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
Mariano Moreno Cantiflas
- One of the most popular entertainers of Latin America
- Charlie Chaplin of Latin America
- Rapid fire wordplay
- Popularity peaks in the 1960s; didnt’ fit with Mexico’s “modern” image
Luis Bunuel
- Un Chien Andalu
- Political; exiled during the Spanish Civil War
- Founded surrealist cinema: you recognize the image but it is disorted
El Grupo Nuevo Cine
critical of the low budged genre pictures in the 60s and 70s; felt that these genre pictures were “low brow” and diminished national pride
New Mexican Cinema
- Help redefine the industry and its reputation
- find funding outside Mexico
- co-productions
Intellectual Property
a set of intangible assets owned and legally protected by a person/company from outside use/implementation without consent
Genres
- last for decades
- Genre Film: follows familiar or established narrative structure, uses familiar character types, and communicates through familiar images/icons
- Film Genre: shares subject matter, thematic concerns, plot formulas, and settings with other films
Semantics vs Syntax
- Semantics: Building blocks of genre; common traits, attitudes, characters, shots, & locations that make up a genre
- Syntax: structure that semantics are arranged in; isolate the genre’s specific meaning-bearing structures (i.e. themes) ex: self vs other; individual vs. society
Sequels
a film that continues a story in a second film; explicitly tied to the first text and often reuses titles
Cycles
- share images, characters, settings, plots, and themes with other films
- lasts 5-10yrs
- subset of a larger genre
- tend to react to something happening in society
Remakes
retells the same story with the same characters; ties itself to the original
Reboots
- telling the same story with the same characters but reimagining it
- meant to be different
Series
- any group of texts that continues a story across four or more series
- comes from serials
- often appeal to younger viewers
Multiplicities
media texts that consciously repeat and exploit images, narratives, or characters from previous media texts
Transmedia
- storytelling involving multiple media platforms
- sometimes the stories are continued or sometimes it just expands the universe
Media Convergence
the flow of content across multiple media platforms, the cooperation between multiple media industries, and the migratory behavior of media audiences
Web 1.0 vs Web 2.0
- Web 1.0: read only; static; few to the many;
- Web 2.0: internet change around 2006; web as a publishing platform; read/write/collaborate; many to many
Fandom & participatory culture
- culture in which media producers and consumers interact
- people take texts and do more things with them like cosplay
Intertexuality
any individual text becomes part of larger textual discourse and must be read in relation to other texts
