1. Introduction to Arts Film and Film Studies

2. “Is Film an Art?” “Is film an art?” - a frequently asked question Reasons Film started as a mechanical recording of reality. Technological rather than aesthetic and artistic.

3. “Is Film an Art?” Films - a form of mass entertainment. Sensational, vulgar, commercial, tasteless, plebeian … A new conception of art which is free from class and cultural binds The scope of art widens Changes in attitudes over the time Art is no longer Art with the capital A.

4. “Is Film an Art?” Transformation of attitudes towards arts Art does not have to be aesthetic (beautiful). Bernini’s Trevi Fountains sculpture and Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain

5. “Is Film an Art?” Technology itself can be a medium of art Claude’ landscape painting with temples Vladimir Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International

6. “Is Film an Art?” Constructivism (Russia) – an artistic and architectural philosophy in which industrial and practical products are considered as works of art. Influenced Bauhaus (Germany) and De Stijl (Holland)

7. “Is Film an Art?” Mechanical representation can be art Photography James Abbott’s Mrs. McNeil Whistler and Robert Mapple Thorpe’s Portrait

8. “Is Film an Art?” Art does not have to be precious and aristocratic. Materials of art Gold mosaics (St. Theodora in Ravenna) and Robert Rauschenberg’s Monogram

9. “Is Film an Art?” Artistic subject or motif does not have to be noble or aristocratic. Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I (anonymous) and Andy Warhol’s images of Marilyn Monroe

10. “Is Film an Art?” Art can rely on popular cultural form; art can be pop John Everett Millet’s Ophelia and Roy Lichtenstein’s pop art (comic strips)

11. Film as Total Art Every artistic medium and every artistic form found in film Literature: verbal – fiction - narrative Fine art: visual - painting, sculpture, photography, design – shape, image, colour Architecture: visual - building, decoration – design, shape, weight Music: sound (visual) – song, instrumental, opera, musical Theatre (verbal, visual, sound) – performance

12. Film and Literature Every film tells a story - Film is based on a script. Some scripts are based on literary work – fiction and non-fiction. J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the film, Harry Potter

13. Literature – written work Movie script – written work

14. Film and Drawing Elements of fine art in film - Production design: sets, costume, composition, visual effects Story boards in Alfred Hitchcock’s Birds

16. Frames must be composed like a painting In Luchino Visconti’s La terra trema each frame is constructed like a piece of painting. Symmetrical composition; illusion of depth, composed of foreground, middle ground and background, and linear perspective.

17. Film and Painting Triangular composition in painting

18. Triangular composition in cinema, La Terrra trema

19. Film and Painting Linear perspectives in paintings

20. Perspectival composition in cinema, La Terra trema

21. Film and Painting In La terra trema, a young man is holding his younger brother like Madonna is carrying her young Jesus. Painterly composition

22. Michelangelo’s Pieta and Roberto Rossellini’s Rome Open City

23. Film and Painting Sets are designed being inspired by or imitating a painting - Production design: sets, visual effects Building in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis modeled after Brueghel’s painting of Tower of Babel.

24. Film and Art Design Art designer (production designer) designs sets by employing visual imagination similar to painters and architect, and often creates them in collaboration with artists, engineers, carpenters and other art assistants

25. Film and Art Design (Gare du Nord) by Alexandre Trauner

26. Film and Art Design (Les Visiteurs du soir) by Alexandre Trauner

27. Film and Art Design (Les Enfants du paradis) by Alexandre Trauner

28. Film and Design Eiko Ishioka, designer, art director Designs costumes and sets for various films Best known for her costume design for Paul Schrader’s Mishima, Bram Storker’s Dracula, The Cell and Beijing Olympic’s Opening Ceremony

29. Film and Design Sarsem Singh’s The Fall (2006) with costumes designed by Eiko Ishioka

30. Film and Design Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula (1992)

31. Film and Design Sets, costumes, make-ups, wigs and props were meticulously recreated in the styles of the Risorgimento (Re-unification) period (19th C) in Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard (1963)

32. Film and Architecture Set is designed after existing architecture or originally designed. Mayan pyramid and the headquarter building of Tyrell Corporation in Ridley Scott’s Blader Runner

33. Film and Architecture G.W. Griffith’s spectacle, Intolerance designed by Griffith with the help of Walter L. Hall. Huge set of City of Babylon was created modeling after historical buildings and edifices.

