scholarly journals Perspectives: A dialogue upon the question of value in film education

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Bernstein ◽  
Andrew Robert Burn
Keyword(s):  
Film Studies ◽  
Fundamental Aspect ◽  
Aesthetic Theory ◽  
Multimodal Approach ◽  
Film Culture ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Film Education ◽  
Contemporary Film ◽  
Relativist Approach

The question of aesthetic value remains a source of tension within diverse film education environments. While film-makers and audiences have visceral experiences of the value of cinema, these experiences are troubled by a contemporary film studies that tends to adopt a more relativist approach, suggesting that the experience of value is reflective of sociocultural subjectivity. Speaking from two different perspectives, Alan Bernstein and Andrew Burn explore the role of value in film education, and film culture more widely, in 2019. While Bernstein argues for a reinstatement of value as a fundamental aspect of how film is experienced and understood in educational contexts and beyond, Burn contextualizes questions of value within a wider framework of semiotic and aesthetic theory, arguing for a multimodal approach that takes into account the multifaceted nature of film.

Affect, or Postmodern Sentimentalism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Burnetts
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Film Studies ◽  
Film Theory ◽  
Film Culture ◽  
Stanley Cavell ◽  
Contemporary Film

Chapter Four provides a wider theoretical basis for the ‘sophistication’ and self-consciousness that characterises post-classical or postmodern forms of sentimentality in US film culture, with particular attention paid to notions of ‘excess’ and distanciation. It accounts in particular for the influence of key modernists like Adorno, Benjamin and Brecht on taste categories that persist in contemporary film studies, with particular reference to the ‘ideological stoicism’ that is alleged to predominate in critical film culture. The discussion will provide context for a discussion of the ‘affective’ turn in film theory, around which the contributions of Gilles Deleuze and Stanley Cavell loom large in their centralisation of a film-as-thought paradigm.

Vertigo

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriano D’Aloia
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Neuroscience ◽  
Philosophy Of Mind ◽  
Mirror Neurons ◽  
Film Studies ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Film Theory ◽  
Embodied Simulation ◽  
Contemporary Cinema ◽  
Contemporary Film

The chapter ‘Vertigo. Towards a Neurofilmology’ offers an introduction to the book’s contents and methods. The implementation of psychology of perception, philosophy of mind, and suggestions from cognitive neuroscience (in particular the role of ‘mirror neurons’ and the hypothesis of ‘embodied simulation’) has the capability to renew contemporary film theory and to reduce the distance between competing approaches (i.e. cognitivist and phenomenological film studies). ‘Neurofilmology’ adopts an enactive and embodied approach to cognition and provides interpretative tools for the exploration of contemporary cinema. Through a series of recurrent ‘aerial motifs’ in which the film character loses his/her equilibrium—acrobatics, fall, impact, overturning, and drift—the cinema offers an intense motor and emotional experience that puts the spectator’s somatosensory perception in tension. At the same time, it provides compensation by adopting embodied forms of regulation of stimuli and a dynamic restoration of gravity and orientation (the so called ‘disembodying-reembodying’ dynamic).

scholarly journals Screenplay Discourses: Bridging the Screenplay-Film Divide

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dolores Moreno
Keyword(s):  
Film Studies ◽  
Film Culture ◽  
The Past ◽  
Production Stages ◽  
Contemporary Film ◽  
Film Development

This article suggests that screenplay studies should pay more attention to the meaning that screenwriting and the screenplay are given around, and after, the release of finished films. A review of existing screenwriting and screenplay theory reveals that in the past ten years there has been a tendency to reconsider these terms, relating them to the contexts in which they are culturally operative. Nonetheless, these new academic approaches primarily attach the study of screenplays to films’ development and pre-production, although the term is discussed and used significantly in contexts other than film development. This article identifies different sites where screenplay discourses emerge from finished films, and I argue that it is necessary to study these sites in order to understand how they contribute to current ideas about the screenplay. On the basis that both finished films and published screenplays generate screenplay discourse outside the development and pre-production of films, I contend that each iteration of the screenplay has its particular function. In light of this, no form of the screenplay should be considered subsidiary in screenplay studies, and this includes screen-idea documents, released films and published screenplays. The uses of the different screenplay forms range from commissioning financiers to gaining awards at festivals and securing press reviews to facilitating screenwriting pedagogy. Therefore, it is important to take screenplay studies beyond pre-production stages to better understand the roles of screenplays within contemporary film culture and film studies.

