Thursday, 1 October 2020
AFM WEEK 4 NOTES
AFM
LECTURE 4 - INTERWAR
EUROPEAN CINEMA
- German Expressionism
- More focus on setting “Mise en
cene”
- Caligari Film
- Expressing distrust in corrupt power
- Portrays authority and corruption through the setting up of the scene where a
character is placed at a higher position than other. Motif = the triangle
- Triangle is a symbol of power but also of a knife
- About the corruption of power and how powerful people use weak people to
commit crimes
- Occurred before Nazi Germany where people signed up for it and later led to
the killing of many innocent people.
- French Impressionism & Surrealism
- Expressing emotions of characters using surroundings
- More contact with deeper soul / understanding the mind and individual
- Thus more emphasis on cinematography and editing
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, Thursday, 1 October 2020
- Impressionist Films
- J’Accuse (1919)
- Superimposition of images to tell us what the impression of the character
should be
- The Smiling Madam Beudet (1923)
- Woman that is bored in her marriage
- Extreme exposition and extreme close up
- She fantasises about a tennis player and thinks about smashing his head
- Un Chien Andalou (1929)
- Experimenting on filming a dream
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AFM WEEK 4 NOTES
AFM
LECTURE 4 - INTERWAR
EUROPEAN CINEMA
- German Expressionism
- More focus on setting “Mise en
cene”
- Caligari Film
- Expressing distrust in corrupt power
- Portrays authority and corruption through the setting up of the scene where a
character is placed at a higher position than other. Motif = the triangle
- Triangle is a symbol of power but also of a knife
- About the corruption of power and how powerful people use weak people to
commit crimes
- Occurred before Nazi Germany where people signed up for it and later led to
the killing of many innocent people.
- French Impressionism & Surrealism
- Expressing emotions of characters using surroundings
- More contact with deeper soul / understanding the mind and individual
- Thus more emphasis on cinematography and editing
1
, Thursday, 1 October 2020
- Impressionist Films
- J’Accuse (1919)
- Superimposition of images to tell us what the impression of the character
should be
- The Smiling Madam Beudet (1923)
- Woman that is bored in her marriage
- Extreme exposition and extreme close up
- She fantasises about a tennis player and thinks about smashing his head
- Un Chien Andalou (1929)
- Experimenting on filming a dream
2
