Movie – City of God city (2002)
Time Stamp – 36:05-41:05
Micro Elements – Mise En Scene, Editing
Macro Element – Representation and Ideology
Context – Social, Political, Historical and Economic Context
Monthly Archives: September 2022
Filters
ta source table
| director/ author | title | date published/ publisher | date last accessed | URL | |
| 1 | Alfonso Cuarón | children of men | 2006 universal pictures | n/a | n/a |
| 2 | Alfonso Cuarón | the possibility of hope | 2007 Universal Pictures | n/a | n/a |
| 3 | James Monaco | How to Read a Film | 2009 Oxford University Press | n/a | n/a |
| 4 | William Whittington | Sound design for a found future | 2011, New Review of Film and Television Studies | 28/09/2022 | https://www.academia.edu/22152961/Sound_design_for_a_found_future_Alfonso_Cuar%C3%B3ns_Children_of_Men |
| 5 | King Crimson | In the Court of the Crimson King | 1969 Island Records | 28/09/2022 | n/a |
| 6 | Manohla Dargis | Beauty and Beasts of England, in a World on Its Last Legs | 2007 The New York Times | 30/09/2022 | https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/movies/awardsseason/07darg.html |
| 7 | Abraham Riesman | The Vulture Transcript: Alfonso Cuarón on Children of Men | 2017 Vulture | 02/10/2022 | https://www.vulture.com/2017/01/alfonso-cuaron-children-of-men-transcript.html |
| 8 | Samuel Amago | Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Future in Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men | 2010 Wayne State University Press | 02/10/2022 | https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236758972_Ethics_Aesthetics_and_the_Future_in_Alfonso_Cuaron’s_Children_of_Men |
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textual analysis
film – City Of Gods
scene – Final scene/ the huge fight between the gangs
micro elements – mise-en-scene and cinematography
macro element – representation and ideology
context – historical and social
time stamp – 1.50.12 – 1.53.16
TA – Source Table
| Director/Author | Title | Date Published/Publisher | Date last accessed | URL | |
| 1 | Fritz Lang | M | 1931 – Nero – film | N/A | N/A |
| 2 | Gustavo Costanini | Leitmotif Revisited | Archived 21st April 2006 | 26/09/22 | https://web.archive.org/web/20060421054317/http://www.filmsound.org/gustavo/leitmotif-revisted.htm |
| 3 | Masterclass | How Leitmotifs Function in Music | Last Updated Nov 2 2021 | 30/09/22 | https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-leitmotifs-function-in-music |
| 4 | Roger Ebert | M Movie Review (1931) | 3 August 1997 | https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-m-1931 | |
| 5 | Erik McClanahan | Fritz Lang’s ‘M’ is a great entertainment, but it’s also a genre mashup | 3rd April 2013 | 30/09/22 | https://web.archive.org/web/20140521031754/http://www.orartswatch.org/fritz-langs-m-is-a-great-entertainment-but-its-also-a-genre-mashup/ |
| 6 | Phil Powrie, Robynn Jeananne Stilwell | Changing Tunes: The Use of Pre-existing Music in Film | 2017 | 30/09/22 | https://books.google.je/books/about/Changing_Tunes.html?id=tvnw4_zXsl0C&redir_esc=y |
| 7 | Florian Zappe | In the Shadow of the “Indeterminate Speech-Act”: The Populist Politics of Rumor in Fritz Lang’s Early Sound Films | 15th April 2020 | 30/09/22 | https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/16481 |
| 8 | rossini.2 | The Sound of Silence in Fritz Lang’s M | September 20, 2016 | 03/10/2022 | https://u.osu.edu/english6778autumn2016/2016/09/20/the-sound-of-silence-in-fritz-langs-m/ |
| 9 | ECG Productions | Silence And Why It’s Important In Film | Updated: July 8, 2021 | 03/10/2022 | https://www.ecgprod.com/silence-and-why-its-important-in-film/ |
| 10 | Erich G. Anderer | Film Review: M | N/A | 05/10/22 | https://www.thecityreview.com/m.html |
| Director/Author | Title | Date Published/Publisher | Date last accessed | URL | |
| 11 | Timothy J. Edwards | The Man In Black: A Sequence Analysis from Fritz Lang’s M (1931) | 2012 | 05/20/22 | https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/kino/article/download/6263/5025/#:~:text=Fritz%20Lang’s%20first%20sound%20film,poverty%2C%20but%20also%20pervasive%20criminality. |
| 12 | Kristen Hunt | How Fritz Lang’s Flight from Nazi Germany Shaped Hollywood | May 21, 2020 | https://daily.jstor.org/how-fritz-langs-flight-from-nazi-germany-shaped-hollywood/ | |
| 13 | N/A | Fritz Lang’s M And The Use Of Sound | APRIL 6, 2016 | 06/10/22 | https://www.filminquiry.com/fritz-langs-m-and-the-use-of-sound/ |
| 14 | Varun Chaubey | A Sound Analysis of Fritz Lang’s M | Jul 30, 2019 | 06/10/22 | https://medium.com/the-film-odyssey/a-sound-analysis-of-fritz-langs-m-98566f8202ba |
| 15 | N/A | Fritz Lang’s M – editing sound as visuals | N/A | 06/10/22 | http://filmsound.org/articles/langsm.htm |
| 16 | Wikipedia | Peter Kürten | 6/10/22 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_K%C3%BCrten | |
| 17 | BBC | The teenage soldiers of World War One | 11/11/2014 | 10/10/22 | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29934965 |
| 18 | Robert Longley | The Lost Generation and the Writers Who Described Their World | March 02, 2022 | 10/10/22 | https://www.thoughtco.com/the-lost-generation-4159302 |
| 19 | Wikipedia | Youngest British soldier in World War I | 15 June 2022 | 10/10/2022 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youngest_British_soldier_in_World_War_I |
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recommended citations:
Edwards, Timothy J. (2012) “The Man In Black: A Sequence Analysis from Fritz Lang’s M (1931),” Kino: The Western Undergraduate Journal of Film Studies: Vol. 3 : Iss. 1 , Article 4.
