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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Writing. Caruso examines the social mores of their respective contexts while combining the traditional conventions of crime writing with their own unique twist. Caruso’s Disturbia depicts a new high tech world of voyeurism; directly parallel to Rear Window but with the added social facts of modernity and new technology to appeal to a younger audience. The protagonist and amateur sleuth Kale‚ being “6 months shy of eighteen” is judged as an undependable
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door‚ gets in a brief fight with two‚ and it ends with one of them falling out the window. The one who surrenders‚ tells Shaft that a Harlem gang leader named Bumpy Jonas‚ was looking for Shaft‚ and he wanted the two men to bring him into his office‚ and use necessary force. When Shaft is taken in for questioning by the police‚ he blames the assailant who surrendered‚ for throwing the attacker out the window‚ Lt. Androzzi and his superior know that this story does not add up and‚ may be false
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Lambo‚ Ellonah Mei B. PSYCH 1 (7:30-10:30 TTH) BSBA 2 SECRET WINDOW The movie is about writing and the insanity of writers. For those of you unfamiliar with the process...imagine spending months or even years of your life working on a painting that you yourself can never see. You become so close to what you create that you have no idea if it’s any good‚ and the growing doubt of your own ability along with the fear of wasting so much time and effort will most definitely have you pulling your
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from framing to camera angles to soundtrack‚ Hitchcock had a plan with his films and he pushed to get his ideal end product. In Hitchcock’s second making of The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) there were many themes presented throughout the film. The opening sequence of the film sets up a theme that in this world you cannot trust anybody by their looks. The first frame in the movie shows an orchestra which you assume is playing for the soundtrack then the camera slowly pans left to focus on a man
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In the 1950’s film Rear Window‚ director Alfred Hitchcock sets his entire work looking through a man‚ L.B. Jeffries’ rear window. Because of his broken leg‚ Jeffries is confined to his apartment‚ and even to his wheelchair. It is here‚ in his apartment‚ that the protagonist watches‚ or even spies on his neighbors. He draws conclusions on these people‚ but from a distance: across the apartment-building courtyard. In addition to this physical distance separating Jeffries from his neighbors‚ his perspective
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Rear Window is a 1954 suspense film‚ which was directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It was written by John Michael Hayes. The film starts James Stewart‚ Grace Kelly‚ Wendell Corey‚ Thelma Ritter and Raymond Burr. The plot of the film is about a photographer who confined to a wheel chair after being in a racecar accident because he was trying to take a picture. Jeffries is the main character the one confined to a wheel chair is also in love with Lisa Fermont his girlfriend. However‚ Jeffries does not want
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The film I will be analyzing is an Alfred Hitchcock film: The Lady Vanishes. It’s about an old women Miss Froy‚ who befriends a wealthy young girl names Iris on the train‚ but later disappears on the way to their destination. The specific scene I will be talking about s where Iris and Gilbert‚ a person Iris seeks for help fight against the culprit‚ who kidnapped Miss Froy. In this 1938 film editing wasn’t the best because there wasn’t much technology and equipment to work with. But there are techniques
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one victim‚ Charlie Horman‚ an American writer and journalist who was disappeared by the Chilean military. He is intently watching the scene in front of him‚ which is visible to the audience as a distant‚ distorted reflection in the glass of the car window. The tense‚ ominous music that plays during the scene initially contrasts with the innocuous image of children playing soccer. They focus shifts momentarily‚
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best attributes. This lack of knowledge allows the viewer to use their own imagination and speculate as to what might or might not have become of certain characters. Vertigo boasted several different themes. However‚ the "Ideal Woman Lost" theme was the most prevalent ("Handout #1"). This theme was brought on by an obsessed "everyman" type. Jimmy Stewart‚ otherwise known as Scottie in the film‚ played this "everyman" type whose personality was maliciously twisted into an overly obsessive man
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