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Blockbusters

Blockbusters. South Korean Cinema. Hollywoods. Conglomerate HW (as per Schatz): Deregulation Vertical and horizontal integration Globalization International $$ International audiences New technologies Speed and scale of production Lower marginal costs on units. Conglomerate Hollywood.

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Blockbusters

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  1. Blockbusters

  2. South Korean Cinema

  3. Hollywoods • Conglomerate HW (as per Schatz): • Deregulation • Vertical and horizontal integration • Globalization • International $$ • International audiences • New technologies • Speed and scale of production • Lower marginal costs on units

  4. Conglomerate Hollywood • Profiles of companies • Warner Bros. • Time Warner • huge studio • does DC comic book adaptations and Harry Potter series • Ted turner and Turner entertainment

  5. Conglomerate Hollywood • Time Warner • Internet • AOL • Print • Time, Entertainment Weekly, etc. • Film production and distribution • Warner Bros., Warner Independent, New Line, etc. • Home Video • Warner Home Video • PPV • On Demand • Cable TV • Time Warner Cable (pipes) • HBO, TNT, TBS, TCM, Cinemax, etc. • Network TV • CW

  6. Conglomerate Hollywood • Profiles of companies • Disney/Buena vista • huge, diversified company • the only studio to be its own conglomerate, rather than part of a larger one • theme parks, movies, merchandise • THE model for a contemporary global media conglomerate

  7. Conglomerate Hollywood • Profiles of companies • Newscorp/20th Century Fox • Rupert Murdoch • Owns newspapers • Politically conservative • Fox News • Indie branch is Fox Searchlight

  8. Conglomerate Hollywood • News Corporation • Film production and Distribution • 20th Century Fox, Fox Searchlight, etc. • Home video • 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment • Satellite • DirecTV, BSkyB, etc. • Cable TV • Fox News, FX, etc. • Network TV • Fox Channel

  9. Conglomerate Hollywood • Profiles of companies • Paramount • owned by Viacom • was connected with CBS, recently split • Paramount connected to MTV, etc • Has the CW network along with WB, after the consolidation of their UPN station with the WB network a few years ago

  10. Conglomerate Hollywood • National Amusements • Viacom + CBS • Film production and distribution • Paramount Pictures, MTV Films, etc. • Cable TV • MTV, VH1 • Network TV • CW

  11. Conglomerate Hollywood • Profiles of companies • Sony Pictures Entertainment • Columbia in 1989 • Sony / Columbia struggled for many years, but has recently had hits with the Spiderman franchise • the PS3 • Blu-ray DVD

  12. Conglomerate Hollywood • Profiles of companies • Universal • now NBC UNIVERSAL • integration with TV, GE and Vivendi hold NBC / UNIVERSAL as joint venture • recent signs of synergy • SOON  Comcast

  13. Conglomerate Hollywood • Profiles of companies • MGM • huge library, most of the old stuff owned by Turner • trying to strike out on its own again as distributor, partnering with Sony, the Weinsteins, and others • In serious debt now – what to do?

  14. Conglomerate Hollywood • Profiles of companies • Dreamworks – • started by Jeff Katsenberg, Steven Spielberg, and Geffen • Independent  Paramount  “independent” • (on Universal lot, distribution through Disney) • Animation at Paramount

  15. Conglomerate Hollywood • Profiles of companies • Pixar • HUGE hits in the 1990s • goldmine animation studio • after having distribution deal with Disney, which caused friction, Pixar now officially part of Disney

  16. Blockbusters • As industrial strategy • Tent pole • Saturation booking • Exorbitant production costs • Cannot ensure success, but do discourage or eliminate competition • Hit Business: high risk, disproportionate returns • Reflect size of market • GLOBAL INDUSTRY CREATES GLOBAL AESTHETICS • Exorbitant marketing costs

  17. “High Concept” (Wyatt) No plot, only concept 25 words or less Marketing tie-ins, merchandising “High-tech style” Blockbusters

