Category: Week 6 (10/1 + 10/3) • Editing II: “Alternative” Forms
Form and Realism in Film
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 MorePerspective and Realism in Film
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 MoreThe Cycle of Ideas and Reality through Film
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 MoreDoes regularity destroy art and what truly is cinema?
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 MoreEisenstein & Bazin: a Bit Muddy
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- 2 of 2
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