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"I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings."
-Bruce Springsteen
"Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls."
-Ingmar Bergman
"A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet."
-Orson Welles
"A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later."
-Stanley Kubrick
"Every great film should seem new every time you see it."
-Roger Ebert
A semester long course offered by HHS English department, the course is designed to expose students to the visual text of the cinema.
Students will:
-build an understanding of a wide range of genres and respond to them as visual texts
-comprehend, interpret, evaluate & appreciate visual texts
-demonstrate understanding by writing, discussing and/or presenting ideas
-participate constructively & appropriately in large & small group discussions about the learning material and concepts.
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WESTERN
High Noon (dir. by Zinneman, 1958)
COMEDY
Annie Hall (dir. by Allen, 1977)
The Graduate (dir. by Nichols, 1968)
SCIENCE FICTION
The Matrix (dir. by Wachowski, 1999)
Blade Runner (dir. by Scott, 1980)
THRILLERS
Memento (dir. by Nolan, 2000)
Rear Window (dir. by Hitchcock, 1954)
GREAT AMERICAN MOVIES
Casablanca (dir. by Curtiz, 1941)
Citizen Kane (dir. by Welles, 1941)
SILENT GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM
Nosferatu (dir. by Murnau, 1922)
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Art does not reproduce what is visible; it makes things visible.
- Paul Klee
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. -Kahlil Gibran
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
- Aristotle
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
- W. H. Auden
All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
- Walter Pater
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Hamden High School
Mike Capone
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