Film History and Aesthetics Wiki
A Project of Film 110: Introduction to Film History and Aesthetics at Westminster College
By: Air Dupaix, Kathryn Hansen, Jessica Knight, Nykki Montaño, William Palm, Monty Risenhoover, Tony Rivas, Ian Stephens, and Sam Webster
Clip Requests
11.17 From Sam: I need a clip from Blade Runner at the very beginning, about 3:46-4:25 if the versions match up... the opening sequence of LA and a cut or two to the eye.
11.17 From Air
I need three clips (from Final Cut)
Clip from 41:29 to 42:23 Deckard's dream
Clip from 1:05:41 to 1:06:41 Rachael and Deckard's glowing eyes.
Clip from 1:51:38 to 1:52:15 Deckard's discovery of the origami unicorn.
11.17 From Nykki
I need a Blade Runner clip showing the inside of Deckard's apartment in the scene before he kisses Rachael. I only have the theatrical cut to get times off of right now so my times I have down are from 1:04:43 to 1:07:19. But as long as you can see that the apartment lighting in that scene it should be ok. Thanks!
Air's Request: I would like a clip from The Holy Mountain from 8:41 to 11:56. It should show the entire Lizard Toad experience from the drum until the exploding pyramids.
Tony could also benefit from this same clip :)
http://www.viddler.com/explore/Film110/videos/63/ |
Announcements, etc
11.17
By the way, major edit and wiki maintenance grades for last week (11.6-11.12) are up.
11.12
We didn't talk about major edits that will be due for the 19th. Will somebody start a list?
Also, I forgot to mention that my intro to lit class is screening The Big Sleep today at 5:30 in Gore B24. It's one of the classic films of the noir period, and Blade Runner alludes to it. So feel free to come watch if you'd like.
11.12
Here's some reading on Miike.
And here's the publication information on the Blade Runner article:
Desser, David. "Blade Runner: Science Fiction and Transcendence." Literature/
Film Quarterly 13.3 (1985): 172-9.
11.9
I'll be holding my office hours in the Foster Faculty Lounge (main floor Foster Hall) on the morning of 11.10. We'lll be talking about Blade Runner Tuesday, so make sure you see it before then.
11.8
Wiki Maintenance and Major Edit grades are up for 10.30-11.5.
11.5
Some reading for next week here.
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New Original Pages for 11.17
Nykki: Lighting in Blade Runner
Air: The Replicants
Tony: Bladerunner: Version History
Will:The Portrayal of the Future, in Film
Sam: Allusions in Blade Runner
Major edits due 11.19
Air: Cinema Novo
New pages due 12.1
Tony: Audition
Ian: Editing in Audition
Kathryn: Gender politics in Audition
William: Miike
Air: Dew article
Monty: Japanese horror
Nykki: "Dream sequence"
Sam: Society/film
11.12
Major Edits Due Tonight:
Ian wrote his on Film Music
Sam wrote his on HAL
Nykki added to Interpretations of 2001
Air worked on 2001: A Space Odyssey
Monty: Fritz Lang
Tony: Color in The Holy Mountain
Crap! I forgot to post this here William did his on Color in The Holy Mountain
*Maintenance query from Nykki: Why is that creepy pic of Jodorowsky on 3 different pages? It doesn't seem too appropriate on all 3 pages-especially the Color in The Holy Mountain page, but I didn't want to delete a pic off another person's page. Anyone else find this a little weird? The same picture is on the color page and also Alejandro Jodorowsky (appropriate here) and Occult Symbolism in The Holy Mountain (not really sure if it's needed here...). Just thought I'd throw this up here.
*I think that the image that was previously there was that color collage, but the linked file must have changed. I'll do my best to edit Jodorowsky's unsettling smile out of the pages. Admittedly, this might be the most fantastic thing ever to happen on the wiki.- Ian
*Must be Jodorowski asserting his mystical powers on us. -Sean
Major Edit ideas for Next week:
Air humbly begs permission to work on her Cinema Novo page.
*Have at it! -Nykki
Our new word: Jeezical; Jesucal
11.10
Ian did his on American Counterculture and The Holy Mountain
William wrote a page on Color in The Holy Mountain
Air's shiny new page: Cinema Novo
Monty: Color
Nykki new one: Narrative Analysis
Sam did The Holy Mountain
Tony did Occult Symbolism in The Holy Mountain
Kathryn:Alejandro Jodorowsky
New Pages due 11.17
Monty: Blade Runner
Kathryn: Desser Article
Air: The Replicants
Nykki: lighting in BR
Ian: film noir
Sam: Allusions in Blade Runner
Tony: Version history
William: representing the future
Monty: Just wondering if anyone else is having trouble with the reading,
it doesn't want to open for me.
I see what you mean. Browsers don't seem to like it for some reason. Try right- or control-clicking and hitting "save link as..." That seems to be working for me even when left-clicking doesn't.
Air's note to Monty--try saving it without changing the size of the pages in the pdf. The file just wants to be large and in your face.
11.5
Major Edits
Ian: The New Wave
Nykki: Mise en Scene in 2001 A Space Odyssey
Sam: Framing
Monty: Camera Movement in 12 Angry Men
William:The Grand Illusion
Air: Symbolic Objects (I beg your forgiveness Sean)
Major Edits due 11.12
Ian: French realism
Air: 2001 Page
Sam: Hal
Nykki: Interpretations of 2001
Ideological implications of films
Kathryn: If its alright more with Narrative Structure in 2001.
11.4
Ian did his on Exterminating Fetuses: Abortion, Disarmament, and the Sexo-Semiotics of Extraterrestrialism
Monty: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Air did her original page on HAL.
Will did his original page on Interpretations of 2001
Sam did his on Editing in 2001: A Space Odyssey
Nykki did hers on Mise en Scene in 2001 A Space Odyssey
Tony did his on Stanley Kubrick
Kathryn :Narrative Structure (Repetitions) in 2001
New Pages due 11.10
William: Color in Holy Mountain
Tony: Occult symbolism in Holy Mountain
Kathryn: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Monty: Color
Air: Optical trickery in film
Nykki: Narrative analysis (story/discourse) (plot/story)
Ian: American sixties counterculture (analytical emphasis)
Sam: The Holy Mountain
Major Edits Due 11/5
Nykki: her future 2001 page
Air: symbolic objects
Ian: New Wave
Sam: Framing
William: Grand Illusion
Tony: Kubrick
Monty: Camera movement in 12 Angry Men
10.29
Major Edits for 10.29
Air: more on Messianic themes in Metropolis
Ian: symbolics of objects
Tony will look around
Kathryn: German Expressionism
Monty: Sound in 12 Angry Men
Sam: Editing in Birth of a Nation
Nykki: working on the Acting page
Note to Air, from Ian: Thank you bunches for the very kind gift of your major edit. I'll do my very best to give your page the respect, reverence, and detailed attention it so richly deserves :)
Note to Ian, from Air: Hey no problem I am sure you'll make the page so much more. Hope you get better soon!
10.27
New Pages:
Acting in 12 Angry Men -Nykki
Editing in The Birth of a Nation - Sam
Symbolism of Objects in Cinema - Air
Character Development-Will
Sidney Lumet - Tony
12 Angry Men- Kathryn
Sound: 12 Angry Men - Monty
Camera Movement in 12 Angry Men- Ian
New Pages due 11.3
2001: Monty
Kubrick: Tony
Sofia's article: Ian
Cool mise-en-scene in 2001: Nykki
HAL: Air
Narrative structure of film (repetitions): Kathryn
Conflicting interpretations of 2001: William
Editing in some specific scene: Sam
Alright so the library did not have the movie 2001... to watch when I went and tried to get it for the screening, thusly.....the screening did not happen. The only copy was checked out so I hope we can try to find a way to watch it again or something. Sorry guys but I did all I could. Did someone forget to turn it back in? I checked online and it said that the item was "missing". What does that even mean? Anyways I guess we will figure this out in class.
-William
10.22
Major Edits due tonight:
-Ian on Auteur Theory
-Sam on Depth Of Field
-William did his major edit on Framing :D
-Nykki worked on the Continuity Editing page again
-Monty added the Diegetic and Non-Diegetic sound page to Sound in Film and will
be doing more with the clips when i acquire them.
Kathryn did hers on The Grand Illusion but forgot to put it here, sorry.
10.20
Air's note- Sorry I couldn't make it to class today, my partner is having some family issues that I needed to be home/with her for. But as for today, are we doing still doing orignal pages tonight because I can't for the life of me remember. If not, I'm going to work on the blackface page now because it needs lots of love. Thanks guys, see you Thursday.
