Film+Theory+Analysis.

Your assignment is to take a look at a film of your choosing, and discuss how it creates meaning that is understood through some of the various lenses of film theory. These include:


 * Auteur Theory (important that you understand that this is a theory like the others, but don't use this as a lens for this assignment)
 * Genre Theory (important that you understand that this is a theory like the others, but don't use this as a lens for this assignment)
 * **Marxist Film Theory***
 * **Feminist Film Theory***
 * **Freudian Film Theory***
 * **Catharsis & Mimesis***
 * **Cultural Studies***
 * Cognitive Theory (don't include for this assignment, we'll discuss this next class)
 * Formalist Film Theory (don't include for this assignment, we'll discuss this next class)

Discuss how the **directors choices** (mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing, lighting, sound, etc) that we've looked at over the past year and a half create meaning in the context of 3 different approaches to film theory (choose 3 from the list of *'s above).

Here are your notes on Film Theory... you'll probably need to do some more research, or go to your classmates for further help. I'd suggest using my copies of "Looking at Movies":

Marxist Film Theory: Social justice and equality (basically focuses on marxist ways)

Feminist Film Theory focuses on the function and representation of female characters in films. In particular, Feminist Film Theory leans towards a focus on inequality between men and women, specifically the weak and negative portrayal of women.

Cathartic: Catharsis: provide a release of heightened emotions by identifying with characters in films.

Cowltuer Stoodyys Eff. Tee.(Culture Studies F.T.): Plain Ingrish: Looking at the film throught the lens of what culture effect it when it was made.

Cultural studies: cultural studies is concerned with the movies' function within popular culture on the movies. Cultural studies investigates how factors such as age, politics, race, ethnicity, class, sexual identity, gender, income, and neighborhood affect people's reception of the movie. This is a complex undertaking because viewers bring different personal and cultural experiences to bear on their responses to a screening, but also because of other considerations.

Eric Li: Dredd (2012) Dinah Lee: V for Vendetta Vipula Bhagwani: The Breakfast Club Kyle Pang:Psycho William: District 9 Elizabeth: Hamlet (1996) Jocelyn: World's End Film Theory Karson Mo: Hot Fuzz Naomi Chan- Raise the Red Lantern Rene Wong: My Sassy Girl (2001) Luke Kao: Spider-Man (2002) Cecilia Siu: Echoes Of The Rainbow Julie Ma: My Rainy Days (2009) Kristine Romano: Film Theory Analysis (Juliet of the Spirits) Ryan Chong: Theoretical Lenses on 《 卧虎藏龙》"Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon"