Email all work to me at [email protected]
Repetition, AND the LIMITS of RESEMBLANCE
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE (Please expect minor adjustments to be made in the schedule from time to time; all changes will be announced both in class and on the class email listserv; this webpage will also be updated.)
Email all work to me at [email protected] Discussion Questions are always due by Sundays and Tuesdays by 5:00 p.m. on the assigned reading or viewing due the following Mondays and Wednesdays.
FIRST COURSE COMPONENT: Trailers and Titles
January 7:
Due Tuesday January 8 by 5 p.m.: Two discussion questions on the film, not the trailer for In a World (dir. Lake Bell, 2013), numbered one and two, and describe any three shots with film analysis terms. Put your name at the top of the document. Email all work to me at[email protected].
January 9
Required Viewing:
In a World (dir. Lake Bell, 2013). You will need to rent it online or watch it on disc.
Due Thursday, January 10 Trailer Assignment #1 Watch five film trailers from action films from the past decade. Send me titles and links to the trailers to me at[email protected]. The due dates for DQs and BWs or 3 shots are always Sundays and Tuesdays by 5 p.m.
January 11 (Nothing Required, It's Friday)
Due Sunday, January 13 by 5:00 p.m.: DQs and BWs on the Genette and Maclean reading below (January 14):
January 14:
Required Reading:
Gerard Genette, "Introduction to the Paratext" in New Literary History, Vol. 22, No. 2, Probings: Art, Criticism, Genre (Spring, 1991), pp. 261-272. Email all work to me at [email protected].
Recommended: Genette, Gerard, Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation
A classic, you have to repeat to understand
around 23:00 time stamp
Blockers Trailer / There's Something About Mary trailer
David Fincher supplement on the DVD of The Girl with a Dragon Tatroo
Due Tuesday, January 15 by 5:00 p.m.: One DQ on Citizen Kane and one DQ on the Citizen Kane trailer; find three shots in the trailer that are not in the film (see below, January 16)
January 16:
Required Viewing:
1. Citizen Kane (dir. Orson Welles, 1941)
2. The trailer for Citizen Kane.
Donald Trump Movie Review - Orson Welles' Citizen Kane
Media Whitewashing the Blood-Soaked US Military-Industrial Complex January 14, 2019
Beyond BuzzFeed: The 10 Worst, Most Embarrassing U.S. Media Failures on the Trump/Russia Story
Due Thursday, January 17 Trailer Assignment #2 by 5:00 p.m. Watch five trailers for horror films made in the 1930s. tcm.com Send me titles and links to the trailers to me at [email protected].
January 18 (Nothing Required, it's Friday.)
Recommended:
Conventional camera shots in horror movie trailers
Sizzle reels Cohen Media 2015 and 2016 as silent films (again, the montage and here cross-cutting between films, all of which get titles and reassembled at the end of the sizzle).
Monday, January 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Day! Please do not fall for the bogus right-wing "we are nto a racist country" white-washing of MLK Jr. He was always a radical, and he courageously gave this speech against the Viet Nam War shortly before he was assassinated. I was 13 years old at the time. I did not hear this speech until decades later. We have not come very far since then, imo. Even many ways we gone backwards.
Due Tuesday, January 22 by 5:00 p.m. DQs and BWs on the Genette essay for Wednesday January 23 (see below)
Wednesday January 23
Required Reading:
Recommended:
Two different titles given Genette's essay in two different translations.
"Seduction?" or "temptation?"
The final section "Genre Indications" is only in the book, Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation, pp. 93-103.
The Art of the Title (Sequence)
Venom (2018) title sequence multi-split screen montage
Homecoming (Netflix 2018) Season One, Episode 10 timestamp 24:23 multi-split-screen montage
Ramones censored and rearranged in SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME - Official Teaser Trailer
studio logo 00:24
DUE Thursday, January 24 by 5:00 p.m: DQs and Three Shots on F for Fake (dir. Orson Welles, 1976)
Friday, January 25
F for Fake (dir. Orson Welles, 1976)
Dissecting a Trailer: The Parts of the Film That Make the Cut
PICNIC (Eureka Classics) New & Exclusive Trailer
Harmful masculinity and violence
The Female Gaze? Penelope Cruz's directorial debut with husband Javier Bardem for L'Agent lingerie
Penelope-Cruzs-directorial-debut-with-husband-Javier-Bardem-for-LAgent-lingerie
The naked twist from The Man With the X-ray Eyes (dir. Roger Corman,1963)
Lost Highway (dir. David Lynch, 199?) "This Magic Moment" (Lou Reed)
Mean Girls - Trailer
Due, Sunday January 27 by 5:00 p.m.: DQs and BWs on the Stanitzek reading (see below, January 28 )
January 28 by 5:00 p.m.
