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Prezi Lectures on Writing
"'The Netflix Effect': Why Western Women are Heading to South Korea in Search of Love"
List of Overused Films No Longer Available for Essay Topics
Questions/Prompts on Monaco, Ch. 4, Part 1
Questions/Prompts on Monaco, Ch. 4, Part 2
Questions/Prompts on Monaco, Ch. 4, Part 3
Questions on WAM Ch. 4
Looking at Movies:--Genre--The Western
Film Analysis Essay #1 (Do Not Use Sources)
Narrative Vocabulary
How to Carry Out the First Film Analysis Essay (Narrative Vocabulary)
How Your First Film Analysis Essay Will Be Evaluated
The "Do Nots" in Academic Writing about Film for FAE#1
Issues with Film Analysis Essay #1
Film Analysis UNC
How to Analyze a Film
Sample Character Analysis of "The Thing" by Dudley Erskine Devlin
Sample Plot Analysis of "The Thing" by Dudley Erskine Devlin
Example of Irony in Cinema--Sergio Leone,"Fistful of Dynamite (Duck You Sucker)" (1971)
Sample Film Analysis Essay A
Sample Film Analysis Essay B
Sample Film Analysis Essay C
Sample Film Analysis Essay D
Sample Film Analysis Essay E
Sample Film Analysis Essay F
Sample Detailed Outline A
Sample Detailed Outline B
Sample Detailed Outline C
Peer Review Workshop for Film Analysis Essay #1
Grading Rubric for Film Analysis Essay
Resources on Semiotics and Cinematic Elements
Semiotics--Key Terms and Associations
Semiotics: The Study of Signs
Film Semiotics
Semiotics for Beginners
Heist (2001)
One Signifier; Many Signifieds: Crime Scene Investigation from "The Wire" (Some Graphic Language and Images)
The Eminent Reader of Signs: Sherlock Holmes
"Sudden Impact"--Excessive Sugar as Signifier
The Semiotics of "Fistful of Dynamite (Duck You Sucker!)"
Sergio Leone, "Duck, You Sucker!"
Sample Film Analysis Essay (with sources)
Sample Film Analysis Essay #2--"Burning"
Sample Film Analysis Essay #2--"Parasite"
Analytical Research Essay on Film
Purposeful Research
Addendum: Considerations for the Second Film Analysis Essay (Semiotic, Cinematic, Narrative Vocabulary)
Expanding the Film Analysis Essay into a Film Analysis Research Essay
How Your Second Film Analysis Essay Will Be Evaluated
The "Do Nots" in Academic Writing About Film for FAE#2
Sample Research Essay on Film
Sample Research Essay on Film
Peer Review Workshop for Research Film Analysis Essay
Summary Paragraph
Criteria for Writing a Summary Paragraph
Plagiarism, Paraphrasing, Summarizing
Joung Hyewoon's Very Helpful Compiled List of Signal Verbs
Sample Summary Paragraph A
Sample Summary Paragraph B
Sample Summary Paragraph C
Peer Review Workshop for Summary Paragraph
Grading Rubric for Summary Paragraph
Miscellaneous
LAM--Examples of Film Analysis
LAM--Diegetic and Non-diegetic Elements
Jane Rosenzweig, "The Whistle-Blower Knows How to Write"
Andre Bazin's "What Is Cinema"
Bazin on the Long Take Versus Montage
Eisenstein's Five Methods of Montage
How Jean-Luc Godard Liberated Cinema
Basic Outlining
How to Make an Outline
How to Write an Essay Outline
Outline Presentation
Using Word to Create an Outline
Sample Outline
Sample Detailed Outline A
Sample Detailed Outline B
Sample Detailed Outline C
Paragraph Organisation Exercise
Sentence Formats and Sentence Patterns
Jeong Seoha Allie's Very Helpful List of Conjunctive Adverbs
Sample Sentence for Sentence Variety
"Minority Report"--Refrigerator Sequence
Modifiers
Paragraph Illustration of Coherence
Yoon Huijun's Helpful List of Standard Transitions
Mystery Phrase #1
Mystery Phrase #2
Conjunction Junction
Schoolhouse Rock: Adverbs
Schoolhouse Rock: Adjectives
Schoolhouse Rock: Nouns
Schoolhouse Rock: Pronouns
Schoolhouse Rock: Verbs
Schoolhouse Rock: Prepositions
Schoolhouse Rock: Interjections
Postmodernism--Metafiction and Metareality
Crossing Ontological Levels
"Last Action Hero" (1993)
"Purple Rose of Cairo" (1985)
Intertexuality
"Last Action Hero" (1993)
"Last Action Hero" (1993)
"Terminator" (1984)
Metareality
"Fahrenheit 11/9" (2018)
Film Clips
The Origins of Auteur Theory
Plot Segmentation
John Ford, "Stagecoach" (1939)
Shot Analysis
John Ford "Stagecoach" (1939)
Paradigmatic Connotation
Orson Welles, "Citizen Kane" (1941)
Alfred Hitchcock, "Notorious" (1946)--Long, Descending Zoom to the Key
John Campbell, "Who Goes There?" (1938)--Shapeshifting Alien
Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials--The Thing--Shapeshifting Alien
Howard Hawks, "The Thing from Another World" (1951)--Vegetative Alien (Man in a Suit Played by James Arness)
James Arness, "Gunsmoke"--Television Series--1955-1975
