Introduction to Film Studies

Steven Shaviro
August 31, 2011

Introduction to Film Studies

Agenda for Today

Class Outline

Class Requirements

Class Reference Material

Formal Elements of Film

Buster Keaton and Sherlock Junior

Sherlock Junior: Before

Sherlock Junior: The Film-Within-the-Film

Film Space:
The laws of association

Sherlock Junior: After

Sherlock Junior: The Ending

Concepts and Questions (1)

How are we 'drawn in' to the world of the film?

Concepts and Questions (2)

How do films work to allure us? Film captures and reproduces elements of reality...

...But film is never truly "realistic"