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Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988
Collect Homework
View & Discuss Cinema Paradiso
Discuss Final Exam
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Grand Prize, Cannes Film Fes6val Best Foreign Film, Golden Globes 5 Bri6sh Academy Film Awards, including best film, actor, screenplay & music
On numerous Top 100 lists Generally an audience favorite
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The Past-time of Past Time
Let Go, Toto
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Or seKling
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Is passion related to death?
Passionless-ness as a form of death
Elena
Alfredo
The Cinema Paradiso
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How can it be good that Toto & Elena couldnt be together?
Self-discovery, Memories, and Ghosts
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What crucial symbolic differences exist between being a projectionist and a director?
What do they represent to us?
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Places of discovery and transgression
Inner journeys
Landscapes of the imagination
Illusion of magic
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Bildungsroman: Coming of age story
Knstlerroman: Artist coming of age
Journey of discovery & remembrance
Love story: thwarted, tragic, or mature?
Melodrama
Any notable formal elements?
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Flashbacks / Frame Narratives (reinforcing the theme of Salvatores disconnected nature)
Lots of self-reflexivity
Jump cuts (in edited films & between past/present)
Famous Kiss Montage
High-angle perspectives
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International release
Salvatore woos but loses
Elena when her father disapproves and they move
Letters are undelivered
Directors Cut: original domestic/Italian release plus some earlier deleted scenes
Domestic Italian Release
Late in film, the older Salvatore notices a young girl
who resembles Elena & follows her home
She is Elenas daughter
Salvatore tries to persuade Elena to give up
everything for him. She wont.
She tells him Alfredo told
her to stay away from him for his own good andbecause he would have given up everything for her
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Monday, December 6th, 4:30-6:20, CH 101
Know-it-or-you-donts Defini6ons Iden6fica6ons Screencaps Short Answers
One theme-and-meaning essay (no clip) One form-and-meaning essay (clip) One mystery clip essay
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30% of final grade invaluable to your emo6onal, intellectual, and spiritual growth
110 minutes (4:30-6:20 p.m., December 6) will linger much longer, perhaps forever, in your memory and soullike a scar
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Con6nuity Edi6ng Discon6nuity/Disjunc6ve
Edi6ng Sta6onary Shot Establishing Shot Frame Narra6ve Iris Edit Mise en scene Framing Blocking Shot/Reverse Shot Eyeline Match Nega6ve vs. Posi6ve Space
Tracking Shot/Travelling Shot Long take Diege6c sound Non-diege6c sound Low angle shot (worm view) High angle shot Pan Dutch or canted angles Deep Focus Dissolve Low-key ligh6ng Backligh6ng Montage
Analyze the mise en scene of the following clip. Watch the clip twice, taking notes on the ways its visual techniques relate to its themes and meaning. Then, using appropriate terminology, discuss these technical elements as specifically as possible. Remember, your focus should be on the ways the films form relates to (and creates) meaning.
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The Transforma6ve Powers of Film Love and its Humilia6ons Reality and Realism(s) Iden6ty & Self-discovery Family Time, Memory, and Transforma6on
Monday, December 6th, 2:30-4:15, APS 210