Midterm

Question 1

Decolonization

Answer 1

• The political process of independence Ex. the US and Britain
• *Has become a popular term recently to radically rethink/restructure institutions beyond specifically colonial contexts

Question 2

Post colonialism

Answer 2

The culture and the psychology of the people forever hybridized after colonialism: cannot return to a pre-colonial state, have internalize languages, ideologies of colonial culture ex. India can speak English

Question 3

Neocolonialism

Answer 3

• Continued structures of influence and exploitation (by the imperial power) and dependency & underdevelopment (by colony) – related to imperialism
• Systems that replicate power dynamics, economical conditions

Question 4

Battle of Algiers (1966)

Answer 4

• Made few years after independence
• Elements of Italian neorealism – focused on the ordinary people, anything sensational
  Found popular initial audiences, followed by quick government suppression in numerous countries
• “Found the film too threatening” might inspire urgencies in the audience
• Insurgent strategies, shows us the process of decentralized selves

Question 5

Italian Neorealism

Answer 5

• Natural light, score to cure you to have an emotional response
• Actors on screen that give the impression of everyday people (high constructed realism)

Question 6

Documentary style

Answer 6

• The illusion of veracity
• Looks like something unfolding, rather than something that is produced for the film

Question 7

1st Cinema

Answer 7

• Popular entertainment/commercial cinema
• Ex. Bollywood, Hollywood

Question 8

2nd Cinema

Answer 8

• Auteur/art cinema
• Emphasis on style
• More attentive to cultural context, not disrupting cinema

Question 9

3rd Cinema

Answer 9

• Radical cinema, fundamentally changes how we think, political
• disruptive, agitational capacity
• Typically experimental

Question 10

Radical Cinema

Answer 10

• Political & aesthetic
• Counter to norms of ‘invisible style’ & capitalist ideologies

Question 11

3rd Worldism

Answer 11

international movement that recognized shared struggles of decolonization and underdevelopment

Question 12

Sexual Revolution

Answer 12

Period of changing cultural norms about sexual practices and politics, questioning of dominant ideologies

Question 13

Hardcore

Answer 13

actual sex visible on screen

Question 14

1st wave Feminism

Answer 14

Suffrage, recognized personhood

Question 15

2nd Wave Feminism

Answer 15

Women’s liberation, political & economic equality, recognition of sexual harrasment, attention to demeaning stereotypes

Question 16

3rd Wave Feminism

Answer 16

Focus on identity, intersectionality, attention to sexual harrasment

Question 17

Feminist Film Theory

Answer 17

Cinematic pleasure objectifies and punishes women, aligns with straight male gaze

Question 18

Cult Cinema

Answer 18

Defined by audience which develops around a film, repeat viewing, quoting dialogue

Question 19

Intellectual Property (IP)

Answer 19

Source material licensed to be adapted or monetized through spin-offs and merchandise, audience interest is already built-in, creation of a franchise

Question 20

Home video

Answer 20

Initially viewed as competition to theater & tv, became major revenue stream

Question 21

Independent cinema

Answer 21

Films developed independently of Hollywood studios, tend to have smaller budgets and focus

Question 22

Partition

Answer 22

India and Pakistan became independent nations, much religious conflict and death, caused national trauma and need for national cultural unification

Question 23

All-India Film

Answer 23

Nationalist allegory, would use different regions and multicultural cast, melodramas of the nation’s struggles