Air--no new pages for tonight. We've assigned you one for next week, though. Hope your partner's ok. --Sean
Major edits due 10.22
Auteur Theory: Ian
Framing: William
Continuity Editing: Nykki
Depth of Field: Sam
Metropolis itself: Tony
Grand Illusion: Kathryn
Sound: Monty
Blackface: Air
New Pages due 10.27
Acting in 12 Angry Men: Nykki
Character development (in 12 Angry Men?): William
Symbolism of objects in cinema: Air
Sound in 12 Angry Men: Monty
Editing in Birth of a Nation: Sam
Lumet: Tony
12 Angry Men: Kathryn
Camera movement in 12 Angry Men: Ian
10.13
New Original Pages:
Camera Movement in La Grande Illusion - Nykki
Fritz Lang - Monty
Messianic Themes in Metropolis - Air
Sam now knows why Jessica is no longer in the class - the Film Narrative page
William had his page done but forgot to link it here until now! sorry guys
he did Metropolis
Tony did German Expressionism (forgot to link)
Ian did Auteur Theory
Kathryn :Expressionist mise-en scene in Metropolis.
- Ian will talk about The Battleship Potemkin page, and maybe the Parallel Editing page.
- Nykki will talk about the Lillian Gish and/or the Georges Méliès page
- Kathryn: Blackface.
- Air will blather on about either Actualities or Set Design and Locations.
- Sam on Framing and Soviet Montage... and might justify the weak editing page
-William did his on Acting
10.8
Major edits due tonight:
-Sam on the Ideology in Film page (the second clip could be shortened, but I'm not sure if that can be done from youtube and it doesn't give me times on the DVD to request a clip with)
Tony did his on Cinematic Responses to Fascism
Air did hers on Jean Renoir
Ian did his on Queer Cinema
Nykki added to the Camera Movement page
Monty broke up and expanded French Cinema
Kathryn worked on Class in Film Hope it's alright, I did this without permission
10.6
Air's Note: I'm sort of using the article "Cocteau's Beauty & The Beast: The Poet as Monster" from last week to work on my page for tonight and I completely forgot the author of said article. If any of you, my fine fellow classmates could tell me the author's name that would be wonderful. Thanks! Also I need the clip of the beast proposing to Beauty the second time, I think its between 46:27 to 46:40.
Sam's response: I think it's.... Michael Popkin? That's the name at the end of the essay... so I'm gonna say that's it.
Sean: Yep, Sam's right. I'll have to grab that clip for Air as the disc's encrypted. Should be able to get it tomorrow.
Finished Original pages:
Ian FINALLY did his on Film Music
Air did her original page on Queer Cinema
Sam did his on Framing
Nykki did hers on Mise en Scene in La Belle et la Bete
Monty did his on Beauty and the Beast
Tony did his on Special Effects
Kathryn did hers on Jean Cocteau
William did his on Depth Of Field
Pages due 10.13.09
Tony: German Expressionism
William: Metropolis
Monty: Fritz Lang
Air: Messianic themes in Metropolis
Sam: Narrative
Ian: Auteur theory
Nykki: camera movement in The Grand Illusion Kathryn: Expressionist mise-en-scene in Metropolis
Jessica: relationship or either theater or literature to film
10.1.09
Major Edit pages
Ian did his major edit on Set Design and Locations
Air did her major edit on Film: "The Stuff"
Tony did MORE on Blackface
Sam slapped a couple more examples onto the Continuity Editing page
Nykki worked on the Lighting page
Air's note: I changed the navigation for the Works Consulted page to something a little more logical like the alphabet. I'm going to go through and get rid of the other anchors on the page but in doing so I may screw up a few times. Just be aware that your sources may die or not actually go anywhere like the about.com link is now. I don't know what happened to it but the page made the link disappear after going back and forth between the source and the regular page. Maybe this is an issue with the wiki? Gremlins in the computers?
Major Edit Assignments for 10.8.09
Ian: Queer Cinema
Air: More on Jean Renoir
Nykki: More on camera movement
Monty: More on French cinema
Tony: More on cinematic responses to fascism
Kathryn: More on Class in film
9.29.09
Original page assignments for 10.6
* Beauty and the Beast--Monty
* Jean Cocteau--Kathryn
* Queer cinema so to speak--Air
* Depth of field--William
* Music--Ian
* Mise-en-scene in B & B--Nykki
* "Special effects"--Tony
* Camera position/magnification--"framing"--Sam
* Narrative--Jessica
Original Pages
Ian did his page on Sound in Film
Air did her page onJean Renoir
Nykki did hers on Camera Movement
William did his page on The Grand Illusion
Sam did his for Bazin on The Grand Illusion
Tony did his on Cinematic Responses to Fascism
Monty did his on French Cinema
Hope they help! --Nykki
Those help a ton thanks! I can't believe I couldn't find them.
