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Students will need to study Sunrise in detail and be able to pick extracts of realism and expressionism from the film.
Students will need to study Sunrise in detail and be able to pick extracts of realism and expressionism from the film.
Understanding where it all began is important to any knowledge of Film. Here we explore silent cinema's roots and look at one particularly strange and exciting movement in silent film: German Expressionism.
Film: Sunrise (Murnau, 1927)
Topics to revise: Core Study Areas: Film Form, Context, Meaning and Response
Specialist Study Areas: Realism vs Expressionism
Film Form
Film Form
Context
Context
Historical Context
Historical Context
Meaning and Response
Meaning and Response
Realism vs Expressionism
Realism vs Expressionism
Representation
Representation
Above are two excellent videos that examine and explain how representation is used to communicate with the audience. Mr Gardner also looks at how you can consider context and film form when looking at representation. The second video focuses on gender stereotypes and includes reference to some theory such as Mulvey's male gaze theory. Both of these videos feature excellent analysis of the films we study.
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