Comments on super
fiction of middle class
-Style and
sophistication
-Worthy critical
appraisal
Dolce Vita
- Style
- Sunglasses became
style icon from this film
- Italian film that’s
reproduced
There is alot more to Italian films though
- Audiences
- historical and
social context
- economics – low
budget
Christopher Wagstaff
- Prima Visione &
Seconda
- first
& 2nd class
- middle
class sophiscated
- major
cities
- audience
select film
- Terza Visione
- 3rd
class
- rural,
industrial
- cheap
tickets
- audience
go on habit
- films were
more low budget
- Italian Working Class
- cinema
every night – had to make lots of films
- conversations,
drink and eat during the films
- can enter
at different times
- Terza Visione
- More like
tv audience, use it as a tv, would watch whatever is on
- Watch
films in different way - can go in part way through, then watch beginning of it
after.
- Filone/genre
- Similar to
the term genre but not
- Based in
the idea of geology
Examples:
- giallo
- spaghetti western
- mondo/cannibal film
-poliziottesco – police procedural
- spaghetti western
- mondo/cannibal film
-poliziottesco – police procedural
- The good bad and ugly
- use sound
- music
- lack of audience
- use of eye line and cutting
- differences in scale
- catholic references
- use of camera
- fragmentation of body
- music
- lack of audience
- use of eye line and cutting
- differences in scale
- catholic references
- use of camera
- fragmentation of body
- Focus on Giallo
- Italian for yellow
- Cheap paperback crime
and mystery novel
- Directors
Mario Bava, Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci
- Stylish
- Exploitation movies
- Gross out movies
- Similar to American grindhouse
- Wonderful titles used to sell concepts
- Titles
- Don’t tortue a duckling
- Death walks on high heels
- The Girl who knew too
much – Mario Bava
- first
Giallo made 1963
- private
detector that views all murders – American or English woman
Amateur detective
- American or British
- Creative industry
- Evoke cosmopolitan ‘
jet set ‘ life style
Mikel Koven – In depth
study into Giallo’s and the characteristics of them
Killers:
-black
gloves
-black hat
-black
overcoat
-disguises
gender
-priests
often used as part of gender confusion.
- Dario Argento
- Italian Hitchcock
- Places himself in film
- Stunning ‘ set piece’
- Shot without sound
- Worked with Sergio leone on ‘Once Upon a Time in the West’
- Son of Salvator Argento
- Brother – Claudio Argento
- Father – Asia Argento
- Wife – Daria Nicolodi
- The Bird With a
Crystal Plumage (1970)
- Stereotype
killer
- Set piece
- Subjective POV
- Killer-cam - Eye line shot
- Set piece
- Art and cultural references
- Semiotics
- Modernity and religion
- Dubbing
Product placement
In Mario Bava films there is always the placement of the product J&B Whisky in nearly all shots.
In Mario Bava films there is always the placement of the product J&B Whisky in nearly all shots.
Worth Watching?
- innovative
- necessity is mother of invention
- technical mastery
- visual mastery
- tells us about different cultures
- innovative
- necessity is mother of invention
- technical mastery
- visual mastery
- tells us about different cultures
Vernacular Film is Dead?
- multiplexes – Odeon, showcase, etc
- Cinema is seen as a special event now
- Expensive ticket prices
- There is now DVD and digital formats which can watch at home instead
- Social aspects of film watching online and in home.
- multiplexes – Odeon, showcase, etc
- Cinema is seen as a special event now
- Expensive ticket prices
- There is now DVD and digital formats which can watch at home instead
- Social aspects of film watching online and in home.
American / Canadian Giallo
- Black swan
- Death Proof
- Dressed to Kill
- Halloween
- Black Christmas
My reaction to all three film theory lectures was positive. Even though i didn't see a direct connection for me personally to my own practice, i did find the lectures interesting and learning about something new which i had never seen or taken interest in before was really good to see.
I did see that this would link into graphic design by the idea of movie posters, which a lot of the designers of these time were producing. I think that movie posters have come back nowadays and there are a lot which are produced. Personally i like the look of movie posters and would love to give it go in the near future.
As for the lectures i think that they were presented well, with the use of the film clips within them, it broke them up a little and made them more interesting. Like i said before i did find these lectures useful and thought it could be something i could look into in my own time.
- Black swan
- Death Proof
- Dressed to Kill
- Halloween
- Black Christmas
My reaction to all three film theory lectures was positive. Even though i didn't see a direct connection for me personally to my own practice, i did find the lectures interesting and learning about something new which i had never seen or taken interest in before was really good to see.
I did see that this would link into graphic design by the idea of movie posters, which a lot of the designers of these time were producing. I think that movie posters have come back nowadays and there are a lot which are produced. Personally i like the look of movie posters and would love to give it go in the near future.
As for the lectures i think that they were presented well, with the use of the film clips within them, it broke them up a little and made them more interesting. Like i said before i did find these lectures useful and thought it could be something i could look into in my own time.
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