Film Exam 3
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- What is not a common genre of documentary films?
- Instructional
- What is the TRUEST statement about rhetorical documentary form?
- addresses the viewer openly
- What term describes a film that follows several kinds of documentary filmmaking at once?
- Archival
- What documentary technique is NOT used in American Movie?
- Reenactment
- Reoccurring symbolic images that carry meanings from film to film
- iconography
- According to Bordwell and Thompson, which of the following is "central to the genre film"?
- interplay of convention and innovation
- NOT a convewntion or theme of horror films as defined by Bordwell and Thompson
- ambiguous heroes
- In a horror film: conventions or themes
- a monster's attack on normal life, the limits of human knowledge, fears about the environment
- According to Wood, in twentieth-century art, what is "always closely linked to total despair"?
- the absurd
- Which of the following is a characteristic of what Wood calls "reactionary" horror films?
- monster as totally non-human
- What is the BEST example of what Feuer calls "winking" at the audience?
- Don describes "The Broadway Ballet"
- Acording to Feuer, what is "the most outrageous claim made in the plot of "Singin' in the Rain"?
- Kathy gets credit for dubbing Lina's voice
- Dominant style for westerns
- continuity editing
- creat smooth flow from shot to shot
- continuity purpose
- Documentaries are defined by
- content, style, and synthetic
- Defined by content
- nature, portrait, instructional
- defined by style
- compilation, interview, direct-cinema
- "groupings that individuals or societies create to organize their knowledge of the world"
- categorical
- "ersuade the audience to adopt an opinion
- Rehetorical
- 4 basic attributes to documentaries
- direct address, debatable subject matter, appeal to emtion, attempt to persuade
- Most successful genres
- western and gangster
- Westerners are
- refinement, virtue and civilation
- 3 Arguements
- source, subject centered, viewer centered
- Western cinematic elements:
- the wide expanses of LAND, the free movement of men on HORSES
- Reoccurring symbolic images that carry meaning from film to film
- iconography
- 2 ways film change
- conventions and iconography
- Western's conflict is between what and what
- civilized order and lawless frontier
- Westerns are defined by
- subject, theme, and iconography
- Horror defined by
- emotional effect
- 2 types of musicals
- backstage, straight
- 3 common categories of film
- documentary, experimental, animated
- Genres are grouped by...
- subject matter, style, intended emotional effect
- "The interplay of covention and innovation, familiarity and novelty are........."
- central to the genre
- Examples of iconography
- covered wagon/railroad vs. horse/canoe
- Warshow, "true of a western..."
- limitation, its material bareness, the pressures of obligation
- HORROR: __________ group takes it very seriously
- surrealists
- that in a society built on monogamy and family there will be an enormous surplus of sexual energy that will have to be repressed; and that what is repressed must always strive to return
- Treudian theis
- 5 reoccuring motifs in horror
- monster, revenge of nature, satanism, the terrible child, canibalism
- HORROR: Unifyed by master figure:
- the family; repressed sexuality
- Central to the film (centered on its monstrous family)
- sense of grotesque comedy, which in no way disminishes its nightmare horror
- HORROR: Reactionary wing:
- simply evil, the presence of chritianity, the presentation of the monster as non-human, repressed sexuality
- Horror is a genre that...
- is suited to suggest the limits of human knowledge
- HORROR: Uses of distorition
- makeup, lighting, also logic- bending it so odd things can happen.
- Built on intentions about society and pulling it apart
- horror films
- Major West,,,stage of normality
- people killing people
- causes the audience to think eitehr about the nature of those earlier films or about film's own status as a cinematic production
- self-reflexive
- Is "singin'" integrated or not
- NOT integrated
- Is "Singin'" modular or organic
- modular
- Film that used demystification and remysticfication
- Singin' in the Rain
- Musical means
- defined by presentation
- Usually light-hearted, romance and comedy
- musical
- Uses a mobile camera
- musicals
- Performance as performance
- Singin in the Rain
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Typles of Musicals
Set or numbers with little or no narrative - revue
- Types of Musicals:narrative centered on people performing for others
- backstage
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Typles of Musicals:
people can alway sexpress themselves through song and ance - straight
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Typles of Musicals:
Number's advance to plot. plot continues happening through the numbers - Integrated
- What kind of musical is Singin'in the Rain?
- backstage
- What type of film is Singin' in the Rain?
- artifice
- Reenactment isn't used in
- American Movie
- produced by assembling images from archival sources...combining
- compilation films
- records ongoing events as it happens minimal interference by filmmaker. Also known as cinema-verite
- direct-cinema documentary
- _______ is a common documentary for television journalism
- synthetic
- fake documentaries
- mockumentaries
- intended to convery information
- categorical form
- What argument presents film as a reliable source
- arguments for source
- What type of argument is about subject matter
- subject-centered argument
- What type of argument makes an argumetn that appeals to emotions of the viewere
- viewer-centered
- non conformist do what
- challenge orthodox notions of what a movie
- Form organizing an entire film around color, shpaes, sizes and movemnet in the images
- abstract form
- Standard shooting speed for live-action filmaking is
- 24 frames per second
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AMERICAN MOVIE:
Who were the brothers of Mark? - Alex and Chris
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28 Days later:
Who said, "only been around a few blinks of an eyes...return to hormality" - Segeant Farrell
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28 Days Later:
New age sergent: - Segeant Farrell
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28 Days Later:
"I promised them women" - Corporal Mitchell
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Singin' in the Rain:
Director in the film - Roscoe Dexter
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Singin' in the Rain:
"lina! We're missing every other world! You've got to talk intot he mike!" - Roscoe Dexter
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Singin' in th Rain:
Owner of studio - R.F Simpson