Required Reading:
Georg Stanitzek, "Texts and Paratexts in Media," Critical Inquiry. (September 2005). 32 (1): 27–42
DQs due Tuesday, January 29 by 5:00 p.m. on the two F for Fake trailers, on e DQ each. Find three shots in each trailer that are not in the film.
January 30
Required Viewing:
1. The never theatrically released F for Fake trailer
2. The original trailer here
Recommended Reading and Viewing:
F for Fake: A Retrospective by Peter Bogdanovich
(a film introduction on the Criterion disc as a trailer for the film.)
One Man Band: A Documentary (dir. Vassili Silovic, Oja Kodar, 1995) on youtube as
Orson Welles missing tapes.mp4 (watch the first unumbered part link to your left and then parts 2,3,4,5,6)
Morgan Neville Goes Through the Looking Glass with F for Fake JAN 23, 2019
THEY'LL LOVE ME WHEN I'M DEAD Trailer #1 (2018) Orson Welles Netflix Movie
The Mystery of Picasso (dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1956)
Mystery of Picasso - Restoration Trailer
First Paper Due Saturday, February 2 by 11:59 p.m.
Due Thursday January 31 by 5 p.m. Trailer Assignment #3 : Watch five trailers for film noirs and neo-noirs, including Edgar Ulmer's Detour (the 4K restoration). tcm.com Send me titles and links to the trailers to me at[email protected]
February 1 (I will be at my mother's funeral in California.) But! Come to class and show the class one of the action film trailers you sent me. Each of you take a turn. And send me a selfie. That would really cheer me up.
Recommended Reading:
Theodor Adorno, "Titles: Paraphrases of Lessing"
Now you know that DQs and either BWs or 3 Shots are due Sundays and Tuesdays by 5:00 p.m.
February 4 (I will be at my mother's funeral in California.) But! Come to class and show the class one of the horror film trailers you sent me. Each of you take a turn. And send me a selfie with the class in it again. Perhaps Andres and Caroline could each take a group photo. :)
February 6
Required Reading:
Jacques Derrida and Tom Conley, "Title (To Be Specified)" in SubStance, Vol. 10, No. 2, Issue 31: The Thing USA: Views of American Objects (1981), pp. 4-22.
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February 8
Required Viewing:
The Magnificent Ambersons (dir. Orson Welles, 1942)
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Recommended Reading and Viewing:
immaculately-restored-film-lets-you-revisit-life-in-new-york-city-in-1911.html
Critical essays on the film may be found at Criterion here.
Fake titles, Montaigne's misleading titles of his Essays.
The Magnificent Ambersons resource website
February 11:
RUTH BERNARD YEAZELL, "The Art That Has No Name: Before the eighteenth century, most pictures didn’t have titles. The public gallery changed everything." December 11, 2015
At this point in the semester, I am now going to introduce a new game we will play irregularly and unpredictably. This is the game: I show you two passages, each taken from two books I've been reading recently, and will have you read them aloud in class. The passages I will show you are both good, so I expect not everyone in othe class will agree. Then you have to write down your answer. Then I will tell you the correct answer. Don't worry if you lose. I'll explain very carefully and concisely why the students who agree with me are correct. :)
Picture Titles: How and Why Western Paintings Acquired Their Names by Ruth Bernard Yeazell. Copyright © 2015 by Princeton University Press."Reading by the Title" pp. 81-96 "Reading Against the Title" pp. 124-42 "Many Can Read Print," 110-23
February 13
Barry Lyndon (dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
Based on William Makepeace Thackery's The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esquire, of the Kingdom of Ireland, an account of his extraordinary adventures; misfortunes; his suffering in service of his late Prussian Majesty; his visits to many of the courts of his marriage and splendid establishments in England and Ireland; and the many crual persecutions, conspiracies, and slanders of which he has been a victim.
