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Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988

Collect Homework

View & Discuss Cinema Paradiso

Discuss Final Exam

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Grand Prize, Cannes Film Fes6val Best Foreign Film, Golden Globes 5 Bri6sh Academy Film Awards, including best film, actor, screenplay & music

On numerous Top 100 lists Generally an audience favorite

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The Past-time of Past Time

Let Go, Toto

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Or seKling

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Is passion related to death?

Passionless-ness as a form of death

Elena

Alfredo

The Cinema Paradiso

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How can it be good that Toto & Elena couldnt be together?

Self-discovery, Memories, and Ghosts

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What crucial symbolic differences exist between being a projectionist and a director?

What do they represent to us?

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Places of discovery and transgression

Inner journeys

Landscapes of the imagination

Illusion of magic

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Bildungsroman: Coming of age story

Knstlerroman: Artist coming of age

Journey of discovery & remembrance

Love story: thwarted, tragic, or mature?

Melodrama

Any notable formal elements?

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Flashbacks / Frame Narratives (reinforcing the theme of Salvatores disconnected nature)

Lots of self-reflexivity

Jump cuts (in edited films & between past/present)

Famous Kiss Montage

High-angle perspectives

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International release

Salvatore woos but loses

Elena when her father disapproves and they move

Letters are undelivered

Directors Cut: original domestic/Italian release plus some earlier deleted scenes

Domestic Italian Release

Late in film, the older Salvatore notices a young girl

who resembles Elena & follows her home

She is Elenas daughter

Salvatore tries to persuade Elena to give up

everything for him. She wont.

She tells him Alfredo told

her to stay away from him for his own good andbecause he would have given up everything for her

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Monday, December 6th, 4:30-6:20, CH 101

Know-it-or-you-donts Defini6ons Iden6fica6ons Screencaps Short Answers

One theme-and-meaning essay (no clip) One form-and-meaning essay (clip) One mystery clip essay

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30% of final grade invaluable to your emo6onal, intellectual, and spiritual growth

110 minutes (4:30-6:20 p.m., December 6) will linger much longer, perhaps forever, in your memory and soullike a scar

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Con6nuity Edi6ng Discon6nuity/Disjunc6ve

Edi6ng Sta6onary Shot Establishing Shot Frame Narra6ve Iris Edit Mise en scene Framing Blocking Shot/Reverse Shot Eyeline Match Nega6ve vs. Posi6ve Space

Tracking Shot/Travelling Shot Long take Diege6c sound Non-diege6c sound Low angle shot (worm view) High angle shot Pan Dutch or canted angles Deep Focus Dissolve Low-key ligh6ng Backligh6ng Montage

Analyze the mise en scene of the following clip. Watch the clip twice, taking notes on the ways its visual techniques relate to its themes and meaning. Then, using appropriate terminology, discuss these technical elements as specifically as possible. Remember, your focus should be on the ways the films form relates to (and creates) meaning.

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The Transforma6ve Powers of Film Love and its Humilia6ons Reality and Realism(s) Iden6ty & Self-discovery Family Time, Memory, and Transforma6on

Monday, December 6th, 2:30-4:15, APS 210