Reading Notes From The Textbook Pages 11-29

From this reading I found interesting how Lindsay and Munsterberg both considered the relationship between film and theater and in my opinion both of the things are deeply connected as theater being the film ancestor and inspiration. I also love their ideas of connecting the film and the moving picture to the hieroglyphs in Ancient Egypt. I like their point of view how they say that something more is represented through every item used in a film and connecting them to the poetry of Edgar Allen Poe. 

It is interesting how their film theory make connections with so many things as the universal language idea- Esperanto. As someone interested in Psychology I also think that the book Photoplay by Munsterberg played a huge role in the film theory because it contains important information from psychological view.

Rudolf Arnheim medium specificity thesis contains also important information for film as film composition, editing and special affects.

I agree with Munsterberg that both close-up and flashbacks that are used in movies are very important and that they play part in psychological impact and awareness of people in a way that they elicit a strong emotional connections of the viewers. 

By using close-ups in a film the film directors know how to capture viewers attention on a specific thing on the scene which is shown entirely. Also by using close-ups the viewers can pay more attention to the characters by following their facial expressions and by that getting inside the character's mind what they are thinking and how they are feeling. From the facial expressions the characters can predict many things as what will the next move of the character in the movie be.

Flashbacks help the viewers to see the things that are happening in the movie from the character point of view. They can also tell us what the character thinks about, imagines, or remembers.

I also agree with Munsterberg theory that films need to be considered as a real art. Because a film contains a visual perspective and combines two-dimensional images with the depth of three-dimensionality and that is a real depth. 

France role in the film culture and cinephilia. Hollywood films were more modern and dynamic. Photogenie.

An example of the use of flashbacks in film is this scene from my favorite film The Godfather part III:

In this scene there is used flashbacks with Michael Corleone's memories of his loved one Apollonia. 

An example of the use of close-ups in film is this scene of my second favorite film Titanic: