19 OtherArtsOverview

The Other Arts: Overview: 

The Other Arts: Overview Week 19

The Other Arts: Overview: 

The Other Arts: Overview What Are The Other Arts? Performance Arts: Theatre Performance Arts: Film Performance Arts: Radio and TV Performance Arts: Film Performance Arts: Dance

What Are The Other Arts?: 

What Are The Other Arts?

What Are The Other Arts?: 

What Are The Other Arts? They can be grouped into performance arts such as theatre, TV, film, dance, etc. and the less easily classifiable such as... Culinary art Crafts Architecture Sport Etc. We don’t have time to look at all these, so we will focus on the major performance arts, which are—at least in North America—probably the art form that has the largest audience.

Performance Arts: Theatre: 

Performance Arts: Theatre

Classical Theatre: 

Classical Theatre A profound part of the social and cultural fabric of ancient society Enhanced social cohesiveness A time for partying Dionysian Considered cathartic

Dionysian Party Time: 

Dionysian Party Time

Classical Theatre: 

Classical Theatre Evolved rapidly in terms of focus and function The Big Three and their themes Aeschylus: religious Sophocles: moral Euripides: psychological Sophocles

Medieval Theatre: 

Medieval Theatre Morality plays Example: Everyman Theatre as medium for delivery of moral message Miracle plays Example: The Passion Theatre as medium for delivery of religious tradition

Elizabethan Theatre: 

Elizabethan Theatre Theatre becomes popular mixture of the… Didactic Humorous Secular Something for everyone! The illiterate The literate The sophisticated.

Elizabethan Theatre: The Globe: 

Elizabethan Theatre: The Globe

Elizabethan Theatre: 

Elizabethan Theatre The Bard

Elizabethan Theatre: 

Elizabethan Theatre The grand mystery of Shakespeare Profound psychological insight. Allegorical (e.g. Hamlet and the Brahe vs. Diggs Copernican debate). Arousal theory and counterpoint of humour with serious content. Example of both entertainment and serious content.

Modern Theatre: The Schism: 

Modern Theatre: The Schism Off-Broadway Broadway

Modern Theatre: 

Modern Theatre Broadway Art as entertainment. Art as reassurance. Art as spectacle. Art for the well-to-do! Off-Broadway Drama as serious business. Drama as political. E.g., Brecht and his theory of alienation Drama as social commentary. E.g., Hair Drama as a disturbing psychological probing. E.g., Pinter, Albee

Performance Arts: Film: 

Performance Arts: Film

Film: Beginnings: 

Film: Beginnings Original nature of film Novelty item New art medium Original response to movies Superficial amusement Confusion of reality with film As in children As simulated in Imax productions

Film History (In A Nutshell): 

Film History (In A Nutshell) The Victorian Beginnings Muybridge in 1877 begins experimenting with "serial photography" (“chronophotography”), taking multiple exposed images of a horse running. And 3 years later begins projecting his images! William Friese Greene (1889) develops the first "moving pictures" on celluloid film. Then in 1894 W.K. Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film, and a year later the first large screen movie is shown: The Arrival of a Train. 

Reference To Critical Reading: 

Reference To Critical Reading Notable Points Miller is a doctor and quite knowledgeable regarding neuroscience. And he is also a respected commentator on art. Discussion Question What does Miller’s analysis of our brains’ processing of moving images tell you about the importance of the creative artist having some understanding of our perceptual and cognitive processing? Miller’s “Moving Pictures”

Film History (In A Nutshell): 

Film History (In A Nutshell) The Silent Era (1901-1929) The first decade Movies slowly start to replace theatre as popular entertainment The twenties Movies take off. An average of 800 films were produced annually—more than ever since. First carton: Disney's Steamboat Willie Newsreels become a source of news Science fiction and horror genres develop Artists begin to use film as a new medium. 

Aesthetic Experience: 

Aesthetic Experience The most infamous work in the beginning of film as an art form was Un Chien Andalou, created by Salvador Dali and Luis Buñuel to shock the intellectual bourgeoisie and explore the unconscious. Viewer discretion is definitely advised! I have never watched the opening scene because of personal squeamishness. 15m Insert External video

Film History (In A Nutshell): 

Film History (In A Nutshell) The Golden Era (1929-1949) The first feature-length Hollywood "talkie" film was The Jazz Singer (1929). Film major source of entertainment during depression and the subsequent WWII. Genre films extremely popular. Westerns Gangster Movies Comedies Musicals Dramas Cartoons 

Film History (In A Nutshell): 

Film History (In A Nutshell) The Cold War Era (1950-1960) Advent of TV changes role of the cinema. McCarthyism drives away serious film-makers. Censorship and prudishness also affect the possibility of making artistically sophisticated films.

