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 1 Part
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The Help Film makers should definitely have the ability to reflect on the greatest triumphs and tragedies of our time by effectively presenting them through the use of film techniques. The Help‚ directed by Tate Taylor‚ allows us to on the greatest triumphs and tragedies. Tate Taylor presents these triumphs and tragedies in his 2011 film‚ The Help by using a range of characters and situations‚ as well as through film techniques such as dialogues‚ camera work and costume. The film maker‚ Tate Taylor
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Examine the extend‚of and the reasons for family diversity in today’s society. Many sociologists argue that the nuclear family is a universal and dominate institution however there has been an increase in diverse family types for various reasons. Examples of these diverse families are lone parents‚ reconstitutions and cohabitation families. Although most people experience life in a nuclear family‚ it represents only a stage in their life cycle. Social and demographic changes have meant that an increasing
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The movie The Help‚ produced by Kathryn Stockett‚ depicts the average lifestyle of African American women during the 1960’s‚ at the advent of the Civil Rights Movement.The most conventional job for an African American woman during this period was a maid for an American family. The movie has a social message and “explores race relations in the 1960’s South by telling the stories of four black housekeepers and the white women for whom they work ” (“Former Slave Sues Author For False Portrayal” 1)
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The help is about black maids working in white households in Jackson‚ Mississippi‚ during the early 1960s. In this film‚ the African-American women‚ also known as “The Help‚” would take care of the children as if they were their own. In the early 1960s‚ almost every middle-class white family had help work for them so that the white women didn’t have to work or take care of their children all on their own. There was extreme racial segregation that now‚ is still in the process of being solved. Speaking
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Vickie Intro To Communications Dr. Nikki Hodgson March 25‚ 2013 Film Analysis “The Help” How did people use non-verbals to communicate their status and identities in The Help? (e.g.: artifacts used by wealthy/poor‚ language tones/volume‚ dress codes‚ appearance‚ rituals‚ etc.) The lines between black and white are clearly delineated by more than color in this film. While the socialite white women‚ even on routine days for mundane activities‚ dress in pretty pressed dresses‚ manicured
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When looking into studio system and what it really was for its time can be a rude awakening. Having some if its strong leaders holding up to theaters and the form of business that they were conducting were at its best interest. Studio system had a lot to do with films that were before 1950 and began in 1920’s roughly. This was an industry that for some reason had it worked out to make a ton of money with little to no risk. They were the “major” players of Hollywood. This was because they were “block
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Describe the nature of information system that helps or hinders what you do on a daily basis Information systems are growing much larger and faster than ever before. These systems did not just start appearing within the last few years‚ they have been around since early American settlements (Rice‚ 2002). Information system defined by Joe Valacich and Christoph Schneider (2010)‚ “are combinations of hardware‚ software‚ and telecommunication networks that people build and use to collect‚ create
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Australian film industry with the Hollywood studio system. You will need to approach this in relation to finance/funding structures. “Show me the money!” When Tom Cruise’s character exclaims this in Cameron Crowe’s Jerry Maguire‚ audiences can now look upon it with a slight sense of irony. One of the most notorious Hollywood catch phrases of our time can succinctly sum up the state of Hollywood’s production system in one line. In comparison to Hollywood and its vast output of film media‚ Australia
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“The Studio Years” This week’s chapter focused on the Studio years in Hollywood during the 1930s. One specific section that I thought would be helpful to my topic‚ was the section the discussed Hollywood: The Triumph of the Studio System. This section will help me elaborate more on my second horror film The Mummy and how it was filmed in 1932 by Universal. This section discusses in depth the 1930s and how the Great Depression affected the film industry. Hollywood: The Triumph of the Studio System
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