Post by hobie16 » Thu Mar 27, pm. Post by Purpura » Fri Mar 28, am. Post by Purpura » Fri Mar 28, pm. Post by hobie16 » Fri Mar 28, pm. Users browsing this forum: Google [Bot] and 12 guests. Stupid Guest Tricks Stories about guest behavior in theme parks. Skip to content. Quick links. They provoke and contest the familiar notion of Israel as home, by introducing the disturbing notion of the Israeli Mizrahi as homeless. They pose new theoretical and cultural questions regarding the multiple identities of Israeli Mizrahim.
Most important, while they explore new ideas of home, Mizrahi films provide to American, non-Israeli audiences, a window to uncharted landscapes of difference. The direction for the future must be more films by and about Mizrahim—films that place Middle Eastern and North African Jews at the center. A broader cinematic vision within Jewish-subject film reduces the burden placed on Mizrahi filmmakers to represent Mizrahi culture at large; it validates and encourages Mizrahi audiences who finally get to see their culture on screen; and for the Ashkenazi community and the film community at large, it offers a deeper understanding of the diversity within Jewish culture.
Israeli Culture. Jewish film festivals are wildly popular--and for some moviegoers, are a major expression of their Judaism. Modern Israel. We use cookies to improve your experience on our site and bring you ads that might interest you. Join Our Newsletter Empower your Jewish discovery, daily. Sign Up. Discover More. When editing was still a very new technique, many directors used rhythmic editing to dictate the pace of their films. What can Editing achieve, why it is used and why is important?
Aim: To introduce Mise-en-Scene. Mise-en-Scene Pronounced meez ahn sen, it is a French term and originates in theatre. Of all the technical aspects mise-en-scene. In the Lesson we watched a few scenes from the original film Scarface where the song Tonys theme was being played. As a class we then had discussed how. I think I. Film Topics: Acting Mr. Introduction Film acting is a complex and variable art which can be broken down into four categories:.
Have you got the talent? Do you know what you want to do? Film Editing The joining together of clips of film into a single filmstrip. Settings and Sets viewing cue Describe, with as much detail as possible, one of the sets or settings in a movie you watch for class. Other than the actors, which features of the film seem most important? Explain why. The setting refers to a fictional or real place where the action and events of the film occur. The set is, strictly speaking, a constructed setting, often on a studio soundstage; but both the setting and the set can combine natural and constructed elements.
For example, one setting in Citizen Kane is a Florida mansion, which, in this case, is a set constructed on an RKO soundstage and based on the actual Hearst estate in San Simeon, California. Dalloway and formally by a muted color palette.
Historically and culturally, sets and settings have changed regularly. The first films were made either on stage sets or in outdoor settings, using the natural light from the sun. Realism is the term most viewers use to describe the extent to which a movie creates a truthful picture of a society, person, or some other dimension of life.
One of the most common, complicated, and elusive yardsticks for the cinema, realism can refer to psychological or emotional accuracy in characters , recognizable or logical actions and developments in a story , or convincing views and perspectives of those characters or events in the composition of the image.
A combination of selection and artifice, scenic realism is most commonly associated with the physical, cultural, and historical accuracy of the backgrounds, objects, and other figures in a film. The Blind Side , for example, set in an affluent American suburb, may seem realistic to many Americans but could appear to be a fantastic other world to farmers living in rural China.
The setting of a ship on the open seas might suggest danger and adventure; a kitchen set may connote comfortable, domestic feelings. A drugged glass of milk helps the amnesiac hero remember his past. In this movie about the joys and generosities of cooking, a kitchen knife is a simple instrumental prop. In this film, too, a glass of milk is as potent a prop as a razor blade [Figure 2. Even natural objects or creatures can become props that concentrate the meanings of a movie: in E.
When E. Props appear in movies in two principal forms. Instrumental props are those objects displayed and used according to their common function. The distinction is important because the type of prop can characterize the kind of world surrounding the characters and the ability of those characters to interact with that world.
In addition to their function within a film, props may acquire significance in two other prominent ways.
