Final Exam Key Terms Flashcards
The Arkoff Formula
- Action (exciting, entertaining drama)
- Revolution (novel or controversial themes and ideas)
- Killing (a modicum of violence)
- Oratory (notable dialogue and speeches)
- Fantasy (acted-out fantasies common to the audience)
- Fornication (sex appeal, for young adults)
Big 5/Little 3
- 5: MGM, Paramount Pictures, RKO, 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros
- 3: United Artists, Universal and Columbia
Reaganite entertainment
- Childishness
- Special Effects
- Imagination/Originality
- Nuclear Anxiety
- Fear of Fascism
- Restoration of the Father/Nuclear Family
- Nostalgia for an imagined past
- Regaining confidence in America
Influences on Bollywood Style
- Indian Epics: elements that allow the story to be large
- Sanskrit Dramas: use of music, dance, gesture, stock characters, and Rasa (dominant emotional theme)
- Parsi Theater: Mixing tones and moods, realism and fantasy, music and dance, and spectacle and narrative
- Hollywood
- MTV!
Diaspora
The dispersion of people somewhere other than their original homeland
ex: the large number of Indian population who lives somewhere other than India
Transnational Cinema
- across nations
- appeals to multiple cultures and nationalities
- often collaboration between nations
Chirtrahaar
- began in 1982
- Longest running program in TV history
- videos taken from the latest Hindi movies
- “Garland of Pictures”
- moves started to incorporate musical numbers in the hopes of being featured on the program
Item Numbers
musical numbers that have nothing to do with the film but are used to display beautiful women in revealing clothes
Playback Singers
people who prerecord the songs used in Bollywood films
Item Girls
- actors, singers, or dancers in Bollywood musical numbers
- usually dress in revealing clothing and have very sexually charged performances
- not tied to the plot
- large draw for audiences to see the movie
Jodi (couple)
two people who are destined to be together
Masala film (Bollywood)
- “Mixture”
- commercial films
- musical, comedy, action, melodrama, romance
- biggest blockbusters
- Bollywood, Mumbai (originally Bombai)
Parallel Cinema/Art Cinema (Pather Panchali)
- began in the 1960s
- Alternative to mainstream commercial cinema in India
- Realism, naturalism, and serious content
- sociopolitical
- Apu trilogy: follows a young boy as he grows up
The 7 Shades of Love
attraction
infatuation
love
reverence
worship
obsession
death
Golden Age of Korean Cinema (1955-1972)
- Production went from 15 films in 1955 to 108 in 1959
- Hollywood genre; melodrama, noir, horror
- Italian neo-realism
- overtly nationalist stories
- contemporary issues
- intially news reels
- foreign aid programs
New Korean Cinema (1998-present)
- Linked to the success of Shiri, the first Korean Blockbuster
- Economic & artistic revival
- straddle arthouse & commercial cinema
- commercial auteurism (Park-char and Bong Joon-ho)
- Influenced by classic Hollywood genres but told with the specificity of Korean POV
- Expanded production & distribution
- Busan International Film Festival: asia’s largest film festival
- 60% of films watched are domestic
Bong Joon-ho as auteur
- Examines “monsters” of society
- engages with history of Hollywood cinema but makes it unique to Korean national context
- Bumbling/incompetent characters
- Conflicts arise from social and economic class difference
- Slapstick comedy
- genre mixing
- sudden tone shifts
- black commedy
- political commentary
- dynamic movement captured in long takes
- Song Kang-ho as the “everyday” man
- Food
- top 4 grossing films to come out of Korea
Motion Picture Law (Korea, 1962)
quotas, consolidates studios
Motion Picture Law (Korea, 1984)
allowed independent filmmakers to begin producing films
Corpus Christi Massacre (June 10, 1971)
- 1971
- peaceful student protest is interrupted by the paramilitary
- police were present but did not intervene
Pigmentocracy
- when Mexico was colonized this led to a caste system, a social structure based on ethnicity and skin color
- Peninsulares: Spainards born in Spain; crown, bishop, officers
- Criollos: children of Spainards born in the colonies; land owners, government, church officials
- Mestizos & Mulattos: Mix of different mexican populations; laborers
- Amerindians & Africans: Indigenous and African population; hard labor and domestic work
Golden Age of Mexican Cinema (1930-1960)
- telling national tales
- traditions, concepts unique to Mexico
- Government funded support
- Literary adaptations
- Rely on Mexican culture
- Shape the self-image of Mexican society
Cabarateras
- focused on sex workers
- melodrama
Ranchera films
- The ranchera song
- performance
- inspsired by hollywood’s “singing cowboy”
- Lets Go with Poncho Villa