Film studies global cinema

Scene Micro feature Meaning, response, context Pale man : 53:36  .Mise en scene     .Cold bluish moon light lighting  .Warmer lighting on the book (and the book itself)  .Pale blue clothing .Frame within a frame  .Blocking, her back is to the real world  .The egg timer .Deep red walls - Blood stained church  .Old arching architecture (church like) - long shot her framed at the end of the hallway  .Church imagery - religious connotations .The pale man and Vidal - similar framing (both powerful and imposing) + The pale man is distant and alien to Ofelia  .Lavish dinner - like in Vidal's dinner scene  .Reddish foods + gold cutlery (blood and excess=facism)  .Grapes - upper class temptation and excess - the grapes = eyes  .Shoes = holocaust victims - Pale man = Vidal = Fascism = horror and destruction of i...

. The knife is gained through the key - suggesting violence is the key to liberation, however she refuses at the end of the film to use violence to liberate herself, leading to her death and therefore sacrifice suggesting liberation is only achievable in self sacrifice - False happy ending, the implication is that war will continue, Vidal will be replaced by someone equally brutal and oppressive and the only character that finds liberation is Oefelia, who finds it in death

Study areas for global films 1) Film form  2) Meaning and response  3) Contexts  e.g. performance, mise en scene, editing, sound, context, response  - exam is 150 minutes, 100 marks            - 60 minutes for 40 marks       - 30 minutes for 20 markers          - Minute and a half a mark      

Context (S pain 2006 ) - Guillermo del Toro director - Won three Academy awards: Cinematography, make up, Production design, - Nominated for: Foreign language film, Original screenplay, Original score . Nuevo Cine Mexicano (New wave Mexican cinema) . Spanish Civil War Initial ideas Mexico: - A lot of corruption caused by drug cartels in the Government, Army, Police - Wealth disparity - hugely divided country - The PRI (institutional revolutionary Party) governed Mexico for over 70 years, from 1929 to 2001 - During this time, they were responsible for corruption, electoral fraud and authoritarianism (a way of governing that values order and control over personal freedom) - They lost  the election in 2001 ending their long reign - New party (National Action Party) PAN, promised social change and to end corruption - Against political unrest Nuevo Cine Mexicano was born - Social inequality persists to this day in Mexico - Mexico is 60% poor , only 10% are wealthy ...

What they can ask of you: 1) Film form - cinematography, sound, editing + 2) Meaning and response 3) Contexts - outside of the film, situation surrounding the film like WW2 or the Spanish civil war and how it links (allegory) e.g. How performance or mise en scene create meaning in the two films you have studied (Pan's Labyrinth + City of God) Foreign films . Less generic . European and art house - Style over content, less so for entertainment . Less so made to make money