Fragmented point of view; western genre conventions; post-war context;
Demonstrate how at least TWO of the filmmaker’s creative decisions in ONE film from the block (weeks 7-11) serve to establish the film’s point of view on the characters, story and subject. Screening: The Searchers (1956, John Ford, USA) Reading: Douglas Pye (1996) ‘Double Vision: Miscegenation and Point of View in The Searchers’ in Ian […]
Great books understanding-Classics of western thought.
Read the “Lancelot”( Chrétien de Troyes ) and “the song of Roland” in the book Classics of western thought Middle Ages, Renaissance, and reformation by Karl F. Thompson. Write some ideas of the connections between Classics of western thought, confession by St. Augustine and Dante the Divine Comedy. The ideas should be about the relationships […]
