SUDDEN FEAR
1952
David Miller
Milller also directed the Marx Brothers Love Happy in 1949, Story of Esther Costello in 1957, Midnight Lace in 1960 and Capt. Newman MD. in 1963

GENRE PROBLEMS AGAIN

Some Genres are based on emotional response – other on content do:

Drama
Melodrama
Comedy
Ssuspense
 Other approaches have to do with content. Obviously all content is likely to have some emotional response so if we consider emotional reactions a genres, the all other genres will have to be mixed with an emotional response. Does this happen? Generally some form (drama) is generally omitted. A science fiction films will generally be thought to be a drama unless otherwise specified Sci fi comedy, sci fi musical etc.

Similiarly live action vs. animation as a genre will overlap all others. The emotional content and nature of production of image are necessary to all films. Live action and drama seem to be the unmarked forms – you don't need to say them – they are assumed.

Some are based on the nature of the image

Live action

Motion capture
Animation
Computer graphics
Traditional Animation: Also known as "cel animation"
Stop motion: made with small figurines or other objects that are phtotgraphed in a single frame and then moved and photographed again. This is repeated many times over. WHen the film is shown the object appears to move. The George Pal Puppetoons were created this way as were many of the shots in films like the oroginal King Kong, The Nightmare Before Christmas etc.
Computer Generated imagery (CGI).These images as with others cn be combined with live action.
Puppetry: Although it is technically live action, puppetry is a different way of "animating" a movie and puppets are often used in lieu of live actors. Usually, there are small figurines or figures (similar to stop motion), but these are controlled and filmed in real time. Like CGI, puppetry can be found in Live Action films as a method of achieving a special effect. Examples are the Muppet movies, Bil Baird films and The Dark Crystal.

THE SET PIECE. DOES THE FILM MANAGE SET PIECES IN BOTH GENRES?

SUSPENSE - THRILLER

Some sub genres: of crime:

Vanished person (The Lady Vanishes, So Long at the Fair)
Courtroom drama (Twelve Angry Men, Inherit the Wind, Anatomy of a Murder, Witness for the Prosecution, Paradine Case, To Kill a Mockingbird)
Cat and Mouse/Stalker (Cat and the Canary, Sudden Fear)
Caper Film (The Killing, Oceans Eleven)
Vigilante Film (Death Wish etc.)
Locked Room Murder (Murders in the Rue Morgue)
Erotic thrillers (Body Heat, Cruising)
Police stories (Detective Story, Charlie Chan films, In the Heat of the Night)
Private Eye (Maltese Falcon)
Private Crime chaser(Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple, Nick and Nora Charles, Call Northside 777)

 CAT AND MOUSE RELATIONSIP BETWEEN PERP AND PLANNED VICTIM

(I'm not what you think I am. And what is that? A victim) from the book Only the Dead Know Brooklyn

From Adams Family Values

Amanda:: I'll be the victim
Wednesday: All your life

DRAMA

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, crime and corruption put the characters in conflict with themselves, others, society and even natural phenomena

This film genre can be contrasted with an action film, which relies on fast-paced action and physical conflict but superficial character development.[2] All film genres can include dramatic elements, but typically, films considered drama films focus mainly on the drama of the main issue.

Some well-known drama films include The Godfather (1972), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Nell (1994), Schindler's List (1993), and As Good as It Gets (1997).

Drama films have been nominated frequently for the Academy Award (particularly Best Picture) - more than any other film genre.

Dramatic films include a very large spectrum of film genres. Because of the large number of drama films, these movies have been sub-categorized:

Crime drama and Legal drama - Character development based on themes involving criminals, law enforcement and the legal system.
Historical drama (epic) (including War drama) - Films that focus on dramatic events in history.
Docudrama: the difference between a docudrama and a documentary is that in a documentary it uses real people to describe history or current events; in a docudrama it uses professionally trained actors to play the roles in the current event, that is "dramatized" a bit. Not to be confused with docufiction.
Comedy-drama: is in which there is an equal, or nearly equal balance of humor and serious content.
Melodrama: a sub-type of drama films that uses plots that appeal to the heightened emotions of the audience. Melodramatic plots often deal with "crises of human emotion, failed romance or friendship, strained familial situations, tragedy, illness, neuroses, or emotional and physical hardship." Film critics sometimes use the term "pejoratively to connote an unrealistic, pathos-filled, campy tale of romance or domestic situations with stereotypical characters (often including a central female character) that would directly appeal to feminine audiences."[4] Also called "women's movies", "weepies", tearjerkers, or "chick flicks". If they are targeted to a male audience, then they are called "guy cry" films.
Romance: a sub-type of dramatic film which dwells on the elements of romantic love.
Tragedy: a drama in which a character's downfall is caused by a flaw in their character or by a major error in judgment.
Melodrama

