History Of Film Final

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The Jazz Singer

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Alan Crosland 1927

The first feature-length motion picture with synchronized dialogue sequences.
A young jewish man al jolson becomes a singer.
Used Vitaphone

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Vitaphone

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Record based sound system used in WB films. started 1926.

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Blackmail!

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Alfred Hitchcock (1929)
Began production as a silent film, but was converted to sound during shooting, is considered to be the first all-talkie British film.

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Citizen Kane

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Orson Welles, (1944)

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Auture

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holds that a director's films reflect that director's personal creative vision, as if he or she were the primary "Auteur"

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Double Indemnity

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1944 Billy Wilder
Film Noir

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Bicycle Thieves

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Vittorio De Sica (1948)
Italian Neo Realism, new degree of realism,

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Cezare Zavattini

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Screenwriter for Bicycle thieves
first theorist for italian neorealism

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Italian Neorealism

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-show things as they are, not how they are seen
-to write fictions about the human side of social, political, economic conditions
-to shoot on location whenever possible
-use non professional actors
-capture and reflect reality with little or no compromise
-depict common people in everyday situations rather than the exceptional and overdressed.

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Rear Window

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Alfred Hitchcock (1954) explores voyeurism, identification, spectacle

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Jacuqes Lacan

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made the mirror phase

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3 gazes of cinema

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camera, audience, characters

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Persona

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Igmar Bergman (1966)
conciousness, self conciousness
subjectivity, objectivity
the problem of the presentation
tension between classic narrative and theme variation narrative

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Psycho

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Alfred Hitchcock (1960)
early postmodernism
tv crew, B+W, shower scene, see it from the beginning

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Pulp Fiction

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Quentin Tarantino (1995)
Post modernism

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MacGuffin

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is a plot device that motivates the characters or advances the story, but the details of which are of little or no importance otherwise.