If an intimate two-shot with a male is the test of an honest reality, in Ordinary People women are clearly excluded from it and the reality it represents.
What the main idea the film is representing .
If an intimate two-shot with a male is the test of an honest reality, in Ordinary People women are clearly excluded from it and the reality it represents.
What the main idea the film is representing .
Ordinary people are therefore men who are strong summary of the argument but do not know it and women who fail those men by crystdlizes the point in a single not allowing them to bond as men
It concludes that how they was before with the destructive woman or mother, make them hard to bond together.
he reacts by giggling and allowing them to pull her from the table, thus destroying the potential bond between her and Conrad, who is visibly shaken by the incident.
here shows that ideology, it look like she was allowing them pull her from table or as she explain laughed out of embarrassment but actually it is talk about sacrifices Conrad to a so-called feminine sense of propriety
The mother begins, though, to press him about his "torn shirt," and he immediately shrinks from her gaze. When he answers another demanding question by saying he hasn't played tennis in a long time, Beth snaps back, "Well, don't you think it's time you started?" appearing unusually threatening and tall as the camera holds on her from a low angle for a noticeably long time. In the background of the shot is the father, looking small and uncomfortable;
Formalism, focused on this scene.
he immediately shrinks from her gaze.
Shows he have no statu in front of her mother, shrink from her gaze, being small and less importance.
The mother begins, though, to press him about his "torn shirt,"
The mother being picky and provoked something fro Conrad.
she whisks the plate away before a close-up shows her viciously stuffing it down the garbage disposal.
This action of mother make this scene atmosphere being worse and show how bewilderment the mother id.
Comad struggles to return to "normal" life after his suicide attempt and subsequent stay in a mental hospital. A casual call from his father to come to breakfast panics Conrad, and a swift sequence of shots interweaves his distress and the mother's efficient, machinelike preparation of food.
Negatively characterization of mother, make her kid rather stay in mental hospital than the "normal"life, and and how it Comad feel when he/she is told to back home to eat.
The Not-So-Ordinary Women of Ord1nary People
after reading 102 and 03, it is talk about the female in male perspective, how bewilderment the women is,, ruin their life, "honest" look of women.
the camera places the audience at an angle so that it seems to participate in that reflection-looking either over Beckert '.s shoulder or directly into the reflection itself.
It is kind of connect to "auteur" approach linked to the director because it is what the scene, in what angle the director want us(audience) to see
Lastly, there are the carefully orchestrated mob scenes
this scene will be formalism because it focused on the mob and not the outside objects.
Lang makes it difficult in this postexpressionist movie to say whether Beckert is an evil madman or a victim of some force that runs through the whole society
It is a good way to think about it and here point out that. So when I read through now, the only thing i thought is this man is bad, insanity but didn't think he will be the victim of the society and make he this way.
Beneath his placid and calm exterior and in the midst of everyday life, the insane killer begins to throw the world into disorder.
Makes me feel like he have bipolar disorder, have different exterior ad interior. Scary!!
depict a "haunted screen" reflecting much of the unstable reality of the society
ideology approach also shows here, also later we will know that people will see the reelection of the Hitler
German culture in the 1920s and early 1930s was, as is well known, caught in a crisis. The gradual collapse of the Weimar Republic from 1919 to 1933 created a society that seemed to live in a kind of chaos
give the historical unique moment of German culture show historical approach
Lang's film is most intriguing as a reflection of a turbulent German society in the early 1930s.
it show ideology because the reflection of German society is what the direct want us to see from different perspective of the scene.
appeal to audiences of different generations and from many different countries
Here shows national cinema, it was appeal different countries, so we need to understand the background of the culture.
Fritz Lang's 1931 Mis a suspenseful and horrifya specific and accur!de ing tale of a psychotic child murderer
Genre of the film-- suspenseful and horrifying
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And these movie The Sound of Music, The English Patient, it is a more entertainment movie when we see the movie, but there is something implicit thing the author want to talk to us, the politics.
SIX APPROACHES TO WRITING ABOUT FILM
1 Formalist approach--might analyze the representation of an image of the variations of light and shadow within the film. 2 Historical approach--might show how those lighting patterns can be linked to Lang's beginning in the German expressionist period 3 "auteur" approach-- which is believed on the belief that film can be linked through the style of the director. "auteur"-a filmmaker whose personal influence and artistic control over a movie are so great that the filmmaker is regarded as the author of the movie. 4 ideological approach--trying to pinpoint what is the message or messages a film aim to communicate about its word and by implication our world. 5 Genre-- classifying films in terms of common patterns of form and content. 6 National cinema-- need have cultural background and knowing of the society of certain to analyze and help to explain narrative or else in the films..
