terms related to specfic films or film makers

Question 1

Macguffin

Answer 1

The thing people are after, it doesn’t matter what it is, normally meaningless to the audience

Question 2

Crofter

Answer 2

The farmers that hannay stays at for a night while he is on the run

Question 3

deep focus cimetography

Answer 3

Deep focus is a photographic and cinematographic technique using a large depth of field. Depth of field is the front-to-back range of focus in an image, or how much of it appears sharp and clear. In deep focus, the foreground, middle ground, and background are all in focus.
example is citizen kane

Question 4

deep focus cimetography in citizen kane

Answer 4

Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane often employed deep focus to give the audience a window into what was going on in Charles Foster Kane’s brain or show us more information about his life. Deep focus is a technique where the foreground, middle ground, and background are all in focus at once.
The scene where his mother is signing stuff and kane is in the background

Question 5

Xanadu

Answer 5

Xanadu is the fictional estate of Charles Foster Kane, the title character of the film Citizen Kane. The estate derives its name from the ancient city of Xanadu

Question 6

Newson the march

Answer 6

the news reel in the begining of the movie citizen kane where it talks about his lifeand the film is scratchy

Question 7

William randolph hearst

Answer 7

the person that charles kane is slightly based on. Citizen Kane was a brutal portrait of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst. When Hearst learned through Hopper of Welles’ film, he set out to protect his reputation by shutting the film down

Question 8

Henry luce and march of time

Answer 8

Rival person to hearst did the marchof time where it is mocked in citizen kane

Question 9

rosebud

Answer 9

The meaning was the childhood sled he owned, and the metaphoricla meaning is that noteverything is someones life equals one word

Question 10

Influence of german expression on citizen kane

Answer 10

Yet Citizen Kane is also a film in the tradition of German Expressionism. Like Murnau, Welles externalized the subjectivity of his characters (and especially of Kane) by means of psychologically charged settings, acute camera angles, distorting lenses, and disconcerting camera movements

Question 11

flashback

Answer 11

flashback, in motion pictures and literature, narrative technique of interrupting the chronological sequence of events to interject events of earlier occurrence. The earlier events often take the form of reminiscence. The flashback technique is as old as Western literature.
example how citizen kane is told

Question 12

leters of transit vs exit visas

Answer 12

These are a set of purloined “Letters of Transit,” granting safe passage to Lisbon, and thence to America. Rick has acquired the Letters from a shady character named Ugarte, played by Peter Lorre. Many American viewers believe Ugarte says the Letters are signed by Charles de Gaulle