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Film Theory An Introduction Through The Senses (Chapter 6; Acoustics and…
Film Theory An Introduction Through The Senses
Chapter 1
Window and Frame
Frame: 1 Formalist/Constructivist ; 2. Armenheim ; 3. A "presentation"/ struture
Open Film World: World could ebb and flow without camera ; 2. Window
Arnheim 1904-2007 1. Formalist. Film should exist within its own reality
Eisenstein 1898-1948; Father of montage. Loved psych like Pavlov. Intellectual montage
Window: 1. Realist ; 2. Bazin ; Screen becomes transparent; 4. Voyeurism
Closed Film World: All Diegetics exist in film world ; 2. Frame
Andre Bazin 1918-1958: Realist ; Hated propaganda films ; neo realist
Chapter 2 Door: Screen and Threshold
Screen: membrane, a control of information release ; Protects viewer ; Allows Space
Threshold: Separates and Connects simultaneously
Paratexts: Discusses text that surrounds another ; movie poster ; character
Bakhtin: Believed every text had relation
Post-Structuralist; how is knowledge understood and created
Narratography: " a reading of the image and its transitions for their own plot charge." (52)
Door: The transport of the sub conscious mind of the viewer onto the screen
Story(Fabula): comes from plot, allows viewer to understand events
Plot(Syuzhet): The order of planned events
Chapter 5
Skin
Creed (1993)
Fear of the abject
Naficy (2001)
Separation of body and other
Sobchack (2004)
Experience by perception and memory; Phenomenology
Marks (2000)
Haptic Visuality
Williams
Body Genre
Horror; Porn; Drama
Makes the body of the viewer react without full consciousness
Chapter 3
Mirror; Face and Close up
Apparatus Theory; relationship between the projection , screen, and spectator
Primary Identification: Coming to terms with the idea of a film and camera movements
Secondary Identification ; Identifying with the characters in the film
Balazs (1884-1949) Close up brings true rooted emotion out in humans
Chapter 4: Cinema as Eye
Apparatus Theory : Chapter 3
Suture ; continuity editing
Panopticism: acting while being watched ; Big Brother 1984
Interpellation: idea out into mind
Mulvey: Film Form
Male Gaze: In every film; Perspective
Women = erotic objects of man
Chapter 6; Acoustics and Space
Spatial Phenomenon
Feeling of space; Acoutmetre
Silent Cinema
Viewer had to pay attention more; imagination used more to create dialogue and unheard foley
Sound Cinema (1927)
Some loved it (Bazin)
Some Hated it (Arnheim)
On Screen/ Off Screen
What is heard and originating from a visible source in frame and what is not
Chion
Acoustmetre
Sound has no visible origin yet we except it in the film
Sobchack
Surround Sound
3D Sound; 3 point stereo system that is made to envelope the viewer in waves of sound
Image and Sound are a complement of each other
Chapter 7: Cinema as Brain - Mind and Body
Propaganda and Cult Films
Live in our memories
Post Paratext
Effect us
Five Concepts for Connecting Mind and Cinema
Image = Metaphor
Eisenstein; Intellectual montage
2D evokes emotion or deeper thought; on purpose; made for humans brains
Munsterberg (1910) Photoplay
Psychotechnology; Film was code to evoke whatever wanted out of human
Metz; Mulvey; Baudry; Deluze
Interoperation in the Flow film
The act of being aware of viewing an image; no longer in film
Bazin
No Attachment to POV
Abstract image that no one has any precursor to so everyone accepts it; Aliens
Mental Image or Reality
Deluze
Issues with movement and Time
Was their meaning behind the abstract image?
Could the mental be real?
Munsterberg (1910)
Films had to made for humans
Had to model the way the brain thinks; Like Machines in order to work
Psychotechnology
Chapter 8: Digital Cinema and Film Theory- The Body Digital
Munsterburg
Manovich; Cubitt
Virtual Reality; imaginary reality;
Augmented Reality: both actual and virtual
Media Convergence ; film and CGI
Sobchack; The morph
We merge with time, and time merges with us
Remediation: Bolter/ Grusin
Old theory can spark new advances or shine light on new steps
Hypermediacy; Get past limit of representation and become true to evoke repsonse
Friedberg; The virtual window; Mirror; Phenomenological
Lacan; Pixel, Vector, Cut