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Introduction to Film Analysis
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Course Goal = Film Analysis
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Course Goal = Film Analysis
• Identify major elements of film art• Recognize how those elements work
together• Examine a film’s organization and visual
style• Recognize historical, cultural, and
aesthetic contexts• Understand how films are made
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• Write about film• Make and argue for interpretive claims
about films
Course Goal = Film Analysis
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ideas for film analysis
1. Expectations influence filmmakers’ choices and viewers’ experiences of films
2. Filmmakers present information, elicit emotions, and suggest ideas by orchestrating details in a systematic way.
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1. Expectations
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2. The Orchestration of Detail
• Motifs• Parallels• Details and Structure
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Motif
Any detail that takes on significance through repetition.
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ParallelA similarity established between two characters or situations that invites the viewer to compare the two.
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Motifs and Parallels in Chinatown
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Motif: Photographs
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Motif: Eyes, Sight, Spying
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Motif: Water
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Motif: Chinatown
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Parallels
• Jake gets shot at in his car; Evelyn gets shot at in her car
• Jake has broken sunglasses; Noah Cross has broken bifocals
• Jake loses shoe; Mulrawy’s body found missing one shoe
• Curly’s wife has black eye; Evelyn gets eye shot out
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Are these the only ways that films can create meaning?
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The World Beyond the Film
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The World Beyond the Film
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Intertextual References: Genre