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"I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings."
-Bruce Springsteen
"Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls."
-Ingmar Bergman
"A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet."
-Orson Welles
"A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later."
-Stanley Kubrick
"Every great film should seem new every time you see it."
-Roger Ebert
A semester long course offered by HHS English department, the course is designed to expose students to the visual text of the cinema.
Students will:
-build an understanding of a wide range of genres and respond to them as visual texts
-comprehend, interpret, evaluate & appreciate visual texts
-demonstrate understanding by writing, discussing and/or presenting ideas
-participate constructively & appropriately in large & small group discussions about the learning material and concepts.
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SCIENCE FICTION GENRE
THE MATRIX
is a 1999 Australian/American science fiction-action film directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski; starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, and Hugo Weaving. It was first released in the U.S. on March 31, 1999, and is the first installment in The Matrix series of films, comic books, video games, and animation.
The film describes a future in which reality as perceived by humans is actually the Matrix: a simulated reality created by sentient machines to pacify and subdue the human population, while their bodies' heat and electrical activity are used as an energy source. Upon learning this, computer programmer "Neo" is drawn into a rebellion against the machines, involving other people who have been freed from the "dream world" and into reality. The film contains many references to the cyberpunk and hacker subcultures; philosophical and religious ideas; and homages to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Hong Kong action cinema, Spaghetti Westerns, dystopian fiction, and Japanese animation.
THRILLER GENRE
MEMENTO
is a 2000 psychological thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, adapted from his younger brother Jonathan's short story "Memento Mori". It stars Guy Pearce as Leonard Shelby, a man with anterograde amnesia which renders his brain unable to store new memories.
REAR WINDOW
is a 1954 American suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, written by John Michael Hayes and based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder". Originally released by Paramount Pictures, the film stars James Stewart as photographer L. B. "Jeff" Jefferies, who spies on his neighbors while recuperating from a broken leg; Grace Kelly as Jeff's girlfriend Lisa Fremont; Thelma Ritter as his home care nurse Stella; Wendell Corey as his friend, police detective Tom Doyle; and Raymond Burr as Lars Thorwald, one of his neighbors.
CASABLANCA
is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid and featuring Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. Set during World War II, it focuses on a man torn between, in the words of one character, love and virtue. He must choose between his love for a woman and helping her and her Czech Resistance leader husband escape from the Vichy-controlled Moroccan city of Casablanca to continue his fight against the Nazis.
CITIZEN KANE
is a 1941 American drama film, directed by and starring Orson Welles. The film is widely considered the greatest of all time. The film, which was Welles' directorial debut, was nominated for Academy Awards in nine categories: it won for Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) by Herman Mankiewicz and Welles.
NOSFERATU "Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens" (translated as "Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror"; also known as "Nosferatu: A Symphony of Terror" or simply "Nosferatu")
is a German Expressionist vampire horror film, directed by F. W. Murnau, starring Max Schreck as the vampire Count Orlok. The film, shot in 1921 and released in 1922, was in essence an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, with names and other details changed because the studio could not obtain the rights to the novel
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What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
- W. H. Auden
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Hamden High School
Mike Capone
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