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HOLLYWOOD ON HOLLYWOOD - MA Programme, Kultur - Fall Term 2007-2008

HOLLYWOOD ON HOLLYWOOD - MA Programme, Kultur - Fall Term 2007-2008 - Course Leader (CL) Dr. ALAN TAYLOR (Oxon). Today’s Audience…?. Berlin/J.F.K.-I, F.U locals? Familiar faces? Students, and…? ECTS EU colleagues?

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HOLLYWOOD ON HOLLYWOOD - MA Programme, Kultur - Fall Term 2007-2008

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  2. HOLLYWOOD ON HOLLYWOOD - MA Programme, Kultur - Fall Term 2007-2008 - Course Leader (CL) Dr. ALAN TAYLOR (Oxon) kinowords.edublogs.org

  3. Today’s Audience…? • Berlin/J.F.K.-I, F.U locals? • Familiar faces? Students, and…? • ECTS EU colleagues? • BA into MA…eh…? • American and Film Studies…eh…? kinowords.edublogs.org

  4. The J.F.K-I. FU Berlin kinowords.edublogs.org

  5. WEEK: ONE Welcome to a New Academic Year & Introduction Coverage Course Leader Working Procedures & Expectations kinowords.edublogs.org

  6. HW on HW Coverage • 1917-1928: Pioneers, Silents • 1928-1939: The Classic Period • 1946-1960: Age of Struggle • 1960-1969: Dis-illusion • 1969-1980: The New Hollywood • 1980-2000: Corporate Hollywood Core Texts: Bordwell, The Classic Hollywood Cinema, 1991 kinowords.edublogs.org

  7. 20th Century U.S.A. Industrial Context • “Mass production is the focusing upon a manufacturing product of the principles of power, accuracy, economy, system, continuity and speed…and the normal result is the productive organization that delivers in quantities a useful commodity of standard material, workmanship and design at a minimum cost”. • Henry Ford, in Bordwell, 1991. p. 91 kinowords.edublogs.org

  8. Hollywood: Art & Commerce • “Efficiency experts trained in other industries are usually baffled when they try to fit the making of a movie to their standard rules. • The fact is, a movie is essentially a hand-craft operation, a one-of-a-kind custom job – but it must be made on the factory basis, with production-line economics, if we’re to hold the price down within reach of most of the people. • The job is to do this without losing the picture’s individuality”. • Dore Schary, MGM Producer, 1950 kinowords.edublogs.org

  9. 20th & 21st Century Project Management TIME • H. Gannt, 1917 • F. Taylor • H. Ford Q COST PROCESS kinowords.edublogs.org

  10. Course Balance: Text & Context INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT 1919 – 2007 Organisation Censorship Technologies Audiences MATERIAL ANALYSIS Sequence Style Genre Narrative Film Theories kinowords.edublogs.org

  11. Shared Viewing Texts • The Bad and the Beautiful, 1953 • The Player, 1992 kinowords.edublogs.org

  12. Production Processes kinowords.edublogs.org

  13. Course Leader Profile kinowords.edublogs.org

  14. Representative, Germany: Cinemasports New York, Sofia, Frankfurt/Main, London, San Francisco, Detroit, Vancouver, Moscow, Belfast, Berlin, Los Angeles, Paris, Mainz… kinowords.edublogs.org

  15. CL: Book Author,2005 & 2007: Peter Lang Frankfurt /New York kinowords.edublogs.org

  16. Invited Workshop Leader: Teaching the Teachers…. Media Education Across the Curriculum Eire, Estonia, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Cyprus, Turkey, Italy EU/Kulturring, e. V, Berlin - April 2007 W: http://www.mediaeducation.org kinowords.edublogs.org

  17. Course Leader (CL) TEACHING: 1991-2008 • UK: Teacher, Lecturer & Curriculum Manager Film Studies, Media Production, Anglo-American Literature • Germany: Guest Lecturer 2000-2008 - J.F.K, Institute, FU Berlin - Filmwissenschaft, Mainz University • Bulgaria: Guest Lecturer 2004, New Bulgarian University 2008, St. Kliment, Sofia University kinowords.edublogs.org

  18. CL Qualifications BA joint hons American Studies & English Literature • The University of Keele Diploma/MA • The London Film School PGCE - The Department of Education, • The University of Oxford MA - Media Education • IOE, University of London PhD - Cinema Studies • Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz kinowords.edublogs.org

  19. Questions? • Who…? • What…? • When…? • How…? • Why…? • Beach………? kinowords.edublogs.org

  20. Student Credits, 1 • All students / Attendance & Contributions - 80% plus attendance & - 2 short essays (500-800 words each) Essay 1. A film sequence as located on the course webpage Essay 2. A short essay – from a menu of three options - TBA • Research Paper (RP) & Sprechstundes… - Inspired by Conference Subjects 2007/2008 - One page Abstract Draft to CL - 20 pages / 5,000-5,500 words: PDF & print copy • See: JFK-I Page: http://kinowords.edublogs.org kinowords.edublogs.org

  21. Student Credits, 2 Research Papers, Samples Spring/Summer 2007, from: • International Symposium on Media & Politics, Ege University • City in Film: Architecture, Urban Space and the Moving Image, Liverpool, UK • European Cultural Studies Conference, Sweden • Perspectives and Challenges for Cinema and Media Studies, Vienna • Shifting Landscapes of Film and Media…Istanbul • 20 Years of Propaganda?…?????????? • Media Events, Globalization and Cultural Change, Bremen kinowords.edublogs.org

  22. EXPECTATIONS for ALL WRITTEN WORK 1. All Margins are uniformly set at 2.5 2. The body of the text will be blocked to the right margin 3.  Gap Lines are set at 1.5 4.  Fonts are Times New Roman, Size 12 5.  All pages are numbered, bottom right 6.  Key details are included on the HEADER and FOOTER 7. Quotes are laced into the text. Over three lines they are granted their own central column. 8. Word count: 4 sides = 1,000 words so the RP = 5,000 -5,500 words. FOR MORE DETAILS SEE PDF ON COURSE WEBSITE (CWS) kinowords.edublogs.org

  23. ACT: Applied Critical Thinking kinowords.edublogs.org

  24. Film Industry – The 21st Century Paradigm? “It’s the edge that knows more than the middle” Gary Hamel, Guru & Author: “The Future of Management”, 2007 kinowords.edublogs.org

  25. …Vaya con dios E. a.taylor@balliol.oxon.org But no Smilies! :) kinowords.edublogs.org

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