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Metz uses the six elements of the grande syntagmatique to describe how actions and events are conveyed in film (scene, sequence, alternatives, repeated action, description, and autonomous plan). Can you describe how a 5-hour train ride can be condensed into a 30-second sequence in film? Can you describe how to condense a 4-year period in school into a 30-second sequence in film?
Barthes describes how myth-making transforms a flower into symbol of romantic love. The romantic gift of a bouquet of roses (a sign) combines signified (passion) and the signifier (flowers). What other objects can you think of that have this symbolic quality?
-1.1 Overview
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-1.2 Mise-en-scène: setting
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-1.3 Mise-en-scène: lighting
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-1.4 Mise-en-scène: character appearance
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-1.5 Mise-en-scène: performance
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-1.6 Screen space and composition
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-1.7 Case study
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-Unit1 Questions for discussion
-Unit 1 单元测试
-2.1 Introduction of cinematography
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-2.2 Cinematography: angle of framing
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-2.3 Cinematography: camera distance
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-2.4 Cinematography: mobile framing
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-2.5 Case study
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-Unit 2 Questions for discussion
-Unit 2 单元测试
-3.1 Overview
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-3.2 Openings, closings, and story development
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-3.3 Range of story information: restricted or unrestricted
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-Unit 3 Questions for discussion
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-4.1 Overview
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-4.2 Editing and speed of narrative
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-4.3 Chronology and continuity editing
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-4.4 Flashbacks and editing
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-Unit 4 Questions for Discussion
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-5.1 Overview
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-5.2 What is semiotics?
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-5.3 Christian Metz
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-5.4 Roland Barthes （Part 1）
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-5.5 Roland Barthes （Part 2）
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-5.6 Case study: 2001: A Space Odyssey
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-Unit 5 Questions for Discussion
-Unit 5 单元测试
-6.1 Overview
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-6.2 Origins of film ideology
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-6.3 Media and technology
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-6.4 Cultural hegemony and counterhegemony
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-6.5 Case study: Star Trek
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-Unit 6 Questions for discussion
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-7.1 Overview
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-7.2 Woman and film
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-7.3 Feminist film theory and practice
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-7.4 Case study: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
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-7.5 Masculinity
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-7.6 Queer Cinema
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-Unit 7 Questions for discussion
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-8.1 Overview
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-8.2 Race and racism
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-8.3 Stereotypes of racial representation
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-8.4 Whiteness
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-8.5 Case study: Rabbit-Proof Fence
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-Unit 8 Questions for discussion
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-9.1 Overview
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-9.2 Edward Said and Orientalism
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-9.3 Cultural Imperialism
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-9.4 Self-orientation
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-9.5 Case study I: Mulan
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-9.6 Case study II: M Butterfly
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-Unit 9 Questions for discussion
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-10.1 Overview
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-10.2 Early Background
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-10.3 Jacques Lacan
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-10.4 Laura Mulvey
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-10.5 Case Study: Shutter Island
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-Unit 10 Questions for discussion
-Unit 10 单元测试
-Unit 10 Film and Psychoanalysis
-11.1 Overview
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-11.2 Story
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-11.3 Character: the enigmatic English patient
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-11.4 Mise-en-scène: setting
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-11.5 Narrative
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-11.6 Music
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-Unit 11 Questions for discussion
-Unit 11 单元测试
-Unit 11 The English Patient: Form and Narrative
-12.1 Signs and Symbols
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-12.2 Nationalism in The English Patient
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-12.3 Almasy as the misogynist and Katharine as a feminist
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-12.4 Kip as the Other
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-Unit 12 Questions for discussion
-Unit 12 单元测试