  18. Blockbuster Aesthetics • CGI • CGFX • Changes in production methods • Changes in post-production • Issues of SCALE and SPEED • Aesthetically and industrially

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  24. Blockbuster Aesthetics • Motion Capture, 3 types: • Magnetic • Optical • Mechanical Marey Zemeckis

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  26. “Bullet time” Muybridge Marey

  27. Blockbuster Aesthetics

  28. SAC Mass Mtg. FRIDAY 3pm! • What: Mass Meeting of all Department of Screen Arts and Cultures  undergraduate concentrators. • When: Friday, December 3 - from 3:00 - 4:00 PM followed by a reception • Where: North Quad Dinning Hall - meeting (Reception will be held afterwards at SAC on the 6th floor of North Quad) • Who: SAC Concentrators, SAC Global Media Minors, SAC Screenwriting Sub-concentrators and those students planning to declare an SAC concentration

  29. Blockbuster Aesthetics • “Intensified Continuity” (Bordwell) • 4 stylistic shifts: • 1.editing has gotten faster, ASL shorter • 2.exploiting extremes of lens lengths • 3.closer shots during dialogue scenes • 4. free-ranging camera

  30. Blockbuster Aesthetics • Narrative vs. Spectacle – approaches • Movies deliver narratives (Bordwell, et. al.) • Spectacles interrupt narratives • Movies deliver spectacles (Maltby, et. al.) • Narrative generates spectacles • Narrative interrupt spectacle sequences

  31. South Korean Cinema • New Korean Cinema • is now a Blockbuster cinema • Effectively deters Hollywood • National cinema? • Genre / Star driven cinema • Some auteurs

  32. South Korean Cinema • Korean Peninsula • - 668 – Three Kingdoms • 668 – 918 –Shilla dynasty • 1392-1910 –Joseon Dynasty. • “Hermit Kingdom”

  33. South Korean Cinema • Korean Peninsula • 1910 –annexed to Japan • 1930s –expansion of Japan, imperial occupation of Korea becomes more traumatic

  34. South Korean Cinema • Korean Peninsula • 1945 –Japan loses war, Korea split along 38th parallel • North –party dictatorship led by Kim Il-sung • South –Neo-neo-colonialism.

  35. South Korean Cinema • Korean Peninsula • 1950-1953 –South—dictators • massive investments of US capital • Working class and students repressed through 70s and 80s.

  36. South Korean Cinema • Korean Peninsula • Counter current growing: Minjung movement • 1993 elected civilian, Kim Young-sam

  37. South Korean Cinema • Korean Peninsula • late 1990s –massive eruption of interest in cinema • Cinephilia –love of cinema • 80s-90s mobilized around democracy, next generation after 1996 became enraptured by cinema

  38. Colonial Cinema 1910-1945 South Korean Cinema

  39. Golden Age South Korean Cinema

  40. 70s Decline 80s Struggles South Korean Cinema

  41. South Korean Cinema • 90s – resurgence • 1997-1998, boom begins

  42. South Korean Cinema • Themes and Structures • “Historical Haunting” • A Nation Divided • Flashback Structure • Time Travel • Melodrama • Emotions drive everything

  43. South Korean Cinema • Melodrama • “Han” • Female protagonists • Permeates every genre • TV • Winter Sonata

  44. Action films Themes of division Violence + melodrama South Korean Cinema

  45. Horror films Follows J-Horror Female sexuality Childhood Technology South Korean Cinema

  46. Gangster Comedies (NO JOKE!) Violence and Humor Bends gender stereotypes South Korean Cinema

  47. Time-Travel Melodramas Psychic energy drives film temporality Nostalgia Historical Displacement refracted through the heart South Korean Cinema

  48. South Korean Cinema • Historical Displacement and Film Form • Flashbacks • Every genre • Backward Narratives • Peppermint Candy (2000) • Narratives of Ellipsis • Oldboy • The past explains the present?

  49. Some Auteurs • Im Kwon-Taek • 100+ movies

  50. Kim Ki-Duk Some Auteurs

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