How to View and Appreciate Great Movies

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Call Number: DVD 791.43 Wi Oversize, Adult DVD / Great Courses / Performing Arts / How To View And Appreciate Great Movies
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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Downtown 1st Floor 4-week checkout	DVD 791.43 Wi Oversize	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult A/V 4-week checkout	Adult DVD / Great Courses / Performing Arts / How To View And Appreciate Great Movies	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult A/V 4-week checkout	Adult DVD / Great Courses / Performing Arts / How To View And Appreciate Great Movies	4-week checkout	Due 05-01-2024

24 lectures (30 min. each).
Course no. 7000.
disc 1. The art of the silver screen -- We all need another hero: universal stories -- Movie genre: it's not what you think -- Genre layers and audience expectations -- Popcorn can wait: story shape and tension -- Themes on screen -- disc 2. Paradigm shift: Citizen Kane and Casablanca -- The language of visual storytelling -- Building screen space: blocking and framing -- The cutting room floor: powerful editing -- Sound design and acoustic illusion -- Setting the scene: masterful set design -- disc 3. Special effects in the 20th century -- Special effects in the 21st century -- Scoring the history: music in film -- Color and light: elements of atmosphere -- Knowing characters from the inside out -- Knowingcharacters from the outside in -- disc 4. Secondary characters and supporting actors -- Star power: lead actors and their roles -- Character relationships and audience empathy -- Pathways to great antagonists -- Point of view in script and on screen -- Filmmaker's voice and audience choice.
Lecturer: Professor Eric Williams, Ohio University.
DVD.

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