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Film History:. Appeal: Accessibility (eBay) Old films are hypotexts Trans-historicity. Basic approaches:. Biographical history : directors, starts, photographers Industrial and economic history : organisation and business Aesthetic history : form, style and genre - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Film History:
Appeal:
• Accessibility (eBay)
• Old films are hypotexts
• Trans-historicity
Basic approaches:
• Biographical history: directors, starts, photographers
• Industrial and economic history: organisation and business
• Aesthetic history: form, style and genre• Technological history: materials and machines• Social/cultural/political history: the context
• > Combinations and dialectics
Basic filmhistorical questions:
1. How have different ways of using the film medium become common and widespread through the times?
Narrative structures and styles with specific uses of mise-en-scene, light, locations, costumes, camera, editing, sound and genres
Basic filmhistorical questions:
2. How have the conditions of the film industry – production, distribution, projections – influenced the use of the medium?
E.g.:The studio-system with division of labour, independent filmmakers, delays of technology and ways of projections
Basic filmhistorical questions:
3. How have international tendencies arisen and become dominant in the use of the medium of film in the film market?
E.g.:
The national and the international
The western genre:
samurai films, spaghetti western, potato western, Klöse western
Periods:
1. Early film:1880s - 1919
2. Late silent period: 1919-1929
3. Development of sound: 1926-1945
4. The periods after WWII : 1946-1960s
5. Contemporary film: 1960s – now
From Kristin Thompson and David Bordwell, Film History An Introduction
Structures:
Chronology, what becomes before what?
Structures:
Chronology, what becomes before what?
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Causality:
Individuals: methodological individualism (the great man)
Groups: methodological collectivism (institutions, movements, schools)
Structures :
Chronology, what becomes before what?
+
Causality:
Individuals: methodological individualism (the great man)
Groups: methodological collectivism (institutions, movements, schools)
+
Influence (e.g. from one director to another)
Structures :Chronology, what becomes before what?+Causality: Individuals: methodological individualism (the great man)Groups: methodological collectivism (institutions, movements, schools) +Influence (e.g. from one director to another)+Tendencies and generalizations: hypotheses that are verified, e.g. the spread of colour
film between 1940 and 1960
Structures :Chronology, what becomes before what?+Causality: Individuals: methodological individualism (the great man)Groups: methodological collectivism (institutions, movements, schools) +Influence (e.g. from one director to another)+Tendencies and generalizations: hypotheses that are verified, e.g. the spread of colour
film between 1940 and 1960+Periods: internal and external, (overlapping)
Structures :Chronology, what becomes before what?+Causality: Individuals: methodological individualism (the great man)Groups: methodological collectivism (institutions, movements, schools) +Influence (e.g. from one director to another)+Tendencies and generalizations: hypotheses that are verified, e.g. the spread of colour
film between 1940 and 1960+Periods: internal and external, (overlapping)+Importance: monuments of film history, based on:Artistic valueInfluenceThe typical example
MonstrologyFrom Carroll, Noël, The Philosophy of Horror, Routledge, London 1990
• Monsters:• challenge human cognition and mode of thinking• come from outside the human world• are disgusting
• Three types of monsters:• Fusion monsters, e.g. a zombie which is fusion of both living and
dead• Fission monsters, e.g. a werewolf, which fusion of human and
wolf, but separated by time: a wolf by full moon only• Magnification monsters: large and many, e.g. giant ants