Lecture Notes

Question 0

The Kiss, Serpentine Dance, Shadow

Answer 0

Kinetoscope films (no narrative)

Question 1

Tensions between consumerist values and democratic values

Answer 1

Consumerist:
1. Individualism
2. You deserve the best, more is better
3. Aspiration is a moral good
4. We are all consumers
Democratic:
1. Social responsibility 
2. Justice, equality, caring about common good
3. Critical thinking is a moral good
4. We are all citizens

Question 2

Tableaux films

Answer 2

Single shot and static camera

Question 3

The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots

Answer 3

Trick edit

Question 4

A shot of the entire scene, a long shot that can include all of the charters.

Answer 4

Establishing shot

Question 5

Starts with establishing shot, and then cuts to a close up of a person, and then a reverse close up of another character.

Answer 5

Shot/reverse shot sequence

Question 6

Close ups on the faces which makes it a given where they are in the scene.

Answer 6

Eye-line matching

Question 7

Mise-en-scen

Answer 7

“Things put on the stage” anything that the film director puts under the camera - props, scene location, actors, etc.

Question 8

Diagetic vs. Nondiagetic

Answer 8

Diagetic: refers to those sound elements that the characters in the movie would logically hear.

Nondiagetic: refers to those sound elements that the characters can’t hear but we can.

Question 9

Cinematography

Answer 9

• Camera distance/framing (long shot, medium, close up, extreme close up)
• Movement (pan left or right, zoom in or out, focus pull)

Question 10

Editing (cut, wipe, dissolve, superimposition)

Answer 10

• pacing

- type of edit (cuts, wipes, cross fade/superimposition)

Question 11

A movies

Answer 11

The big budget movies, the ones spent a lot of money and the biggest stars and directors.

Question 12

B movies

Answer 12

Low budget, and were important for the studios because they were the training ground for the talent.

Question 13

Platform distribution

Answer 13

1. Developed when studios could only get money through ticket sales
2. Have a long slow roll out of the movie. First be released for a limited time in zone 1. Then pulled, then rereleased in zone 2. Pulled for a period and then rereleased in zone 3. At every zone they would drop the price.
   - they tapped into people of different incomes
   - word of mouth advertising

Question 14

The red scare

Answer 14

• Hollywood Ten
  1. It was bad publicity for Hollywood
  2. The witch-hunts hurt the creativity of production, the quality of movies declined because writers and directors were nervous because everyone was watching them.

Question 15

The rise of art house theaters

Answer 15

• Independent theaters were able to reinvent themselves by becoming an art house theater.
• If they were in the right market and had the right taste culture, they could start to import foreign movies.

Question 16

Artificial scarcity

Answer 16

Makes us believe we cannot wait, we have to have the product the night it’s available.

Question 17

Practice when separate independent companies merge together under the same umbrella.

Answer 17

Conglomeration

Question 18

Horizontal integration

Answer 18

Where one company may have their “fingers” involved in the different parts of producing or distributing. Integrated across different media sectors.

Question 19

4 factors driving the move to transnational

Answer 19

1. Capitalism
2. End of Cold War
3. Re-regulation
4. New technologies

Question 20

American culture is forced on the rest of the world, which creates a bland culture.

Answer 20

Homogenization/global unification