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Critical Approach to Cinema films
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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 1
12/10/2012

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Battleship Potemkin
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Cinematography/Editing (Soviet montage)
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M
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Sound, offscreen space, graphic match, camera angles
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Philadelphia Story
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Continuity editing, music, blocking, lighting
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Citizen Kane
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Deep focus, triangle blocking, low camera angles, fetishes, non-diegetic insert, Oedipal structure
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Double Indemnity
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The abyss of desire, film noir, supermarket scene
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Bicycle Thieves
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Italian neorealism/neutral transparency, back and forth movement
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Singin' in the Rain
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The signifier and signified, myth of spontaneity, myth of integration, musical as a ritual that involves celebration of shared beliefs and values
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Vertigo
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POV shots/subjective camera, abyss of desire, feminism
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Le mépris
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Against Hollywood conventions, graphic matches
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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
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Static shot/staring/long shots, shooting through frames, sound
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Blue Velvet
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Mise-en-scène, seedy underbelly
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The Thin Blue Line
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Not cinema-verité, people turn into characters
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The Piano
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Moving camera, binary oppositions, narrative structure
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Pulp Fiction
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Mise-en-scène, absence of organizing structures, cartoon/comic book cinematography
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