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Given example for ideological approach, the filmmaker are avoid limiting themselves from the content of a move instead sophisticated ideological criticism relate questions about character and plot to more complex point about the shape of the narrative or the distance of the camera from the characters. Like the Feminist study, it will need to investigate then to show the feminist, when people watch this kind of film, they will think deeply that how the Female was changed through the history and think how women is today.
IDEOLOGY
It is like we need to think while we watching a film, because the way the film shows us are have different perspective, one way we see might be entertainment, funny, but they might want to reveal something.
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It is interesting to know that our essay that is purely formalist, it is true, I never thought that before, because the essay is one person made it and to development the essay, find evidence and analyze, and when someone read the essay, it is all about my idea I want to represent.
KINDS OF FORMALISM
Formalism is more focused in a scene because like the Rebel Without a Cause, James Dean's first experience when he meet the Natalie wood, even this description make me already image how he seen. It is an insightful scene bring the attention to the girl's beauty.
auteu
Auteur can identify differently by people, time and place, also auteur is more like make audience to notice how the director create his work, how film interested you, and auteur approach is for people to discover more of a director s film work not the private personal life of the director.
AUTEURS
It is mostly wide accepted approach.
Blade Runner
I think it is interesting to know that a genres changes with the time, like some movie, it can be horror, but there will have certain scene will be funny.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
It is a generic tradition film
genre
Genre is a category for classifying films in terms of common patterns of form and content.
NATIONAL CINEMAS
We need have cultural background and knowing of the society of certain to analyze and help to explain narrative or else in the films.. (ex: analyze Russia films (Alexander Dovzhenko's Arsenal) and Indian film(Satyajit Ray, Distant Thunder) ) because portray of a movies different for each country and culture.
\Villiam Fox's decision to hire F. W. Murnau and to give him virtually carte blanche in the production of Sunrise involved much more than the addition of one more "highly artistic picture" to the 1927� 1928 Fox schedule. Fox used Murnau's considerable biographical legend as part of a carefully orchestrated plan to elevate the status of his studio to that of preeminence in the motion picture industry. In the mid-1920s, Fox occupied, along with First National and Warner Bros., a middle echelon within the film industry both in terms of economic power and product prestige. (Prestige can be defined as the extent to which the films of a studio are perceived to be of "quality" in the critical discourse of the period.) ln the mid-1920s Fox was known as a producer of unpretentious, "folksy"' pictures, not highly regarded by critics but for the most part popular with the mass audience. Examining the "Best Films" lists of Film Daily Yearbook and Photoplay for 192,5, for example, we flnd that of 184 "best'" pictures cited by 184 different critics, only 9 were Fox titles; in both lists the fllrns of Paramount and MGMpredominate. In 192,5, however, \Villiam Fox launched one of the greatest expansion plans in the history of the motion picture industry. The plan eventually collapsed with the stock market crash of 1929, hut just before his downfall Fox controlled the production of Fox and MGM studios, Loews Theatres, Fox's own large theater chain, and a one-third interest in First National Theatres, British Gaumont, and assorted other holdings. The Fox drive for economic power in the late 1920s was paralleled by attempts to enhance the prestige of Fox productions, and it is in this context that Murnau's hiring and his production of Sunrise must be viewed. Fox anticipated that Murnau's production of the highly artistic
Here, the author explain the historical approach by given example of William Fox's experience, how his experience with the movie, from only nine were nominated in the "Best movie" to controlled the production of Fox and MGM studio before the stock market crashed.
FILM HISTORY
More widely use historical approach, and it is more investigate films according to their place within a historical context and in light of historical development and this type of film will have little to do with analyze but concentrate almost exclusively on historical fact and complexities.
Scarlet Street
It is a noir tragedy film directed by Fritz Lang.
noir means a genre of crime film or fiction characterized by cynicism, fatalism, and moral ambiguity.
In several examples, we triedto get you to work with these theories and to apply them.
Shows that Hall want to use the example to connect to the Saussure and Foucault's theory and then connect back into what Hall want us to know about representation.
