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- Charlie Chaplin
- -Wrote, directed and wrote music -Came from a working class british family, immigrant, father disappeared and mother sent to asylum-->saves women in films -the gold rush, modern times, the great dictator -the tramp, little fellow
- Rudolph Valentino
- -changed male sexuality -male sexuality as female desire -sexual agression, exotic fantasy -object of gaze -foreign lover, implicit danger
- Charlie Chaplin, Modern Times 1936
- -oppressed worker -remains a gentlemen -working class hardship -sexuality and escape
- Charlie Chaplin, The Great Dictator 1940
- -sound -moves away from little tramp persona
- Charlie Chaplin, The Gold Rush
- -on location shot -romance and comedy -captured the pursuit of happiness -little tramp -costume demonstrates sentimental and victorian -mustache was pre-hitler -the frontier and upward mobility -rags to riches as individual initiative rewarded by fortune and love -realistic presentation of class system and labor
- Top Romantic Movies
- 1. Casablanca 2. Gone with the Wind -tied to tragedy -focus on partnership of couple
- Romance Idols Originally Villans
- Gable, Bogart, Brando, Valentino
- King Kong
- -empire state building represents height of american achievement -ny skyline as orientation marker -skull island sequence example of bad ethnography, islanders posses language and money but all mixed up
- King Kong (2005)& Bridge Formation
- Bridge between people and natural world
- It Happened One Night (1934)
- -suspended eroticism/desire-->blanket like walls of jerricho -magical transformation-->journey and travel, family will be won over -role reversal
- Capra Hero
- -Capracorn: man of comedic despair -emergency exit -innocence, idealism, public humiliation, reclaiming the american dream -Gary Cooper & Jimmy Stewart
- Gone with the Wind (1939)
- -epic genre -novel 1936 by Margaret Mitchell -everything big: overture, intermission, subject
- Southern Epic
- -history of nation -concerned with the american south -scenes divided by african american doing something -slavery in the filmic unconscious
- Rhett at foot of stairs
- -like library scene in that it is similar to a 19th c. novel -Rhett mocking scarlett
- Scarlett in White
- Idealization
- Scarlett in Red
- Most like Rhett
- Rhett and Ashley
- Funky gender roles
- Hattie McDaniel
- -\"Mammy\" -19th c. black face -womanly, cheerful, welcoming, robust -won oscar -dilemma of how to operate within stereotypes
- Commerical Mammy
- -Aunt Jemima -Uncle Ben
- Continuity Editing
- -film sequence are edited so that time seems to flow uninterrupted
- Montage
- -different images are assembled to build up an impression
- \"Cut To\"
- one image is suddenly replaced by another, without a visible transition
- Cross Cut
- -images cut back and forth
- Cross Dissolve
- -one image dissolves into another
- Framing
- -what\'s included and excluded in an individual shot
- Very long shot/wide shot
- -also known as an establishing shot
- Long Shot
- -head to toe
- Mid Shot
- waist to head
- Medium Close Up
- -chest to head
- Close-up
- -head and shoulders
- Extreme Close Up
- -from just above the eyebrows to just below the mouth, or even closer
- Two Shot
- -any shot with two people in it
- Point of view shot
- -a shot from a character\'s point of view
- Mise-en-scene
- -establishes mood and atmosphere
- Diegetic Sound
- -part of whats going on -ex: train whistle, birds
- Non-Diegetic Sound
- -not part of whats going on -ex: music
- Sound Bridge
- -sound from the second scene is heard before we start to see the picture from the scene
- Marketing Star Chemistry
- -studio control of couples -real life sexual relations replicated in film narrative
- Tragic Romance
- -chance and destiny (start-crossed) -barriers (economic, class, death, partner unattainable) -malign fate wreaks havoc -isolation from community -enemies -blocking parents
- Comic Romance
- -chance and destiny (inevitable pairing) -barriers (economic, class, death, partner educated and or transformed) -malign fate overcome (magical transformation, magical travel) -incorporation into community -friends -blocking parents won over and become allies
- Deep cultural narrative structure of comedy and romance
- -incompatibility of partners -unavailability of partners -reversal: love conquers all -wedding codes social assimilation and generational harmony
- Dream/Factory
- -american movies as collaborative productions -mass marketed -mass distributed and mass exhibited -vs. american movies as art
- Comedy
- -theatrical origins in immigrant vaudeville and music hall
- King Kong (1933)
- -classic horror-adventure film -raises questions about what\'s savage and what\'s civilized
- Capra Heroine
- -worldly -cynical -reclaiming the american dream
- Capra Fiction
- -sentimentalism -despair -social populism
- The War Film-Homefront Film
- -GWTW homefront film -women\'s attitude to war and their subversion aligned with African-Americans
- The War Film
- -Casablanca
- 1915
- Birth of a Nation
- 1925
- The Gold Rush
- 1926
- Son of Sheik
- 1927
- The Jazz Singer SOUND
- 1933
- King Kong
- 1934
- It Happened One night
- 1936
- Modern Times
- 1939
- Gone With The Wind
- 1940
