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The Blair Witch Project

Introduction The blogpost this week for us is to find out the feminist film theory elements that could be found in the movie The Blair Witch Project, which is a documentary film written and directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez in year 1999. By that, the goal of this post for me is to study about this movie, watch it, and get to know about what theory is used in it which showed the semantic and syntactic approach to genres for the film. Along my study of this film, by accomplishing my goal, I would also have an attempt to determine the documentary film theory elements that would be found in film by stating it out in the analysis section of my post. Theory Discussion Poetic “The poetic mode is particularly adept at opening up the possibility of alternative forms of knowledge to the straightforward transfer of information, the prosecution of a particular argument or point of view, or the presentation of reasoned propositions about problems in need of solution. T
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The March of the Penguins

Introduction The blogpost this week for us is to find out the documentary elements that could be found in the movie March of the Penguins, which is a French feature-length nature documentary written and directed by Luc Jacquet in year 2005. By that, the goal of this post for me is to study about this movie, watch it, and get to know about what theory is used in it which showed the semantic and syntactic approach to genres for the film. Along my study of this film, by accomplishing my goal, I would also have an attempt to determine the documentary elements that would be found in film by stating it out in the analysis section of my post. Theory Discussion Poetic “The poetic mode is particularly adept at opening up the possibility of alternative forms of knowledge to the straightforward transfer of information, the prosecution of a particular argument or point of view, or the presentation of reasoned propositions about problems in need of solution. This mode stresses mode,
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Legally Blonde

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Introduction The blogpost this week for us is to find out the feminist film theory elements that could be found in the movie Legally Blonde. By that, the goal of this post for me is to study about this movie, watch it, and get to know about what theory is used in it which showed the semantic and syntactic approach to genres for the film. Along my study of this film, by accomplishing my goal, I would also have an attempt to determine the feminist film theory elements that would be found in film by stating it out in the analysis section of my post. Theory Discussion Talking about genre, it come with semantic and syntactic, in which the semantic is basically things or parts that are expected in the genre of a film, while in which the syntactic is the ideology of the certain genre. To separate semantic and syntactic views accurately, we can easily differentiate between the generic definition of both. Basically, semantics contain areas such as the setting of location, cha
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Breathless

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Introduction The blogpost this week for us is to find out the French New Wave elements that could be found in the movie Breathless, which is a French film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard in year 1960. By that, the goal of this post for me is to study about this movie, watch it, and get to know about what theory is used in it which showed the semantic and syntactic approach to genres for the film. Along my study of this film, by accomplishing my goal, I would also have an attempt to determine the French New Wave elements that would be found in film by stating it out in the analysis section of my post. Theory Discussion Talking about genre, it come with semantic and syntactic, in which the semantic is basically things or parts that are expected in the genre of a film, while in which the syntactic is the ideology of the certain genre. To separate semantic and syntactic views accurately, we can easily differentiate between the generic definition of both. Basically, s
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Bicycle Thieves

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Introduction This week, I am going to introduce a film that is called “Bicycle Thieves”. It’s a film that brought me to discover about the theory Italian Neorealism throughout the whole film. Bicycle Thieves is an Italian film that has been recorded in year 1948 which directed by an Italian director and actor Vittorio De Sica. Theory Discussion Italian Neorealism is a film theory that has been used by national film to divide the poor and working class throughout the story in film. It is always filmed on certain qualified venues, which is also always filmed by hiring non-professional actors. Italian Neorealism films basically are stories that facing a lot of difficulties in economy and moral values, which reflects the condition of Italy after the World War II. I will break the genre part into two parts. Semantic which as known as visual, and syntax which as known as them. To make sure a certain kind of genre of films, both of this aspect must be used complimentarily
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Maltese Falcon

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Intro To be honest, the movie that have showed and to let us study this week is basically regarding the lecture we had on 14/07/2017 which is the theory film noir. The goal for me to study about this film and the theory is to understand what is film noir fully by finish watching this film. I tried my best to finish watching it and to apply every part that I have learnt into this movie. Theory discussion Still I will break the genre part into semantic which as known as visual, and syntax which as known as them. To make sure a certain kind of genre of films, both of this aspect must be used complimentarily as both in front of screen and behind of the screen is very important. As for the evolutionary part that we have discussed in class, I guess every genre also need to know where and how each genre should be at and stay, but production teams must have extremely creative ideas even if they are making the same genre kind of movies again and again in order to attract and lock
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Sleepy Hollow

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Intro The blogpost this week for us is to find out the German expressionistic elements that could be found in the movie Sleepy Hollow, which is an American film produced and directed by Tim Burton in year 1999. By that, the goal of this post for me is to study about this movie, watch it, and get to know about what theory is used in it which showed the semantic and syntactic approach to genres for the film. Along my study of this film, by accomplishing my goal, I would also have an attempt to determine the German expressionistic elements found in film by stating it out in the analysis section of my post. Theory Discussion Talking about genre, it come with semantic and syntactic, in which the semantic is basically things or parts that are expected in the genre of a film, while in which the syntactic is the ideology of the certain genre. The semantic aspect is mainly about visuals of the film which related to the mise-en-scene while the syntax is the theme of the gen
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