Monday, January 26, 2009

Week 1- An Introduction to Film



"Mr. Vaughn, what we are dealing with here is a
perfect engine, an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution.
All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks,
and that's all. Now, why don't you take a long, close look at this sign.

[refers to the graffitied billboard]

Those proportions are correct."

-Richard Dreyfuss as Hooper in Jaws

M 1.26/W 1.28
Lecture: Syllabus review; Why Study Film?; Sharon Old’s “The Death of Marilyn Monroe”
Screening: Jaws (Spielberg, 1975 USA)

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