-I think it should be decided that Nykki deserves some sort of award for general awesome-ness and industry.
-Seconded.
Ian's Note: I tried to use a custom font for the title of the wiki, but it seems to be reverting back to a decidedly not-exciting font instead. Sorry for messing things up...I'll find a way to get the old silver logo back.
-Sam's comment: I dunno, I kinda like it this way. It's... classy.
-Nykki: like ron burgundy....
all kidding aside I too like the way it looks now, either works though!
-Monty: by the way it was a picture I made so you really can't put it back up without my files or reverting to
a previous version, but if everyone likes this there's no reason too.
And by Orpheus I'm Sure Sean really means The Beauty and the Beast. Although if you'd like to watch Orpheus I'd be more than happy to lend you my copy of the film.
9.24.09
Major Edit assignments that we all blew off till tonight:
- Sam: is gonna try to do one on the parallel editing page.
- Air is going to work on the aesthetics of the Griffith clip.
- William is going to work on Mise en Scene.
- Nykki is going to work on the continuity editing page.
- Ian will work on The Battleship Potemkin page (I didn't ask for permission to work on my own page...apologies all around).
- Nykki votes that working on your own page is A-ok! Go for it!
- Jessica did her major edit on the Acting page.
-Tony added and edited information on the Eisenstein page.
Major edit assignments (due 10.1)
-Kathryn: Thomas Edison
-Sam: Potemkin
-Lighting: Nykki
-Tony: Still more on blackface
-Ian: Set Design
-Air: Death of film
-William: Continuity editing
9.22.09
Pages due next week on the 29th
-The Grand Illusion: William
-Jean Renoir: Air
-Class in film: Kathryn
-Sound: Ian
-Narrative style: Jessica
-French Cinema: Monty
-Camera Movement: Nykki
-Responses to fascism: Tony
-Bazin on Grand Illusion: Sam
New pages due October 22nd
Lighting by William
Film: "The Stuff" by Nykki
Set Design and Locations by Air
Soviet Montage by Sam
Ideology in Film by Jessica
The Battleship Potemkin by Ian
Sergei Eisenstein by Tony
Eisenstein"s Essay by Kathryn
Air's note:
Hey Everyone,
Should we always do a page on the current genre of film we are watching or no? Like for this week we'd be doing a page on the Soviet Montage of Einstein or will that be taken care of with the three pages dedicated to him? Im just thinking that the actualities page might be a little lonely as the only film genre we've covered, especially if we've passed on the cool things happening in Russia, Germany and France during the pre-war years.
Jessica's note about Air's note:
I think that's a totally brill idea!
Ian's note about Air's note in response to Jessica's note:
I second the above brill- it's a really good idea.
William's note in responce to Ian's comment refering to Jessica's reference to Air
It sounds brilliant.
9.17.09
Jessica did her major edit on Kinetoscope
page
Ian completed the major edit on Gunning
Air took on Actualities for her major edit
Nykki did her ME working on the Melies page
TJ did his ME on the Blackface page
William did his major edit on Lumière brothers Film examples
Major edit on Edwin Porter Kathryn
Major edits: (Next Week)
Jessica - Acting
9.15.09
Acting
Continuity Editing
Parallel Editing (Cross-Cutting)
Lillian Gish
The Birth of a Nation
Axis of Action
Mise-en-scene
Blackface
David Llewelyn Wark Griffith
Hey yalls, I found a great website that is somewhat what we are trying to do here. Check it out
New pages for next Tuesday:
Kathryn: Eistenstein's essay
Tony: Esienstein
Ian: Potemkin
Jessica: Film as ideology
Soviet Montage: Sam (Film History)
Nykki: The Stuff
William: lighting (mise-enscene)
Monty: Cinematography
Air: Set design/location (mise-en-scene)
Possibility: history of trailer
Major Edit Assignments:
Air on Actualities
Ian political implications of Gunning
William Lumiere bros. examples
Nykki: Melies ditto
Kathryn: More on Porter
Tony: ?
Sam: A Trip to the Moon
Jessica: ?
Monty: ?
9.10.09
Major edits:
Air on Actualties...
William on Lumiere brother film examples...
9.8.09
Edwin Stanton Porter
Georges Méliès
Thomas Edison
A Trip to the Moon
The Lumière Brothers
Actualities
Film Editing
The Cinema of Attraction
Movie Technology
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