Week 1
Turner, Graeme. “Chapter 5: Film Audiences.” Film as Social Practice. Fourth Edition. London: Routledge, 2006. 129-175
This book explores cinema from a social and cultural perspective, discussing film as a cultural industry and examining how issues of gender, class and ethnicity impact upon representation and spectatorship.
A chapter “Film audience” talks about how important that audiences effect movie business. Origin of entertainment industry in Hollywood. We can know how a successful entertainment industry works and its facts according Graeme’s atical.
Week2
Roberts, Graham and Heather Wallis. “Chapter One: Mise en scène.” Introducing Film. London: Arnold, 2001. 3-20.
Turner, Graeme. “Chapter 3: Film Languages.” Film as Social Practice. Fourth Edition. London: Routledge, 2006. Read ‘Lighting’ (p78-80) and ‘Mise-en-scène’ (p85-86)
This book takes the study of film seriously without forgetting that it is an entertainment medium. Assuming no previous knowledge of film theory, it provides an introduction to the methods and terminology used in the study of films. It covers the main topics encountered on film courses, such as narrative, cinematography, stardom, the auteur, spectatorship, the film industry and much else. How do we study a film? What is meant by "mise en scene" or "genre" and how can we use these terms to develop a deeper understanding of films? Drawing on examples ranging from Stagecoach and Casablanca to Raiders of the Lost Ark and Pulp Fiction, it encourages the reader to start actively studying films from the outset and to develop an understanding not only of the text but also of the institutional and social context within which it is situated.
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