John Carpenter, "The Thing" (1982)--Blood Test Sequence--Shapeshifting Alien--Tactile Special Effects--Rob Bottin
Rob Bottin (Special Effects) and John Carpenter (Director)--"The Thing" ('82)
John Carpenter and Richard Masur on Rob Bottin
"It Conquered the World" ('56)--Cucumber Monster
"The Thing" (Prequel) (2011)--Shapeshifting Alien--CGI Special Effects--Inauthentic/Artificial
The Thing (2011) Prequel--The Double Head Creation
Werewolf Transformation: "The Wolf Man" (1941)--Lap Dissolve--Time Elapse Photography on Legs
Werewolf Transformation: Werewolf of London (1935)
Werewolf Transformation: "The Wolfman" (2010) CGI
Werewolf Transformation: "The Howling" (1981)--Air Bladders Under Latex Facial Applications
Werewolf Transformation Details & Blooper
Rob Bottin Interview on The Howling
Rob Bottin Tribute
"Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1956)--Alien Alert #1--Dr. Miles Bennel's Fiancee Becky transforms into the Emotionless
Imposter--No Scream--Calls Out to Other Aliens--Loss of Identity
"Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1978)--Alien Alert #2A--Closing Scream of Identification
"Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1978)--Alien Alert #2B--Dog-Man Pod
"Body Snatchers" (1993)--Alien Alert 3A--Meg Tilly--Transformed--Scream
"Body Snatchers" (1993)--Alien Alert 3B--Discovery Scene--Similar to Dog-Man Scene
"Body Snatchers" (1993)--Alien Alert 3C--Fingerpainting Scene--Pod People=Uniform Identity/No Subjectivity/No Emotion
"Invasion" (2007)--Nicole Kidman
"Assimilate" (2019)
Jekyll-Hyde Transformations (Barrymore, March, Tracy)--Mostly Lap Dissolves
Jekyll and Hyde (2015) - Becoming Mr. Hyde Scene
100 Years of Jekyll/Hyde Transformations
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960)
Dr. Jekyll And Sister Hyde (1971)
Dr. Jekyll And Sister Hyde (1971)--MTF Transformation
Comic Relief--"Black Sabbath" (1963)--Film as Smoke and Mirrors
Comic Relief: SCTV's Monster Chiller Horror Theatre
Comic Relief: SCTV's Monster Chiller Horror Theatre-B
Comic Relief: SCTV's Monster Chiller Horror Theatre-C
Comic Relief: SCTV's Monster Chiller Horror Theatre--Scare Part 1
Comic Relief: SCTV's Monster Chiller Horror Theatre--Scare Part 2
Comic Relief: SCTV's Monster Chiller Horror Theatre--Scare Part 3
Comic Relief: SCTV's Monster Chiller Horror Theatre--Scare Part 4
Comic Relief: SCTV's Monster Chiller Horror Theatre--Scare Part 5
Syntagmatic Connotation
John Carpenter, "The Thing" (1982)--Why does the biologist, Dr. Blair, take the gun from his desk?
Luis Bunuel & Salvador Dali, "Un Chien Andalou" (1929)
Icon
Paul Thomas Anderson, "There Will Be Blood" (2007)
Parody 1
Parody 2
Parody 3
Parody 4
Index
Steven Spielberg, "Jurassic Park" (1993)
Sergio Leone, "Once Upon a Time in the West" ("You brought two too many.")
Heist (2001)
Symbol
"The Matrix"--Baudrillard--Key to Understanding the Film--Simulacra
"They Live"--Eyeglasses/Sunglasses=Lucid Sight/Perceiving Reality--Directives Toward Passivity; Aliens=Capitalism/Ruling Classes/Elites
"They Live" Fight Scene--Command of Sunglasses=Compulsory Education/Ideological Awareness
Roddy Piper
"The Shining"=Genocide of Native Americans
Metonymy
Lee Chang-dong, "Oasis" (2002)
Lee Chang-dong, "Oasis" (2002)
J.S.A.--Choco Pie--Metonymically Associated with Economic Progress; Rejected When Associated with the South of the Peninsula
"Alien"--Facehugger=Rape
"Alien"--Chestburster=Birth
"Alien" Trailer--Egg/Planet Association
The Muppets--Pigs in Space--Alien Parody
Spaceballs--Alien Parody
"Spiderman"--Spiderman Transformation=Puberty
"Aliens"--Combat Scene=Vietnam War
"Aliens"--Ripley vs. Alien Queen=Feminist Power
"Batman: Dark Knight"--Batman=George Bush; Joker=Terrorist
"Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1956)--Space Pods Awaken--In Separate Location from Bodies and without Contact--Metonymies
of Birth--Stolen Identities/Subjectivities
"Invasion of the Body Snatchers" ('78)--Pod Transformation Scene--More Movement and Some Connection to Living Bodies Compared
to '56 Version--More Prominent Metonymies of Birth--Greater Movement
Synecdoche
Michelangelo Antonioni, "Red Desert"
Jean-Luc Godard, "La Chinoise" (1967)
"Evil Dead II"--Metonymy: Evil/House; Synecdoche: Parts of House/House
"For a Few Dollars More" (1965)--Hats and Shoes as Surrogates
"The Exorcist"--The Exorcism of Feminism and Sexuality from the Pre-Pubescent Female Body
"The Exorcist" Part 2
"Village of the Damned" (1960)--An Allegory and Premonition of the Sixties Youth Movement and Challenge Against Parental Authority--Vision
as Weapon
"Village of the Damned"--Part 2--"Leave Us Alone!"
