Film Midterm
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- Fast Motion
- Fewer than 24 frames per second
- Racial Formation
- The sociohistorical process by which racial categories are created, inhibited, transformed, and destroyed
- Imagined Community
- Members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow members yet in the mind of each lives the image of their communion
- Nation
- An imagined political community
- Extreme Long Shot
- Character looks small in relation to the landscape
- Fragmentation
- Cutting someone into parts and examing each part of them in depth
- High-Key Lighting
- A character's face is well lit, having all shadows removed; usually used in moments of happiness
- Low-Key Lighting
- Shadows are left on a character's face, used in moments of horror or suspense
- Women's Role in the News
- Contradictory, women are culturally coded as nothing but sexual bodies no matter how professional they are but they carry the important information
- RSA Functions...
- by violence and then by ideology
- Homophobia
- The hatred of feminine qualities in men; the fear of being gay; the fear of gay men
- Slow Motion
- More frames than 24 per second
- Role the Church serves in reference to ISAs and RSAs
- Church traught us to implement the ISA's but taught us how to function within the state
- Zoom
- Stationary camera adjusts a lens so that it appears to be bringing us closer or further away from the action
- 180 Degree Rule
- Keep all of the camera set ups on the same side of the two characters
- Match Cut
- A cut between two separate scenes that are linked by a similar motif
- Homosociality
- The nonsexual attractions held by men or women for memeber of their own sex; promotes clear distinctions between women and men through segregation
- Medium Close Up
- Chest Up
- High Angle Shot
- Camera looks down on a character
- Crosscutting
- Cutting back and forth between two or more locations with action occurring at the same time
- Medium Long Shot
- Knees Up
- Establishing Shot
- Introduces the location of the next scene
- Steadicam Shot
- A harness that holds the camera over the shoulders of the camera operator to keep it steady
- The major stars of the early 1930s belonged here
- working class
- Pan
- Camera pivots to look from side to side
- Wipe
- One image moves onto the screen replacing the previous image
- Dissolve
- One shot fades to black while another fades in from black
- Rack Focus
- Camera changes focus from the foreground to the background or vice versa
- God's Eye View
- Camera looks straight down on the characters
- Socially Constructed
- Develop out of group struggles over socially valued resources
- Iris
- Screen goes black except for a circle which directs the spectator's eye at what to look at
- Misogyny
- The hatred of women; the hatred of feminine qualities in women
- Repressive State Apparatus
- Includes government and law, there is only one: the state
- leopard
- In order for a comedy to achieve its goal of social cohesion, integration, and regeneration it must first unleash the ____.
- Simultaneously Expressed
- Connected to each other and are embedded in all social institutions
- Active Viewing
- To actively engage the visual and aural elements of a film instead of letting them passively float by
- Tolerance
- One must ask questions, the different people are accepted but they are not welcomed
- Dolly Shot
- A platform with wheels that can move in any direction it wants without being confined to a pre-set track
- Match Dissolve
- A dissolve between two separate scenes that are linked by a similar motif
- Fade
- Screen goes black
- stages of diversity
- Recognition, Tolerance, Celebration
- Identifying a stereotype
- they are usually very generic, it will form a subset, it oversimplifies the causes of the behavior
- Helicopter Shot
- Scene filmed from a helicopter
- Young women are afraid to be labeled as feminist because...
- seen as a social limitation, a threat of being labeled, old movement
- POV Shot
- Seeing what a character in the film sees
- Othering
- Rendering someone into the minority and therefore putting them on the outskirts of society
- black comedy
- Comedies that made fun of dark subjects
- Long Shot
- Entire Character
- Purpose of Fragmentation
- Makes it easier to objectify them
- How female individuality is created out of postfeminism
- creates a new identity, allows them to step out of what is expected, be different than the traditional woman
- Contextual
- Never static and fixed, constantly undergoing change
- Parallel Editing
- cutting back and forth from two (or more) simultaneous events taking place in separate spaces
- Celebration
- Acknowleding that every member of your community has something to contribute and recognizing that his or her contributions add value to your life
- Children learn the characteristics of traditional masculinity from...
- school, family, friends, media, society
- Dolly In Shot
- The camera, on a dolly, moves closer to the action
- Sequence
- Several scenes unified by a common time, but not necessarily space.
- Freeze Frame
- The image freezes on the screen
- ISA Functions...
- by ideology first and then by repression if necessary
- Extreme Close Up
- One small portion of the human body
- Crane Up/Crane Down
- Camera is actually lifted or lowered by a crane
- Screwball comedy combines high comedy, such as romantic comedy with ________.
- low slapstick comedy
- First motion picture camera
- Thomas Edison
- Medium Shot
- Waist Up
- Deep Focus
- Both foreground and background are in focus at the same time
- Nationalism
- The invention of a nation where it does not originally exist; culture artifacts of a particular kind
- Stereotype
- A conventional, formulaic, oversimplified conveption, opinion or belief; a person, group, event, or issue considered to typify or conform to an unvarying pattern
- Systems of Power Relationships
- One group exerts control over another
- Process Shot
- Combining two different pieces of film
- How does text function?
- Purpose is to get the codes out; It limits what the code can do
- First introduced to the study of race, class, gender, and sexuality?
- Black Women's Studies, feminist black activists
- Hottentot Venus
- Fetishism
- Feminism created a new code of conduct for sexuality by...
- the media helps creating new codes of conduct for women, emphasizes that women can break out of what is expected of them
- Six Common themes for Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality
- Contextual, Socially Constructed, systems of power relations, social structure and social psychological, simultaneously expressed, interdependence of knowledge and activism
- How the news is already programmed
- Network corporation is looking for maximum profits so they choose stories that will catch the most attention and generate the most profit.
- Frame
- Rectangle of a film's image on the screen; chosen what is put in and left out
- Subjectivity is created through feminism by...
- calling a woman into the subject form; it identifies you as a female
- Ideological State Apparatus
- Many of them, Church was the original, school replaces it
- Shot/Reverse Shot
- Seeing a character and then seeing what the character sees.
- Scopophilia
- obsessive force of the pleasure in looking; we go on looking even if there is nothing more to see
- Thompson's solution to traditional masculinity
- New socialization for boys
- Fetishism
- The substitution of an object for some dangerous and power but forbidden force
- Close Up
- Character's head fills the screen
- Pull Back Shot
- The camera, on a dolly, moves further away from the action
- Consequences of traditional masculinity
- Emotional pain, no security, nutrance is not valued, afraid of bonding or forming relationships
- Infantilization
- A way of symbolically "castrating" the black man, depriving him of his masculinity
- Scene
- Several shots usually united by a common time and space
- News preprogrammed is seen in Network...
- The newscasters pick what shows and stories they want to run
- Codes
- Rules that establish a pattern of meaning
- Power in Representation
- The power to render the "other"; have power over the minority group and take control
- Voice Over
- A character or narrator explains things directly to the audience
- Disavowel
- A powerful fascination or desire is both indulged and at the same time denied
- Low Angle Shot
- Camera looks up from below at a character
- How did the news expand?
- Timespan allotted and the structure
- Concepts perpetuating male homosociality
- Emotional detachment, competition, sexual objectification of women
- Shot
- A basic unit of film time-one continuous piece of filming without interruption
- Cut
- Two shots joined together
- Tilt
- Camera pivots to look up and down
- Tracking Shot
- Camera moves atop a platform with wheels which is attached to a track
- World's largest theater
- Roxy
- Intertextualing
- Sharing of codes among individuals; it combines the two to make them one
- Recognition
- We make contact with "it" and compare "it" to ourselves. We don't understand what it is and we are often afraid