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Read the making of several movies in the HOLLYWOOD REPORTER http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/a-violent-year-song-america-760583
 * TASK TWO **

//film can deliver authentic embodied studies // We use insights about here. Embodiment is the property of our engagment with the world that allows us to make it meaningful

Along with research in situated cognition , EC further suggests that intelligence lies less in the individual brain and more in the dynamic interaction of brains with the wider world- including especially the social and cultural worlds which are so central to human cognition- and therefore suggests that fields like sociology and cultural studies can themselves be important resources for( and in some guises cognitive sciences)

example. The character in Black Swan What does Natalie Portman say about the experience of becoming a character through dance?

Some reading of some films might be:
 * 1) Oliver Stone’s **THE DOORS.** Fandom, character
 * 2) Sam Mendes **Road to Perdition.** Sociological,male experience
 * 3) Tony Wiles **Margot** - split personality. Ballet - the culture
 * 4) **Building the Gherkin** - stake holders, narrative
 * 5) **Easy Rider** Bigot, 1960’s liberalism
 * 6) **Orlando**. Virginia Wolf adaptation


 * read FULL METAL JACKET sociologically. Read three communication theories on this PDF **

reading from a different perspective

The key is to have an understanding of the task of reading. This second reading appraises narrative from a viewpoint not aesthetic. It could be: a psychological reading. For example, Martine Scorcese made a 56 hour long Television series on Atlantic city recently. ( //**Boardwalk Empire**//) How many of you watched this? It is a story specific to American culture and even more specific to West Coast and New York culture. Imagine the opportunity for psychological referencing for several characters here - certainly the central protagonist. Your writing needs to be about one character developed over 90 - 120 minutes.

or: Richard Linklater made //**Boyhood**//. This was made over 12 years using many of the same actors. or about issues of:

** sociology, dramaturgy itself or,commerce, or a different form of narrative eg a transmedia or a different style of narrative from conventional narrative form **

socio-psychological reading Read Ken Loach below on **//London Rioters.//**
 * Socio-psychological; ** An approach to media and communication that takes into account human behaviour.

See, also, **//LA HAINE,//** set in Paris twenty years ago..

LA HAINE ( 2006) by Kassovitz.

Look into reading texts  cultural reading ( see the other reading choices - look in the right column below ) //** What is the Eddie Sedgwick story? **// //** See the HBO movie GREY GARDENS **// //** --- **//
 * **[[image:200px-A0fa_1.JPG.jpg]]//The real Eddie Segwick//**

//**BELLE**//

See the image above. BELLE The mixed race daughter of a Royal Navy Admiral is raised by her aristocratic great-uncle in 18th century England.

Here is a Slavery timeline

http://www.brycchancarey.com/slavery/chrono4.htm In these years, her great-uncle, in his capacity as [|Lord Chief Justice], ruled in two significant slavery cases, finding in 1772 that slavery had no precedent in common law in England, and had never been authorized under positive law. This was taken as the formal end of slavery in Britain. In a case related to the slave trade, he narrowly ruled that owners of a company were not due insurance payments for the loss of slaves during a voyage, as it appeared related to errors by the officers. Look at

Audience as sociology

Psychological reading

psychological reading. Here you would select two characters to discuss.

,psychology gets you looking at character motive and make-up - also the inter-relationships of person to person ( id and ego ) ,

3. Anthropological reading

anthropology shall apply to tribal versus urban questions,

4. participant audience reading

the reading of fandoms about this piece



( See next column and links) || = TEXTS WITHIN CONTEXTS =

= Undertake a reading of a text(film). = In task one you started with the artistic decisions made by the director who instructed or had collegial conversation with: the set designer, costume designer and Director of Photography about light and framing In task two of this assessment start again from another angle on the same film(text)

This time look for another consideration: e.g transmedia, or a social, cultural, political, historical, economic, technological, or ideological considerations

e.g transmedia. GREY GARDENS



5. Don't shy from commercial studies. All objects of consumption need to be marketed. You may well use this aspect to prepare for one if the end of year exam on industry. You could study marketing controls

Narrative reading at a deeper level

read more below: || Example one. Transmedia Documentary> play> HBO

Recommentation to students. Use your a priori knowledge

For example. Jake was interested in popular culture. Jake already had given evidence of this. He had discussed Tarantino with the teacher. He had discussed the mise-en-scene of the FIGHT CLUB. He received a Design credit at level 3 in 2009. He wrote a black comedy or Pythonesque film for 3.8 one year. As the teacher knew he was interested in the graphics of popular culture, he was offered TRANSMEDIA in Grey Gardens and Dick Tracy as his choices for two readings

=Example two transmedia. Comic strip > movie: Dick Tracy.=



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5. An economic reading || ===== ** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dramaturgy_(sociology) ** ===== ** or fandoms **

What might a reading be? Example two. FANDOMS

//Different readings// involve interpreting the text from different perspectives or theoretical viewpoints in order to understand a possible meaning.

