Film Styles

Question 0

(Victorian) Melodrama

Answer 0

• stereotyped characters
• exaggerated emotions
• all good vs. all evil
• highly sentimental and sensational
• plot dominates character development

Question 1

Realism

Answer 1

• renders reality in close detail
• character is more important than action and plot
• characters appear in their real complexity

Question 2

Naturalism

Answer 2

• human behavior seen as controlled by instinct
• characters have inherent flaw which is result of their downfall
• setting and characters of usually lower classes

Question 3

Symbolic Realism

Answer 3

• term first associated with D.W. Griffith

- uses mise-en-scene elements for communicated metaphor meaning rather than just character information

Question 4

Lyricism

Answer 4

• emphasis on visually poetic images of natural beauty, beautiful emotions, and extra-narrative imagery