This week’s reading was a bit more difficult for me than our typical textbook reading. I had to reread sections of the articles multiple times to fully understand exactly what the author was arg...Read More
In A Dialectic Approach to Film Form, Sergei Eisenstein believes in the idea of marrying art and science. He utilizes suggestive editing and the conflict between what is real and what is not to demons...Read More
Article : https://www.biography.com/actors/rock-hudson-coming-out-aids All That Heaven Allows is a romance movie of the 1950s, meticulously focusing on the usage of colors and continuity editing to em...Read More
While reading this week’s passages, I couldn’t help but think of a quote I once came across: “Are we an identity with ideas and experiences conformed to it, or are we ideas and experiences f...Read More
When reading the first reading, A Dialectic Approach to Film Form, the part of the text that stood out to me the most was the idea that art should have no set form and regularity destroys art. This st...Read More
I would like to believe that everybody else struggled with the readings as much as I did, so I will provide a brief summary of Eisenstein and Bazin’s respective ideas. It appears that Eisenstein...Read More
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/oct/06/rock-hudson-secret-sex-life-all-that-heaven-allowed During the 1950s, Rock Hudson was a popular “masculine and All-American” film heartthrob. L...Read More
These two videos show different examples of alternatives to continuity editing. For Starters, it shows an eyeline is an imaginary line that shows where a person is looking. In films eyelines are match...Read More
All that Heaven Allows Article At the onset of watching Douglas Sirk’s All that Heaven Allows, I was immediately drawn to the stark contrast of the opening scene’s color pattern. Cary Scott exits ...Read More
Link to article: https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/comment/bradlands/all-heaven-allows-douglas-sirk-mise-en-scene#:~:text=articles%20%2F%20Comment%20%2F%20Bradlands-,All%20that...Read More