http://www.crimeculture.com/Contents/NeoNoir.html
Definition and info about the Neo Noir genre.
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http://www.crimeculture.com/Contents/Film%20Noir.html
Same as above.. about Film Noir.
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http://www.boxofficemojo.com/genres/chart/?id=neonoir.htm
Popular Neo Noir films, could be useful for SHEP.
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http://www.moderntimes.com/style/
What makes Film Noir inovating.
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http://www.filmsite.org/filmnoir.html
Descriptions and definitions.
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http://www.greencine.com/static/primers/noir.jsp
Where Film Noir has orignated from. Good for historical aspect (SHEP)
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http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue02/infocus.htm
Explains some famous Film Noir films.
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http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/intgenre/intgenre.html
Genre Theory website from Daniel Chandler (famous Genre Theorist)
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http://www.filmsite.org/genres.html
Definition of what Genre is.
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http://www.resnet.trinity.edu/wmclean/sincity.htm
This website has an article which links Sin City to Film Noir and has some interesting ideas.
Sunday 25 November 2007
Another 10 Keywords
Vladimir Propp = Binary Oppositions. Kevin is Marv's opposite character.
Typography = The font used for Sin City is particular to the film and can distinguish it apart from other films.
Male Gaze = Women are objectified by men. Marv and pretty much everyone objectifies Jessica Alba..
Zeitgiest = Spirit of the age.. which is quite unique to my text as Neo Noir is based on a genre from the 1940's yet uses 21st century ideologies.
Patriarchal Society = Male dominated soceity. Sin City is a very patriarchal film.
Hybrid genre = A film who uses conventions from two genres. Can Sin City be a mixture of Film Noir and Neo Noir or is it soley Neo Noir?
Motif = reoccuring theme or element that is repeated to give a messege.
Narrative theory = what makes up a narrative which is particular to certain genres. Levi Strauss and Propp are narrative theorists.
Barthes = Enigma Code. Sin City's narrative creates a lot of enigma's for the audience.
Barthes (again) = Myth. When an ideology is repeated enough, people start to believe it. Sin City has generalized sterotypes such as men being the hero for pretty much every women in the film.
Typography = The font used for Sin City is particular to the film and can distinguish it apart from other films.
Male Gaze = Women are objectified by men. Marv and pretty much everyone objectifies Jessica Alba..
Zeitgiest = Spirit of the age.. which is quite unique to my text as Neo Noir is based on a genre from the 1940's yet uses 21st century ideologies.
Patriarchal Society = Male dominated soceity. Sin City is a very patriarchal film.
Hybrid genre = A film who uses conventions from two genres. Can Sin City be a mixture of Film Noir and Neo Noir or is it soley Neo Noir?
Motif = reoccuring theme or element that is repeated to give a messege.
Narrative theory = what makes up a narrative which is particular to certain genres. Levi Strauss and Propp are narrative theorists.
Barthes = Enigma Code. Sin City's narrative creates a lot of enigma's for the audience.
Barthes (again) = Myth. When an ideology is repeated enough, people start to believe it. Sin City has generalized sterotypes such as men being the hero for pretty much every women in the film.
Genre Theorists
Douglas Pye (1975)
“Generic consistency allows for the shorthand of conventions and stereotypes but also for the interplay between confirmed expectations and novelty
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Andrew Taylor (1986)
"Genre is what we collectively believe it to be"
“Generic consistency allows for the shorthand of conventions and stereotypes but also for the interplay between confirmed expectations and novelty
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Andrew Taylor (1986)
"Genre is what we collectively believe it to be"
The Cinema Book
How exactly 'Noir' was defined.
Cook, Pam; Bernink, Mieke (2003): The Cinema Book. Stephen Street, London: British Film Institute.
"The first book-length study of noir (Borde and Chaumeton, 1955) began this work by mapping out various recurrent themes within noir (violence, crime, pyschological emphasis) and relating this to particular films."
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This study had to be done as:
"British and American critics failed to take film noir seriously"
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They failed to take the films seriously as:
"Critics' dislike was compounded by economic snobbery: the low budgets and B-film status of many film noirs were seen as a priori proof that the films were 'trash'."
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Additionally, Paul Schrader suggests:
"Schrader goes on to suggest that the fundamental reason for the neglect of noir was the importance of visual style to the form: 'American critics have been traditionally moe interested in theme than style"
Cook, Pam; Bernink, Mieke (2003): The Cinema Book. Stephen Street, London: British Film Institute.
