COM ARTS 355 Final: CA 355 FINAL STUDY GUIDE.doc
30 Oct 2014
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American movie (chris smith)-on the northwest side of milwaukee, mark borchardt dreams the american dream: for him, it"s making movies. Using relatives, local theater talent, slacker friends, his mastercard, and ,000 from his uncle bill, mark strives over three years to finish covan , a short horror film. His own personal demons (alcohol, gambling, and a dysfunctional family) plague him, but he desperately wants to overcome self-doubt and avoid failure. In moments of reflection, mark sees his story as quintessentially american, and its nature and nuance of his dream that this film explores. *a movie- a movie (bruce conner/1958) is an experimental film in which bruce. Conner put together snippets of found footage, taken from b-movies, newsreels, soft-core pornography, novelty short films, and other sources, to a musical score featuring. The film is associational, in which a number of narratively and spatially unrelated shots from a number of sources are edited together to evoke emotions and make thematic points.
