VCULT101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Stefan Zweig, Classical Hollywood Cinema, World Cinema

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Visual Culture
• Course: VCULT101
• Professor: Alice Kuzniar

Document Summary

World cinema = what is the question to which this film is the answer historical consciousness. World cinema is easier to be seen in na than the country of origin. How do our stereotypes affect how we see cinema of others. Culture, religion, history, race and language play huge role. More euro identity because it used to be a very strong national identity. Certain directors acquired fame worldwide and market their films worldwide. Circulation of films have been enabled by new technologies. Film is not a depiction of a reality but a system of signs. Constructed in a way the filmmaker is trying to imply or signify. The profilmic event is transformed by many elements into a text which is read in a way and by its own aesthetic. Cultural codes(types of cars, clothes), literary codes(narrative structures, lighting, staging, acting, choreography), cinematic codes (camera, special effects, editing)