SOCI 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cultural Artifact

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 225
• Professor: Stephen Monteiro

Document Summary

Film as an idea, way of seeing, understanding the world. Film as an object, organization of scenes( places and times) Film as an activity, interactive social medium. Film as a way to bring people together. Presenting reality, events of life to experience again and again. Ability to jump through space and time but resolutely at this world. Modern technology and modern life- film is modern and depicts the modern (modernity) Frame fragments the world montage and short scenes creates linear vision. George melies and the lumiere brothers as two early approaches to film. Importance of industry, education also exportation (cid:858)old (cid:449)hite (cid:373)a(cid:374) k(cid:374)o(cid:449)s (cid:271)est(cid:859) s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)e is (cid:271)etter tha(cid:374) (cid:271)li(cid:374)d faith. The (cid:374)e(cid:272)essity of (cid:858)fra(cid:373)i(cid:374)g the other(cid:859)- (cid:858)ge(cid:374)der role(cid:859) of ti(cid:373)e. O(cid:272)ea(cid:374) s(cid:272)e(cid:374)e (cid:449)as the o(cid:374)ly (cid:858)real(cid:859) shot, e(cid:448)erythi(cid:374)g else is theatre/ i(cid:374) a studio. Exploiting mechanisms of film(cameras, projectors) to present alternative. Uses theatre performed techniques (realism, fantasy and documentation and the imagery)