Cinema Final Flashcards
Horror`
Hard lighting, chiaroscuro, blood/gore, long takes, silence, sound effects
Western
Long shots, musical themes, anti-hero/vigilante
Romance
Plot, characters attempting to impress another
drama
Conflict (drug abuse, death, grief)
Noir
Black and white, murder, mystery, motivation, backstory, dark makeup, urban cities, femme fatale
Genre
Set of films that share characteristics: narrative conventions, stylistic, thematic
hybrid genre
fusion of multiple genres (romance and comedy)
Subgenre
Follows addition genre conventions
Sci-fi hybrid
Dystopian, invasion, exploration, Faustian bargain (deal with the devil)
Integrated musical
Breaks out in song and glance
Backstage musical
Preoccupied with perusing music
Girl Walks Home Alone at Night Genre
Noir, Western, Horror, Romance
Talking Heads Documentary
Responding answer of a question, testimonial
Voice of authority documentary
A voice narrating what we see on screen
Direct cinema/cinema verite documentary
Present the world as it is-reality as it happens, long takes, handheld camera
Self reflexive documentary
Camera turns on itself
Avant-docs
Pushing technique while conveying information
Mockumentary
A mock documentary
Titicut folllies style
Direct cinema; shaky camera, doesn’t interfere, long shot
Abstract
Abandons human figure, explores idea of filmmaking as painting in motion
City symphony
Utopian machine, celebrates human technology, urban spaces, life
Structuralist
Explores technical properties of film medium itself
Complication film
Reuses existing film footage in new ways, takes existing images out of original context, put together to create new meanings
Surrealist
Collect conscious/unconscious, dream imagery, same time as psychoanalysis (Meshes of the Afternoon)