HUMN 2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Intertextuality, Film Stock, Romance Film
8 Feb 2018
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It is the largest studio in the country: over 700 film produced in italy during the facist period. Italian neorealism (1942-1952) in-location shooting: documentary photographic style grainy b/w film stock, post-synchronized sound, neorealism was the most influential style of post-war italian and possibly, european real-time duration cinema. Film noir a stylistic and narrative tendency the term originates in relation to 1940 american films that mostly involve crime, detective stories, social problems i(cid:374)spired (cid:271)(cid:455) hard (cid:271)oiled a(cid:373)eri(cid:272)a(cid:374) dete(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e fi(cid:272)tio(cid:374). Key features of expressionist cinema theatrical and innovatice set designs: use of distorted or exaggerated visual motifs, highly stylized form of acting, disregard for realism, pre(cid:448)ale(cid:374)(cid:272)e of (cid:858)(cid:373)ad(cid:373)e(cid:374)(cid:859) e(cid:454)pressio(cid:374)ist fil(cid:373)s (cid:894)a (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t of the ti(cid:373)es? (cid:895) Ossessione as italian (cid:858)fil(cid:373) (cid:374)oir(cid:859) (cid:858)real ti(cid:373)e(cid:859) is ossessio(cid:374)e (cid:271)o(cid:374)da(cid:374)ella re(cid:373)arks (cid:862)the fa(cid:373)ous s(cid:272)e(cid:374)e that takes pla(cid:272)e after (cid:271)rega(cid:374)a(cid:859)s (cid:373)urder: a (cid:449)orld-weary giovanna enters her squalid kitchen but falls asleep from exahaustion. Intertextuality an overt connection to other film to establish a dialogue and invite reflection.
