00 - In-class: Miscellaneous

Question 1

According to Doane, what does sound add to film?

4 points & 2 overriding principles. (this needs updating)

Answer 1

1. latteral dimension (in addition to depth)
2. Sync & Mixing Controls Relationships
   “marries sound with image”..
3. Fills/occupies the diegesis (ambience & voice)
4. UNITY - support & identification * (unique to individual)

Question 2

Doane - how is synchronization and mixing used in relation to the image?

Answer 2

greater control in the establishment of relationships.

mixing - relationship to other sounds: prominence in diegesis

Question 3

Doane - what danger lies in post-synchornization?

Answer 3

disengaging the voice from its proper space: from its credibility - > anchored to a body & anchored to a space.

Question 4

Doane - what is the effect of voice-off?

Answer 4

lateral dimension!
denies the limitations of the frame.
Deepens diegesis & affirms spacial unity.

• uncanny - not anchored to body; outside the frame

Question 5

Doane - What are three types of space that are put into play?

Answer 5

1. space of the diegesis
2. the visible space of the screen as receptor of the image
3. the acoustical space of the theatre, auditorium

Question 6

Doane - what genre/style makes particular use of voice-off?

Answer 6

Film Noir - exploits anxiety connected with voice-offs.

Question 7

Doane - what is the effect of voiceover?

Answer 7

temporal dislocation/disembodied voice.

radical otherness with respect to the diegesis

Question 8

Doane - through psychoanalysis, what does sound offer?

Answer 8

Unity and separation of the personal body and between bodies. (voice of father & mother)

HARMONY: dramatization of separated bodies and their reunion

Question 9

What is source misattribution?

Answer 9

Less sure you are of the source, the more sure you are of the facts.

Question 10

What is the Historian’s Fallacy?

Answer 10

tendency to make judgements on past events in light of new information.

Question 11

When was Triumph of the Will released? Night and Fog?
Who directed each?
Production Companies?
Who wrote the commentary for N&F?

Answer 11

1935 (TOTW) & 1955 (N&F)
Leni Riefenstahl (TOTW) & Alain Resnais (N&F)
Reichspropagandaleitung der NSDAP (TOTW)
Argos Films (N&F)
Jean Cayrol - commentary (N&F)

Question 12

The Production Code was replaced in ___ by the ___ rating system.

Answer 12

1968 - MPAA

Question 13

What were the Jidai-geki?

Answer 13

Category of early Japanese cinema (60’s): Historical films

Question 14

What were the Gendai-geki?

Answer 14

Category of early Japanese cinema (60’s): contemporary

Question 15

What is the ‘No’ Pays tradition

Answer 15

Japanese theatre tradition that directly influenced style of Japanese filmmaking…

Slow and careful physical movement.
Poetic, but flat dialogue.
Supernatural content, mythology.

Question 16

What was the Kabuki Plays Tradition?

Answer 16

Japanese theatre tradition that directly influenced style of Japanese filmmaking…

Elaborate staging
only male performers (same as No)
over-the-top!/Grandiose
Makeup expressive of character.

Question 17

Which film is known for its ‘explosion of movement’?

Answer 17

Throne of Blood (1957)

Question 18

What was the TET offensive? In relation to what film was this discussed?

Answer 18

An critical attack by american forces in Vietnam - highest death toll in Vietnam (January, 30 1968)

Question 19

What is the Verfremdungseffekt?

Answer 19

post-modernist strategy:
distancing/alienation/estrangement effect:
audiences are intentionally alienated from the film by film form: ‘Text’ comes to the forefront.

Question 20

When English film did we watch? when was it released?
Who directed?
Writer?
Main Actor?
Studio?

Answer 20

If... (1968)
Lindsay Anderson
David Sherwin
Malcolm McDowell
Memorial Enterprises

Question 21

What year was Goodfellas released?
Director?
Writer?

Answer 21

1990

Martin Scorsese

Question 22

What are two important influences in Scorsese films?

Answer 22

Film History/School
Catholicism
(& gangster culture)

Question 23

What are 4 prominent factors of the Hayes Code?

Answer 23

• respect religion
  
- Do not provide enough details to replicate Crime
  
- sexuality - explicit
  
- must show a criminal’s DOWNFALL

Question 24

What are some recurring elements that Scorsese uses in his films?

Answer 24

Music - pop/rock and roll as commentary
Sound - V.O.
Cinematography - color, steadicam
Editing - Jump cuts (reverse &forward), rhythm, both continuity and discontinuity.  Rapid cuts & long takes
Story - ‘rags to riches’

Question 25

Who invented the steadicam? When?

Answer 25

Garrett Brown (1975)

Question 26

What is Bravura?

Answer 26

An artistic flourish / filmic ‘showmanship’

Question 27

When was the independent movement?

Answer 27

90’s

Question 28

What independent film did we watch?
When was it released?
Who directed/wrote?
Production company?

Answer 28

Slacker (1991)
Richard Linklater
Detour film productions

Question 29

When was the dogma moment?

Answer 29

1995

Question 30

White - how does ‘modernism’ manifest itself in culture?

Answer 30

rejection of meta-narratives (progress, rationality, etc)

- challenges assumption of objectivity

Question 31

White - how does ‘modernism’ manifest itself in art?

Answer 31

challenges notion of individual originality
pastiche of various traditions and texts
metafiction

Question 32

White - what is narrative fetishism? How does this principle translate into modern filmmaking?

Answer 32

Emplotment of event; make sense through narrative

• reads into the unresolvable (Rodney King)
• can’t leave the event behind (repetition) - comprehend
• semi-fictionalizes events (fantasy)
• emphasis on the text (characters aware they’re in a story)
• attempt to understand event by looking over and over at the event.
• emphasis on understanding the event over depicting the event itself.