 Some are based on presentation of material

Musicals. (music not in real places) Some Genres are are based on content

Westerns films dealing with the frontier
Science fiction films dealing with technology (including those which deal with aliens, alien technology and Earthly advanced technologies capable to doing things not possible at the time (Consider Jules Verne much of what he wrote is possible now)
Distinvtion sometimes made between scientific science fiction and science fiction fiction.
fantasy

 Some are complicate by using more than one defining characteristic: Horror (is it an emotional reaction or is it content?

IT IS CLEAR THAT VIRTUALLY ALL FILMS MUST BE BOTH CONTENT FILMS AND EMOTIONAL FILMS

The decision on what to call the film is often based on the EMPHASIS. So IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT we raised the question of what would you tell your friends the filmi is about in a quick synopsis? Would it be about the murder or the relationship between the two law enforcement officers? The film seems dar more interested in the latter since among other things the crime is badly constructed and is basically used to motivate the more important action. The crime could be change for the film to be basically the same, but the Gillipsie and Tibbs racial/ethnic attributes can not. Hence the film is more drama than crime film. Scarface on the other hand reverses the emphasis.

Sudden Fear is basically a melodrama (sometimes thought of as "women's film" or "tear jerkers" The stress here is creating an emotion, not examining an intellectual idea.

In the Exorcism of Emily Rose, we had a real mixed genre: What would be the synopsis? Is the film about the trial (deama) or the exorcism (horror)?

A course or book can be organized along these and other lines,

JOAN CRAWFORD

Nominated for 4 Academy Awards (Crawford, actress, also nominated for Possessed (1947) and won for Mildred Pierce(1946); ) Palance, supporting, Charles Lang best B&W cinematography) Shiela O'Brien (best costume design B&W)

Just wanted to act. Near the end of her career she wound up doing some terrible horror films (Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (62) (Davis and She hated each other) , Straight Jacket (64) Berserk, (67) Trog (70))

Was on the board of Pepsi Cola

Her career slowed down tremendously after that. Movie after movie saw her relegated to menial roles, with the possible exception of 1962's What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) with her arch-rival, Bette Davis, who she detested. By now the feud, between the two was well-known. No one is sure exactly how it started, but one time Miss Davis said of Joan, "She's slept with every male star at MGM except Lassie." In return Joan said, "I don't hate Bette Davis even though the press wants me to. I resent her. I don't see how she built a career out of a set of mannerisms, instead of real acting ability. Take away the pop eyes, the cigarette, and those funny clipped words and what have you got? She's phony, but I guess the public really likes that".

Her adopted daughter, Christina, wrote a tell-all book that did not put Joan in a flattering light called, "Mommie Dearest" as a result of being cut out of the will. Her final appearance on the silver screen was a 1970 flop called Trog (1970). Turning to vodka, she was not seen much afterward. On May 10, 1977, Joan died of cancer in New York City. She was 72 years old. She is interred in the same mausoleum as her MGM cohort Judy Garland in Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York.

Most famous is Christina's book Mommie Dearest which was published the year after her death and depicts Crawford as a terrible abusive mother. The book was made into what may be one of the worst films ever – Mommie Dearest with Faye Dunaway as Crawford. It is a kind of cultish film based on its campy over the top performance by Dunaway.

JACK PALANCE

Pro boxer, burned in military training flight lots of facial reconstruction
(3rd Film (Panic in the Streets, Halls of Montezuma)

Nominated for Academy Award (this, Shane, City Slickers (won)

AFTER FILM

Film written by Edna Sherry

Another similoar film, Sorry Wrong Number Lucille Fletcher

In complicated plots it is not uncommon to have someone "creative" occupation (writer etc) to make the complexity reasonable.

Genre: Is it a crime film? Is it a melodrama? Is it Both

How does the film open?

Establishing shots - New York City, Times Square - infomration on theater marquee)

Closing

New day, removal of scarf (freedom)

High Points (Set Pieces) How are they constructed?

Scene playing back tape (melodrama)
Scene in closet (suspense)