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Reading 3: Organized Time/Truth of the Docu form & Silent Comedy Flashcards

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What is mise-en-scene

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everything that goes into the composition of a shot, including composition itself

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1st genre of film

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docu

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What was value of docu eventually used for?

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social/political critique, ideology, propaganda

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Docus during war

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strict controls placed on docus in WW1 to keep secrets hidden

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When did docus come into their own significance?

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1902s

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Nanook of th eNorth about

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Eskimo life

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Hybrid docu

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Nanook (part docu, part modernist film)

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Nanook location

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Canada

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How real was Nanook?

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Not very, Flaherty staged many scenes/portrayed story he wished to show vs. real life

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Docus and filmmaker

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docus often manipulated by filmmaker in one way or another

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Feminists view on docus

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believe them to be “conservative institutions which reinforce ideological status quo”

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12
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3rd genius of silent comedy

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Harold Lloyd

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Harold Lloyd was

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actor/producer

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Lloyd & $$

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outgrossed counterparts by retaining ownership of films

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Lloyd’s character

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boy next door

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Lloyd look

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horn rimmed glasses

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Lloyd known for

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real stunts (i.e. climbing up building)

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18
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Films in truth

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films want to be “objective” and tell “truth” when in reality such is impossible (viewers never see way footage is manipulated)

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19
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Docus appeal to

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epistephilia

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epistephilia def

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pleasure in knowing

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docu narrator

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voice of god, makes narration seem objective

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Documentary boun up in

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hierarchies (race, gender, etc.)

23
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Earliest form of film comedy

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slapstick

24
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slapstick poked fun at

A

farcical situations and physical mishaps

25
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Who began Keystone Studios?

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Mack Sennett

26
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Mack Sennet nickname

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King of Comedy

27
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Leading producer in slapstick

A

Mack Sennett

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Msvk Sennett motion

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frantic and fast, comedic

29
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Mack Sennett casting

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casted exaggerated/grotesque people

30
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Keystone featured (ppl)

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Fatty Arbuckle, Chaplin

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Charlie ChaplinChaplin

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silent actor/pantomimist

32
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Who was Sennetts most important discovery?

A

Chaplin

33
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Buster Keaton look

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stoneface

34
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Keaton known for

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acrobatic visual gags

35
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Most acclaimed keaton film

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the general

36
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Most meta early film & dir.

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Man with the Movie Camera by Veritoff

37
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Why was Man with a Movie Cam revolutionary

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People genuinely didn’t know how films were made, pulled curtain back

38
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German Propaganda film + Director

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Triumph des Willens (aka “Triumph of the Will”), Leni Riefenstahl,

39
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Real Nanook

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Died 2 years after filming in storm

40
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Nanook family was

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“The happy family”

41
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Riefenstahl as a director

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REAL Star, placed each camera

42
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of cameras under Riefenstahl

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30

43
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How hitler saw film

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most powerful weapon in attitudes

44
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Angles in Triumph of the Will

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Made hitler look godlike

45
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Theatrics in Triumph of the Will

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Hitler’s persona/voice/projection/fame/etc.

46
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Sherlock Jr. does what to movies?

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Exposes movie projections/movies

47
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Funny edits in Sherlock Jr.

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His dream sequence and funny edits of being in diff. movies

48
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Chemistry in the Kid

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Chaplin & Koogan had serious chemistry

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