Chapter 8 Flashcards
Postmodern
artistic or aesthetic style which privileges surface appearances over deep meaning or truth.
Emphasis on face value rather than deeper meaning
Pastiche
Imitation of art work
Eclecticism
Style that draws upon multiple theories, styles, or ideas to gain complementary insights into a subject, or applies different theories in particular cases.
Self reflexivity
Describes films to texts which self consciously acknowledge or reflect upon their own status as fictional artifacts and or the processes involved in their creation.
This daffy duck when he deals with the “artist”
Taxonomy
Practice of classification, classifying films based on similarities of form and or content
Theoretical Taxonomies
Same way as aristotle’s model of poetry (epic, comedy, tradegy), film genres are narritive, experimental, docucmentary.
Avant-garde
experimental films, very thinking outside of the box filmology
Iconograhpy
visual patterns of setting, dress, props and style have been used to classify and analyse films generically
Example: Stage Fright: Presence of femme fatale
Double Indemnity: Dark lighting
Femme Fatale
Female that ultimately brings disaster to the male main protagonist
Visual Taxonomies
iconographic approach to genre analysis involved the identification, description and
interpretation of cinematic objects, events, figures
The use of items and objects to determine the genre.
Multi-dimensional taxonomies
Taxonomies based on familiar resemblances.
Sophisticated hyper consciousness
the extreme knowingness and high degree of media literacy by both cinema and its audience
Genre a cognition
Genres are not simply bodies of work, however classified, labelled and designed. Are different based on each individuals viewing of the film and the personal experiences they bring into the viewing.
Palimpsest
A film or text with multiple levels of meaning created through dense layers of intertextuality
extra-textuality
the range of cultural sets which relate in some way to film, text but in a narrower sense, refers to the non-filmic inter-texts which in varying degrees relate to the film/text.
