– Roff, Jeffery. “An Ethnographic Surrealist Film: Luis Buñuel’s Land without Bread.” Visual Anthropology Review, 14, no.1 (Spring/Summer 1998), 45-57. Also available at Documentary is supposed to be a serious, even educational, genre. It prompts sincere readings. Still today many… Continue Reading
Chapter 7 ‘Sound in the Cinema’ (from ‘The Powers of Sound’ to ‘An Abundance of Choices’), pages 266 – 298 Chapter 7 in FILM ART discusses sound in the cinema. Sound is a powerful film technique that engages a distinct… Continue Reading
Chapter 2: The significance of Film Form Chapter 2 in FILM ART discusses the endless choices a filmmaker has regarding the form of their film. It discusses that form, the overall set of relationships among a films parts, is of… Continue Reading
Independent film How do you define an exploitation? Not really a clear narrative – more about the visual elements Excessive You have films that are violent, then you have films that explot violence which are much more violent An exploitation filmis… Continue Reading
Some genre thoughts.. Film genres are ways of grouping movies by style and story; a “film genre” is one that can easily be grouped with a culturally familiar rubric. Film scholars tend to define genres for purposes of interpretation and… Continue Reading
Williams, Raymond. ‘Culture’ in Keywords : A Vocabulary of Culture and Society. Rev. and Expanded ed. New York: Oxford UP, 1985. p87-93 Culture: intricate historical development, used for important concepts in several distinct intellectual disciplines and in several distinct and… Continue Reading
Gomery, Douglas. ‘The Hollywood Studio System: 1930-1949.’ in The Hollywood Studio System. British Film Institute Cinema Series. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1986. p1-25 Before the coming of television to… Continue Reading
Some interesting points on Disney and Pixar – Telotte, J.P. ’”Better Than Real”: Digital Disney, Pixar, and Beyond’ in The Mouse Machine: Disney and Technology. Urbana & Chicago: University of Ilinois Press, 2008. p159-178 One of the many reasons the… Continue Reading
Taylor, R ‘Science on Television’, in A. Heck and C. Madsen (eds.), Astronomy Communication, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003 Science programming on television is on the decline. There are fewer programmes and those that remain tend to be made for wide… Continue Reading
Mediated sound is a whole different being from the visual aspect media experience. Sound can easily stand alone – but can also be accompanied with visual Sound gives us an insight into attitude, mood, geographical origin, and age. The same… Continue Reading