CRITICAL APPROACHES IN FILM AND TELEVISION

Critical Approaches in Film and Television

Critical Approaches in Film and Television

Introduction

Filmmakers often search topics and styles in the "real world" that lay beyond the studies. Social conditions in Europe after the First World War, the socialist revolutions in Eastern Europe and the collapse of traditional American values, which began with the introduction of Prohibition in 1919 and culminated with the "crash" of Wall Street 1929, provided the material film "realistic." The newspaper reports inspired the arguments and everyday reality.

Some films made ??by Hollywood depict the severity of the streets caused by the criminal underworld as Scarface, the terror of the underworld (Scarface, 1932), by Howard Hawks that shocked the audience by both the realism of the scenes of violence as by the obvious resemblance between the protagonist and Al Capone. In 1937, two films were shot against lynching: that of Mervyn King They Will not Forget You and the other Fritz Lang, Fury (Fury), with Henry Fonda as the star. (Lay 2002, 297) 

At the same time, the documentary film began to make its presence felt in the audience. The influence of Robert Flaherty and the British documentary was a milestone in American cinema, which saw several young filmmakers who started a theater that dominated the social complaints in order to inform the viewers. Among others, John Ford, in The Grapes of Wrath (The Grapes of Wrath, 1940), made ??a fiction film about the harsh life of a peasant family whose property gets destroyed by dust storms.

Even, though, Jakobon's defining characteristics can be extremely useful, they are also formalistic (Colls 1985, 199). They appear to downplay the importance of subject matter, which seems to be a crucial aspect of what makes most viewers recognize something as realism. Realism often exhibit a catalogue of events considered of utmost importance of subject matter, which means to be a vital aspect of what makes most viewers recognize something as realism. Furthermore, realism is considered to be of vital importance in developmental psychology or themes heavily burdened with social implications. This means that realism deals with social events, surrounding the subject matter, which makes the viwers to believe as realistic. It involves reflection of ordinary lives of normal people, and their social implications. Mostly, realism involves the underlying or hidden experiences of the society. However, this is inadequate interpretation of realism and incorportates a broader perspective. Many films considered to be realistic are not significantly socially extended (even though social matters do play a role, but this is almost always the case). Furthermore, such definition would have to include many genres such as a crime, to some extent action, and even science fiction, to mention but a few genres which are occasionally socially extended. (Seiter 1994, 269)

Realism

Another form of realism is "poetic realism", which is more authentic and more committed to the poor. It was developed in France by Jean Renoir, among others. Using natural settings, Toni (1934), denounces the exploitation of immigrants in the South ...