Terms And Words - all Flashcards
Who directed Fight Club?
David Fincher
Who directed Irreversible?
Gasper Noe
Who directed Requiem for a Dream
Daren Aranafsky
Who directed La Haine
Mathieu Kassavitz
German word for distansiation
Verfremdungseffekt
Name of the estate In la Haine
Les Banlieues
Where do they live in one were warriors
Auckland, Newzeland
Name of slums in City of God
Favelas
What is simulacra
Trying to convey that something fake is real
What is simulation?
When we know something is fake
What is a catalyst?
A person or event that precipitates an event
What does ‘contemporary’ mean
Belongs to or occurring in the present
Who is Edward Hopper?
An American artist who’s work shows isolation and loneliness, something that has been used within many famous films such as psycho and fight club
What is bathos
Going from something be serious to something very comic
What is pastiche?
Paying homage to older texts
What is bricolage?
A mixture of different things to help explain the nature of society
What is anachronism?
When elements from different time frames are mixed
What is intertextuality?
The referencing of other cultural texts
Who is Neitzsche?
A german philosopher who looked at existentialism
What is existentialism?
The concept of the purpose of life
What did Neitzsche believe?
That God is dead, people made God absent from their lives
What is an über menshe?
A superman figure
What is Dionysion?
Represents chaos
What is appolonian?
Representation of order
Who directed City Of God?
Fernando Meirelles