February 15 (Friday)
trailer Barry Lyndon
SECOND COURSE COMPONENT: Titles, Title Sequences
February 18
Required Reading
Franco Moretti, "Style, Inc. Reflections on Seven Thousand Titles (British Novels, 1740–1850)"
Critical Inquiry, Vol. 36, No. 1 (Autumn 2009), pp. 134-158.
February 20
Required Viewing:
Far from the Madding Crowd (dir. Thomas Vinterberg, 2015)
February 22
Recommended Readings and Viewings:
Far from the Madding Crowd (dir. Thomas Vinterberg, 2015) trailer
THE GREEN INERNO - Audience Reaction Trailer (Hat tip to Devoun Cetoute)
Sometimes Titles Are the Whole Story
Making an Art Out of Credit Rolls
The Oscar for Best Film Title Sequence Goes to ...
February 25 Required Readings (write one DQ and each reading, three BIG words total):
1. Katie Trumpener Critical Response
"Paratext and Genre System: A Response to Franco Moretti "
Critical Inquiry, Vol. 36, No. 1 (Autumn 2009),
February 27
Required Viewing:
The Revenant (dir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu, 2015)
March 1
Integrated title sequence Deadpool
The Revenant | Official Trailer
March 4-8 Spring Break
March 11 End Title Sequences
Required Viewing:
Watch the main title sequence of Vertigo and the main title sequence of David Fincher's Seven at this website: art of the title. Write one DQ on each. You can choose one shot from one sequence and two shots from the other. Take your shot.
Recommended Reading:
Gemma Solana, Uncredited: Graphic Design & Opening Titles in Movies
Release Date: Sept. 7 | Warner Bros.
March 13
Required Viewing:
You Were Never Really Here (dir. Lynn Ramsay, 2018)
When do words matter, like "capitalist?" Or "dystopian"?
A classic you have to repeat to understand
around 23:00 time stamp
Repetition, AND the LIMITS of RESEMBLANCE: Looking looking head on or obliquely as different ways of understanding.
Head On Perspectives:
How to Hide an Empire: Daniel Immerwahr on the History of the Greater United States
US Rep. Tulsi Gabbard on MSNBC's Morning Joe -- Feb. 6, 2019 time stamps: 6:30 and 13:00
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez | SXSW 2019 Time Stamp 8:00
German Jewish Peace Group Wins Peace Prize; Then Attacked as being Anti-Semitic
Oblique perspectives (though narrative film):ro
Deregulated Capitalism looks like this: Risky Business (1983) Opening titles with trains and part of the R-rated borderline porn sex on a train scene. The entire sex scene with anonymously added voice-over (the voice-over is not in the film).
Analogies, metaphors, fables, allegories, resemblances and so on:
https://emersoncentral.com/texts/nature-addresses-lectures/nature2/language/#complete-essay
Chapter II Language:
It is easily seen that there is nothing lucky or capricious in these analogies, but that they are constant, and pervade nature. These are not the dreams of a few poets, here and there, but man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects.
Chapter V Discipline
The wise man shows his wisdom in separation, in gradation, and his scale of creatures and of merits is as wide as nature. The foolish have no range in their scale, but suppose every man is as every other man. What is not good they call the worst, and what is not hateful, they call the best.
Due Thursday, March 14 End Titles Assignment: Watch the end title sequences of five films on you tube. You can search "end titles" and "end credits." Send me the titles and links.
March 15
Required Viewing (No DQs): Try guessing which shots from the film are in the trailer. Which ones stand out to you, especially those that stand alone, apart from the plot. Art film genre film shots.
You Were Never Really Here (dir. Lynn Ramsay, 2018) trailer
Crank end title sequence (action films often do interesting things with subtitles for foreign languages or for a deaf mute character; Walkabout end title sequence
Gimmick: sequels inserted into the end title sequences of Marvel films. For the Procrustean template, see Venom (2018) and Captain Marvel (2019)
End Title Sequence - Captain America
Very professional looking re-edits of film sequences on Twitter: are they film criticism? A fan trailer? A fan film?
