• 2018
How to View and Appreciate Great Movies
  • 2018

How to View and Appreciate Great Movies

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Eric R. Williams

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6.5

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Aug 14, 2018

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Non-fiction series by The Great Course

Language : English

Production companies : Great Courses

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Aug 14, 2018

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Non-fiction series by The Great Course

Language : English

Production companies : Great Courses

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Aug 14, 2018
Art of the Silver Screen
Professor Eric R. Williams introduces the ever-present and all-important element of a great movie: Tension.
Episode 2 • Aug 14, 2018
We All Need Another Hero: Universal Stories
Professor Eric R. Williams explains the Hero's Journey by comparing and contrasting "The Wizard of Oz" and "Star Wars".
Episode 3 • Aug 14, 2018
Movie Genre: It's Not What You Think
Professor Eric R. Williams spells out his multifaceted theory of film genre, identifying the key elements of the twelve Super Genres.
Episode 4 • Aug 14, 2018
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.
Episode 5 • Aug 14, 2018
Popcorn Can Wait: Story Shape and Tension
Professor Eric R. Williams interprets the story shapes and rhythms of various films, combining his film genre theory with the ever-present need for tension in a film.
Episode 6 • Aug 14, 2018
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.
Episode 7 • Aug 14, 2018
Paradigm Shift: Citizen Kane and Casablanca
Professor Eric R. Williams describes the lasting influence of two of history's most revered movies.
Episode 8 • Aug 14, 2018
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.
Episode 9 • Dec 31, 1969
Building Screen Space: Blocking and Framing
Professor Eric R. Williams expounds upon the subconscious impact of blocking and framing by dissecting key scenes from "Good Will Hunting".
Episode 10 • Aug 14, 2018
Cutting Room Floor: Powerful Editing
Professor Eric R. Williams explores the impact that editing has on the tone, pace and theme of a film.
Episode 11 • Aug 14, 2018
Sound Design and Acoustic Illusion
Professor Eric R. Williams introduces the seminal work done by Walter Merch while setting out the tenets of great sound design.
Episode 12 • Aug 14, 2018
Setting the Scene: Masterful Set Design
Professor Eric R. Williams clarifies this importance of set design as it relates to character development within a film.
Episode 13 • Aug 14, 2018
Special Effects in the 20th Century
Professor Eric R. Williams lays out his premise for what makes a good special effects film by recounting the early years of SFX.
Episode 14 • Aug 14, 2018
Special Effects in the 21st Century
Professor Eric R. Williams argues for his two most influential special effects films of the new century while walking us through its first two decades.
Episode 15 • Aug 14, 2018
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.
Episode 16 • Aug 14, 2018
Color and Light: Elements of Atmosphere
Professor Eric R. Williams presents color palettes of various films to illustrate the importance of color and light in is telling a visual story.
Episode 17 • Aug 14, 2018
Knowing Characters from the Inside Out
Professor Eric R. Williams lays out the idea of personal, private and public masks that all good characters wear while revealing (and hiding) their true motivation.
Episode 18 • Aug 14, 2018
Knowing Characters from the Outside In
Professor Eric R. Williams uses the various roles played to Morgan Freeman to demonstrate how an actor might read and interpret a screenplay to find the essence of a character.
Episode 19 • Aug 14, 2018
Secondary Characters and Supporting Actors
Professor Eric R. Williams characterizes supporting roles in a film as reflections of the protagonist.
Episode 20 • Aug 14, 2018
Star Power: Lead Actors and Their Roles
Professor Eric R. Williams depicts the various decision points that an actor might make as they consider the changes that a lead character will make through the course of a film.
Episode 21 • Aug 14, 2018
Character Relationships and Audience Empathy
Professor Eric R. Williams suggests that Carl Jung's ideas of archetypes play a pivotal role in how the audience feels about characters - both good and bad.
Episode 22 • Aug 14, 2018
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.
Episode 23 • Aug 14, 2018
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.
Episode 24 • Aug 14, 2018
Filmmaker's Voice and Audience Choice
Professor Eric R. Williams proposes yet another unique way to conceptualize storytelling in film: the six Voices that a filmmaker might choose.
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