Different perspectives and theoretical viewpoints may include: auteur, genre, technical, representational, stylistic, narrative, cultural, gendered, psychological, political, historical, sociological, semiotic, director, dominant, intended, negotiated, variant, opposition.

Here are two ideas for films to study

Example B

Lewis liked the offer of trying a sociological reading of male roles in SLUM DOG. I have given him an essay to read on masculinity. See student = readings on masculinity = = SlumDog Millionare below- =
 * 1) essays on masculinity this is another masculinity study
 * 2) [|Year 12 Film Studies - FM2 American Dream Comparative Study]
 * 3) (8)

Also. Ken Loach on the London Rioters.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/hardtalk/9596825.stm ||

a reading on masculinity. The function here was to look at the setting representation (mise-en-scene)decisions for the narrative. Slumdog is a fictive sociology  - What is India? What is this story set in India?Consider the choice of portrayals of India, modern media popularity i.e a TV games show, as backdrop to universal love story. Describe or explain or analyse this construction in several paragraphs.

= ** SLUMDOG MILLIONAR E ** =
 * Contemporary British Cinema (2735) ** British Cinema Morning - Here's Tanya's powerpoint from the British Cinema Morning... British Cinema Morning - Slumdog Millionaire //11 months ago// ||  ||

Try ||  ||
 * other text studies could be

2011 City of Men, The Godfather 2010 SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE BLACK SWAN

(1) Masculinity. (2) See below =Back to TASK ONE=

media type="youtube" key="XIHTl8WpqV0?fs=1" height="385" width="640" > > media type="youtube" key="seyMfX1145A?fs=1" height="385" width="640"There are quite a few films about the making of SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE. This is part 1. Part 3 is at the top. Go to part 2 on Youtube. It won't embed.the student exemplar ,2010, covered readings of masculinity

THE FIGHT CLUB

> http://www.filmreference.com/encyclopedia/Academy-Awards-Crime-Films/Comics-and-Comic-Books-COMIC-STRIPS-ON-FILM.html > > > See audience appeal > Another possible reading of a text is a reading as a fan. > When fans know the details of cultural form they really know what they are talking about! So, what do you know? Do you know about cult film? Any film belongs to a genre. the study of film is the study of form. For your readings, then, make one reading a reading of film form ( contimuation of aspects of narrative and style as for TASK ONE. Call this a reading of narrative ). > Useful class site links: > Audience HBO > > >> //Uploaded on authorSTREAM by Paolina POSTED BY NINA MOORE AT [|WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2009]  [|0 COMMENTS]  // >> //<span style="color: #e1771e; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">LABELS: //
 * 1) =**<span style="color: #d42321; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 25px;">Task two another year was: DOCUMENTARIES. **=
 * 2) http://www.convergenceculture.org/weblog/transmedia/
 * e)
 * 1) <span style="color: #e53e3e; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: center;">read this on another school's doodle on film narrative

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<span style="color: #0000ee; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">Sociological reading 1. A Class reading. <span style="color: #0000ee; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">Example. view. The Bright Young Things by Oscar Wilde <span style="color: #c35555; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">a reading on masculinity. <span style="color: #c35555; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">The function here was to look at the setting representation (mise-en-scene)decisions for the narrative. Slumdog is a <span style="background-color: #5ae543; color: #c35555; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">fictive sociology <span style="color: #c35555; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> - What is India? What is this story set in India?Consider the choice of portrayals of India, modern media popularity i.e a TV games show, as backdrop to universal love story. Describe or explain or analyse this construction in several paragraphs.
 * Sociological reading. 2. Reading on Masculinity

= ** SLUMDOG MILLIONAR E ** = As well as this being a sociology study i.e a text as a production of culture in society, not simply the worlds within the text,This study engages with ideas from cognitive science
 * Contemporary British Cinema (2735) ** British Cinema Morning - Here's Tanya's powerpoint from the British Cinema Morning... British Cinema Morning - Slumdog Millionaire //11 months ago// ||  ||

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