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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 3
05/01/2008

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Grierson
Definition
Drifters: 1936
Night Mail: 1929
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Leacock
Definition
Observer
Primary: 1960
Style: Quest for synchronized sound, never stop looking, never stop responding to the world around one
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Murrow
Definition
Promoter
See it Now- 1951 (Beginning of the Cold War)
-All were narrated by Murrow and supported by actual footage
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Lorenz
Definition
Advocate
Plow that broke the plains: 1936
The River: 1937
Power and the Land: 1940
Style: Poetic narratives/ not just documentaries/ attached setiments to films
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Jennings
Definition
Buglar
Listen to Britain: 1942
Precise, Cal, Rich in resonance
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Funt
Definition
Catalyst
Candid Camera: 1960
Hidden cameras and Microphones
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Weismann
Definition
Observer
Titicut Follies
Controlled Audio equipment while directing camera man where to shoot
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Drew
Definition
Observer
Primary:1960
Recorded sound and video seperately and edit it together
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Capra
Definition
Buglar
Why we fight series: 1940s
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Mayles Bros
Definition
Salesman:1969
Hand held cameras, shots in cars
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Facism
Definition
Gov. Controls, opposition is not permitted. Subordinate to the interests of the state
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Communism
Definition
A socioeconomic structure that promotes the establishment of a classless society based on common ownership of the means of production
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Socialism: .
Definition
Public opinion matters. Property and the distribution of wealth are subject to control by the community
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Libertarianism
Definition
Each person sharing the common overall priority of maximum limitation of government combined with optimum possible individual liberty
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Leftist
Definition
Expressed themselves within mainstream of American culture
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Manifesto
Definition
: Shapes ideas, concepts of human culture
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Vignettes
Definition
Brief scene, skit, or sketch; used in Vaudeville
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Synchronous sound on location
Definition
sound recorded at the time of the filming on location
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Cinematic Hybrid
Definition
Compendium of different filmic modes
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Elisions
Definition
Unintended or deliberative ommissions of history, not its causalities
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Linear Editing
Definition
Selecting or arranging and modifying images and sound previously recorded
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Photogenia
Definition
ways of overcoming mechanical reproduction of reality in favor of constructing something new in ways that only cinema could accomplish
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Why is the EMB inherently propagandistic
Definition
The art of natural projection. It formulated the idea of a massive PR complain under Gov.
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Poetic Film
Definition
Considering the genre of the film, unrepentant impressionist, transfer of poetry to and audio visual medium
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Anachronistic
Definition
Something that is depicted out of its place in history
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Leach's 3 criteria for poetry effect
Definition
1. Montage effects
2. Filmakers ability to develop a personal vision, reoccuring motif
3. No VOG
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What themes are present in this poetry film
Definition
Poetry, propaganda, peoples war.
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Ten Stylistic elements to Humphry Jennings film- Poetry in Motion
Definition
1. Poetic Style- The illusion that the British class system had been swept away and sought to dupe people into believing there will be no more social change
2. Sponsored propaganda
3. Beautiful images and striking montages
4. Emphasized homogeneity
5. Personal Visions: a figment of the romantic imagination
6. no VOG
7. Suocial subjectivity: POV of editing that focuses on spectators views
8. Creates private eye and public gaze
9: social and cinematic unity, subjunctivity
10. Ambiguity, ideological limitations
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Need for why we fight series
Definition
To build determination to the highest pitch, as to the enemy, to chill the marrow, paralyzing the will to resist.
America: To show the impact of the actual was, and what they were fighting for and against, to show post war relationships.
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How was NIght and Fog different from most Holocaust films
Definition
Some facts are not actually spoken, but seen thru photos and with narration you make connections. Pictures allude to what the narrator only partially speaks about
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Viscerally
Definition
Dealing with crude or elemental emotional processes
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Post war tech developments
Definition
Magnification, faster shutter speeds, filming within the body with smaller cameras
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Louisiana Story
Definition
Flarherty recieved 175.000 dollars from Standard oil to make the film, the oil company did not even want to be identified.
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How and Why were the non talking people like puppets
Definition
They were manipulated in editing, non verbal communication could be taken in different ways. Shifted because talkers had their own controls. THe control was shifted away from the directors
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Direct Cinema
Definition
found truth by what is available to the camera. Takes camera to situation of tension and hopes for crisis
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Cinema Vertie
Definition
Film Truth
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Cinema Vertie vs Direct Cinema
Definition
Direct cinema: finds it truth in what was available to the camera, takes camera to a situation of tension and hopes for acrisis.
CInema Vertie: tried to precipitate the crisis (Sorrow and the pity, candid camera)
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Pros/Cons of Cinema Vertie
Definition
Pros: Gives status to the interview, good for biographical doc, helps the lowly/poor become active parts of society
Cons: Not good for informational purposes. Raised ethical and social concerns, issues not easily resolved, limited by talking heads.
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Why was Tougues United Revolutionary
Definition
it exploited homophobia to win office
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