Foucault argues that it is clear from the way the discourse of representation works in the painting that it must he looked at and made sense of from that one subject-position in front of it from which we, the spectators, are looking. This is also the point-of-view from which a camera would have to be · positioned in order to film the scene
Foucault talk about how discourse was work here and yes, it is right, because the way the paint is painted, and the perspective of painting is what the artist want to represent to us. Also it show signifer and signified here, because people need to look, to know it is a painting and have further thought about it.
in a room
It is give contextualization, because it gives a little background of the painting. Also the royal couple reflected in the mirror gives a deep meaning and some history behind it that we need to think and discover.
n 'The subject and power' (1982}.Foucault writes that 'My objective ... has been to create a history of the different modes by which, in our culture, human beings axe made subjects ... It is a form of power which makes individuals subjects
Show the connection between subject and power. Subject is what is exist in the world and the power is we, people can give meaning to individual object , make the object more historical through times.
constructionist
this is when Hall explores that how Foucault's idea was evolved by the "turn to language"and his idea was related to constructionist, gives evidence for Hall because it is what also Hall' idea was related to because Hall is support that the idea that people are giving meaning to the world.
within discourse
It show that they do not give a specific word to the meaning and knowledge within discourse, use linguistic and physical to describe it with in linguistic and physical.
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" Already in Roland Barthes work in the 1960s, as we have seen Saussure's "linguistic" model is developed through its application to a much wider field of signs and representations It created an argument that Saussure's theory is influenced by Poland Barth and later Foucault's theory is influenced by Saussure..
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" it force us to look language itself ,and not just as an empty, transparent, "window on the world." I think it is good, because we do not really pay attention to language itself, just seen as a communication tool, we should look more into language itself. Like when I look at Chinese word, a word can be separate in different part, and different radical create meaning for the word.
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Here the first sentence, it show that even the people with same culture need to share the concept map, reflect it will be more essential to share with different concept map because the difference.
we would have to treat the pictures on the screen as signifiers, and use the code of the television soap opera as a genre, to discover how each image on the screen made use of these rules to 'say something' (s:ignifieds
given example for signifier and signified, better understand the term
1981, 1985).
This example shows that Foucault's theory, better helps Hall to explain how language is regulated in different times and although the meaning changes over time but there is nothing wrong with it,
In the semiotic approach, not only words and images but objects themselves can function as signifiers in the production of meaning. Clothes, for example, may have a simple physical function - to cover the body and protect it from the weather. But clothes also double up as signs. They construct a meaning and carry a message.
It gives meaning and example for semiotic approach. And I also have my understand on it, like American flag, it is not just a flag represent the country, but also means the American dream and freedom.
Saussure called the first element, the signifier. and the second element - the corresponding concept it triggered off in your head - the signified.
Saussure's main idea is represented by this two words, signifier and signified. Signifier is what we all get the same idea, like when we see a toy and we can identified it is a teddy bear , but signified is different, because people think differently, some people will think it is for kids to play, some may think others.
Actually, of course, a language of colours consists of more than just the individual words for different points on the colour spectrum.
I feel it, because language of color is not just what is represented, red, green or yellow. It can symbolize more things, red can be stop when it goes with traffic, also can be angry when it goes with emotion.l
Table I.I Inuit terms for snow and ice snow ice siku blowing-piqtuluk -pan, broken -siqumniq is snowstorming piqtu!uktuq -ice waterimm1ugaq falling -qanik mel'-LS - to make water immiuqtuaq -is falling; - is snowingqaniktuq candle-illauyiniq light falling -qaniaraq flat-qaimiq light - is falling qaniara.qtuq glare-quasaq first layer of -in fall apilraun piled-ivunrit deep soft-mauya rough-ivwit packed -to make water aniu shore-tugiu light soft-aquluraq shorefast-tuvaq sugar-pukak slush-quna waterlogged. mushy -masak young-sikuliaq -is turning into masakmasaguqtuaq watery-maqayak wet-misak wet falling-qanikkuk wet -is falling qanikkuktuq -drifting along a surfacenatiruvik - is drifting along a surface natiruviktuaq- lying on a surfaceapun snowflake qanik is being drifted over with -apiyuaq
It can show that before Hall said people speak same language also need to share because people represent things in different ways, like snow, like in American way, we usually describe snow is frazzil ice, no matter snow is big or small; but in Canadian it also can describe as this table 1.1 more detailed way ilike blowing is piqtuluk, lying on a surface is apun.
The French and English seem to be usingthe same concept. But the concept which in English is represented by theword, TREE, is represented in French by the word, ARBRE.
I think they are important in terms of the rhetorical situation, because if we are not compare the word and not share the word, we will never knew that the concept of tree and Arbre are the same thing although we have same concept. Also shows that Hall is engage us to share
constructionist approach
It is connect to Hall, because Hall believe that people are making meaning to the world.