Film Terms

Question 1

Art Cinema

Answer 1

European cinema- experimental in technique and narrative. Attempts to address the aesthetics of cinema (ex. French new wave or German cinema). No seamless cause and effect story line also there are no heroes

Question 2

Auteur Theory

Answer 2

Holds that a film reflects the directors personal creative vision as if they were primary “auteur” (author). The auteurs creative voice is distinct enough to cause studio interference and the collective process.

Question 3

Class

Answer 3

Film system produces and reproduces cultural signification. Film industries mode of production (geared for profit- capitalism). Consider the power of relations. Influenced by Karl Marx’s definition of class also by Antonio Gramsci’s definition. Marx says “class” refers to groups of people who have similar relations to the means of production.

Question 4

Cut

Answer 4

Splicing of two shots together (jump cuts, continuity cuts, match cuts and cross cuts)

Question 5

Connotation

Answer 5

How a word makes you feel= 1st order

Meaning a sign through cultural experiences= 2nd order

Question 6

Denotation

Answer 6

Literal meaning of the word= 1st order

The image that actually appears on screen=2nd order

Question 7

Discourse

Answer 7

Way in which texts are enunciated (brought into being. Cinematic discourse reproduces “reality” and tells stories about love, marriage, war and peace.

Question 8

Editing

Answer 8

Refers to literally combining of shots together to make a film
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Question 9

Continuity editing

Answer 9

logic chronological narrative, one event follows naturally after the next

Question 10

Apparatus Theory

Answer 10

A model of spectatorship that argues that cinema is ideological because films are made to represent reality - everything has meaning