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Title: Teaching with Film


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Teaching with Film
  • Michelle Onley Pirkle

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Teaching with Film
  • Upgrade literature or
  • composition course
  • Film Studies (History Aesthetics course or
    Adaptation)

3
Teaching with Film
  • Positive
  • Holds attention (entertaining)
  • Different teaching tool
  • Cultural Studies
  • Images audio to read
  • Seen as reward

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Teaching with Film
  • Michelle Onley Pirkle

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Teaching with Film
  • Positive
  • Holds attention (entertaining)
  • Different teaching tool
  • Cultural Studies
  • Images audio to read
  • Seen as reward

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Teaching with Film
  • Negative
  • Seen as reward

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Teaching with Film
  • Negative
  • Seen as rewardtasty dessert

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Teaching with Film
  • Positive
  • Tasty dessert?healthy sandwich
  • ?

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Teaching with Film

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Mise en Scène
Film as Visual Storytelling
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Mise en Scène
Camera angle, lens, filter, shot
type Composition design, organization Color
dominant, contrast, symbolism Actors position,
proximity, body, expression Setting place,
space, materials Lighting brightness,
contrast, Depth planes, foregroundlt-gtbackground F
raming tight or loose Form open or closed,
balance
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Mise en Scène
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Mise en Scène
Super 8 Director J. J. Abrams Producer Stephen
Spielberg
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Mise en Scène
Giannetti, Louis. Understanding Movies. 12th
ed. New York Allyn Bacon, 2011. Print.
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Find Ways In
Duchovatip 2 Costumes, Screenwriting,
Music History, Movie Posters, Actors Cinematograph
y, Theme (ex. War) Acting Style (ex. Method
Acting), Genre Titles, Choreography,
Censorship Special Effects (Technology), Set
Design Class/Gender/Sexuality Director (Auteur
Theory), Adaptation
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Auteur Theory
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Auteur Theory
  • Director as author or auteur of film (patterns of
    motifs themes)
  • France (1954)François Truffaut, Cahiers du
    Cinéma (directors Alfred Hitchcock and Howard
    Hawks)
  • U. S.Andrew Sarris, The Village Voice
  • Controversial (Pauline Kaelcollaboration)

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Adaptation Studies
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Adaptation Studies
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Adaptation Studies
FILM
?
BOOK
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Levels of Adaptation
  • Literal word-for-word
  • Faithful captures spirit
  • Loose little resemblance

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Adaptation Studies
Film Novel Short story Video GameBoard
Game Comic book Toy Historical Event Person Song P
ainting
? ?
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Adaptation Studies
  • at a Crossroads
  • Thomas Leitch (2008)

Swamp of Fidelity
Sea of Intertextuality
?
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Adaptation Studies
  • at a Crossroads
  • Thomas Leitch (2008)

Swamp of Fidelity
Sea of Intertextuality
?
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Adaptation Studies
  • at a Crossroads
  • Thomas Leitch (2008)

Swamp of Fidelity
Sea of Intertextuality
?
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Adaptation Studies
  • at a Crossroads
  • Thomas Leitch (2008)

Swamp of Fidelity
Sea of Intertextuality
?
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Adaptation Studies
  • at a Crossroads
  • Thomas Leitch (2008)

Swamp of Fidelity
Sea of Intertextuality
?
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Adaptation Studies
  • at a Crossroads
  • Thomas Leitch (2008)

Swamp of Fidelity
Sea of Intertextuality (Bakhtin no single
source)
?
Adaptation 1.1 (2008) 63-77
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Approaches to Adaptation
The medium is the message. Marshall McLuhan
(1964)
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Approaches to Adaptation
What Novels Can Do That Films Can't (And Vice
Versa) Seymour Chatman(1980)
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Approaches to Adaptation
What Novels Can Do That Films Can't (And Vice
Versa) Seymour Chatman(1980) Affordances Novel

Film Asserts
Presents Describes
Depicts Focus Overspecification
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Approaches to Adaptation
What Novels Can Do That Films Can't (And Vice
Versa) Seymour Chatman(1980) Affordances Novel
Film Name
music Play music Reader
controls time Director controls time
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Teaching with Film

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Teaching with Film
  • Positive
  • Tasty dessert?healthy sandwich
  • ?

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Teaching with Film
  • Film Sandwich
  • Introduction (director, cultural context, focus)
  • Handout (info questions over form content)
  • Film presentation (the chicken!)
  • Written assignment
  • Discussion (groups full class)

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Adaptation Studies
FILM
?
BOOK
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AdaptationIntro (1)
2 0 0 9
? ?
1963
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AdaptationIntro (1)
1960
1970
1981
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Maurice Sendak
1960
1970
1981
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Spike Jonze
2003
1999
2002
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AdaptationHandout (2)
  • Questions
  • Information
  • Images

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AdaptationPresentation (3)
  • Opening Scenes
  • 18 minutes

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AdaptationWriting (4)
  • Class answers question(s)
  • Each group answers question (s)

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AdaptationDiscussion (5)
  • Each group discusses question(s)
  • Class discusses question(s)

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Teaching with Film
  • Michelle Onley Pirkle

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