Film Studies

Introduction Queer Cinema has been in existence but without a name and it identified with avant-garde cinema. Queer Cinema was introduced at Toronto Film Festival as a concept in 1991.Queer Theory basically is the concept of the dominant group fight with the minority group. Dominant group always think about themselves first and put less concern about the minority group. Queer Theory is about to remind the audiences there has minority group that people did not pay attention. Therefore, Queer Theory is interesting in the topic of homosexuality such as lesbian and gay. Theory Discussion Queer Theory challenges and re-examined on the topic of gender and sexuality, explores how the homosexual to become normal as heterosexual. It also challenges how a person make conjecture homosexual and heterosexual for example the traditional stereotype lesbian must act like masculinity. New Queer Cinema is not only an aesthetic, that taking pride in difference. The key aesthetics is how...

Introduction Documentaries are nonfictional film, thus they depict not imaginary but are real event. The main purpose of documentary film is for instruction, education, or introducing a historical story. Documentaries filmmakers are assumed to observe the events and make objective record of the events. Theory Discussion   Bill Nichols claims that we should look at the particular techniques that applied in the documentaries film. We can observe the techniques uses by filmmakers and see how they record or shape the events for example the way they represent the documentary. There are six modes of representation suggested by Nichols which are Poetic, Expository, Observational, Interactive, Reflexive, and Performative. Poetic Poetic documentary tend to deliver the information by using fragmented visual to make open to the public to think alternative forms of the knowledge. The information indirectly prosecute a particular argument or point of view. This type ...

Feminist Film Theory Feminist film theory was started in the 1920s, and emphasize at women’s representation for her own subjectivity. This ideology is basically discuss about the social sexual equality to show a women’s right. As we known that, women have their fixed role which is be a housewife and give birth all these stereotype. Feminist Film Theory against all the rigid role in a movie and give the greater development of a women’s role in film. This theory became matured in the late 1960s, after the radicalized feminist movement. Theory Discussion To explain Feminism in more detail is a set of political practices that seen through the analyses of the social or historical position of women. From subordinated, oppressed or exploited in dominant modes of production (such as capitalism) and /or by social relations of patriarchy or male domination. Film are usually viewed as a reflection of the society, there are many film involve the ideological and social contraction...

Introduction French New Wace is a film movement started in 1959 with Breathless by Jean-Luc Godard. French New Wave break all the traditional path and follow the literature. This film movement ended in 1969 because the form of cinema has embedded into mainstream and developed their own styles. Theory Discussion A group of film lover watched many previously unreleased movies but they unable to get into French commercial cinema. Therefore, they turned to theory and critism becoming critics and theorists. They created their own criteria which is very different compare with traditional film path. There are three principles held at Cahiers du Cinema. Firstly, rejects montage aesthetics, favouring mise-en-scene. They think that films should not just be rational experiences but can be include emotional and psychological experiences. Secondly, the ideology of personal authorship is the “Policy of Authors” claims that a film should be a medium of personal artistic expression and ...

Introduction This week movie is about film noir, The Maltese Falcon (directed by John Huston, 1941) is one of the famous film noir. Film noir is a term coined by Fren critics in 1946s. Noir is the word from French which means black so the film noir are usually in black and white. In historical context, film noir is influence by the World War II and the Cold War in United States. Man need to fight for the war, woman was forced to work. When woman started involve in the man role, they expanded their worldview beyond domestic spheres. After the men returned from the war, woman felt suspicious of the women’s roles. Women realize that they can live without men because they can work by themselves. It is not true that people said the city is dangerous, woman should stay at home and do what a women should do such as give birth, take care children and cook and more. When the war ended, women became independent because they have the ability to live. They were forced to back to the ...

German Expressionism Introduction German Expressionism is a filmic style that created from 1919 to 1926. This filmic style is influenced by the expressionist movement in modern art of early 1900s. This expressionism not only apply in literature it also apply in drama, and painting to the genre of film creation. Theory Discussion German expressionist tend to use mise-en-scene to create the style of German Expressionism. German expressionist design every single shot such as people, things, actions, backgrounds, clothing must conform to the composition design. The themes for the German expressionism usually involves rebel, self-analysis, and insanity, primitive and sexual savagery. There are several style of German expressionist often appear in this filmic style. Firstly, oblique camera angles for example like shoot the subject from lower angle. This is shot by literally tilting the camera frame. It help to makes the audiences feel anxiety and uncertainty while watc...

Italian Neorealism After the World War II, films technique begin from the Italian Neorealism. The World War II affecting the cinema industries in economic and stability. Cesare Zavattini was the theoretical founder of neo-realism in 1942. Theory Discussion Italian Neorealism is a new form of Italian Cinema that abolishes contrive and planned plots, use real people and locations to show the realistic of the movie. The pursuit of neo-realism is the reality of life, which demands the expression of the suffering of the Italian people through the war, suffering of life, and denounces the injustice in the society. This film technique mostly shot on-location in the ruins of the war. They also tend to use mixture of professional actor and non-actors but mostly non-actors able to bring out more realistic. For the film of Bicycle Thieves, after the World War II, Rome like many other country, was flooded with unemployment and poverty, people often fought for a job opportunity, and t...

Theory Discussion French Impressionist Cinema was popular on 1919 until 1928 in French. It is a films term applied by a group of French films and filmmakers. French Impressionist basically explores psychological causes; gives narration considerable psychological depth, revealing play of the character’s consciousness. In short, French Impressionist emphasis on what character thinking, saying or acting. French Impressionist also manipulates plot time and subjectivity; showing flashback or memories to show it. This is one of the hint can give the audiences know what was happened before. Besides, the characteristic of French Impressionist also tend to use visual depiction of mental states via cinematography and editing. This can be the guiding for the audiences and know what the actor trying to express. The film of In The Mood For Love is directed by Wong Kar-wai and released on 29 September 2000.This film is using a lot of French Impressionism technique to bring out the two main cha...