The non-fiction film: five types of documentary

Read and take Cornell notes.
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Bill Nichols - Documenatry Modes

Silent Cinema - Reveision Elements

Revision Elements

Characteristic aesthetic qualities of Keaton (mechanical comedy, deadpan, acrobatics) and American Silent Comedy (looking closely at all aspects of film form and creators as auteurs)

Charlie Chaplin

Harold Lloyd

Keaton helped shape the movement.

The Star System of Hollywood, Arbuckle scandal

Modernism

The wider context (German Expressionism - Nosferatu 1922,  Soviet Montage - The Man With The Movie Camera 1929)

Art movements (e.g. Cubism, Surrealism, Expressionism) or a broader cultural shift (Modernism)

Andre Bazin - Expressive vs Realist

Lumiere Brothers 

Georges Melies. 

Vaudeville

Cinema of Attractions

Slapstick

Chase and trick films

(Next week...)

Rube Goldberg 

Flatpack house

The Context of Keaton - Modernism, Bazin and the Star System.

Paul Merton's Silent Clowns

Intro to Silent Film

How to plan your essay.

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