MND Movie Flashcards
1
Q
Hoffman Adaptation Title
A
- William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Nights Dream
- announces relationship to text
- Shakespeare prominent figure
2
Q
Changes to Plot
A
- Insert Bottom’s Wife
- Relocates play to 19th C Italy
-Removes/ Edits speeches
3
Q
Heritage Films (BIG CARD)
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- Produced since silent era (boomed in 1980s)
- prodominantly British now everywhere
- Highlights periods of national history/ glory
- Adapted acclaimed literary works
- Respected English actors
- country houses, pastoral thematics
- nostaglic for white conservative, preindustrial perspective
- National cinema (departing or reclaiming of british identity)
4
Q
Diegesis
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- in fictional universe, or added on through editing
- bird chirp vs voiceover
- voice over provide information/ guides spectator to a particular pov
5
Q
Intertitles
A
Associated with silence film, image of words, giving information or dialogue
6
Q
Victorian Woman
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- Upper/ Middle class women expected to reproduce and care for children
- society divided along gender lines (domestic/ public)
- movement beyond bountries discouraged (women stay at home)
- clothing itself was restrictive
7
Q
New Woman and the Bicycle
A
- late 19th C restrictions began to change
-more rights: voting, economic opportunities, access to education and leaving domestic sphere - bicycle and split shirt to bike
