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Reading 2: Inevitability of Narrative Flashcards

1
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Name of first family thriller

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Suspense

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2
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Plot of Suspense

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tramp threatens mother/child, father saves the day

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What team made Suspense

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Husband/Wife team

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4
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Suspense special fx

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3-way split screen, triptych

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5
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Birth of a Nation Director

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DW Griffith

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6
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Father of film grammar

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DW Griffith

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7
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Root of Griffith’s innovations

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did not actually begin with him

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8
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Result of Birth of a Nation

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spike in race riots, uprising of klansmen #s

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9
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Whats tough about birth of a nation?

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hard to separate formal from social

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10
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Battleship Potemkin dir.

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Eisenstein

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11
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Battleship Potemkin genre

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Fictional narrative meant to glorify real-life anti-Tsarist uprising

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12
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Most famous sequence in Battleship Potemkin

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Odessa Steps, montage

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Evil people in Odessa steps

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cossacks

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14
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Style of Odessa Steps

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Montage

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15
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Conflict in Montage of odessa steps

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juxtaposition of images of innocent w/ violent

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16
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Eistensteins’ overlooked masterpiece

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October

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17
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October $

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Commissioned by Soviet Central Committee to commemorate 10 year anniversary of Oct. Rev.

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18
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October’s revolution

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early Lenin/Socialist revolution

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19
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October locations

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REAL (i.e. Winter palace)

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20
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Film’s leading grammarian

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Eisenstein

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21
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Director who was all about organicness

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Eisenstein

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22
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Eisenstein scale of extras

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LARGE SCALE (thousands of extras)

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23
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Eisenstein had strong sense of

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chaos

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24
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October biggest 2 scene (+ex.)

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BRIDGE SCENE
-Dead horse hanging off
-falling corpse
+TOPPLING OF ALEXANDER II Statue

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25
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Eisenstein pro-

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Lenin/propoganda

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26
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Man Ray’s big film

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Return to Reason

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27
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Genre of Return to Reason

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Early Dada film

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28
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Man Ray’s invention

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Rayograph: Object placed between light source and photo sensitive film>Moyion pivtures

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29
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Example of rayograph material

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sprinkling salt/pepper on film

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30
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Added shots in return to reason

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night shots of carnival

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31
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Key model in return to reason

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nude Kiki in striped light

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32
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ballet mechanique dir.

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fernand leger

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33
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ballet mechanique

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masterpiece of modern art & influential expiramental film

34
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Ballet Mechanique concerns

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concerns about modernization/times

35
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Ballet mechanique shows a mechanical universe, with _________________

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a very human face

36
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techniques used in ballet mechanique

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repetition to rep. clockwork structure of everyday life

37
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photographer of ballet mechanique

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dudley murphy

38
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ballet mechanique music

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eric Satie/overwhelming sounds

39
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shots in ballet mechanique

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rapidly cut, like a cubist painting

40
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Directors of Realism (2)

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Lumiere/Edison

41
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Film of Classicism

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Birth of a Nation

42
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Film of Formalism

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Battleship Potemkin

43
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Film of Docu

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Nanook of the North

44
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Avante-Garde director

45
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Examples of Style in film

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Realism, Classicism, Formalism

46
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Examples of Type in film

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Docu, Fiction, Avante-Garde

47
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Basis of narrative films

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cause/effect

48
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primitive cinema and narative

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primitive cinema has own non-narrative modes

49
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Narrative cinema and viewer

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Narrative cinema in nature relegates viewer to “observer-voyeur”

50
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CInema of attraction is different from narrative because

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it addresses viewers directly

51
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Gaze of contemporary cinema

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voyeuristic spectorial gaze

52
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Early cinema more _______ in nature

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exhibitionist in nature (spectator INVITED to look)

53
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Evolution of film spectatorship in Early Cinema necessary ________

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to replicate realism

54
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Male gaze theory

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camera is male

55
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Audience that identifies w/ actor, actually identifying with

56
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Cuts between frames & the viewer

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require viewer to interpolate b/w frames

57
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Another name for Montage Editing

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Soviet Montage

58
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Montage editing

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placing 2 unrelated shots together to build meaning from combo

59
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Big fan of soviet montage

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Sergei Eisenstein

60
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how did Eisenstein use montage

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created metaphor (i.e. carnival attractions+shocks=collisions)

61
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Continuity editing= ______ style

62
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Invisible editing

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to hide visual impact of moving from one shot to next

63
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Dada

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Significant movements of historical avante-garde born in heart of Europe

64
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When was Dada?

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World War I

65
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What did Dada do?

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Challenge tradition and art-making was challenged forever

66
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Inspiration of Dada artists

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Dismayed by stupidity and horror of WWI

67
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Who did Dada discredit?

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European society

68
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What Dada artists thought about social construct in Europe

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gender roles, culture, etc. all failed to prevent war b/c of “rational mindset”. LED TO WAR

69
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Dada saw art as

70
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No guarantee in technology of film that

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narrative is a given

71
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Why narrative is most popular

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tradition/$

72
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Parallel tracks

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simultaneous action in story occurs

73
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Cinema of Attraction based on

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shock & sensation

74
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Mise-en-scene eliminates

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frame, we get SUTURED into film

75
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Eisenstein technical juxtaposition in

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camera angles

76
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Example of Eisenstein angles

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Lenin’s Godlike low angles

77
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What quality does battleship Potemkin have?

78
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Propaganda film by soviet union

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battleship potemkin/october

79
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Dada artists worked w/ _____

A

Avante-garde musicians for scores

80
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Ballet Mechanique made by

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Leger & Murphy

81
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Ballet Mechanique fascination

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What’s happening in society (speed and mechanization)

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