Second Paper Due March 16 by 11:59
Dissect your trailer (the one you analyzed for your first paper) If you know how to use microsoft excel, you could create a graph like the one from Silver Linings Playbook below. Or you could go back to the trailer assignment we turned in and give stamps for where the shots occur in the film. Like this. Email all work to me at [email protected].
Third Course Component: INVISIBLE PARATEXTS: DIGITAL DISC CHAPTER TITLES
http://users.clas.ufl.edu/burt/DVDbluraychaptertitles/
March 18
Nicholas Dames, "The Chapter: A History" (2014)
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March 20
Required Viewing:
A Story from Chikamatsu (dir. Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)
Live GRADING in 4314 Turlington
March 22
Required Viewing:
A Story from Chikamatsu (dir. Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954) trailer
Forced trailers on vhs tapes and digital discs, Disney being the worst offender.
Live GRADING in 4314 Turlington
Deadpool Invades Avengers: Endgame - Trailer 2
March 25
Required Reading: Dorothee Birke, "Direction and Diversion: Chapter Titles in Three Mid-Century English Novels by Sarah Fielding, Henry Fielding, and Charlotte Lennox" in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Volume 41, 2012, pp. 211-232.
March 27 Chapter titles on DVDs and blu-rays of the same film; on different editions of the same film.
Required Viewing:
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (dir. Coen Brothers, 2018) Netflix
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Recommended:
Reading Not Reading: Text and Paratexts, or the Table of Contents.
March 29
Required Viewing (No DQs):
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (dir. Coen Brothers, 2018) Netflix Trailer
Chapter Intertitles in the movie itself. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Fourth Course Component: Narrative Structure
and Trailer Soundtracks
April 1
Required Viewing
Detour (1945) opening title sequence
Detour - 4k Restoration Trailer (1945)
Recommended:
Sound Mixing and Sound Editing Trailers lifting soundtracks from other films.
Silent Film Soundtracks and Other Resources
April 3
Required Viewing:
The Favourite (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos, 2018)
Recommended Viewing:
April 5: (Friday)
Required Viewing (No DQs):
The Favourite (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos, 2018) trailer
Genette, Gerard, "Chapter 11: Intertitles," in Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation, pp. 294-318; to p. 311
April 8
Required Viewing and Listening:
Vertigo (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1957)
April 10 Required Viewing :
Vertigo Official Trailer #1 - (1958) HD
Recommended Reading:
“Saul Bass: A Life in Film and Design”
The Man Who Made the Title Sequence Into a Film Star
April 12
Required Viewing (No DQs):
The Music That Casts The Spells Of 'Vertigo'
Bernard Herrmann, Vertigo (Love Scene)
By the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
'Phase IV', Saul Bass' Forgotten Cult Classic, Gets a Second Chance
April 15 to 22 I will be in Chongping and Hang Zhou China giving four invited lectures on Shakespeare. I will have someone come to class and teach in my place with the co-leaders.
April 15
Required Viewing:
EDGAR G. ULMER, Detour (1945)
April 17
Required Viewing:
Baby Driver (dir. Edgar Wright, 2017)
April 19
Required Viewing (No DQs):
Baby Driver (dir. Edgar Wright, 2017) trailer
Opening Sequence of Drive (dir. Nicolas Refn, 2011)
Watch a Criterion, KINO, Cohen Media, or Flicker Alley narrative film we have seen in class on UF Kanopy, not on disc. But before you do, make sure that UF has a DVD of the film. I recommend that you pick a film that is between 60 and 90 minutes. The assignmnt, or exercise, has three parts: 1. Design your own chapters and chapter titles. Give time stamps and image captures for where you chapters begin. 2. Now look at the chapter titles on the DVD and compare yours to those. (You make screen captures of chapter titles on the menu and give the time stamp on the film). How long are your chapters compared to those on the DVD? How many chapters do yours have? 3. Write a 150-200 word essay explaining why you think your titles are better or worse than those on the DVD.
