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Illusions Portrayal of Raced-Based Narrative in a Film

Posted on October 9, 2023October 9, 2023 by Ajah
This short forty-minute film briefly tackles themes of strategic social masking, as we follow a white passing-Black woman who climbs the latter in Hollywood to hold an executive position at National S... Read More

Sound in the Cinema(Reader)

Posted on October 2, 2023October 3, 2023 by Sammy Lichtenstein
This week’s reading about sound dove into how crucial sound is to the viewing experience of a movie. Unlike Mise en scene and cinematography, the sound is usually a postproduction-based endeavor... Read More

(Reader) Sound in Cinema

Posted on October 2, 2023October 2, 2023 by Logan Viera
After reading chapter 7 of Bordwell, Thompson, and Smith’s “Film Art: An Introduction”, there appeared to be a couple questions/topics areas that jumped out at me: While reading the ... Read More

(Reader) Sound in Cinema

Posted on October 2, 2023October 2, 2023 by Sophia Kim
Through this week’s reading, I realized that there were so many strategic sound placings or characteristics about sound that I had been taking for granted. For example, while I did realize the d... Read More

Sound in Cinema (Reader)

Posted on October 2, 2023October 2, 2023 by Amy Nunez
Sounds in the film play an important role in how we view a movie. It can shape or prolong our expectations. Sounds and even silence can create different feelings. A quiet passage can create an almost ... Read More

(reader) Mise-en-Scene: Rear Window

Posted on October 1, 2023October 1, 2023 by Nikki
Mise-en-scene is a French term that means “the action of putting onto the stage”. Mise-en-scene plays a crucial role in filmmaking by shaping the visual and emotional aspects of a film. It is an e... Read More

(Reader) The Influence of Sound in Film

Posted on September 28, 2023September 28, 2023 by Jordyn Roskind
While the visuality of a film often attracts the audience’s eyes, sound is also an important element of a film as it further advances the storyline. Filmmakers are forced to make decisions about... Read More

(Reader) Einsteins Dialectic Approach to Film Form and Bazin’s Myth of Total Cinema

Posted on September 28, 2023September 28, 2023 by Dylan McDonald
What I found most interesting about Sergei Einstein’s Dialectic Approach to Film Form was its relationship between conflict and art. Einstein set out to analyze and fully explicate his... Read More

(Reader) Bazin’s challenge

Posted on September 26, 2023September 26, 2023 by Asa Thomson
Andre Bazin discusses Georges Sadoul’s book on the origins of cinema, emphasizing a reversal in the conventional understanding of the relationship between economic, technical evolution, and imag... Read More

Reading Eisenstein’s dialectic montage film language and Bazin’s total cinema theory

Posted on September 25, 2023September 25, 2023 by Liz Zuo
From reading ‘A Dialectic Approach to Film Form’, I discovered that the whole idea of Sergei Eisenstein’s theory towards arts, more specifically filmmaking, is the presentation and construction ... Read More
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