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ENG 110: Introduction to Film and Media

ENG 110: Introduction to Film and Media. Agenda. Syllabus Intros Early Cinema History Sherlock, Jr. (5:05). First Assignment. 1. Log in to blogs.uoregon.edu , using your Duck ID and password.

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ENG 110: Introduction to Film and Media

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  1. ENG 110: Introduction to Film and Media

  2. Agenda • Syllabus • Intros • Early Cinema History • Sherlock, Jr. (5:05)

  3. First Assignment • 1. Log in to blogs.uoregon.edu, using your Duck ID and password. • 2. Email me at platt@uoregon.edu to let me know that you have logged in to the blogs site. Then, I can give you access to our course blog. • 3. Also, read all of Ch. 2 and pages 432-443 in the textbook for Wednesday.

  4. Icebreaker Question • First, tell us your name. • Then, if you could require everyone in the world to see one movie, what would that movie be? • Finally, if you could also place one movie in a black box deep in a cave, so that no one in the world would ever have to see it again . . . what movie would it be?

  5. Cinema History: 1893 to 1924 (31 years in 10 minutes or less)

  6. Clips • Brief History of Pre-Cinema: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKJqeJ48CPs • Early Film Clips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2Sv_teye8w

  7. Cinema of Attractions: 1893 to 1905ish • 1890s: Edison/Lumiere Brothers invent motion picture cameras • Early films: short “spectacles,” limited story-telling • Movies often part of a larger vaudeville or theater program

  8. Early Hollywood Cinema:1905 to 1915 • From New Jersey to L.A. (smart move) • The first studios create movie industry oligopoly; vertical integration • First “features” (averaging 75 minutes) • Conventions of Continuity Editing: • Intertitles, enlarged facial expressions • Intercutting: showing how two actions are occurring simultaneously • Contiguity editing: showing spaces are connected

  9. European Cinema in the 1920s • German Expressionism, French Impressionism, Soviet Montage • Formal experimentation and innovation • Emergence of the Avant-Garde: Films begin to achieve status of “art”

  10. Hollywood in the Late Silent Era: 1920 to 1927 • Post WWI: Hollywood takes control • Theater boom • Big budgets, industrial production • Delineation of genres • The “star” system

  11. Sherlock, Jr. (1924) • Buster Keaton: one of the “big three” of Hollywood comedy • BK fractured his neck in this shot • BK was also the director of Sherlock, Jr. (along with Fatty Arbuckle)

  12. Questions to Consider As You Watch • What does BK’s character see in the movies? How does film affect him? • Do you find this movie funny? What makes it funny to you? • How do you respond to Keaton’s expressionlessness?

  13. Don’t Forget: First Assignment • 1. Log in to blogs.uoregon.edu, using your Duck ID and password. • 2. Email me at platt@uoregon.edu to let me know that you have logged in to the UO blogs site. Then, I can give you access to our course blog. • 3. Also, read all of Ch. 2 and pages 432-443 in the textbook for Wednesday.

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