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What Is Cinema: or When is a Movie More Than Just a Movie

What Is Cinema: or When is a Movie More Than Just a Movie. Gary Handman Director Media Resources Center Moffitt Library. What Kinds of Images Move?. Cinema aka THE MOVIES : 1886-- Nationality Genres : Sci Fi, Gangster, Film Noir, Musicals, Westerns, pornography…etc. Eras Styles

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What Is Cinema: or When is a Movie More Than Just a Movie

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  1. What Is Cinema: orWhen is a Movie More Than Just a Movie Gary Handman Director Media Resources Center Moffitt Library

  2. What Kinds of Images Move? • Cinema aka THE MOVIES: 1886-- • Nationality • Genres: Sci Fi, Gangster, Film Noir, Musicals, Westerns, pornography…etc. • Eras • Styles • Directors • Actors • Audiences

  3. What Kinds of Images Move? • Documentaries • Slick and produced - rough/cinema verité • Educational / Instructional films/video • Promotional films (selling/explaining a program, product, institution, etc.) • Newsreels • Propaganda • Primary Source Materials: raw footage; reality footage • Amateur films (home movies)

  4. What Kinds of Images Move? • TV: Network, Cable • Programming (from sitcoms to sports to MTV) • News • Commercials/Infomercials

  5. Cinema aka THE MOVIES:What Is Cinema? • Entertainment and Big Business • Art Form • History • Movies as History; History & the Movies • Movies as snapshot • Movie as Mirror -- as social & psychological “text”

  6. Non-theatrical Film and Video • Documentaries • Primary Source Materials • Amateur films • The Camera is NEVER totally Objective! • No Matter How Subtle or Artfully Concealed: There is ALWAYS a Point of View

  7. Examples: Cinema & TV as Social Text The Movies and TV as witting or unwitting mirrors of ideas about race, gender, ethnicity,class The Movies and TV as social or political expression

  8. Non-Theatrical Film & Video: Documenting the Present and Past • Film as Weapon: Propaganda • Film as Chronicle • Newsreels • Broadcast News • Primary Source Footage • Amateur Film/Video • TV as Chronicle

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