- The Great Dictator
- 1942
- Casablanca
- 1954
- Rear Window
- 2005
- King Kong Remake
- D.W Griffith
- -original auteur -birth of a nation: full orchestra -used $ from BON to make Intolerance (Movie) -provided film grammar -claims he discovered the close up
- In the 1920
- -comedy marketing success
- The Wedding
- -social assimilation -generational harmony
- Victor Flemming
- -1939 did both GWTW and WOOz
- Confederate Flag Tattered
- -deromanticism of war
- Al Jolson & Blackface
- -not southern or american -lithuanian jew
- X+Y
- x (culture desires) + y (culture fears) x does not equal y
- Hitchcock
- -america\'s psychologist -born 1899 -irrational intruding on schizo individual -innocence falsely accused
- Hitchcock Trademarks
- -one who wears glasses sees truth -falling: fall from innocence and moral superiority
- \"Rear Window\"
- -voyerism and surveillance -shot from one pov -impotent as voyer -Hitchcock believed voyerism is a natural human trait
- Frank Capra
- -director -It Happened One Night -Italian American -Clark Gable and Jimmy Stewart
- Clark Gable
- -villian to hero -capra corn -GWTW, IHON
- Harry Cohn
- -cofounder of columbia pictures -did not get along with frank capra
- Capra\'s Emergency Exit
- -rush to a happy ending
- The Story
- -sequences of scenes
- The Scene
- -series of related shots
- The Shot
- -single continuous recording
- The Edit
- -shots put together
- The Son of Sheik (1926)
- -Rudolph Valentino -foreign lover, implicit danger -changed male sexuality -object of desire, alone -R.V. was a dancer, odd murder scandal
- The Gold Rush (1925)
- -set in alaska -social class conflicts -little tramp (little fellow) -lone prospector -comedy and social satire -romantic idealist
- Casablanca (1942)
- -Director: Michael Curtiz -Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine -Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund
- The Hitchcock Blonde
- -the heroine
- Cassandra figure in Hitchcock
- -the woman who sees the truth -almost always wears glasses
- Rear Window Women
- -artists -writer, dancer, sculptor, singer
- 1950s
- -idea of surveillance -height of freudian fascination -cold war mentality -maccarthy hearings
- The Searchers (1956)
- -John Wayne as Ethan -visually beautiful film -John Ford director -inclosure of figure in natural frame -cowboy figure fought in civil war -uses freudian symbols-->door to homestead like vagina -landscape active character in westerns
- John Ford
- -leading director of westerns
- Revisionist Westerns
- -wrestle with heritage of racism, what is american -dealing with native americans not indians -stereotype of indian has fractured subtitles used bc language is used
- Movie Musical
- -both real and choreographed with a score -triangle formation -moving in unison -most relational and collaborative -synchronism and consummation
- Arthur Freed
- -lyricist of Singin\' -part of MGM -associated with Judy Garland
- Dr. Strangelove
- -Director: Stanley Kubrick -opening scene: mama and baby whale, freudian -airplanes sexual -bomb suggests sexuality -bombs set as two breasts -failure of technology
- Mario Puzo
- -born in hells kitchen -went to college after ww2
- The Godfather
- -tension between professional ethos and domestic ethos -citrus fruits -about greed and business -director: francis ford coppola -brando and al pacino -vito corleone-->robin hood character
- 1960s foreign influence
- -Italy: Fellini & Antonioni -France: Truffaut & Godard -Sweden: Bergman
- The Godfather and Gangster
- -all gangster movies make reference to the godfather -homosocial setting -jokes made at womens\' expense -dichotomy of virgin and whore -ultimately can\'t keep business away from family life -modeled on the Odyssey -women root of conflict
- Chicago
- -juxt between real life and song/dance -insidious unpleasant aspect over the decadence -S&D are edgy -idea of female desire and female empowerment, survival, work, work that gives pleasure -phallic women (strong, upright, reach upward) -lesbian subtext in prison -final sequence with machine guns emphasizes gangster musical
- The Great Gatsby-Cars
- -recklessness -colors show personality of the characters -wilson does not own a car but owns a garage
- The Great Gatsby-Athletics
- -polo leisure sport -golf-->wealthy class -status of sports -less physical more social -\"old sport\"-->oxford
- The Great Gatsby-Eyes
- -vision and corrected vision (novel) -nick eyes of story -catching each others eyes
- The Great Gatsby-Setting and Weather
- -occurs over the summer -eat and party outside -action heating up as days heat up
- The Great Gatsby-Alcohol
- -different level of drunkeness -nick changes as he drinks -gatsby doesn\'t drink -gatsby might be a bootlegger -daisy never drinks
- The Great Gatsby-Color and Light
- -diasy and white -gatsby in dark and pink -green light
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- -famous at 23 -named the jazz age -zelda wife -everything they did was in the newspaper -at 40, wife in mental hospital -at 44, heart attack and dead
- Continuous Loop
- move, musical, movie
- 1920s-1930s
- -we\'re in the money -elaborate productions
- 1940s-1950s
- -original musical prevails
- 1960s
- -adaptations
- 1970s-1980s
- death of genre?
