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(Reader)The 4 Genres
While Genres in film are definitely not limited to the four listed below, these four genres are very important in the landscape of the history of American filmmaking The Western – one of t... Read More
Breaking Genre Conventions (Reader)
Chapter 9 of Film Art by Bordwell and Thompson delves into the meaning behind the word “genre”. A section of the chapter that caught my eye was the part which discussed genre conventions. Though I... Read MoreExploring Genre: Unraveling Telenovelas (Reader)
Hello Class! This week’s reading is all about cinema genres. As a girl growing up in Panama, my introduction to the world of storytelling came through the vibrant narratives of telenovelas that ... Read MorePrinciples of Narrative Form (Week 8: Reader)
This week’s reading discussed narrative and how important it is in telling a story. Narratives have three main components: causality, time, and space. I never paid too much attention to any of t... Read MoreTelling a Story with Plot and Narrative (Reader)
The authors mention at the beginning of the chapter how people lined up outside bookstores when the latest issue of Harry Potter came out and started reading it as soon as they got back home. This mak... Read MoreThe Cinema of Attractions (Reader)
“The cinema of attractions” describes a unique period in film history, a time when filmmakers were more interested in engaging their audience’s senses and providing visual thrills th... Read MoreOpen-Ended Plots and Anticlimactic Endings: Narrative Form in Film
After reading Chapter 3 of Film Art titled, “Narrative Form,” I was surprised by how much we as viewers of films play a role in the process of storytelling. Although it is up to the director to ch... Read More
(Reader) Solid setup or Deus-Ex Machina?
Chapter 3 of Film Art: An Introduction (Bordwell & Thompson, 2019), discusses how character traits can act as causes within narrative. It gives the example of how in Raiders for the Lost Ark (Spie... Read More(Reader) Attractiveness & Temporal Duration
Chapter 3 of Film Art discusses the elements of narrative form, “a series of changes [that] occurs according to a pattern of cause and effect.” (p.73) The manipulation of temporal duration... Read More- 2 of 4
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