This is just a record of the significant programmes/films I have watched throughout the week. I do try and structure my viewing so I’m able to study them. At the moment I haven’t got the time type up any further analyses of what’s been viewed but I will try and do this in the future.
Film
Singing in the Rain (Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly, MGM, USA, 1952)
Love Me or Leave Me (Charles Vidor, MGM, USA, 1955)
The Barefoot Contessa (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Figaro, USA/Italy, 1954)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks, Twentieth Century Fox, USA, 1953)
Inferno (Dario Argento, Produzioni Intersound, Italy, 1980)
Love Me or Leave Me (Charles Vidor, MGM, USA, 1955)
The Barefoot Contessa (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Figaro, USA/Italy, 1954)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks, Twentieth Century Fox, USA, 1953)
Inferno (Dario Argento, Produzioni Intersound, Italy, 1980)
- I hadn’t realised that there has been a theme to this week’s film viewing, well apart from Inferno. I’ve noticed the entertainment business has featured in most of the films I have seen this week.
It’s still a pleasure to re-watch Singing in the Rain and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; will have to analyse in the future!
You can see the bias towards classical Hollywood cinema and an interest In Italian horror films. There’s something about controlled misè-en-scene; I’m defiantly a fan of artificiality.
Television
End of the Line (Rupert Murray, Arcane Pictures, UK, 2009)
Selling the Sixties (Tim Kirby, BBC, UK, 2008) : I found this very complimentary as I read Vance Packard’s Hidden Persuaders the other week.
Shelagh Delaney's Salford (Ken Russell, BBC, UK, 1960)
‘Christmas Comes But Once a Year’, episode two, Mad Men, fourth series, USA, BBCHD, tx. 15.09.2010.
Road to Coronation Street (Charles Sturridge, BBC, UK, 2010)
‘Fashion Show’, episode one, The Inbetweeners, third series, UK, E4, tx. 13.09.2010.
episode two, This is England ’86, first series, UK, Channel 4, tx. 14.09.2010
Selling the Sixties (Tim Kirby, BBC, UK, 2008) : I found this very complimentary as I read Vance Packard’s Hidden Persuaders the other week.
Shelagh Delaney's Salford (Ken Russell, BBC, UK, 1960)
‘Christmas Comes But Once a Year’, episode two, Mad Men, fourth series, USA, BBCHD, tx. 15.09.2010.
Road to Coronation Street (Charles Sturridge, BBC, UK, 2010)
‘Fashion Show’, episode one, The Inbetweeners, third series, UK, E4, tx. 13.09.2010.
episode two, This is England ’86, first series, UK, Channel 4, tx. 14.09.2010
Further Exploration
1. The narrative-arcs and aesthetics (change in look of both setting and the advertising from Season 3 to Season 4) in Mad Men
2. Shane Meadows theme: exploration of masculinity. This is England ’86, the verisimilitude (Skinheads) allows the female character, Lol, masculinised dress. Does this imply, through the mise-en-scène, that this is a further extension of the theme.
3. Will have to explore the aesthetics of live television.
Idea from Road to Coronation Street: The "kitchen sink" realism of the British New Wave and 'the angry young men' was also adopted in television. This implies an entire cultural shift; visibility of working class culture.
Also a reaction in British Television in 1970’s (‘realism’) due to the visual extremeness of British cinema i.e. the work of Ken Russell, Nic Roeg etc.
Also a reaction in British Television in 1970’s (‘realism’) due to the visual extremeness of British cinema i.e. the work of Ken Russell, Nic Roeg etc.
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