Details Title: Chapter 7 -The Film Experience Description: Monaghan - Homework for 3/3/08 Total Flash Cards: 30 Created: 02/27/2008 14:41:48		New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE. Existing Users: CLICK HERE. Additional Film, Theatre & Television Flashcards
Cards in this set: Term Documentary films Definition present real objects, persons, and events (from sensational news to everyday routines) Term Experimental Films Definition concentrate on or "experiment with" unconventional forms and actions (from abstract image and sound patterns to strange visionary worlds found in dreams or hallucinations) Term Intellectual and Imaginative Insight Definition an enlarging of what we can know, feel, and see Term Economics of Information Definition survival depends on a public culture that promotes learning as a crucial part of the film experience Term Nonfiction Definition the factual descriptions of actual events, persons, or places, rather than thier fictional or invented re-creation Term Non-Narrative Definition the organizaton of films in a variety of ways that eschews or de-emphasizes stories and narratives, while employing such other organizational forms as lists, repetitions, or contrasts as the the organizational structure Term Optical Sound Recording Definition provided that crucial dimension whereby newsreels, documentaries, and propaganda films could add educative or social commentary to accompany their images Term Handheld Cameras Definition smaller, lightweight camers that can be carried by the operator rather than mounted on a tripod Term Public and Private Institutional Support Definition include the various cine-clubs and numerous public, or state-run, television networks in more recent decades Term Expositional Practices Definition show or describe experiences according to a certain arrangement, logic, or order Term Imaginative Practices Definition present experiences according to inventive and creative organizations that commonly defy realistic or rational logic Term Cumulative Exposition Definition accumulates a catalog of images or sounds throughout the course of the film Term Contrastive Exposition Definition organizes its presentation as a series of contrasts ro oppositions meant to indicate the different points of view on its subject Term Developmental Exposition Definition presents places, objects, individuals, or experiences through a pattern or development with a specific non-narrative logic or structure Term Metaphoric Forms Definition link or associate different objects, images, events, or individuals in order to generate a new perception, emotion, or idea Term Symbolic Forms Definition isolate discrete objects or singular images that can generate ro be assigned abstract meanings, either meanings already given those objects or images by a culture or ones created by the film itself Term Structural Forms and Abstract Forms Definition foreground patterns, rhythms, movements, shapes, or colors that are abstracted from real actions and objects or created independently from recognizable figures to depict a more purely formal art Term Rhetorical Positions Definition shape those formal practices of the films according to certain perspectives and attitudes Term Interrogative or Analytical Positions Definition rhetorically structure a movie either in terms of an implicit or explicit question-and-answer format or by other techniques that identify a subject as under investigation Term Expressive or Persuasice Positions Definition articulate a perspective either as the expression of emotions, beliefs, or some other personal or social position or as an attempt to persuade an audience to feel a certain way Term Social Documentaries Definition examine and present both familiar and unfamiliar peoples, cultures, and social activities from around the world Term Political Documentaries Definition aimed to explore human suffering and struggle or to celebrate the activities of common men and women Term Direct Cinema Definition more observational and less confrontational than the French practice - American version of cinema verite Term Ethnographic Documentaries Definition aim to reveal cultures and peoples in the most authentic terms, without imposing the filmmaker's interpretations Term Avant-Garde Films Definition various aims, assumptions, and audiences * a self-conscious reflection on how human senses and consciousness work *an exploration of and experimentation with film forms and techniques  Term Surrealist Cinema Definition confronted middle-class assumptions about normalcy and often reconstructed the world to resemble a dream driven by dark desires Term Postwar Experimental Cinema Definition about the intricacies fo the human mind or the eccentricities of particular communities Term Documentary Reenactments Definition use documentary techniques that paresent the reenactment of presumably true or real events Term Poetic Narratives Definition a narrative organization exists but it is subjected to the more abstract or imaginative shapes and experiences associated with experimental and avant-garde films Term Definition