Week 4 Flashcards
Art movement that arose during the Industrial Revolution in response to new worlds of commerce, industry, urban growth and a rising middle class.
Realism
Art movement that favoured urban/working class in representation. Frankness.
Realism
Formally, the story is presented in an unobtrusive, almost invisible way so that the characters and actions seem to exist on their own.
Realism
Conveys an everyday reality as most people experience. Aligns itself with the rising middle class and its public and private struggles.
Realism
What art movement does Precious fall under?
Realism
Situations and qualities as if they could be true. They made not be in accurate representation of everyday life or history but they are plausible in any given genre.
Hollywood Realism
Coherent space and time, characters with recognizable traits and a linear narrative (actions, reactions, results) are examples of…
Common Sense Tenants
Resolution of familiar issues, realistic or fantastical setting and autonomous worlds are examples of…
Common Sense Tenants
Mythic view that sees the social world as fixed, permanent reality with undeniable values and beliefs.
Dominant Ideology
Values and beliefs that reinforce the status quo.
Dominant Ideology
Reinforces common sense belief that the way things appear to be are the way things are.
Dominant Ideology
Can naturalize a way of seeing the world or an ideology so that it no longer seems constructed or debatable.
Dominant Ideology
Arose as a reaction to the apparent sacrifice of high art traditions to commercialism and the collapse of the social order signaled by the carnage of WW1.
Modernism
Art movement that is not realistic nor idealistic.
Modernism
Formally, the story making is very noticeable and collage and montage are employed.
Modernism
The interior subjective life of the individuals is explored including consciousness, memory and desire in addition to the social reality.
Modernism
Art movement that is a critique of modernity.
Modernism
Rejected conventions of art in the 1800s.
Modernism
Fragmentation, alienation and anonymity.
Modernism
Attention to the physical qualities of materials unadorned shapes and structural foundation.
Modernism
Draws attention to the act of narration and construction of the story word.
Modernism
Combining different types of materials.
Collage
Juxtaposition of individual shots.
Montage
Shock, strange juxtapositions, political overtone. Attack of the status quo.
Dada
Has a self-referential quality that draws attention to the formal processes to engage with the medium. The way that actions, time or space is related is often vague.
Formalism
Explores the interior of a characters consciousness without an anchor in reality. Often surreal.
Heightened Subjectivity
Art movement that rejected the aura of modernism and celebrates the popular of mass media and tradition is cut free of history.
Postmodernism
Art movement that embraces the marketplace, often in an ironic or cynical way.
Postmodernism
Implies a blurring of high and low cultural boundaries, the inability to distinguish between the real and the artifice.
The Postmodern Condition, Jean-Francois Lyotard
The commodification of everyday life. The sense of the fragmentary, ambiguous and uncertain nature of living.
The Postmodern Condition, Jean-Francois Lyotard
Radical transformation of realism. Rejection of modern elitism.
Postmodernism
Responds to social issues of globalization. The association of art with national identity diminishes.
Postmodernism
Formally, the story draws attention to itself through quotation, homage, copying, borrowing and recycling previous work.
Postmodernism
Formally, mixes popular high art tradition and convention to stress the artifice.
Postmodernism
Imagined worlds are more like other imagined worlds than reality. Sense of an external social referent decreases as films position with other films with the same formal conventions.
Postmodernism
Features a questioning individual- questioning power, autonomy and self-control. Less stress on subjectivity.
Postmodernism
Filmmaker builds their work from the fragments of previous work without claiming originality.
Postmodernism
The surface of thing. The loss of history. Refusal to hint at hidden depth. Signifiers refer to other signifiers.
Postmodernism
Paranoia, conspiracy, political cynicisms (the system).
Postmodernism