STUDY OF DECORATIVE VARIETY IN GORONTALO KARAWO FABRIC IN AESTHETIC AND SYMBOLIC ELEMENTS

ARTic ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 121-134
Author(s):  
Apsari Dj Hasan
Keyword(s):  
Manufacturing Process ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Aesthetic Theory ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Aesthetic Form ◽  
Decorative Motifs ◽  
Symbolic Meanings ◽  
The Aesthetic

This study aims to examine the decorative types of Gorontalo karawo fabrics in aesthetic and symbolic elements. Researchers want to know as made in the research design, aspects that are present in the decoration of fabrics in aesthetic and symbolic elements. This study uses a number of related theories to get results, and as a determinant, the authors use aesthetic theory, as well as historical approaches. With this theoretical basis, the author seeks to describe the aesthetic aspects and symbolic meanings that exist in Gorontalo karawo fabric. Through the data collection of the chosen motif and provide a classification of motives, the part is used as a reference for research material. The results showed that Gorontalo filigree had an aesthetic value consisting of unity formed from the overall decorative motifs displayed, complexity formed by complexity in the manufacturing process, and intensity of seriousness in the manufacturing process or the impression displayed on the filigree motif. The aesthetic form also reflects the diversity of meanings for communication, such as the symbol of a leader with his noble instincts, a symbol of cultural cooperation, which is worth maintaining, and ideas about nature conservation. This research proves that the decoration in Gorontalo filigree cloth (karawo) does not only act as a visual value, but also as a communication of cultural meanings and social status. Of all these distinctive motifs show a relationship between humans and humans and humans with nature. The influence of culture from the Philippines is also known to have a strong influence on the emergence of the Gorontalo filigree namely manila filigree.

Deepfaking Keanu: YouTube deepfakes, platform visual effects, and the complexity of reception

2021 ◽  
pp. 135485652110304
Author(s):  
Lisa Bode
Keyword(s):  
Film Studies ◽  
Media Theory ◽  
Digital Rhetoric ◽  
Visual Effects ◽  
After Effects ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Media Creation ◽  
Media Practices

On July 14, 2019, a 3-minute 36-second video titled “Keanu Reeves Stops A ROBBERY!” was released on YouTube visual effects (VFX) channel, Corridor. The video’s click-bait title ensured it was quickly shared by users across platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit. Comments on the video suggest that the vast majority of viewers categorised it as fiction. What seemed less universally recognised, though, was that the performer in the clip was not Keanu Reeves himself. It was voice actor and stuntman Reuben Langdon, and his face was digitally replaced with that of Reeves, through the use of an AI generated deepfake, an open access application, Faceswap, and compositing in Adobe After Effects. This article uses Corridor’s deepfake Keanu video (hereafter shorted to CDFK) as a case study which allows the fleshing out of an, as yet, under-researched area of deepfakes: the role of framing contexts in shaping how viewers evaluate, categorise, make sense of and discuss these images. This research draws on visual effects scholarship, celebrity studies, cognitive film studies, social media theory, digital rhetoric, and discourse analysis. It is intended to serve as a starting point of a larger study that will eventually map types of online manipulated media creation on a continuum from the professional to the vernacular, across different platforms, and attending to their aesthetic, ethical, cultural and reception dimensions. The focus on context (platform, creator channel, and comments) also reveals the emergence of an industrial and aesthetic category of visual effects, which I call here “platform VFX,” a key term that provides us with more nuanced frames for illuminating and analysing a range of manipulated media practices as VFX software becomes ever more accessible and lends itself to more vernacular uses, such as we see with various face swap apps

scholarly journals Film education in Europe: National cultures or European identity?