34. Film and Architecture Classic, neoclassic, and neo-gothic architecture inspired Intolerance Il Vittoriano at Piazza Venezia in Rome

35. Film and Architecture In Kurosawa Akira’s Rashomon, the first and last scenes take place under the impressive, half- ruined gate, which is reconstructed modeling after various existing gates such as Hozomon, Kaminarimon and Ninomon of the Edo Castle.

36. Film and Architecture Hozomon of Sensoji Temple, Asakusa, Tokyo

37. Film and Architecture Otemon of the Edo Castle

38. Film and Music Music and sound effects became an essential part of the film since the introduction of sound in 1928 Joseph Losey’s Don Giovanni is a film version of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera and designed by Alexandre Trauner.

39. Film and Music Musical is one of the most important film genres Consisted of multiple forms of arts, music, song and dance Stanley Donen, Singin’ in the Rain

40. How is cinema different from other forms of arts? Film is a mechanical and industrial product.  mechanical technologies - camera, light, film stock, sound recorder, film processing, editing, sound mixing, CG, projector

41. How is cinema different from other forms of arts? Lighting set up in location shooting

42. How is cinema different from other forms of arts? Recording equipment: sound recorder and microphones

43. How is cinema different from other forms of arts? A camera on a dolly

44. How is cinema different from other forms of arts? François Truffaut’s Day for Night is about filmmaking Meet Pamela Meet Pamela

45. How is cinema different from other forms of arts?  industrial - production, distribution and exhibition, advertisement Production companies, studios, distributors, and exhibitors, advertise agents - investment

46. How is cinema different from other forms of arts? Film is collaborative art  producer, director, scriptwriter, cinematographer, production designer, set designer, costume designer, editor, music composer, recording engineer, actor

47. What is cinema? How is film different from other forms of art? LITERATURE AND FILM The crucially important element of both is narrative, but film has visual images and sound. FINE ART AND FILM Both are visual but film can tell much more complicated stories without relying on the knowledge of the spectator.

48. What is cinema? A painting can tell a story but not complicated one. It depends on a separate text which tells the story. Leonardo Davinci, The Last Supper which relies on The Old Testament

49. What is cinema? John Everett Milais’ Ophelia

50. What is cinema? Music and film share sound but the latter combines it with visuals and words. Drama/opera/musical are similar to film, but the latter can tell more complicated stories more realistically. Film does not have to rely on words, the essence of the theatre, which is the major difference between film and the theatre. Film can tell stories through images and sounds.

51. What is cinema? Pure cinema (Alfred Hitchcock) – stories must be told with no or few words by using camera, editing, music and sound, which is impossible in any other medium of arts.

52. What is cinema? Fritz Lang’s M The film is about crimes committed by a serial child-killer. Stories are partly told through images and sounds. We do not see the killer but hears the tune he whistle and his casual conversation with a girl. M 3.00M

53. What is cinema? Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo A former cop who suffers from acrophobia cannot save a woman from committing suicide. Vertigo prevents him to climb up the stairs fast enough.

54. What is cinema? Nearly 30 minutes robbery sequence is told only through sounds and images without words. Sounds and images tell a lot about actions. Suspense created better without words Jean-Pierre Le Cercle rouge(1970)

55. What is cinema? Louis Malle’s Ascenseur pour l’echafaud Thriller about a married woman and her lover who almost succeed in getting rid of her husband in a supposedly perfect crime, but he commits a vital mistake. A story is told through images and sound.

56. What is cinema? What is cinema good at Cinema can tell stories through not one medium - words, images, sounds, but all these media.

57. What is cinema? What disadvantages does cinema has? Those media must be skillfully combined. Special talents excelling in more than one areas and controlling every aspect and stage of filmmaking are required. The importance of film director.

58. What is cinema? Cinema as investment and commodity. Cost - Return Entertainment, commercial values required. Is cinema a commercial product or art? Three kinds: 1. Commercial products - Hollywood and large commercial production companies 2. Artistic products - works of independent producers and directors, works made with public support 3. Both

59. What is film studies? What film studies does. Analysis of artistic elements involved - narrative, visual, plastic, and sound element (literary, visual art, sculptural, architectural, and musical element) Analysis of industrial and commercial aspects. Explore what a film shows - its theme, motif, and background Explore how that is shown - narrative, visual, sound and other technique

60. What is film studies? Analysis of technique: Narrative technique - how to tell a story Sound technique - sound editing and mixing Visual technique - camera (choice of lens, filter and camera, positioning, movement, angle), lighting, colour arrangement - design (set, prop, costume) - performance - editing

61. Essay Title Watch a film and analyse its non-verbal elements. In your analysis you must find in what ways those non-verbal elements contribute to the development of stories and atmosphere.