- 1990s
- -revived by Walt Disney revoluation
- 2000s
- -popularity increases while quality decreases
- Pre-WW2
- -Son of Sheik -Gold Rush -King Kong -Gone with the Wind -Casablanca (during) -it happened one night
- Post-WW2
- -Rear Window -Singin\' -The Searchers -Dr. Strangelove -The Godfather -Great Gatsby -Chicago
- Genre
- -things you expect to find -does it satisfy or disrupt your expectations
- Pre-Sound
- -Son of Sheik -Gold Rush
- Gangster Genre
- -italian american & cuban american -effort to assimilate through violent means
- Romantic Genre
- -barrier -separation -money -sacrafice
- Musical Genre
- -social geometry -literal pattern -harmony -social community
- Cultural Coding
- -racial difficulties reflect reality of racism -ww1 & ww2 \"wake up america\"
- Chicago 2002
- -movie musical -completely different than singin -strong women, phallic women
- The Searchers
- 1956
- Casablanca
- 1942
- SOUND
- 1927 Jazz Singer
- Casablanca 1942
- -humphrey bogart & ilsa lund -romantic tragedy and war film -love triangle -narrative structure flows through sam
- Dr. Strangelove 1964
- -director: stanley kubrick -freud -war film/dark comedy -compared to failsafe -failure of technology -arms race
- The Great Gatsby 1974
- -robert redford -romantic tragedy
- The Gold Rush
- 1925
- The searchers 1956
- -john ford -john wayne -nostalgia for frontier -odyssey -freud -monument valley, utah
- Son of Sheik
- 1926
- The Great Gatsby
- 1974
- Singin
- 1952
- The Godfather 1972
- -marlon brando -al pacino -mario puzo -francis ford coppola -gangster genre -women as whores or virgin
- Singin In the Rain 1952
- -technicolor -movie musical -harmony -pattern -song and dance consummation -gene kelly
- GWTW
- 1939
- 1934 Hayes Code
- -regulated violence, sex, language, and religion
- marsailles scene in casablanca
- -important -does not include nick -defines movie as a war film
- Swashbucklers
- -sword fights -damsel in distress -chivalry
- Epics
- -typically classical, biblical, or historical
- Rear Window
- -jimmy stewart more interested in voyeurism than grace kelly until she joins in the adventure
- Western Genre
- -nostalgia for frontier -conquer frontier -return of law and order -honor and sacrifice
- Sam in Casablanca
- -narrative structure flows through him
- Five Elements of a Romance
- 1. barrier 2. triangle 3. consummation 4. destiny 5. wound/sacrafice
- Gunfight Western
- -typical western genre with gunfight as climax
- 1968 MPAA Ratings
- -abolished 1935 Hayes Code -G, PG, PG13, R rating system
- The Gold Rush 1925
- -little tramp film -set in alaska -romantic idealist
- Son of Sheik 1926
- -Rudolph Valentino -foreign lover, implicit danger -object of womens gaze -sexual desire
- IHON 1934
- -clark gable & claudette colbert -frank capra director -romantic comedy
- GWTW 1939
- -epic -clark gable, vivien leigh, olivia de haviland -david selznick director -technicolor
- King Kong 1933
- -adventure/horror -fay wray as ann -what is civilized versus what is primitive -ny skyline -esb=skull island -poor ethnography
- Rear Window 1954
- -jimmy stewart and grace kelly -hitchcock -voyeurism -one pov -women as artists -diegetic sound