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- what is ideology and how does it relate to film?
- ideology is values beliefs and ideas it relates to film because directors and actors can add their own ideology to the film (how a director/actor chooses to act about certain situations etc.)
- 3 levels of ideological explicitness? with examples?
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neutral such as disney films
latent such as pretty woman
explicit such as do the right thing. - the godfather idealogy of women
- women have no power, sunnys wife knows he is cheating, michael lies to kay
- frida idealogy of women
- women are stong independent she moves out when diego cheats on her, her art is good and she can make money on her own.
- how when and why italian neorealism emerged as a film movement.
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why; to portray contemporary society/ cultures. when:the late 1940's
how: trained film makers using light camera equiptment, locationshooting , more more of documentary style buy was not a documentary. - what disciplines would an auteurist look for in a film?
- style of one director,beliefs, doesthe person work in genre?
- how does genre relate to auteur theory?
- when a director writes the whole movie within one genre. ex: psycho.
- what disciplines would a realist look for in a film?
- neorealism, look for content rather than form and technique- actual events are importatnt
- what disciplines would electicism look for in a film?
- a mixture of all the different films and theories/ perspectives usually film the critic/ reviewer.
- disciplines binary dualism
- pairs of opposites (young/ old) (rich/ poor) ex. in grey gardens the mother accepts geting old, the daughter fights it. godfather michael moves over to the "dark side"
- disciplines historiography
- aesthetic, economic,technical,socio-political.
- disciplines psychoanalysis
- mother loves son daughter loves dad
- four types of historiography?
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aesthetic: critical reception.. was it good?
economic: did it make money?
technical: any technical innovations?
socio-political: social-political context at the same time? - theoretical frameworks "isms" discuss a film within one example.
- godfather ...
- show familiarity of grey gardens and frida.(understand movie) basic plot etc.
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both realist films
frida plot points: when Frida gets in an accident, when Diego FUCKS Frida's Sister & Frida walks in - plot points
- event that changes someones behavior in a film
- eternal sunshine plot points
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joel sees the memory erasure card.
joels memory tells him to go to montauk - godfather plot points
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michael senses his father is in danger
"im with you pop" - grey gardens plot points
- none
- frida plot points
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when she gets in the accident.
seeing diego with her sister.