"The Thing With Two Heads" (Allegory of the Anxiety of Racial Desegregation [Proximity] as well as Bodily Colonization and
Enslavement--Wealthy Racist and Terminally Ill Patient, Ray Milland's Head Attached to Body of Convicted Black Murderer Rosy
Grier)
"The Edge" (1997)--Bear Chase Scene (Nature vs. An Encroaching Humanity) (Bart the Bear Deserved an Academy Award)
Calendar Pages
Luis Bunuel & Salvador Dali, "Un Chien Andalou" (1929)
The Classic Mexican Standoff
Mexican Standoff--Sergio Leone, "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" (1966)
Mexican Standoff--Quentin Tarantino, "Pulp Fiction" (1994)
Mexican Standoff--Quentin Tarantino "Reservoir Dogs" (1992)
Love & Hate--"Night of the Hunter" (1955)
Love & Hate--"Do the Right Thing" (1989)
Code
Alfred Hitchcock, "Psycho" (1960)
Gus Van Sant, "Psycho" (1998)
Bugs Bunny
"Delicatessen" (1991)--Cultural Code of the Squeaky Bed
Mise-en-Scene
LAM--Form and Content
Mise-en-Scene--Video Tutorials--Looking at Movies
Rudolph Arnheim, "Art and Visual Perception"
Mise-en-scene Analysis
How to Speak Movie Part 1--The Camera
How to Speak Movie Part 2--Mise en Scène
Mise-en-scène - Composing the Frame
LAM--Lighting
Closed Form
"Night at the Opera" (1935)
Angle
LAM--Camera Angles
Roll
"Royal Wedding" (1951)
"2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968)
Tracking Shot
LAM--Zoom and Moving Camera Effects
Jean-Luc Godard, "Weekend" (1967)
Michael Snow, "Wavelength" (1967)
Michael Snow, "Back and Forth" (1969)
Michael Snow, "La Region Centrale" (1971)
POV and Establishing Shot
LAM--Point of View
Alfred Hitchcock, "Rear Window" (1954)
Robert Altman, "The Player" (1992)
Orson Welles, "Touch of Evil" (1958)
Sound
LAM--Sound
Musique Concrete
Pierre Schaeffer, "Etude aux chemins de fer" (1948)
Pierre Henry, "Variations pour une Porte et un Soupir" (1963)
Door Trumpet
DJ Spooky (Paul Miller), "Anansi Abstrakt" (1996) (Use of "Samples" or "Quoting"--Extending Musique Concrete)
DJ Spooky--Sample #1: Pierre Henry, "Marche du Jeune Homme" (1965)
DJ Spooky--Sample #2: Claude Debussy, "Syrinx" (1913)
DJ Spooky--Other Samples
DJ Shadow--Digging (The DJ as archivist and librarian of sound)--from "Scratch" (2002)
Montage
How to Speak Movie Part 3--Editing
Jump Cut, Match Cut, and Cutaway
LAM--Editing
LAM--Editing and Performance in Snapshot
LAM--Editing Techniques in Snapshot
Sergei Eisenstein, "The Battleship Potemkin" (1925)--The Odessa Steps Sequence (Complete)
Sergei Eisenstein, "The Battleship Potemkin" (1925)--The Odessa Steps Sequence
A History of Cutting--The Soviet Theory of Montage
Eisenstein's Methods of Montage
Dissolve, Wipe, Straight Cut
Fades and Dissolves
Art & Technology
Camera Obscura
Camera Lucida
Edison Phonograph (Cylinder)
Edison Victrola
Edison Kinetoscope
Early Edison Kinetoscope
Kinetoscope Documentary
Focal Length: Wide-Angle, Normal, Telephoto Lenses
The Dolly Zoom
Dolly Zoom--"The Quick and the Dead"
LAM--Zoom and Moving Camera Effects
Steadicam
Steadicam 2
Steadicam Examples
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2
3
4
5
6
7
Steadicam--Garrett Brown
Skycam
Louma Crane
Technocrane
Art of the Technocrane
LAM--The Moving Camera
Winged Migration
Raptor Force
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