Chapter 8: The History of Film
A week later, Sarah, James, Henri, and I were still at work. "It's been weeks, and Sarah and James still won't talk to each other, Cynthia," I told her. "What am I supposed to do right now?" "We're going to do something else fun," Cynthia explained to us. "What is that?" "Well, we are going to learn about the history of film." "What does that have to do with Sarah and James?" I asked. "It doesn't," Cynthia explained. "You see, we are going to take a break from their constant bickering." Cynthia then showed us a PowerPoint slideshow on all the different genres of film. First, we learned about the terms diegesis, mise-en-scene, and genre. There were many different types of film genres, including film noir, thriller, science fiction, horror, romantic comedy, fantasy, drama, Western, action/adventure, and documentary. The movie genres we discussed most were film noir, in which there was a clip from the 1941 movie The Maltese Falcon, romantic comedy, in which we looked at clips from the 1998 movie You've Got Mail as well as the 1960 film The Apartment, and finally, Western, in which we looked at clips from the 1967 film A Fistful of Dollars. "Well, that was very educational and entertaining," I remarked after the presentation was over. "I'm glad you enjoyed it, Angel," Cynthia then told me. After work was over, we headed back to our apartment for the weekend.
