Cinema and literature notes

Date 3rd nov ,2023

*Denotative and Connotative meanings in films and what is Montage .(As described by James
Monaco in the language of fims and syntax )

*cinematic adaptation of literary texts

1.Modern times .(problems of labour ,industrialized labour etc)

2.Throne of blood (changes from the book to the film )

How does the setting imact the tale ?

3.Difference between the literary text and the film .For eg –Witches becoming the two male officers
in Macqbool .How does this change imact the adaptation ?

*Movies prescribed in syllabus

How Thelma and Louise uses camera work cinematography to capture landscape ?

How does sound work in making of a film .Impact of sound in a movie.

Images and Mise en scene in films .

Color palette in films .Eg Tarkovsky’s famous green palette.

Can cinema critique dominant mainstream structure of thought .For eg. Patriarchy ,class
What is the extend of this criticism .

*Use of Mulvey’s essay in writing answers pertaining to the given films in syllabus
Scopofelia

Male gaze .How it works –[in three ways ]

1.how the camera looks at the women’s body
2.how the actor looks at the women’s body.
3.How the audience looks at the women’s body.

Gender in thelma and louise .

Use of the body in Margarita with a straw .[with reference to Mulvey’s essay]
What is Mulvey’s take on patriarchy in the essay

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