Lifting the Fog: New Ways of Seeing Contemporary Cinema
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 52
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Lifting the Fog: New Ways of Seeing Contemporary Cinema is about how to see film or any piece fo visual art. The 'lifting the fog' metaphor comes form an article by Edward Bullough i nwhich he suggests the fog surrounding a beach is much like the aesthetic experience that all of us experience in understanding art.
The book surrounds ideas including:
- Utilization of film concepts so one can see more deeply and meaningfully
- The exploration of, as John Cassavetes says: "bending the viewer's eye to the filmmaker's vision"
- The desire to not give immediate answers to its readers, but to develop a new way of seeing
Introduction –Ways of Seeing
CHAPTER 1: Tools for the Fog
The Tools for Lifting the Fog
Definitions of the Tools
CHAPTER 2: Citizen Kane: Finding the Fog
CHAPTER 3: Lifting More Fog in Citizen Kane
Exercise 1: The Newsreel Scene
Exercise 2: Panning, Deep Focus, and Triangulation
Exercise 3: Motif and Symbol
CHAPTER 4: Searching for the Fog
Exercise 1: Beginning and Ending of The Searchers
Exercise 2: The Hero
CHAPTER 5: Touch of Evil: Seeing in the Dark
Exercise: Opening to Touch of Evil
LIFTING THE FOG: New Ways of Seeing Contemporary Cinema
CHAPTER 6: Lifting the Fog: The Paper
Writing the Paper
Tips for Watching Dead Man
Critiques of Dead Man
CHAPTER 7: A New Way of Seeing the Fog: Woman Under the Influence 23
Exercise 1: Finding the Definition
Exercise 2: Improvisation
Exercise 3: The House
CHAPTER 8: The Comedic Fog
Types of Comedy
Exercise: Rushmore as Comedy
CHAPTER 9: More than One Fog….
CHAPTER 10: Fog and Different Beaches
Supplemental Film Assignments