April 22
Required Viewing:
24 Frames (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] Abbas Kiarostami
Trailer (No DQs)
April 24 Class discussion
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Nothing below is required for this course:
It, Trailer
Inside Out US Teaser Trailer - YouTube (sizzle reel of "previously on"s)
THE NUN - Official Teaser Trailer [HD] - YouTube
The First Purge – Official Trailer [HD] - YouTube
La La Land (2016 Movie) Official Teaser Trailer – 'Audition (The Fools ...
La La Land Official Teaser Trailer #1 (2016) Emma Stone, Ryan ...
Computers are not allowed to be used in class. Please turn off your cell phones and computers before class. Take notes with paper and pen or pencil.
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956) - Trailer
"I'm Not Crazy!" Mental Illness on Film (2017)
News on the March(formerly known as "Outburts")
Poor Richard’s Almanac:
BURT’S Prognostications, Prophecies, and Predictions
Chomsky on the Watergate scandal and COINTELPRO
Since Decriminalization, 96% of People Arrested for Weed in Baltimore Are Black
GEERT LOVINK, Sad by design 10 January 2019
EP. 114 GEERT LOVINK ON “SAD BY DESIGN,” DECEMBER 12, 2018
Ocasio-Cortez Claims World Will End in 12 Years Due to Climate Change
Kamala Harris for more prisons!
"Strong" - Kamala Harris for Senate
Kamala Harris Announces Presidential Run With PLATITUDES
"Bring me the Steak au Poivre"
Recommended Reading:
Franz Kafka, "Before the Law"; "In the Cathedral" chapter of The Trial
"Peinture-écriture / Pittura-scrittura"
In the Mood for Love (dir. Wong Kar Wai, 19) Soundtracks
Walkabout
Nothing Below is Required:
Pablo Ferro, Legendary Title Designer for ‘Dr. Strangelove,’ Dies at 83
Title sequence from Goldfinger (1964), designed by Robert Brownjohn
James Bond: 50 Years of Main Title Design
James Bond Opening Title Sequences
Ludovico Einaudi, "Experience"
The Wizard of Oz "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain."
Repetition, AND the LIMITS of RESEMBLANCE,
Trump Made Kim a Movie Trailer. We Made It Better.
90s movie trailers
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/19/movies/trailers-best-worst.html
The Graffiti of the Philanthropic Class
Bad films that are also cult favorites
Animation Re-Animator
Narratology A different film
Different cuts and different versions of the same film under the same title, collected together in sets.
The Tree of Life (extended) The Tree of Life (theatrical)Creating a trailer for a film without one.
The Battle for the Best Movie Trailer Since 1990
“To Reconcile Book and Title, and Make ‘em Kin to One Another”: The Evolution of the Title’s Contractual Functions
And you may consult these essays as well, if you wish (or not):
Gerard Genette and Marie Maclean, "Introduction to the Paratext" in New Literary History, Vol. 22, No. 2, Probings: Art, Criticism, Genre (Spring, 1991), pp. 261-272
Georg Stanitzek Translated by Klein, Ellen. "Texts and Paratexts in Media." Critical Inquiry. (September 2005). 32 (1): 27–42
Cornelia Klecker, "The other kind of film frames: a research report on paratexts in film." in Word & Image A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry Volume 31, 2015 - Issue 4: Writing in Film
Sally Bushell, "Paratext or imagetext? Interpreting the fictional map" in Word & Image A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry Volume 32, 2016 - Issue 2
Alexander Zons, "Projecting the title" in Word & Image A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry Volume 32, 2016 - Issue 2
And also have in mind the chapter titles on the DVDs checked out from Smathers or sny others you may have. You will also find them listed with their time length on DVDBeaver.com
The Trial (dir. Orson Welles, 1960) and trailer
Film Noir
German Experssionism: Dr. Caligari
Alternate Endings
Alternate Prologues
Freaks (dir. Todd Browning)
Last Week on . . .
Hulu's Handmaid's Tale--end of episode 7 season two; and redited for episode 8 "last week on"
Watch five "previously on" skippable intros on a TV series.
watch a Criterion / Janus film we have not
seen for class streaming on Kanopy that is also on DVD and that
Library West has. Then pretend you are designing the chapters for DVD
or blu-ray. You have to decide how to divide the film into chapters.
How many chapters should there be? Do they have to be a certain length
of time? And then you will have to title your chapters. Once you are
finished, you can find the disc in Library West and compare the way
Criterion did it and how you did it. Does their chapter division have
a logic? If so what is it? Same questions for yours. The point of
this exercise, which I will develop in my course on film trailers next
semester is to understand the logic of the film's editing (or division
into episodes with titles, as in Andrei Rublev) and whether the
chapters and their titles are random. I would like to compare the
disc to the film to see how and where the film's divisions do or do
not not match. I then would like to see if each disc designer gets to
start from scratch or whether they have to use a template. That means
he is looking at the film as editor, jump recutting it for the viewer.
Since the disc defaults to the menu, you could bypass chapters if you
wished. But Criterion are not Disney. The more generic the film (or
TV series), the more the studio forces a pre-fab template on the newly
hired director, as in, you have to do this film, and you have to do
it exactly this way. The parameters of artistic freedom are thereby
limited to certain kinds of shots of certain length with a certain
kind so digital default so that it looks you are watching very
derivative that presents itself as new and original. The studio’s
logic is like McDonald’s: Deliver the exact same product the exact
same way. Only popcorn. So are Criterion's chapters like an indie film in
comparison to a Disney film? Is there an invisible editor designing
he chapters? Is there a credit on the disc? Ordinarily, no one even
cares what the chapter titles are. I'm also thinking of HBO TV or
Netflix original shows. I often get the sense that the director has
been told to look at this film to do this shot on his and tell the
actors to make the same gestures and facial expressions. The
screenwriter is told to look at a scene in a film and write dialogue
almost exactly or exactly like it. In other words, there is a
sophisticated recycling program in place at the start in the hope of
getting good box office? Management knows best. Is this the
culture industry? Are there templates for trailers? Does every
action movie trailer have to have the same number of shots of the same
length in a similar sequence? Does the action film the trailer for
also have a template? Comparing the disc to streamed films gives us a
way into doing criticism by X-Ray (a feature Amazon uses for trivia.)
OTHELLO by Orson Welles - NYC trailer
Blockers (2018) and the Sophisticated Vulgarity of Emojis. (See my Spring 2019 course on film trailers.)
Blockers, first ever partial film title with a (deniable) visual pun and sound effect, spelling out the true title, namely, Cock Blockers? (Cock-a-doodle-do? No, it's just a rooster, not a cock crowing.) Alternate title? Block Cock. Actually, the film seems to be about parental vagina blockers. Like parents designed elaborate chastity belts for their daughters to wear to the prom. The inversion of gender roles plays out when partying jocks make the two fathers chug beer up their asses in exchange for help blocking their daughters. The cut down title a metaphor for their symbolic castration? Moms cock block too, btw. The parents might want to watch Carrie to understand loss of virginity involves bloodloss; it's not bloodless. Another alternate title? Block the Cock. (It's just about the rooster. He is too loud.) Note the recurrent line "I'm in," as if taken from a heist or spy film (involving hacking--cracking the code-- as well as cracking the safe combination).
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Assignment for class: watch a Criterion / Janus film we have not
seen for class streaming on Kanopy that is also on DVD and that
Library West has. Then pretend you are designing the chapters for DVD
or blu-ray. You have to decide how to divide the film into chapters.
How many chapters should there be? Do they have to be a certain length
of time? And then you will have to title your chapters. Once you are
finished, you can find the disc in Library West and compare the way
Criterion did it and how you did it. Does their chapter division have
a logic? If so what is it? Same questions for yours. The point of
this exercise, which I will develop in my course on film trailers next
semester is to understand the logic of the film's editing (or division
into episodes with titles, as in Andrei Rublev) and whether the
chapters and their titles are random. I would like to compare the
disc to the film to see how and where the film's divisions do or do
not not match. I then would like to see if each disc designer gets to
start from scratch or whether they have to use a template. That means
he is looking at the film as editor, jump recutting it for the viewer.