Film History (In A Nutshell): 

Film History (In A Nutshell) The ‘Modern Period’ (1961-1980) Film becomes serious with feature-length ‘art’ films being produced in North America. Increased interest in foreign films, which never were the victims of the studio system, and where the director was considered an artist. E.g.: Ingmar Bergman Federico Fellini Francois Truffaut Jean-Luc Godard 

Film History (In A Nutshell): 

Film History (In A Nutshell) The Contemporary Period (1980-Now) Advent of the VCR changes viewing habits. New technology put emphasis on ‘special effects’ and spectacle. Film becomes less and less like theatre. Where now?

Film: Similarities/Dissimilarities: 

Film: Similarities/Dissimilarities How like and unlike… The novel The concert Live theatre Reasons for popularity? Open question! Again the schism Hollywood extension of Broadway ‘Art’ films an extension of Off-Broadway

Discussion Issue: 

Discussion Issue Should an art ‘behave’ specific to its form: spectacle? 4m

Reference To Art Reading: 

Reference To Art Reading Casablanca North by Northwest Citizen Kane Manhattan Chinatown Raging Bull 2001: A Space Odyssey The Graduate Blade Runner One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Discussion Question For the film you chose to view, explain how a similar aesthetic experience or treatment of theme could (of could not) have been handled in a different medium. Film Viewing

Performance Arts: Radio & TV: 

Performance Arts: Radio & TV

Broadcast Media: Radio: 

Broadcast Media: Radio History Broadcast Radio began in the 20’s. The Golden Age was from 1935 to 1950 2 of 3 homes had radio Radio was the "central medium" of… Depression America Wartime America Played the same role TV came to play Dramas News Concerts Situation comedies Etc. But in 1950 TV invades!

Aesthetic Experience: 

Aesthetic Experience War of The Worlds 1938 Broadcast when folks took radio seriously! 50m: play 17m

Broadcast Media: Radio: 

Broadcast Media: Radio Current role: Background, ambience, mood alteration. Informational. Occasionally full-attention artistic medium, But rarely same role TV now plays. Aesthetic effects of exclusion of visual sense: Increased involvement of imagination. Has great unused potential as mass media literary venue.

Broadcast Media: TV: 

Broadcast Media: TV TV took over as the primary entertainment and informational medium when it invaded homes in the early 50’s. TV Dinners TV Rooms As a serious art form it was hampered by… McCarthyism and prudishness. Limited number of network channels in competition and so… Played to lowest common denominator And avoided controversy and ‘offending’.

Broadcast Media: TV: 

Broadcast Media: TV Current role: Background, ambience, mood alteration. Informational. Couch potato pacifier. Changing drastically with cable and satellite. Effects of engagement of visual and auditory senses: Increased passivity? (To be dealt with in next unit.) Still has great unused potential as a mass media and relatively inexpensive artistic venue.

Discussion Questions: 

Discussion Questions What are the major negative effects of growing up with television? Are they exaggerated? What are the major positive effects of growing up with television? (We will return to this issue in the next unit.)

Performance Arts: Dance: 

Performance Arts: Dance

Dance: 

Dance Definition: The transformation of ordinary functional and expressive movement into extraordinary movement.

Dance: Functions: 

Dance: Functions Expression of emotion Communication (symbolic) Catharsis Altering consciousness Courting (even in other species) Social unification

Dance: Major Event Types: 

Dance: Major Event Types Some major formal types Ritual and religious Ballet Modern Some major social forms Special events (weddings, etc.) Social (clubs, etc.)

Aesthetic Experience: Ballet: 

Aesthetic Experience: Ballet

Aesthetic Experience: Russian Folk: 

Aesthetic Experience: Russian Folk

Aesthetic Experience: African Folk: 

Aesthetic Experience: African Folk

Aesthetic Experience: Jazz: 

Aesthetic Experience: Jazz

Aesthetic Experience: Jazz: 

Aesthetic Experience: Jazz What the hell one more for the road!

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