Chapter 7: Movies Flashcards
Big five
Paramount, MGM, Warner Bros, 20th Century Fox, RKO
Little 3
Columbia, Universal, United Artists
Celluloid
Could hold a coating of chemical sensitive to light
Kinetograph
Early movie camera, invented by William Kennedy Dixon by combining existing ideas
Kinescope
Single person viewing system
Vitascope
Large screen system that enabled film strips of longer length w/o interruption
Nickelodeons
A form of movie theaters that combines admission price with the Greek word for theater
Vertical integration
Having control of production distribution and exhibition
Oligopoly
Situation and which few firm schedule a bulk of the business
Studio system
Controlled creative talent in the industry
Block booking distribution
Helps gain access the popular films with big stars
Movie palaces
Full-time single screen theater is that provide a more hospitable moviegoing environment
Multiplexes
Fullscreen so were middle-class crowds to an interstate highway crossroad
Blockbuster
Movie that does really well
Newsreels
Captured the first film footage with sound of take off and return of Charles Lindbergh
Documentary
“Creative term of actuality’
Ema Verté
TRUTH film
Indies
Independent films
Hollywood 10 hearings
Communist ties
Megaplexes
Facilities w/ 14 or more screens
Big 6
Warner Bros, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Universal, Columbia, Disney
Media Literacy and Critical Process
Description, analysis, interpretation, evaluation, engagement
Consensus narratives
Culture products that become popular