Since the disc defaults to the menu, you could bypass chapters if you
wished. But Criterion are not Disney. The more generic the film (or
TV series), the more the studio forces a pre-fab template on the newly
hired director, as in , you have to do this film, and you have to do
it exactly this way. The parameters of artistic freedom are thereby
limited to certain kinds of shots of a certain length with a certain
kind so digital default so that it looks you are watching very
derivative that presents itself as new and original. The studio’s
logic is like McDonald’s: Deliver the exact same product the exact
same way. Although in movies, it's only popcorn. So are Criterion's chapters something like an invisible indie in
comparison to, say, a Disney film? Is there an invisible editor designing
the chapters? Is there a credit on the disc? Ordinarily, no one even
cares what the chapter titles are. They unnecessary and perhaps unhelpful paratexts. I'm also thinking of HBO TV or
Netflix original shows. Watching TV series, I often get the sense that the director has
been told to look at this Hollywood film or that film to do this shot on his and then tell the
actors to make the same gestures and facial expressions. Maybe they all watch the same scenes. The
screenwriter is told to look at a scene in a film and write dialogue
almost exactly or exactly like it. In other words, there is a
sophisticated recycling program in place at the start in the hope of
getting good box office? Management knows best. Is this the
culture industry at a really advanced stage of over rationalization? Are there templates for trailers? Does every
action movie trailer have to have the same number of shots of the same
length in a similar sequence? Does the action film the trailer for
also have a template? Comparing the disc to streamed films gives us a
way into doing criticism by X-Ray (a feature Amazon uses for trivia.)
Vertigo is a good example of a film dividing itself into sections by using fade to black as a kind of punctuation for the narrative. The device is very effective after Madeliene is dead and before Scottie finds Judy.
Second Paper (500 words) DUE Saturday April 7 by 11:59 p.m. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Your assignment is to do a close reading of an assigned text. Focus on a passage or a scene and discuss it in detail. That passage or scene is your paper topic. Cite the text or film to make your points. Develop your thesis. The text or is your evidence. If you don't know what a close reading is and have never done one before, be sure to go to http://writingcenter.fas.harvard.edu/pages/how-do-close-reading. You may also ask me for clarification. You must also know how to write a research paper, or analytical essay. You will need a title for your paper and a thesis, an argument that you can state in one sentence. Your thesis should go at the end of your first paragraph. To make sure we share the same understanding of the assigned paper, please read http://users.clas.ufl.edu/burt/paper.html before you begin writing. You may figure out your title before you write your paper, but usually, you only figure out your title after you figure out your thesis. And you figure out your thesis by writing your paper. What you think is your conclusion often needs to be moved up from the end of the essay to the front. Then you are ready to make your final revisions and add a new concluding paragraph. You may also have come up with a new title in the course of writing the paper. And then you are ready to proofread your paper. And then you will have finished writing your paper. Congratulations! :) Also, please insert image captures as needed.
Email your paper (as an attachment) to me at[email protected]). Put your name in the subject title or header of your title. Put your name in your paper.
Grading: I will meet with you in person to discuss your paper with you. PLEASE BE ADVISED: If you didn't do the asignment, a close reading, your grade is an automatic E. If didn't put your name on your paper, it's an automatic E. If you didn't have a proper title, it's an automatic E. If you didn't have a thesis, it's an automatic E. One third of your grade will be based on your title; one third on your thesis; and one third on the rest of your paper.
Live GRADING in 4314 Turlington
Fake trailers in Viet Nam film
Fake promos in Tareninto and Robert Grindhouse Fake trailers as well
Final Paper (50 words) due April 23 by 5:00 p.m. (please email it to me at [email protected]).
Yanny vs Laurel video: which name do you hear?
Oblique Perspective in Hans Holbein's The Ambassadors (anamorphosis); Jacques Derrida on oblique reading in Passion: An Oblique Offering.
E. H. Gombrich, Art and Illusion: A study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation
Ludwig Wittgenstein, "Rabbit Duck"
John Lee Hooker, Charlie Musselwhite
Gadaj?ce g?owy / Talking Heads (1980)
u can hear some of it. Hopi saying at the end. Film already New Age. IBM--sounds like voice of news anchor John Chancellor on NBC.
