ child and biographer‚ Fernando‚ reviews his father‚ the visionary of inconceivable dreams. The myth of Columbus-as-legend propagated in 1492: Conquest of Paradise just on the grounds that I didn’t generally think about chronicled correctness. But rather I focused around the moderate moving plot
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Vivre Sa Vie In the nouvelle vague film style in Cleo de 5 a 7 and Vivre Sa Vie‚ isolation is a common theme expressed by two different walks of life through the unfortunate circumstances of two individual women. Both females have a physical terminal end in sight‚ but the struggle with internal isolation is what connects them together. Vivre Sa Vie objectifies and sexualizes Nana‚ the main character‚ from the minimizing documentary-like style of the film to her sudden cause of death. Her prostitution
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Textual Analysis in Film Camera Analysis ← Composition ← Framing ← Camera Height ← Angle of view ← Depth of field ← Choice of lens Mise en Scene Film Analysis questions ← Dominant: Where is our eye attracted first? Why? ← ← Lighting Key: High Key? Low Key? High Contrast? Some combination of these? ← ← Shot and Camera Proxemics: What Type of shot? How Far away is the camera from the action? ← ← Angle:Are we ( and the camera)
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Blaxploitation Blaxploitation began in the early part of the 20th century when films in Hollywood hit a new high. This exploitation of Black America began when films started to characterize Black’s as what “White America” saw them as. The stereotypes of these incompetent‚ unintelligent and hyper-sexualized people were depicted throughout the film industry. Black’s were given these roles in different films. The roles were anything from playing the role of a pimp‚ hoe or criminal. If they weren’t
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image of the male body‚ drawing from the analysis of examples from Top Hat (1935) and The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). Steve Neale argues that ‘it is very rare to find analyses that seek to specify in detail‚ in relation to particular films or groups of films‚ how heterosexual masculinity is inscribed and the mechanisms‚ pressures‚ and contradictions that inscription may involve’ (Cohan and Hark‚ 1993:9) thus expressing the ‘problem of masculinity’ in classical Hollywood cinema and that the way
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