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Reid
Keyword(s):  
European Commission ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
European Countries ◽  
European Identity ◽  
National Cultures ◽  
Film Education ◽  
National Models ◽  
Transnational Film

This paper considers the extent to which European countries have distinctive models and approaches to film education, and the extent to which a supranational model of European film education might exist in competition with those national models. It considers where film education is positioned in relation to other subject fields and disciplines (literacy and media literacy); the role of the European Commission in promoting both European and national approaches to film education; and the potential of transnational film education programmes to move between national and supranational film education cultures. It draws on data collected for Screening Literacy, a survey of film education funded by the European MEDIA programme that was carried out in 2012.

scholarly journals The Role of Multimodal Approach in the Assessment of Glaucomatous Damage in High Myopes

2021 ◽  
Vol Volume 15 ◽  
pp. 1061-1071
Author(s):  
Pedro Manuel Baptista ◽  
Rita Vieira ◽  
André Ferreira ◽  
Ana Figueiredo ◽  
Isabel Sampaio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Multimodal Approach ◽  
Glaucomatous Damage

scholarly journals STRUKTUR DRAMATIK PERTUNJUKAN DRAMA KLASIK SANGGAR TEATER MINI LAKON DEWA RUCI KAJIAN BENTUK DAN FUNGSI

WIDYANATYA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-59
Author(s):  
I Made Rudita ◽  
Ni Luh Putu Wiwin Astari
Keyword(s):  
Character Education ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
Aesthetic Theory ◽  
Functional Theory ◽  
Classical Drama ◽  
Dramatic Structure ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
And Function

ABSTRAK   Pada dasarnya nilai pendidikan karakter mempunyai tiga bagian yang saling bekaitan, yaitu pengetahuan moral, penghayatan moral dan perilaku moral. Oleh karena itu seseorang dengan karakter yang baik, mengetahui, menginginkan, dan melakukan yang baik. Ketiganya merupakan syarat untuk menuntun hidup yang bermoral dan membangun kematangan moral. Dalam melakukan pendidikan karakter tidak harus dengan menambah program tersendiri, melainkan bisa melalui transformasi budaya, salah satunya nilai-nilai pendidikan karakter bisa disampaikan melalui seni pertunjukan drama, khususnya pertunjukan drama klasik. Untuk menjawab masalah di atas, dalam hal mengetahui nilai  pendidikan karakter melalui transformasi budaya Bali berupa pertunjukan drama klasik Sanggar Teater Mini, perlu dibuat suatu penelitian mengenai nilai pendidikan karakter dalam pertunjukan drama klasik Sanggar Teater  Mini dengan lakon Dewa Ruci. Penelitian ini berjudul “Struktur Dramatik  Pada Pertunjukan Drama Klasik Sanggar Teater Mini lakon Dewa Ruci”.Kajian  (Bentuk dan Fungsi)” adalah hasil studi yang mendalam struktur dramatik pada pertunjukan drama klasik. Penelitian ini mengangkat dua pokok masalah yaitu : 1) untuk mengetahui dan menganalisis bentuk struktur dramatik pertunjukan drama klasik Sanggar Teater Mini lakon Dewa Ruci ;  2) untuk mengetahui dan menganalisis fungsi pertunjukan drama klasik Sanggar Teater Mini lakon Dewa Ruci. Secara umum, penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui keberadaan dan peranan penting dari nilai-nilai pendidikan karakter dalam pertunjukan pertunjukan drama klasik Sanggar Teater Mini lakon Dewa Ruci . Secara khusus, penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menjelaskan bentuk struktur dramatik dan fungsi pertunjukan drama klasik Sanggar Teater Mini lakon Dewa Ruci. Penelitian ini dirancang sebagai penelitian kualitatif dengan menggunakan dua teori : teori estetika dan teori fungsional struktural. Metode-metode pengumpulan data yang digunakan meliputi observasi, wawancara, dokumentasi dan kepustakaan.Seluruh data diolah menggunakan tehnik deskriptif interpretatif. Hasil dari penelitian ini adalah sebagai berikut ; Bentuk struktur dramatik pertunjukan drama klasik Sanggar Teater Mini lakon Dewa Ruci  adalah sebagai berikut   : (1) tema, (2) alur,  (3) latar, (4) penokohan, (5) insiden dan (6) amanat. Sedangkan fungsi drama klasik Sanggar Teater Mini lakon Dewa Ruci  adalah sebagai  berikut : (1) fungsi ekonomi,   (2) fungsi hiburan, (3) fungsi promosi  dan (4) fungsi komunikasi.  ABSTRACT Basically, the value of character education has three interrelated parts, namely moral knowledge, moral appreciation and moral behavior. Therefore someone with good character, knows, wants, and does good. All three are conditions for guiding a moral life and building moral maturity. In doing character education does not have to add a separate program, but it can be through cultural transformation, one of which is the values ​​of character education can be conveyed through drama performing arts, especially classical drama performances. To answer the above problem, in terms of knowing the value of character education through the transformation of Balinese culture in the form of a classic Mini Theater studio performance, it is necessary to make a study of the value of character education in the performance of the Sanggar Teater Mini classic drama with Dewa Ruci play. This research entitled "Dramatic Structure of the Classical Drama Performance of Teater Mini lakon Dewa Ruci". Studies (Forms and Functions) "are the results of an in-depth study of the dramatic structure of classical drama performances. This research raises two main issues, namely: 1) to find out and analyze the dramatic structural forms of the Sanggar Teater Mini classical drama performance Dewa Ruci play; 2) to find out and analyze the function of the Sanggar Teater Mini lakon Dewa Ruci performance. In general, this study aims to find out the existence and important role of character education values ​​in the performance of the classic Sanggar Teater Mini lakon Dewa Ruci performance. Specifically, this study aims to explain the dramatic structure and function of the classical drama performances of Sanggar Teater Mini Dewa Ruci play. This research was designed as qualitative research using two theories: aesthetic theory and structural functional theory. Data collection methods used include observation, interviews, documentation and literature. All data are processed using interpretive descriptive techniques. The results of this study are as follows; The form of the dramatic structure of the Sanggar Teater Mini classical drama performances by Dewa Ruci are as follows: (1) theme, (2) plot, (3) background, (4) characterization, (5) incident and (6) mandate. While the function of the classical drama Sanggar Teater Mini lakon Dewa Ruci is as follows: (1) economic function, (2) entertainment function, (3) promotion function and (4) communication function.

