An interesting take on people telling you to stop analyzing every film.
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I posted to delicious.com
And We Call This Moffs Law
http://www.racialicious.com/2009/12/21/and-we-shall-call-this-moffs-law/
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January 29 2010, 10:27am | Comments »
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I posted to fadedrequiem.com
Postmodern Film, Theory & All About My Mother | June 24
http://www.fadedrequiem.com/zoetrope/?p=596
A full evening of postmodernism, theory, and Almodóvar. Only two classes left! more on Postmodern Film pastiche blank parody – take skeletal form of work & place in new context without ridicule intertextuality organization of film industry – mass production to flexible indie production exemplify postmodern themes – dystopian sci-fi=loss of faith in idea of progress upset mainstream conventions of narrative structure & characterization aesthetic features (such as those mentioned with genre) Film Theory & Criticism (a rapid overview & listing – you can look up some of the ones that I do not focus on) classic film theory – designate specific value of cinema formalist (creationist) film theory – Rudolf Arnheim, Sergei Eisenstein, Bela Balazs
cinema more than “the feeble mechanical reproduction of real life” transforms and constructs reality the how of artistic expression – editing, cinematography
realist film theory – Andre Bazin,…
June 26 2009, 1:32pm | Comments »
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