Genre Layers and Audience Expectations
Professor Eric R. Williams expands upon his taxonomy by clarifying the difference between Super Genre, Macrogenre and Microgenre, illustrating more than a ten thousand ways to describe a film's genre.
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Themes on Screen
Professor Eric R. Williams proposes a new way to consider theme: a matrix of active/didactic and traditional/non-traditional approaches first identified by Michael Kortlander.
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The Language of Visual Storytelling
Professor Eric R. Williams acquaints the audience with Bruce Block's foundational concepts of how color, line and shape can be utilized to tell more meaningful stories through film.
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Scoring the Story: Music in Film
Professor Eric R. Williams sings the praises of musical motifs and leitmotifs while demonstrating how music affects the audience both consciously and subconsciously.
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Pathways to Great Antagonists
Professor Eric R. Williams establishes the role of an antagonist by introducing a new way to explore how a story is told: the screenwriter's Pathway.
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Point of View in Script and Screen
Professor Eric R. Williams delineates one storytelling point of view from another through examples from iconic films such as MASH, A Beautiful Mind and Shawshank Redemption.
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