CTCS 190g Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Materialism, Personal Taste, Film Criticism
8 Dec 2017
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Week fourteen (or fifteen); lecture thirteen: meaning and film. The consumer is the ultimate judge of responsibility. To engage completely with a film text (and with life); to get more out of it. Film engages on intellectual, emotional, and sensual levels. The sides ain"t equal. putting ideas and opinions into words won"t always directly translate: accessibility the average person only gets about 40% of a film the first time. The more you know about life, the more you"ll get out of a movie: bad criteria for evaluation (do not critique a movie w these) ideology, tone, style, genre, director, star, cost, technology, financial or critical success. It is inspiring, stimulating, instructive, etc: originality, new formal strategies, something old in a new way, new angle on an old formula, something surprising, undermines expectations. Personality: someone made this movie to communicate their take on the world; you fee the human hand in the making.