Textual analysis
- Children of men
2) Theo in the taxi being driven to the rich persons house
3) micro: Sound, mise en scene
macro: genre
context: social economic
time stamp: 00.16.43.17 – 00.21.02.23
TEXTUAL ANALYSIS – Source Table
| DIRECTOR/ AUTHOR | TITLE | DATE PUBLISHED/ PUBLISHER | DATE LAST ACCESSED/ URL (IF WEBSITE) | |
| 1 | Alfonso Cuarón | Children of Men | 2006 ——— Universal Pictures | n/a |
| 2 | Alfonso Cuarón | Children of Men | 2006 ——— IMDb | 05/10/2022 ——— https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206634/ |
| 3 | Alfonso Cuarón | The Possibility of Hope | 2007 ——— Universal Pictures | n/a |
| 4 | P. D. James | The Children of Men | 1992 ——— Faber and Faber | n/a |
| 5 | James Monaco | How to Read a Film | 2009 ——— Oxford University Press | n/a |
| 6 | Peter Bradshaw | Children of Men review – explosively violent future-nightmare thriller | 2006 ——— The Guardian | 26/09/2022 ——— https://www.theguardian.com/film/ 2006/sep/22/juliannemoore.thriller |
| 7 | Abraham Riesman | The Vulture Transcript: Alfonso Cuarón on Children of Men | 2017 ——— Vulture | 26/09/2022 ——— https://www.vulture.com/2017/ 01/alfonso-cuaron-children-of-men-transcript.html |
| 8 | Leadhead | Children of Men | An Audible Apocalypse | 2019 ——— YouTube | 03/10/2022 ——— https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js1iCGGYo0I |
| 9 | Screened | Children of Men – Loss of Humanity in Dystopian Movies | 2018 ——— YouTube | 03/10/2022 ——— https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNVE_xrFlts&t=9s |
| 10 | Fallopium Films | Children Of Men | A World Without Purpose | 2021 ——— YouTube | 03/10/2022 ——— https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFlR_YqAJm0 |
| 11 | Brad Johnson | Specs & The City: Opening Scenes of Movies & Children of Men | 2014 ——— Writer’s Digest | 05/10/2022 ——— https://scriptmag.com/features/specs-city-opening-scenes-movies-children-men |
| 12 | Jonathan Broxton | CHILDREN OF MEN – John Tavener | 2006 ——— Movie Music UK | 05/10/2022 ——— https://moviemusicuk.us/2006/12/29/children-of-men-john-tavener/ |
| 13 | BAFTA Guru | Alfonso Cuarón – Did Children of Men Predict Populism Today? | Screenwriter’s Lecture | 2019 ——— YouTube | 05/10/2022 ——— https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh1EGsetbJE&t=77s |
| 14 | Stephen Dalton | Children of Men: why Alfonso Cuarón’s anti-Blade Runner looks more relevant than ever | 2019 ——— British Film Institute | 05/10/2022 ——— https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/children-men-alfonso-cuaron |
| 15 | Samuel Amago | Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Future in Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men | 2010 ——— ResearchGate | 05/10/2022 ——— https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236758972_ Ethics_Aesthetics_and_the_Future_in_Alfonso_Cuaron’s_ Children_of_Men |
| 16 | n/a | Britain: 1945 to Present | 2014 ——— BBC | 06/10/2022 ——— https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/timeline/present_ timeline_noflash.shtml |
| 17 | Holly Pyne | 20 Things You (Probably) Didn’t Know About Children Of Men | 2014 ——— ShortList | 06/10/2022 ——— https://www.shortlist.com/news/20-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-children-of-men |
| 18 | Amelia Guchi | Children of Men (2006) Opening Scene Analysis | 2012 ——— Reel Witty | 06/10/2022 ——— http://reelwitty.blogspot.com/2012/11/children-of-men-2006-opening-scenes.html |
| 19 | Gregory Wolmart | On Anamorphic Adaptations and the Children of Men | 2017 ——— International Journal of Zižek Studies | 07/10/2022 ——— https://zizekstudies.org/index.php/IJZS/article/view/981 |
| 20 | Emily Fritcke & Noor Gill | Francis Fukuyama Explains Why Children of Men Is So Great | 2016 ——— Slate | 07/10/2022 ——— https://slate.com/technology/2016/10/francis-fukuyama-explains-why-children-of-men-is-so-great.html |
| 21 | Nicole L. Sparling | Without a Conceivable Future: Figuring the Mother in Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men | 2014 ——— JSTOR | 07/10/2022 ——— https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5250/fronjwomestud.35.1.0160 |