Cultural props, such as a type of car or a piece of furniture, carry meanings associated with their place in a particular society. In Far from Heaven , the television console signifies the middleclass s lifestyle that the heroine comes to find oppressive [Figure 2. In Easy Rider , the two protagonists ride low-slung motorcycles that clearly suggest a countercultural rebellion.
In contrast to Figure 2. Contextualized props acquire a meaning through their changing place in a narrative. In the first film, three different romances are linked through their connection to a beautiful Rolls-Royce. The second film follows the path of a Nicolo Bussotti violin from seventeenth-century Italy to an eighteenth-century Austrian monastery, to nineteenth-century England, to the Chinese Cultural Revolution in the twentieth century, and finally to a contemporary shop in Montreal, Canada [Figure 2.
Some films play specifically with the meaning a contextual prop comes to acquire. In Ronin , a mysterious briefcase unites a group of mercenaries in a plot about trust and betrayal, but its secret becomes ultimately insignificant.
In what ways is it significant? Does the prop function as an instrumental prop, a metaphorical prop, or both? In a film like Kind Hearts and Coronets , in which Alec Guinness plays eight different roles, the shifting performances of the actor may be its greatest achievement. The changing significance of a violin dramatizes how different contexts make meaning of objects.
The voice, body, and eyes of Marlene Dietrich become the signature vehicles for her dramatic performances as an actor and character in her breakthrough role.
Joel Grey is the master of ceremonies whose own stylized performance introduces a film replete with stylized performances on and off the stage. Woody Allen has made a career of developing characters through the performance of a strident, panicky voice and bodily and eye movements that dart in uncoordinated directions.
Additionally, different acting styles define performances. With stylized acting, an actor employs emphatic and highly self-conscious gestures or speaks in pronounced tones with elevated diction; the actor seems fully aware that he or she is acting and addressing an audience. Recognizable actors associated with particular character types or minor parts are sometimes referred to as character actors. They usually appear as secondary characters playing sinister or humorous roles, such as the bumbling cook in a western.
Supporting actors play secondary characters in a film, serving as foils or companions to the central characters. James Earl Jones plays Terence Mann, a supporting themes. In the hands of a strong actor, such character who serves as a parallel and counterpoint to the desires and choices of the as James Earl Jones in a supporting role in character played by the leading actor, Kevin Costner.
In Field of Dreams, the writer that Jones plays, central character or actor in an Terence Mann, fulfills his fantasy of entering the field and joining the baseball assigned film.
Why or ality to large crowd scenes. Actors are frequently cast for parts precisely because of their association with certain character types that they seem especially suited to portray due to their physical features, acting style, or previous roles.
In The Bridges of Madison County , the story of a male photographer and a female immigrant who meet and fall in love in the isolated farmlands of Iowa, there are no characters other than those played by the stars Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep for most of the film; this focus on their interactions intensifies the story.
In a way, this film becomes the story of two stars creating an exclusive world bracketed off from other lives and characters. Recognizing and identifying with Rick in Casablanca implies, especially for viewers in the s, a recognition on some level that Rick is more than Rick, that this star-character in Casablanca is an extension of characters Bogart has portrayed in such films as High Sierra and The Maltese Falcon A similar measuring takes place as we watch Eastwood and Streep.
In this example of social blocking, family on cultural recognition of the rock star persona of members are positioned tightly around the father in a subtle expression of Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones. We understand familial structure. Social blocking describes the arrangement of characters to accentuate relations among them. In Little Women , family and friends gather around the wounded father who has just returned from the Civil War, underscoring the importance of the familial bonds at the center of this society, yet reminding us of his absence through the rest of the film [Figure 2.
Graphic blocking arranges characters or groups according to visual patterns to portray spatial harmony, tension, or some other visual atmosphere. Fritz Lang, for instance, is renowned for his blocking of crowd scenes: in Metropolis , the oppression of individuality is embodied in the mechanical movements of rectangles of marching workers [Figure 2.
Both forms of blocking can become especially dynamic and creative in dance or fight sequences.
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