"The first book-length study of noir (Borde and Chaumeton, 1955) began this work by mapping out various recurrent themes within noir (violence, crime, pyschological emphasis) and relating this to particular films."
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This study had to be done as:
"British and American critics failed to take film noir seriously"
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They failed to take the films seriously as:
"Critics' dislike was compounded by economic snobbery: the low budgets and B-film status of many film noirs were seen as a priori proof that the films were 'trash'."
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Additionally, Paul Schrader suggests:
"Schrader goes on to suggest that the fundamental reason for the neglect of noir was the importance of visual style to the form: 'American critics have been traditionally moe interested in theme than style"
The Cinema Book
Cook, Pam; Bernink, Mieke (2003): The Cinema Book. Stephen Street, London: British Film Institute.
"Whoever went to the movies with any regularity during 1946 was caught in the midst of Hollywood's profound post war affection fro morbid drama. From January through December deep shadows, clutching hands, exploding revolvers, sadistic villians and heroines tormented with deeply rooted diseases of the mind flashed across the screen in a panting display of psychoneuroses, unsublimated sex and murder most foul"
This article from a 1947 'Life' magazine.
"Whoever went to the movies with any regularity during 1946 was caught in the midst of Hollywood's profound post war affection fro morbid drama. From January through December deep shadows, clutching hands, exploding revolvers, sadistic villians and heroines tormented with deeply rooted diseases of the mind flashed across the screen in a panting display of psychoneuroses, unsublimated sex and murder most foul"
This article from a 1947 'Life' magazine.
Blog Buddy Meeting Summary
Aman
Me and Aman have decided to look at definitions of what genre is. Additionally, we have decided to both look at theorist Rick Altman as he covers genre as a whole.
The next stage of research is more theorists which we can both use.
Me and Aman have decided to look at definitions of what genre is. Additionally, we have decided to both look at theorist Rick Altman as he covers genre as a whole.
The next stage of research is more theorists which we can both use.
Thursday 22 November 2007
Book Research - Part 1
Cook, Pam; Bernink, Mieke (2003): The Cinema Book. Stephen Street, London: British Film Institute.
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Brian Murphy, ‘Monster movies: they came from beneath the 50s’, Journal of Popular Film 1(1), winter 1972
“Since we are dealing with a visual medium we ought surely to look for out defining criteria at what we actually see on the screen…”
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Edward Buscombe, ‘The idea of genre in the American cinema’, Screen 2(2), March/April 1970
“By iconography Buscombe meant recurrent images, including the physical attributes and dress of the actors, the setting…”
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The Media Student’s Book
Sunday 4 November 2007
Task 9 - Blog Buddies
Rohini
A Short summary of each study.
Her independent studies based on the genre change in.. musicals. =/
Umm.. yeah.. how and why the conventions have changed from old to more modern musicals..
Our studies both focus on the change and development in our own respected genres.
Task 9 - Blog Buddies
Aman
A Short summary of each study.
Aman's independent study is based on Children of Men, and it asks the question of whether it conforms or subverts the stereotypical Sci-Fi genre.
Areas of overlap between each study (texts, topics, issues, debates).
Both our studies focus on genre changes, the similarities and differences our texts have compared to stereotypical ideologies that are given to our respective genres.
A Short summary of each study.
Aman's independent study is based on Children of Men, and it asks the question of whether it conforms or subverts the stereotypical Sci-Fi genre.
Areas of overlap between each study (texts, topics, issues, debates).
Both our studies focus on genre changes, the similarities and differences our texts have compared to stereotypical ideologies that are given to our respective genres.
Blog Buddies
Aman
A Short summary of each study.
Aman's independant study is based on Children of Men, and it asks the question of wether it confroms or subverts the stereotypical Sci-Fi genre.
Areas of overlap between each study(texts,topics,issues,debates).
What you've each learned from looking at each other's study that might be useful.
A Short summary of each study.
Aman's independant study is based on Children of Men, and it asks the question of wether it confroms or subverts the stereotypical Sci-Fi genre.
Areas of overlap between each study(texts,topics,issues,debates).
What you've each learned from looking at each other's study that might be useful.
By looking at Pardeep's study I have gained some knowledge about how conventional beauty can effect how women are represented, she has also got some really helpful theorists and websites that I could also use in my independent study, information on female role models etc. Pardeep has also got some really useful reviews that brings up important iss
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