scholarly journals A novel approach of mapping landscape aesthetic value and its validation with rural tourism data

2019 ◽  
pp. 283-301
Author(s):  
Zsuzsanna Lontai-Szilágyi ◽  
Boglárka Bertalan-Balázs ◽  
Bernadett Zsiros ◽  
Mária Vasvári ◽  
Singh Sudhir Kumar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Rural Tourism ◽  
Landscape Aesthetics ◽  
Cultural Ecosystem Services ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Tourism Product

Landscape aesthetic research that emerged from the second half of the 20th century has become increasingly appreciated and popular in the last few decades. There are two main reasons for this. On the one hand, it was recognized the role of landscape aesthetics in land use and environmental planning, management and conservation. On the other hand, its definition among Cultural Ecosystem Services has made it clear that landscape aesthetics has significant impact on human well-being and there is a need to examine it in the concept of Ecosystem Services and, in particular, Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES). The mapping of landscape aesthetics is mostly based on the exclusive evaluation of objective, biophysical landscape factors. The aim of the research was to create the landscape aesthetic map of Hungary with a novel method based on human perception. For this, a questionnaire survey and a GIS approach were used. In order to better understand the role of factors influencing the aesthetic value of the landscape, value maps separately for land cover and elevation that are decisive for the landscape experience were prepared. To validate the results of the maps, and contribute a better understanding of the interrelationship between CES, a certain tourism product was chosen, and the connection between landscape aesthetics and the offer of rural tourism was examined in Hungary and in the Danube Bend priority tourism development area. Our findings show that there is a difference in the results of the objective (GIS-based) and subjective (questionnaire-based) assessment of landscape aesthetic value with the more important role of elevation in the latter. According to our tourism product-based analysis, which represents a niche approach in its kind, landscape values are higher in the areas with rural accommodation. At the same time, based on the results of the Danube Bend region, it can also be concluded that elevation and land cover together are crucial factors in landscapes considered to be the most valuable in aesthetic terms. The most direct practical application of our research is to orientate further tourism development of the new Danube Bend area designated in 2017.

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