Film studies global cinema

Main theme of Spectatorship - in Paper 1 1) Western genre established from the outset w/ narration + wide open American desert landscapes 2) reflective sombre mood 3) Western Key areas: . Ideology . Spectatorship Spectatorship: . How micro features engage spectators . Ideology and how they align the spectator to it . Active vs passive . Impact of social and cultural influences . Expectations of a Cohen brothers film . Spectatorship generalises  -  more about the relationship of the individual to the screen/ film . Audience response more about the money it took, less about what they thought of the film . Spectatorship theory - how different individuals would react differently Spectator reaction factors: . Are they tired . Are they delirious . Where they're watching it - regional/ culture . Who they're watching it with . When? seasonal, context . Quality of the cinema . Who; Age, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, political alignment, nationality, socio-...

How far are your chosen films impacted by their production contexts?  Both Apocalypse Now and Casablanca are deeply Influenced by their production contexts, especially the institutional and political which are often entwined, seen through micro features in these films. Casablanca is saddled with the weight of an over bearing producer as it existed during the studio system; politically it also represents the context with an easily digestible message of American exceptionalism and globalism, which is furthered by the institutional contexts behind it through the micro features it facilitates with budget and location on a permanent set. Apocalypse Now’s only burden was Coppola’s self imposed madness; in line with the institutional context of Hollywood at the time Coppola received a large amount of money and freedom to create the film he wants, so here the institutional context of New Hollywood theoretically removes the influence of production context. The political context however...

B) Compare how far your chosen films reflect the different production contexts “Studios had faces then. They had their own style.” Billy Wilder states how, in  Casablanca , we can see the Warner Bros signature style – notably, the big screen realism of the melodramatic love triangle, the elements of crime, and a charismatic male protagonist… [Having directed over a hundred films at Warner Bros, Curtiz might be considered an auteur in his own right, but there is debate over how much creative control he actually had, with the studios exerting influence over all stages of production.] Elements of Classical Hollywood film form are apparent in the opening of the film, when the spectator is introduced to the protagonist Rick Blaine, played by Humphrey Bogart. The sequence begins with an exterior establishing shot of the sign for Rick’s Bar Americain, with the camera then tilting down and tracking in to the bar itself. This technique is a key trope of Classical Hollywood, with a...