COMM 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Creative Camera, Fetishism, Johnny Depp
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Week 13: november 13-15: subjectivity and the self in cinema. Reading: bela balazs, "the creative camera," the close-up," and "the face of man", metz, Loving the cinema, identification, mirror, disavowal, fetishism, judith mayne, The course changes its concentration now, from a primary emphasis on the neoformal analysis of the image (the material in film art) to the analysis of the ideology of film"s image of the world. Ideology can only be represented through specific choices in form (choices in cinematography and sound, for instance), and ideology itself shapes film form, and especially, what we feel are conventional vs. unconventional choices in film form. We begin with the concept of the self, and selfhood. This film understands the world through the psyche and the gaze of a young girl. It also depicts the girl herself-- so the film is simultaneously making implicit claims about who the girl "is," and how she feels she fits into the world.
