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high culture vs pop culture

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popularized in 1974, Williams “1.high culture is lost, because of wide-spread popular education, popular communication systems and mass society & 2. associated with ruling class and elite, nowadays bcs of democracy has become the popular culture “
high culture - needs contextualization, understanding the political, cultural, societal broader contexts in which the films were created

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guilty pleasure
3 guilty pleasure films

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something you like, but shouldn’t
induces pleasure, but brings a lot of guilt
Superbad, US, 2007
Draft Day, US, 2014
Wonka, US/UK/Can, 2023

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1st film

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A scene of Garden of Roundhay, France, 1888
Newark Athlete, US, 1891, Thomas Edison

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First real motion picture

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Lumiere brothers, Workers Leaving the Lumiere factory in Lyon, 1895

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First paid cinema projection

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The Sprinkler Sprinkled, 1895, France

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Lumiere brothers

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  1. created the device
  2. saw the potential of cinema

Lumiere brothers didn’t see potential for cinema to create stories

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the potential of cinema

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  1. documenting lives
  2. creating stories
  3. see emotions
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Matilda effect

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Margaret W. Rossiter, 1933 - referring to Matilda Joslyn Gage’s essay “Woman as an inventor” that women are erased from history

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woman that came up with the idea of storytelling

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Alice Guy-Blache, The Cabagge Fairy, 1896, France

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cinema as entertainment

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first sci-fi movie, George Melies, A Trip to the Moon, 1902, France
Recreated by Martin Scorsese, Hugo, 2011 - portrayal of Melies

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which art is cinema?

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7th - Riciotto Camido, birth of the 6th art (FR/IT)

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film movements (definition)

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wave of films following a trend in cinema of the time; movement will focus on what cinema should be and define it

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film movements

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  1. soviet montage
  2. dogma 95
  3. German expressionism
  4. French poetic realism
  5. Italian neorealism
  6. french new wave
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soviet montage

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  1. editing against bourgeois cinema
  2. downplay individual characters
  3. overlapping or elliptical temporal (something is missing)
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dogma 95

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Lars von Trier, and Thomas Vinterberg - emphasize the authenticity of cinema, raw and get rid of artificial additions

Festen, Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark, 1998

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german expressionism

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artists inner feelings, ideas over replicating reality, characterized by simplified shapes, bright colors, gestural marks or brushstrokes -> helps artists express how they see the world, getting inside their head

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, 1920, Germany > most important of the movement
Metropolis, Fritz Lang, Germany , 1927

F.W.Murnau - most popular, first german expressionism filmmaker, became a producer in Hollywood
-Nosferatu, 1922, Germany
-Sunrise, 1927, US (Hollywood film in German expressionism)

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French poetic realism

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  1. life of little people, unusual heroes
  2. anti-Hollywood, usually with sad endings
  3. between the two world wars (1930-1939)

Rules of the Games, 1939, France, Jean Renoir
differences between upper and lower class; we focus on the wrong things –> more similarities between them

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italian neorealism

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opposite of German expressionism
- cinema of the poor
- using non-professional actors
-focusing on difficult life conditions
The Bicycle thief, 1948, Italy

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Tim Burton

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inspired by German expressionism
scouted by Hollywood
Nosferatu, 1922 = Vincent, 1982

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French New wave

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50s-60s - promoted an individualistic approach against ‘‘cinema de papa’’ - old fashioned cinema
-auteur

Francois Truffaut
The 400 blows, 1959, France (just about a guy, no purpose - runs in the water)
Jean-Luc Godard- The Thinker, Breathless, 1960, France (dies on the pavement in the end - girl chasing after)
=nontypical endings

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auteur theory

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director is viewed as the major creative force in a motion picture

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Agnes Varda

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Matilda effect
Cleo from 5 to 7, Fr/IT, 1962 - female gaze (coined by John, popularized by Laura Maurey, represents women in society

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who decides what a good film is?

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ranking
-IMDB - member-generated
- Rotten tomatoes
-2022 rotten tomatoes - happened one night, Frank Capra, 1934. US
film critics - write or publish reviews on films

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Pierre Bourdieu

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A social critique of the judgement of taste, “People with more cultural capital decie what consitutes, people with less accept the ruling class”

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British Film Institute

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analyze, promote cinema - education
ranking every 10 years
Sight & Sound (1639 participants)

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Sight & Sound

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international film magazine

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best films of all time

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  1. Vertigo
  2. Citizen Kane
  3. Tokyo Story
  5. Sunrise
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focus on 3 films, ranking changed after 2022

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  1. Playtime, 1967, France (unique film on its own)
    -23rd
    - inverted sound
    -no focus on dialogue, central character doesn’t speak
    - diegetic sound - sound is the most important
  2. Wings of Desire, 1987, Fr/Germany, Win Winders
    - divide between Germany in Berlin
    - angels document what humans are doing; angel falls in love with a human and loses his wings, transforming into a human
    - B&W - angels don’t see color, can’t feel
  3. Jeanne Dielman, Belgium, 1975, Chantal Akerman - 1st female director to have a nr. 1 female
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susan sontag

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intellectual, writer, filmmaker; the decay of cinema “For some 15 years there were new masterpieces every month, now the balance has tipped in the favor of cinema as industry”

30
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a cinema legend

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Arrival of a train at La Ciotat, France, 1896

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