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| Describe continuity and disjunctive editing |
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Continuity editing is designed to be invisible, whereas disjunctive editing is designed to draw attention to itself. |
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What are the two traditions of mise-en-scene? |
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| naturalistic mise-en-scene and theatrical mise-en-scene |
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What are the 4 elements of the sound hierarchy? |
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| voice, music, sound effects, atmospheric sound |
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What is the meditative moment? |
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| The moment of poetic interpretation, opposed to the narrative moment of the film. |
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| Describe the tradition of presence and the tradition of textuality |
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| The tradition of presence is immersion and emotional connection, the tradition of textuality is emotional distancing and reflection |
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What is the difference between low and high key lighting and give an example? |
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| High key lighting is when it is bright with few contrasts, low key lighting is when it is shadowy with sharp contrasts between light and dark EX: low key lighting in Double Indemnity, high key lighting in All About Eve |
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What are the 4 possible relations between shots? |
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| temporal, spatial, graphic, rhythmic |
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What was used to make the electronically-generated bird noises in The Birds? |
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What does Stella Bruzzi argue about The Piano? |
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| it is a "rather cryptic and evocative exploration of how women's sexuality, clothes, and lives interconnect" |
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Who directed the documentary A Thin Blue Line? |
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What is the hard-boiled tradition in film noir? |
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| male protagonist: individual moral good vs. institutional constraints |
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What are the three modes of film we discussed? |
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| Narrative, documentary, experimental |
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What are the modes of documentary?
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Expository mode: explains the world
Observational mode: watches the world
Interactive mode: interacts with the world
Reflexive mode: self-consciously explores the process of documenting the world
Performance mode: evokes the world through poetic form and performance
Reconstructive mode: reconstructs/reenacts historical and contemporary events |
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What are prescriptive and descriptive approaches to genre? |
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| Prescriptive denotes a certain set of characteristics a genre must have, descriptive is more flexible and gives the genre room for expansion |
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Why is the Production Code Administration (PCA) relevant to this course? |
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| What is self-reflexivity? |
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| Experimental technique: adding on or supplementing (with a sense of progression) |
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What does mise-en-abyme mean? |
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| infinite layering, as seen in experimental films |
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What is the difference between story and plot? |
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| The plot is the way the story elements are revealed to the audience. The story is the chronological chain of events. |
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Where does the term Bollywood come from? |
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| Derived from Hollywood and Bombay |
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What are the 4 aspects of a star? |
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| private person, worker, commodity, and cultural sign |
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What are the three types of camp? |
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What does Richard Dyer argue in his article "Heavenly Bodies?" |
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| the creation of the star as a sign |
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Jackie Stacey's article focused on what mode of study? |
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