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Is there a necessary relationship between technology and art? Is art an inevitable outgrowth of technology? Describe the historical progression of film technology as it
Is there a necessary relationship between technology and art? Is art an inevitable outgrowth of technology? Describe the historical progression of film technology as it relates to artistic growth.
2. What innovative filmmaking techniques does Griffith's Birth of a Nation employ? Were they effective? Why? When sound came to movies, did the emphasis shift, in terms of the audience, from watching to listening? Did listening become the same as or more important than watching? If the latter is true, what did that change in emphasis mean in terms of scripting, acting, camera work, etc. for all silent film directors and stars?
3. What advantages did editing breakthroughs like intercutting, crosscutting, and montage cutting give to storytelling by motion picture? How did German Expressionism, for instance, use these techniques to help convey the feelings resulting from surviving World War I in Europe? Be specific and give details from the films watched.
4. Musicals clearly had romantic appeal to audiences, but why would the amorality if not immorality of gangster films and the impertinence and/or disrespect of wisecracking characters in screwball comedies pack the theatres? What impact did the Great Depression have on the choices Hollywood made at this time?
5. Describe the ways in which European cinema was influenced by World War II. Choose a specific country from the reading to demonstrate your points. Compare these films to film noir in the U.S.
6. What new audience did Hollywood focus on once the working adult switched to television viewing? What types of films were popular because of this switch?
7. When an artist filmmaker like Ingmar Bergman or Frederico Fellini makes a "personal film," what makes it possible for any audience to understand, let alone be entertained by such a film? How does the "personal" attain the "universal"?
8. When the Production Code disappeared to be replaced by the more descriptive and not prescriptive rating system still in use today, why do you suppose that movie storytellers/directors immediately began to explore stories where sexuality and/or violence were central?
9. In what ways did film school training of directors in America change movies in the 70s? Was the demise of the studio system, then, a good thing or a bad thing for movies? How does this compare to the film industry in Europe that same decade?
10. If films in the unsettled 60's often mirrored that state as in Easy Rider and films in the more conservative 80's mirrored that state in militaristic films like Top Gun, can one look at the films of a given era and develop a reliable sense of the politics of that era, the particular spirit of that era, the mores of that era and its shortcomings
11. Is it a good thing when one country or culture comes to dominate and thus shape other countries on culture in the world in an art form and business like filmmaking?
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