Technoculture
Write essay after watching the videos.
Paper details Watch the provided videos and read the articles. Use the following Analytic Approaches to write an essay.
Analytic Approaches: The ideas of spectatorship and the language of film as elaborated by Miriam Hansen or Tom Gunning
Read: Tom Gunning, "Cinema of Attraction: Early Film, Its Spectator, and the Avant-Garde," Wide Angle, Vol. 8, nos. 3 & 4 (Fall 1986), 63-70.Miriam Hansen, Babel and Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent Film(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984), Ch. 2, "A New Universal Language," pp. 77-89.
Watch: Birth of Early Cinema and Continuity Editing: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=6uahjH2cspk&index=55&list=PLKECLzizrRM_La41D2jXBbuWFI3Bwdx9HKinetoscope from The American Experience(PBS): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sflONVCOhLUBlack Maria Studio: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=QuzFqGEls_kEarly Edison Films: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmZ4VPmhAkwhttps://www.youtube.comMatch? v=16_D5-5LvKYhttps://www.youtube.com/Watch? v=686Y7bZYavA&index=1&list=PLKECLzizrRM_La41D2jXEIbuWFI3Bwdx9HLumiereBrothers, 1895: https://ww.youtube.com/watch?v=4njOvE04Q6s&list=PLKECLzizrRM_La41D2jX13buWFI3Bwdx9H&index=2Edwin S. Porter, Life of an American Fireman, 1903: https://www.youtube.com/Watch? v=PSAikQzcUTs&list=PLKECLzizrRM_La41D2jX13buWFI3Bwdx9H&index=4Edwin S. Porter, The Great Train Robbery, 1903: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuto7qWrplc