Gone with the Wind: Read “Romanticizing the Old South: A Feminist, Historical Analysis of Gone with the Wind” and agree/disagree with one point made in this article. Be sure to use examples from film to support your argument
Posted onNovember 28, 2009
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The Godfather I blog for IB Film Year 2
Posted onSeptember 30, 2009
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Jon Lewis provides a number of interesting facts about the making of the Godfather, and also analyzes the film as representative of the gangster genre. Pick one point he makes and discuss it in terms of your own Marxist/socio-cultural reading of the film
Backwards Shot List project for IB Film Year 1
Posted onSeptember 25, 2009
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Following the directions on pages 66-67 in “Text, Image, and Diagram” do a Backwards shot list for the Shower Scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho,
Start at 38 seconds with the clip from Psycho
PLEASE NOTE: YOU TUBE HAS PULLED THE METROPOLIS CLIP OFF DUE TO COPYRIGHT ISSUES. IF YOU HAVE NOT STARTED YOUR LIST YET, PLEASE DO A SHOT LIST FOR THE PSYCHO SCENE
Film theory rationale blog #1:
Posted onSeptember 10, 2009
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Film theory rationale blog #1: Take a film you have seen in the last three months and analyze it through the lens of one of the theories we have discussed/read about. Make sure that your analysis offers a definitive interpretation of your film through the theory you have chosen. In addition, for full credit, make sure to respond to at least one of your classmates blog analyses as well.
The Conversation directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Posted onJune 23, 2009
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This early film from Francis Ford Coppola won an Academy Award for sound editing. What in particular about the use of sound in this scene do you find interesting?