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Tuesday 19 October 2010

Selection of Cultural Activities (11/10/10 - 17/10/10)


Films

Arabian Nights (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Produzioni Europee Associati, IT/FR, 1974)
L’ argent (Marcel L’Herbier,
Société des Cinéromans, FR, 1958)
Bigger Than Life (
Nicholas Ray, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, USA, 1956)
Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale, Universal Pictures, USA, 1935)
Cat People
(
Jacques Tourneur, RKO, USA, 1942)
Frankenstein (James Whale, Universal Pictures, USA , 1931)
Freaks (Tod Browning, MGM, USA, 1932)
I Walked with a Zombie (
Jacques Tourneur, RKO, USA, 1943)
Lola Montes (Max Ophuls,  Gamma Films, FR/LUX/West Germany, 1955)
Lover Come Back (Delbert Mann, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, USA, 1961)
The Music Lovers (Ken Russell, Russ-Arts, UK, 1970)
La Règle de jeu (Jean Renoir,
Nouvelles Éditions de Films (NEF), FR, 1939)
Shane (George Stevens, Paramount Pictures Corporations, USA, 1953)
The Thirty-Nine Steps (Alfred Hitchcock,
Gaumont British Picture Corporation, UK, 1935)


Preliminary Notes: Cat People
Threatening female sexuality – akin to Film Noir?
Entrapment imagery: panther in cage, cat in the box, bird in cage, Irena in her apartment (she also locks herself in her bedroom) = suppressed sexual desires; an external expression of her psyche through mise-en-scène.

Preliminary Notes: Arabian Nights

The use of form in regards to the narrative (layers of interconnecting stories) supports the content of the film and the idea of storytelling from the original source.  


Television

‘Waldorf Stories’, episode six, Mad Men, fourth series, USA, BBCHD, tx. 13.10.2010.
A History of Horror, UK, BBC4, tx. 11.10.2010
‘Home Alone’, episode four, The Inbetweeners, third series, UK, E4, tx. 11.10.2010.


Radio

The Film Programme, 2010. [Radio programme] BBC, BBC Radio 4, 15 October 2010 16.30.


Reading

Perkins, V.F. 1972. Film as Film. London: Penguin Books

- I have been preoccupied with my university application this week so I have been unable to as much extended reading than I would have liked to have done.  Though, I began re-reading V.F Perkins Film as Film. Fantastic reading! Every time I read it, I understand his argument better due to the extended reading I have completed in the meantime.

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