Title: Teaching with Film
1Teaching with Film
2Teaching with Film
- Upgrade literature or
- composition course
- Film Studies (History Aesthetics course or
Adaptation)
3Teaching with Film
- Positive
- Holds attention (entertaining)
- Different teaching tool
- Cultural Studies
- Images audio to read
- Seen as reward
4Teaching with Film
5Teaching with Film
- Positive
- Holds attention (entertaining)
- Different teaching tool
- Cultural Studies
- Images audio to read
- Seen as reward
6Teaching with Film
7Teaching with Film
- Negative
- Seen as rewardtasty dessert
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8Teaching with Film
- Positive
- Tasty dessert?healthy sandwich
- ?
9Teaching with Film
10Mise en Scène
Film as Visual Storytelling
11Mise 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
12Mise en Scène
13Mise en Scène
Super 8 Director J. J. Abrams Producer Stephen
Spielberg
14Mise en Scène
Giannetti, Louis. Understanding Movies. 12th
ed. New York Allyn Bacon, 2011. Print.
15Find 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
16Auteur Theory
17Auteur 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)
18Adaptation Studies
19Adaptation Studies
20Adaptation Studies
FILM
?
BOOK
21Levels of Adaptation
- Literal word-for-word
- Faithful captures spirit
- Loose little resemblance
22Adaptation Studies
Film Novel Short story Video GameBoard
Game Comic book Toy Historical Event Person Song P
ainting
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23Adaptation Studies
- at a Crossroads
- Thomas Leitch (2008)
Swamp of Fidelity
Sea of Intertextuality
?
24Adaptation Studies
- at a Crossroads
- Thomas Leitch (2008)
Swamp of Fidelity
Sea of Intertextuality
?
25Adaptation Studies
- at a Crossroads
- Thomas Leitch (2008)
Swamp of Fidelity
Sea of Intertextuality
?
26Adaptation Studies
- at a Crossroads
- Thomas Leitch (2008)
Swamp of Fidelity
Sea of Intertextuality
?
27Adaptation Studies
- at a Crossroads
- Thomas Leitch (2008)
Swamp of Fidelity
Sea of Intertextuality
?
28Adaptation Studies
- at a Crossroads
- Thomas Leitch (2008)
Swamp of Fidelity
Sea of Intertextuality (Bakhtin no single
source)
?
Adaptation 1.1 (2008) 63-77
29Approaches to Adaptation
The medium is the message. Marshall McLuhan
(1964)
30Approaches to Adaptation
What Novels Can Do That Films Can't (And Vice
Versa) Seymour Chatman(1980)
31Approaches 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
32Approaches 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
33Teaching with Film
34Teaching with Film
- Positive
- Tasty dessert?healthy sandwich
- ?
35Teaching 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)
36Adaptation Studies
FILM
?
BOOK
37AdaptationIntro (1)
2 0 0 9
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1963
38AdaptationIntro (1)
1960
1970
1981
39Maurice Sendak
1960
1970
1981
40Spike Jonze
2003
1999
2002
41AdaptationHandout (2)
- Questions
- Information
- Images
42AdaptationPresentation (3)
- Opening Scenes
- 18 minutes
43AdaptationWriting (4)
- Class answers question(s)
- Each group answers question (s)
44AdaptationDiscussion (5)
- Each group discusses question(s)
- Class discusses question(s)
45Teaching with Film
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