LIT 155A Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Film Noir, Establishing Shot, Primitive Accumulation Of Capital
Document Summary
La folie almayer (chantel akerman: style: formalism, texture, angle, minimalism, two main diegetic axes, exchange of women. Two men in between: race, whiteness, caught between two worlds, prologue, establishing shot, spectatorship, shot/reverse shot, murder: brings plot to a close - logic only apparent in retrospect. Film noir: begin with a death: mise-en-scene: trance like state. Painted spectacle- don t get confused with reality: close up. Smiles when her husband is dead: dynamics of the film. Spanish song being over written in english: what does it say about nina, brown v. s. White: culture of brown people being overpowered by prestigious white people, economic difference, repressive state, clear function, sanctioned by the state. Included police, armed bodies: ideological apparatus, cinema, subjects within the state, hetero normativity, type a = reproduces normativity, type b = attacks normativity form and content, not enough to be political. Notre de musique: film seminar: shot/reverse shot, prefatory images.
