Cinema Final Flashcards

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Horror`

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Hard lighting, chiaroscuro, blood/gore, long takes, silence, sound effects

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Western

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Long shots, musical themes, anti-hero/vigilante

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Romance

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Plot, characters attempting to impress another

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drama

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Conflict (drug abuse, death, grief)

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Noir

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Black and white, murder, mystery, motivation, backstory, dark makeup, urban cities, femme fatale

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Genre

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Set of films that share characteristics: narrative conventions, stylistic, thematic

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hybrid genre

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fusion of multiple genres (romance and comedy)

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8
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Subgenre

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Follows addition genre conventions

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Sci-fi hybrid

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Dystopian, invasion, exploration, Faustian bargain (deal with the devil)

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Integrated musical

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Breaks out in song and glance

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Backstage musical

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Preoccupied with perusing music

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Girl Walks Home Alone at Night Genre

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Noir, Western, Horror, Romance

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13
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Talking Heads Documentary

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Responding answer of a question, testimonial

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Voice of authority documentary

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A voice narrating what we see on screen

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Direct cinema/cinema verite documentary

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Present the world as it is-reality as it happens, long takes, handheld camera

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Self reflexive documentary

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Camera turns on itself

17
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Avant-docs

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Pushing technique while conveying information

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Mockumentary

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A mock documentary

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Titicut folllies style

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Direct cinema; shaky camera, doesn’t interfere, long shot

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Abstract

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Abandons human figure, explores idea of filmmaking as painting in motion

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City symphony

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Utopian machine, celebrates human technology, urban spaces, life

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Structuralist

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Explores technical properties of film medium itself

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Complication film

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Reuses existing film footage in new ways, takes existing images out of original context, put together to create new meanings

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Surrealist

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Collect conscious/unconscious, dream imagery, same time as psychoanalysis (Meshes of the Afternoon)

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Hays Code
What could and could not be shown in the films in the 1934-1968: nudity, gay relationships, interracial marriage, sex, drug use/addiction, suicide
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Apparatus theory
Dominant ideology shown through technical usage (male gaze, colorism)
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Encoding/decoding model
What messages are encoded/received. Circular, not linear, dominant, oppositional, and negotiated reading
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Ideologies in MDB
Disabilities (no point in living), age (she was too old), gender (not supposed to be fighters, how men are supposed to act)
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Star
Performance and public image
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Publicity vs. promotion
Publicity is not intentional, promotion is
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Free agency systems
Contract to a studio for movies/series
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Fandom
Group of fans attached to media, fan base, or actor
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Subculture
Small group of fans outside of mainstream
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First Cinema
Hollywood/classical
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Second Cinema
International Art Cinema, sophistication, psychologically complex characters, philosophical issues
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Third Cinema
Films from colonies of Europe, political stance, championed resistance, decolonization (Ex. Cinema Nova in Brazil)
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Fourth Cinema
Films by indigenous peoples, conflicting identities, struggle between traditional and contemporary values, deconstruct Hollywood stereotypes
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Italian NeoRealism
Italy after WWII, capture suffering, working class or poor characters played by non-professionals, grainy location shooting
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Transnational
We categorize films according to nationality. what determines nationality (screenwriter origin, location, story setting, production company