| 22 | Julia Echeverría Domingo | Liquid Cinematography and the Representation of Viral Threats in Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men | 2015 ——— University of Zaragoza | 09/10/2022 ——— https://www.researchgate.net/publication/294123100_ Liquid_Cinematography_and_the_Representation_of_ Viral_Threats_in_Alfonso_Cuaron’s_Children_of_Men |
| 23 | Benjamin B | Children of Men: Humanity’s Last Hope | 2022 ——— American Cinematographer | 09/10/2022 ——— https://ascmag.com/articles/children-of-men-humanitys-last-hope |
| 24 | Nicholas Barber | Why Children of Men has never been as shocking as it is now | 2016 ——— BBC Culture | 09/10/2022 ——— https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20161215-why-children-of-men-has-never-been-as-shocking-as-it-is-now |
| 25 | Vicente Rodríguez Ortega | Children of Men and Demonlover: Corporate psyches, media bodies and the possibility of Tomorrow | 2010 ——— Film International | 13/10/2022 ——— https://www.academia.edu/5439349/Children_of_Men_ and_Demonlover_Corporate_psyches_media_bodies_ and_the_possibility_of_Tomorrow? email_work_card=view-paper |
| 26 | Abraham Riesman | How Children of Men Became a Dystopian Masterpiece | 2016 ——— Vulture | 17/10/2022 ——— https://www.vulture.com/2016/12/children-of-men-alfonso-cuaron-c-v-r.html |
TA Plan-
Film- Children of Men
Scene- Kee, Theo and Miriam on their way to the camp
Micro elements- Mise-en-scene, cinematography
Macro element- Genre
Context- Historical, Social
Subclip- 01:08:30 to 01:12:25
Source Table TA
| Source Number | Author/Director | Title | Date Published/Publisher | Date Last Accessed if website | URl If Website |
| 1 | Meirelles & Lund | City Of God | August 30th 2002 (Brazil) | ||
| 2 | Monaco | How To Read A Film | 1977 or 1981 | ||
| 3 | Vidigal & Borges | City Of God 10 years later | October 2013 | ||
| 4 | Eduqas/Wjec | A level Film Studies Focus Film Factsheet | WJEC | 26/09/22 | http://resource.download.wjec.co.uk.s3.amazonaws.com/vtc/2016-17/16-17_1-19/_eng/city-of-god.pdf |
| 5 | Caio Silveira | City Of God in Rio De Janeiro | 2007 | 26/09/22 | http://www.socioeco.org/bdf_fiche-document-1702_en.html |
| 6 | Stephanie Muir | Studying City Of God | 2016, Liverpool Uni Press | 26/09/22 | https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv13841wr |
| 7 | Lancaster Uni | City of God Sociology paper | 2004, Department Of Sociology | 28/09/22 | https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/resources/sociology-online-papers/papers/diken-city-of-god.pdf |
| 8 | The Guardian Alice Braga, Actor. Lamartine Ferreira, Assistant Director. | How we made City Of God | The Guardian | 30/09/22 | https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jun/09/how-we-made-city-of-god |
| 9 | Barthes | An introduction to analysis of structural narrative | 1975 | 30/09/22 | https://www.uv.es/fores/Barthes_Structural_Narrative.pdf |
| 10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proclamation_of_the_Republic_(Brazil)#:~:text=The%20Proclamation%20of%20the%20Republic,reign%20of%20Emperor%20Pedro%20II. | ||||
| 11 | https://library.brown.edu/create/fivecenturiesofchange/chapters/chapter-9/favelas-in-rio-de-janeiro-past-and-present/ | ||||
| 12 | https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332110878_City_of_God_Coherence_in_Non-Linear_Storytelling | ||||
| 13 | https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/city-of-gods-an-interview-with-fernando-meirelles/ | ||||
| 14 | https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/BRA/brazil/poverty-rate | ||||
| 15 | https://scholarworks.calstate.edu/downloads/0p096885m | ||||
| 16 | Secrets of screenplay structure- Cowgill (1999, pg 158) | ||||
| 17 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_God_(2002_film) |
textual analysis
city of god (2002, Lund and Meirelles)
the story of lil z 00.38.53.01 – 00.43.53.01
micro : editing and cinematography
context: geographical and economical
macro: ideology
Textual Analysis
FILM CHOSEN – City Of God (Meirelles And Lund, 2002)
SCENE CHOSEN -When Rocket goes to buy drugs + Story Of The Apartment (00:34:53 – 00:38:54)
MICRO ELEMENTS – Mise-En-Scene and Cinematography
MACRO ELEMENTS – Representation and Ideology
CONTEXT – Historical and Political