Details Title: Film as Art 205 Description: Comedy, Chapter 9 and 10 (American Cinema/American Culture) Total Flash Cards: 12 Created: 10/14/2009 09:19:58		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 Mark Sennett Definition (page 180) produced a series of Slapstick Comedies while at Keystone. (Keystone cops, used custard pies) Term Charles "Charlie" Chaplin Definition (page 181) archetypal American hobo character. Is a rebel against society, NOT and outcast. Against the Industrial Revolution. Characters usually hate the regular routines of steady employment. Term Buster Keaton Definition (page 182) the opposite of Chaplin, where Chaplin rejects the modern world, Keaton embraces it. Usually stars opposite of machinery and mechanical items. Roles can easily adapt to the changes in the world. Is for the Industrial Revolution. Term Harold Lloyd Definition (page 183) plays the middle-class white-collar worker who is consumed with middle-class values, their status in the community, and their own success. By overcoming his fears and limitations Lloyd's characters could always prove worthy of success. Term Vulgus Definition Latin for signifying that it belongs to the crowd; vulgar. Term Slapstick Comedy Definition refers to the style of comedy that has a series of gags strung together, (silent comedy). Term Screwball Comedy Definition refers to the style of comedy that combines high, low, and romantic comedy. Term Romantic Comedy Definition Set in an upper-class world and makes fun of those rules. Dies off in the 1970's and reappears as a combination of Animal and Romantic Comedy as Ironic Romantic Comedy. Term Comedy themes Definition Immigrants, Reforming the Workplace, Rites of Passage, and Release of the Repressed. Term Comedy Subjects Definition Sexual, Racial, Ethnic, and Class Differences. Term Animal Comedy Definition Raunchy, comedic celebration of vulgarity (teen sex comedy). Term Catholic Legion of Decency Definition Production Code Issues, tightened restrictions in 1934 to preserve the sanctity of marriage.