Page Introduction to Film Art Fall 2013 Malcolm Turvey Office: Heimbold 304F Extension: 2644 E-mail: mturvey@slc.edu Syllabus Required Textbook: David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson‚ Film Art: An Introduction (New York: McGraw Hill‚ 2012; 10th edition) Class Schedule: NB: Readings marked (X) must be downloaded from MySLC Week 1 Conferences 9/10: NO CONFERENCES Screening 9/10: Collateral (Michael Mann‚ 2004‚ 120 min.) 9/11: Read: Introduction: Film as Art Film Art‚ Chapter
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“It ’s Funny Because He ’s Fat” By x A research paper submitted to x in partial fulfillment Of the requirements for PWR 1-DW Stanford University Stanford‚ California March 9‚ 2011 Introduction The quote listed in the title comes from 2009 box-office hit The Hangover. The events that incite Mr. Chow (played by Ken Jeong) to say laughing “it ’s funny because he ’s fat” feature Alan Garner (played by Zach Galifianakis) charging
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References: Boggs & Petrie‚ (2008). The Art of Watching Films‚ (pp. 26). McGraw Hill Publishing Co Cameron‚ J. (Director). (1997). Titanic [Motion picture]. United States: Twentieth Century Fox. Chaplin‚ C. (Director). (1931). City Lights [Motion picture]. United States: King Video. Docter‚ P. (Director). (2001). Monster’s Inc. [Motion picture]. United States: Pixar. Forman‚ M. (Director). (1975). One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest [Motion picture]
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Doubts Respecting Shakespeare”(1853)‚ stated his thoughts on the situation as well. “How could a man with a record of little to none education recorded wrote 37 plays‚ and 154 sonnets?” Many theories have been created over the years on the topic. Charlie Chaplin; a well known actor‚ filmmaker‚ and composer wrote in his “My Autobiography”(1964); “ I am not concerned with who wrote the works of Shakespeare … but I can hardly think it was the Stratford boy. Whoever wrote them had an aristocratic attitude
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force called COINTELPRO (Counter Intelligence Program). J. Edgar Hoover’s main objective was to neutralize any movement or individuals which he felt was a threat to National Security‚ which in most cases was a product of his own imagination. Even Charlie Chaplin was on Hoover’s list as being suspected of advocating communist propaganda. The sources I will use will be an article from Goodmen Project.com‚ whatreallyhappened.com‚ and Cointelpro - the FBI war on political
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long after military bases have been relocated.” (The European magazine‚ 2011) . America has a power‚ the ability to get people to want what it does. America first began to export some of its home grown culture abroad through films and music. Charlie Chaplin and “Westerns‚” ragtime and jazz became familiar to millions outside the country. Turn on the radio‚ check the TV listings‚ look what’s playing at the local cinema‚ pull out a computer
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1950’s. Senator Joseph McCarthy had a suspicion of communism in the United States. So he started a witch hunt to find the communists in the United States and he targeted celebrities of Hollywood such as Lucille Ball‚ Helen Keller‚ Langston Hughes‚ Charlie Chaplin‚ were all put on trial for being in cahoots with the enemy. This also parallels into Arthur Miller’s Crucible where people were put on trial based on spectral evidence such as the Red Scare when
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for some At the same time‚ many Americans wanted to enjoy themselves as much as they could by perhaps listening to the new jazz music‚ or doing the new dances such as the charleston and the black bottom. Crowds flocked to watch film stars like Charlie Chaplin and baseball stars like Babe Ruth. The emphasis on having fun and spending money has led to the 1920s being called the Roaring Twenties. However‚ for many Americans‚ the 1920s was a decade of poverty. Generally‚ groups such as African-Americans
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teachers‚ Disney would tell his classmates stories while illustrating on the chalk board (www.justdisney.com‚ para. 11). This was not all he had a knack for. Walt took a strong liking to acting‚ and he began to entertain his friends by imitating Charlie Chaplin. He‚ without his father’s knowledge‚ would
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even though there was a lot of tragic situations in The Theatre of the Absurd‚ comedy always came through well. A lot of the material used in the Theatre of the Absurd is borrowed from earlier playwrights and also cites early comedians such as Charlie Chaplin‚ The Marx Brothers and Laurel and Hardy. The Theatre of the Absurd is commonly associated with Existentialism. On stage is presented on stage the philosophy which was articulated by a French Philosopher by the name of Albert Camus. The theatre
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