21L011 The Film Experience
Professor David Thorburn

Lecture 20 - Film as Art and Artifact

1. Film as a cultural form
   • Stories and culture
   • Culture as a process, always unfinished
   • “Golden Lads”: consensus narrative
     • conservative, collaborative, accessible
       
       
2. Film as art
   • Art as a form of intelligence and competence
   • Texture, multiplicity
   • A final example: Seven Samurai – "Epilogue"
     
     
3. Thanks to all of you