Film Production

Paper Summary:

This paper takes a look at the article written by Erwin Panofsky in the publication, "Style and Medium in the Motion Pictures". According to the paper, Panofsky writes that filmmakers could achieve true art by using techniques to both create and comment on the meaning involved.

From the Paper:

"In no way can this be seen as simply a recording of reality, for it is not reality at all. It cannot be described in theatrical terms, for the way the world changes in the film could never be duplicated on stage. The larger plot might be seen in theatrical terms, with the young man falsely accused and his girl friend learning the truth and clearing him, but the film is more than a simple statement of lot and makes full use of the unique elements in the form to make this a film in the full sense and true art rather than borrowed art."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Braudy, Leo and Marshall Cohen. Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Knopf, Robert. The Theater and cinema of Buster Keaton. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1999.

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