Film 1101: Lecture 1
Film studies compares to english literature and how it deconstructs and
analyzes things.
We will be learning how to deconstruct cinematic texts looking at things
like:
-audio\visuals
-how they communicate ideas using a vocabulary of technical
terms
Purpose: gaining a deeper meaning on what cinema is as an art and
cultural artifact.
We look at the positions of films in societies.
-Does it reject values and morals from certain societies?
-Does it depict the world around us?
-Does it propose a better world than what we live in or a worst one?
-Why do filmmakers make these choices? do they have the power to
shape our society or our world?
Ideological film criticism:
the bias’ the attitudes and the beliefs of the filmakes are always present
embedded into what we're watching no matter what type of production it
is whether it is a documentary, true story, etc. The order in which things
are presented are criteria that changes the way you may see or how we
feel about the subject matter.
EX: Filmmakers can take things like schools and depict it as a happy
place where you learn ANOTHER filmmaker may take the same place
Film studies compares to english literature and how it deconstructs and
analyzes things.
We will be learning how to deconstruct cinematic texts looking at things
like:
-audio\visuals
-how they communicate ideas using a vocabulary of technical
terms
Purpose: gaining a deeper meaning on what cinema is as an art and
cultural artifact.
We look at the positions of films in societies.
-Does it reject values and morals from certain societies?
-Does it depict the world around us?
-Does it propose a better world than what we live in or a worst one?
-Why do filmmakers make these choices? do they have the power to
shape our society or our world?
Ideological film criticism:
the bias’ the attitudes and the beliefs of the filmakes are always present
embedded into what we're watching no matter what type of production it
is whether it is a documentary, true story, etc. The order in which things
are presented are criteria that changes the way you may see or how we
feel about the subject matter.
EX: Filmmakers can take things like schools and depict it as a happy
place where you learn ANOTHER filmmaker may take the same place
