Film Studies May '17

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

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,

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

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