Silent Cinema (Man With A Movie Camera & APDN): Revision Guide
Film Movements: Silent Cinema (MWAMC & APDN) - Film Form - Meaning & Response - Contexts - Critical debates - relate the chosen film to the realist / expressionist critical debate. - explore the significance of a particular key element of film, such as editing, in the film and how far this reflects the film movement more generally. - consider how far specific issues relating to silent cinema, such as the absence of recorded speech, are significant in explaining particular creative practices in the chosen film / film movement. Constructivism & Modernism: - Realist/ Expressive critical debate This debate centres on whether film should be a ‘realist’ or an ‘expressive’ medium. In other words, should a filmmaker be concerned with representing the world as is, for example in the manner of a documentary, or should a filmmaker regard the medium as a creative one in which the everyday world is transformed? In film history this divide is traced all the way back to ...