Issues in Film Studies 1B Week Two Seminar

Early Cinema Seminar Structure Allocation of Seminar Presentations Steve Neale Reading The Lumière Brothers & Méliès Tom Gunning - ‘The Cinema of Attractions’ Contemporary Relevance of the ‘cinema of attractions’

Seminar Structure

Allocation of Seminar Presentations

Steve Neale Reading

The Lumière Brothers & Méliès

Tom Gunning - ‘The Cinema of Attractions’

Contemporary Relevance of the ‘cinema of attractions’

Presentation Topics Week 3: German Expressionism Week 4: Soviet Montage Week 5: Surrealism Week 6: The Conversion to Sound Week 7: NO PRESENTATIONS Week 8: Italian Neo-Realism Week 9: British Social Realism Week 10: NO PRESENTATIONS

Week 3: German Expressionism

Week 4: Soviet Montage

Week 5: Surrealism

Week 6: The Conversion to Sound

Week 7: NO PRESENTATIONS

Week 8: Italian Neo-Realism

Week 9: British Social Realism

Week 10: NO PRESENTATIONS

Steve Neale Reading What conditions made it possible for the emergence of the motion picture in the late 19 th Century? Science & Technology Industrial Context Social & Cultural Context

What conditions made it possible for the emergence of the motion picture in the late 19 th Century?

Science & Technology

Industrial Context

Social & Cultural Context

The Lumières & Méliès To what different uses do the Lumière brothers & Georges Méliès put the medium of film? Form & aesthetics Realism Content / narrative Social / cultural

To what different uses do the Lumière brothers & Georges Méliès put the medium of film?

Form & aesthetics

Realism

Content / narrative

Social / cultural

Tom Gunning Reading What is the ‘cinema of attractions’? Identify: The principal characteristics & operating procedures How it differs from the ‘cinema of narrative integration’ The principal attractions of these early films

What is the ‘cinema of attractions’?

Identify:

The principal characteristics & operating procedures

How it differs from the ‘cinema of narrative integration’

The principal attractions of these early films

Contemporary Relevance

Contemporary Relevance