CIN101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: French New Wave, Panavision, New Hollywood
18 Nov 2016
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1,000 - 1,200-word analysis of two or three scenes from a single film of your choice. Address one of the following topics: postmodernism, genre, ethnicity (i. e. race, gender and/or sexual identity. Provide a specific, original, and debatable interpretation of your film. Influence of post-war european cinema (e. g. french new wave: genre: neo-noir, noir conventions. Conventional beginning of hiring a private detective. Episodic, disjointed, and meandering plot: style. Image is 1. 33 wide as it is high. Standard ratio for films in the 50s. Colours of the city covers the corruption. Shadows created by the blinds like in double indemnity: themes and social issues. Social problem films (1960"s: mainstream films that dealt with race problems, sidney poitier. First african-american to win an academy award for best actor. Gordon parks jr. - 1971: superfly (dir. Los angeles school of black filmmakers (late 1970"s: charles burnett. Attention to world beyond main characters and central plot.
