1. By: Olivia Adamovich, Joaquin Puente, and
Matt Kmiecik

2.  What do film critics do?
 Describe
 Analyze
 Interpret
 Evaluate

3.  His Girl Friday
 Cause and effect chains
 North by Northwest
 Building suspense
 Do The Right Thing
 Setting and deviation

4.  Hitchcock made thrillers, not mystery films
 Suspense
 Conventional patterns
 Motifs
 Restricted knowledge

5.  Search pattern
 Journey pattern
 Romance
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KAjkS3RD9Y

6.  Rodger Thornhill is constantly in DANGER
 Growing suspicion of Eve
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g458w2X9uHc

7.  Does Rodger Thornhill know…
 less than every character?
 the same as every character?
 more than every character?
 Point of View shots

9.  Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
 Contrasts norms of classical style narrative
 Clarity and Unity
 Ambiguity of narrative

10.  Crucial action
▪ Brief and Confusing
 Jump Cuts
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KUVwKp6MDI
 Violation of continuity

11.  Elliptical Editing
 Jump Cuts
 Other alternative styles of narration
 Avoidance of match on action
 Violation of 180 degree rule
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATqTWlx
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12.  Web-of-Life plot
▪ Many Characters
▪ Brought together by a single common event
 Crash directed by Paul Haggis
▪ Different stories
▪ Paths cross
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEQ_ftk
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13.  Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
Directed by Dziga Vertov
 Normally technique of editing but in this film is the filmmakers power to
control our perception by editing and special effects
 Double exposure effect
 Pixilation
 “Kino eye”- Russian for cinema
Important genre of documentaries in the 1920’s called the city symphony
 Travelogue
 Candid scenes (sometimes staged)
Explicit and implicit meanings
 Missed by people who do not read Russian

14.  Explicit- to praise and criticize parts of the Soviet society after the revolution
 Has machines and human labor - push towards industrialization
 Crosscutting – leisure and hard work
 Implicit – argument for Vertov’s approach to film making
 Opposed narrative form and professional actors so that techniques of camera and
editing use would have an effect on the audience, but wanted to control the mise-en-
scene
 Wanted viewers to see a product of specific labor
 Same shots in different context – difficult film
 Thin Blue Line
Directed by Errol Morris
 Narrative form of documentary
 Shapes our attitude toward the character by the play of narration and knowledge

15.  Takes us through step by step of the criminal case with details and stories
events
 Denies viewers scenes for determining what happened the night of the
murder so you can concentrate on the details given
 They want us to be jurors and decide what the final decision should be
 The play with narration shapes our attitudes toward the characters
 who we want to like and who we dislike

16.  Understanding ideology involves analyzing
for and style to create meaning
 Chapter 2 types:
 Explicit
 Implicit
 Symptomatic
 Referential

17.  Meet me in St. Louis
by Vincente Minnelli
 Musical with family and future creates ideological framework to have meaning and
impact
 Motifs stress the family's comfortable life
 Light, eating, and singing can be seen as reassuring to the viewer
 American ideology
 Family and future to gain meaning and impact
 Doesn't change peoples way of thinking, but reinforces aspects of
dominant social ideology
 American values of how at home life is supposed to be

19.  Raging Bull
 By Martin Scorsese
 Is violent, but no one dies
 Other then murders, this film draws conventions of cinematic realism
to make it disturbing and violent
 The use of narrative and style help the ideology of the “American life”
 Plot structure of rise-and-fall