Final Exam Flashcards by Cassidy Tibbitts

Jack the Dripper

Pollock

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Transitional device in cinema using rapidly edited images to suggest the lapse of time

Montage

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Jean Valjean is this type of character

Dynamic

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This revolution moved people off the farm and into cities

Industrial

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The most enduring symbolic object in Les Miserables

Candlesticks

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“…my heart, that is my least vulnerable spot.”

Captain Renault

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“I dreamed a dream”

Fantine

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Unproduced play that eventually became Casablanca

Everybody Comes to Ricks

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Common thread in Casablanca’s plot; Sam’s piano

Letters of transit

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Art movement inspired by scientific discoveries in light and color

Impressionism

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Art movement most closely associated with Pablo Picasso

Cubism

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The Queen of the Night sings in this opera

The Magic Flute

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Ballet based on primitivism with polyrhythms

Rite of Spring

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Ilsa reveals to Rick that Laszlo was her husband, even in Paris

Recognition

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“If we stop fighting our enemies, the world will die.”

Laszlo

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Bottom of the 9th, 2 out, with the bases loaded

Beethoven’s 9th Symphony

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Absolutism ended here in 1688

England

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First to project a moving picture to a paying audience

Lumiere brothers

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Camera becomes one of the characters in the film

Point of view

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Melodic glue of Casablanca

As Time Goes By

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Drew plans for the then most famous modern building in the world in less than 3 hours

Frank Lloyd Wright

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In Peter Pan, the island becomes the moon which becomes the face of a clock

Form cut

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Ilsa leaves Casablanca with Laszlo, not Rick

Reversal

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“To owe life to a malefactor… to be, in spite of himself, on a level with a fugitive from justice… to betray society in order to be true to his own conscience; that all these absurdities… should accumulate… should accumulate on himself- this is what prostrated him.”

Javert

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"You have to think for both of us, for all of us!"

Ilsa

"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."

Rick

"It would take a miracle to get you out of Casablanca, and the Germans have outlawed miracles."

Ferrari

A character who stays the same throughout a work

Static

Rick's character was to be originally played by him

Ronald Reagan

Largely responsible for the bloodiest period of the French Revolution

Robespierre

Goals of film study

1- to learn and recognize techniques | 2- to learn why directors used selected

What does film create?

Liquid time and liquid space

What can film make us do?

Act and react differently than we normally would to a given situation

Who discovered persistence of vision

Roget

What is persistence of vision

phenomenon of the eye that makes moving pictures seem like real motion because an image on the retina remains briefly visible after its actual disappearance

Who created Daguerrotypes

Daguerre

What are daguerrotypes

photographic process that yielded a clear picture on a silvered copper plate

What was the Cinematographe

Combination camera projector with a patented claw for moving the film forward to create the illusion of movement- 1895

Kinetoscope

Created by Thomas Edison; consisted of 12 short subjects- 1896

One of the first fantasy films

Georges Melies' A Trip to the Moon- 1902

First full-length (12 minutes) epic narrative film with a cast of 40

Edwin S. Porters The Great Train Robbery- invented to show simultaneous actions

First full-length popular sound film

The Jazz Singe

First major movie star and what film

Charlie Chaplin; The Gold Rush

Single most important film in the development cinema as a major art form, legitimate artistic "grammar"

D. W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation

Who introduced cinematic rhythm

D. W. Griffith

Editing so as to create a pace that will involve and affect the audience- complete with cuts, close-ups, and lingering takes

Cinematic rhythm

Establishment of the MPAA rating system in the U.S.

1967

One of the most influential films ever made with deep-focus camera work, consisting of stark images and dramatic back lighting, and its creative editing

Orson Welle's Citizen Kane

Usually an extreme long or long shot offered at the beginning of a scene, providing the viewer with the general location of the film before subsequent shots

Establishing shot

A shot taken from a moving vehicle (any shot in which the camera moves from one point to another, either sideways, in or out)

Tracking, dolly, or travel shot

Selecting and joining two shots with a splice, in the finished film- any instantaneous change from one frame to another

Cut

The formal features of one shot are echoed in the arrangement or movement of the shot immediately following

Form cut

Alternating the shots from two or more lines of action occurring simultaneously in different locations, yet suggest they are taking place at the same time- used a lot in adventure or chase films

Cross-cutting

the slow fading out of one shot and the gradual fading in of the next shot, with a superimposition of images

Dissolve

the fade-out is the gradual fading of an image from normal brightness to a black screen. A fade-in is the opposite

Fade

this is a revolving horizontal movement of the camera from left to right or vice versa.

Pan or panning shot

shifting the focus (close or distant) during a shot to direct the viewer’s attention from one subject to another as it moves away from or toward the camera

Rack or follow focus

a photographic technique that permits all distant planes to remain clearly focused, from close-up ranges to infinity

Deep focus

Medved's three Hollywood lies

We are just in the business of entertainment, we don't really influence anybody; It's just our job to reflect society. We don't shape things, we just show them as they are; If you don't like this stuff, then just turn it off

Aristotle's 6 elements of tragedy

Plot, character, thought, diction, song, spectacle

a character who is not fully developed but sketched out through one or two distinguishing or recognizable traits

flat character

a fully developed character, one whom readers feel might exist in life

round character

a character who stays the same throughout a work

static character

a character who undergoes a change in personality or attitude through the course of writing usually due to a change in the situation or the plot

dynamic character

the central character in the text, the one with whom readers usually sympathize

protagonist

a person or force (the enemy) that opposes the protagonist

antagonist

narrator reports the facts and interprets events from the perspective of a single character

third-person limited

an all-knowing narrator not only reports the facts but may also interpret events and relate the thoughts and feelings of any character.

third-person omniscient

the facts of a narrative are reported by a seemingly neutral, impersonal observer or recorder

third-person objective

took a radical ap- proach and sought to create colors by using only tiny dots, hoping that it would lead to the blending of colors by the eye

Georges Seurat

To "give joy and consolation to every human being"

Van Gogh's goal

Emphasis on geometric forms

Cubism

The distortion of things to present emotions

Expressionism

One of most influential primitivists

Igor Stravinsky

Paul Gauguin

Primitivism

Simple outlines and large patches of intense color

Primitivism

Composer for Sergei Diaghilev's "Ballet Russe" (Russian Ballet)

Igor Stravinsky

intense expressiveness

expressionism

clarity of structure

cubism

simplicity of technique

primitivism

Rather than shaping things the way they appear in our physical eyes, he sought to present them the way they occur to the mind

Pablo Picasso