Midterm Flashcards by L T | Brainscape

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Modern Times year and studio

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1936

United Artists

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Modern Times names

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Charlie Chaplin → director, producer, writer, little tramp

Paulette Goddard → Ellen

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Singin’ in the Rain year and studio

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1952

produced → Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

distributed → Loew’s Inc.

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Singin’ in the Rain names

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Stanley Donen → director

Gene Kelly → director, Don Lockwood

Debbie Reynolds → Kathy Selden

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The Public Enemy year and studio

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1931

Warner Bros

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The Public Enemy names

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William A. Wellman → director

James Cagney → Tom Powers

Edward Woods → Matt Doyle

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Top Hat year and studio

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1935

RKO Radio Pictures

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Top Hat names

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Mark Sandrich → director

Fred Astaire → Jerry Travers

Ginger Rogers → Dale Tremont

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His Girl Friday year and studio

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1940

Columbia Pictures

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His Girl Friday names

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Howard Hawks → director, producer

Cary Grant → Walter Burns

Rosalind Russell → Hildy Johnson

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Casablanca year and studio

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1942

Warner Bros

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Casablanca names

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Michael Curtiz → director

Humphrey Bogart → Rick Blaine

Ingrid Bergman → Ilsa Lund

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Shadow of a Doubt year and studio

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1943

Universal Pictures

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Shadow of a Doubt names

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Alfred Hitchcock → director

Teresa Wright → Charlotte “Charlie” Newton

Joseph Cotten → Charles “Charlie” Oakley

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Spellbound year and studio

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1945

United Artists

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Spellbound names

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Alfred Hitchcock → director

Ingrid Bergman → Dr. Constance Peterson

Gregory Peck → Dr. Anthony Edwardes

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The Philadelphia Story year and studio

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1940

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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The Philadelphia Story names

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George Cukor → director

Cary Grant → C.K. Dexter Haven

Katherine Hepburn → Tracy Lord

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Classical style 7 principles

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individual talents tightly controlled

storytelling is the primary concern

based in unity → macro and micro unity

realistic in the sense on mimesis

immediatley comprehensible and unambiguous

basic emotional appeal

technique never revealed → “invisible style”

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Hitchcock motifs

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the ambiguity of guilt and innocence

the transference of guilt from one individual to another

the fascination with a guilty woman

the therapeutic function of obsession and vulnerability

the equation of knowledge and danger

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five majors and three minors

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Paramount

Loew’s/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (M-G-M)

Fox/20th Century-Fox

Warner Bros

Radio-Keith-Orpheum (RKO)

Universal

Columbia

United Artists

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“more stares than there are in heaven”

polish and gloss

sober, restrained and calculated comedies

American middle-class values

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M-G-M

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sexual savoir-faire with tongue in cheek wit

anarchic, pretension-deflating comedies

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Paramount

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working man’s studio

hasty and rough

gangster films

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Warner Bros

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blue-collar workers and shop girls

hard hitting films with social conscience

period and costume pictures

rural audience

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20th Century Fox

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unlikely combination of films

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RKO

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witty and urbane screenwriting

screwball comedy talent

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Columbia Pictures

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classic horror films

emotionally restrained melodramas

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Universal Pictures