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Sociology 101 flashcards
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society

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people living together in an organized communities with shared laws, values beliefs

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control

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to have power over

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autocracy

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form of government in wichi country is ruled by a person or group of total power

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censorship
Fight Club

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suppress or prohibit any parts of books, films, news considered politically unacceptable ‘‘in order to protect society’’
Fight Club, David Fincher, US/Germany, 1999 - changed ending as a form of censorship -criminals who attempted to bomb ends up in an asylum

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South Africa immorality act
(movie)

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1950-1986 - interracial couples were banned during apartheid

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propaganda

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most effective censorship, strategy of mass communication to control people

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newspeak

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propagandistic language characterized by euphemism, circumlocution, and inversion of customary meanings.

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trinity of cinema

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  1. art
  2. medium
  3. industry
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voice-over

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production technique, speaking over the image

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diegetic sound
non-diegetic sound
Letter from Siberia

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see origin of the sound on the screen
cannot see the origin - tone influences what is shown
Letter from Siberia, Chris Maner, France, 1957

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3 USSR montage characteristics

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  1. edit against Bourgeois cinema
  2. downplay individual characters focus on the collective
  3. overlapping or elliptical temporal relations
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Kuleshov effect

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more meaning achieved by interacting with 2 sequential shots rather than a single shot in isolation

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Battleship Potemkin

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Battleship Potemkin, Sergei M. Eisenstein, USSR, 1925
rebellion on the ship = symbol of the USSR revolution, not understandable to everyone because it is a metaphor

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cartoons

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easier to portray symbols without using metaphors

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Cinema is the strongest weapon

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Benito Mussolini

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Joseph Goebbels

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head of propaganda for Nazi Germany cinema:

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Propaganda should be popular not intellectually pleasing

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Joseph Goebbels

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5 main themes of 3rd Reich cinema

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  1. cult of death = martyrs, dying as the ultimate sacrifice
  2. cult of strong men
  3. cult of body
  4. edutainment
  5. international
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Kinder, Kuchen Kirche

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Four Companions, Carl Froelich, Germany, 1938 - 3 of the 4 single women get married, and the 4th doesn’t so she ends up leading a lonely, miserable life

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open society

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flexible structure, freedom of belief, wide dissemination of information

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low-angle shot

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photo or film sequence taken from below the subject

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Humphrey Jennings
London Can Take It

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UK propaganda films
London Can Take It, Humphrey Jennings, UK, 1940

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Oscars

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Academy Awards for Outstanding Picture 1929
Wings, William A. Wellman, USA, 1927

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Pinpointing the enemy WWII

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US office of War Information (1942-1945)
Why we fight - 7 documentaries commissioned by the US government during WWII to justify US soldier involvement in the war

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why we fight

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  1. prelude to war, Frank Capra, USA, 1943
  2. The Nazis strike
  3. Divide and Conquer
  4. The Battle of Britain
  5. The Battle of Russia
  6. The Battle of China (1944)
  7. War comes to America (1945)
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Pinpointing the enemy: Cold war

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The Green Berets, Ray Kellogg, John Wayne, USA, 1968

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Pinpointing the enemy: War on Terror

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American Sniper, Clint Eastwood, US, 2014
- propaganda - making a choice who is the enemy, depicting it that way

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American Sniper

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altering between narrative to account for vs altering the facts of history
retelling: Iraq was a fight of Good Americans vs Bad Terrorists, led by the good-est American of them all

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Pinpointing the enemy IV: the return of the Cold War

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Top Gun: Maverick, Joseph Kosinski, US, 2022

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First UK propaganda war film

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Britain prepared, Charles Urban, UK, 1915 (audience wanted actual combat scenes)

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Adjustments made in propaganda films

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  1. reduced emphasis on factual war films
  2. narrative fiction films with emotional interest
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factors that influenced public opinion more than the war films

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  1. course of the war
  2. personal experiences
  3. government policies

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