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Film 3110
Mid term study
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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 2
02/28/2012

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Cards

Term
Stan Laurel
Definition

Big Business

 

Term
Oliver "ollie" hardy 
Definition

Big Business

 

Term
The Irritable Homeowner
Definition
Jimmy Findlayson (Big Business)
Term
Toscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle
Definition
The Butcher Boy
Term
Buster Keaton
Definition
The Butcher Boy
Term
The Glasses Character
Definition
Harold Lloyd in Safety Last
Term
The Girl
Definition
The Glasses Charcter's Fincé in SAFETY LAST
Term
The Human Fly/The Pal
Definition
Safety Last
Term
Sherlock Jr. 
Definition
Buster KEaton Sherlock JR.
Term
The Shiek/The Villian
Definition
SHERLOCK JR> Ward Crane.
Term
Elsie Stoneman
Definition
The Birth of a Nation
Term
Senator Austin Stoneman 
Definition
The Birth of a Nation
Term
Flora Comeron 
Definition
The Birth of a Nation
Term
GuS
Definition
 The birth of a nation
Term
The little Colonel
Definition

Ben Cameron 

Birth of the NATION

Term
Silas Lynh
Definition
The Birth of a Nation
Term
The Tramp
Definition
The Gold Rush
Term
Big Jim 
Definition
Gold Rush
Term
Gloria
Definition
The GOLD RUSH
Term
Black Larsen
Definition
The GOLD RUSH
Term
The MOther
Definition
The Mother
Term
The Father 
Definition
Mother
Term
Pawel the Son
Definition
Mother
Term
The Elderly Doorman
Definition
The Last Laugh
Term
The elderly Nightwatchmen
Definition
The Last Laugh
Term
The wheat king
Definition
corner in wheat
Term
The Farmer
Definition
A corner in wheat
Term
Johnny Gray 
Definition
The General
Term
Anabel Lee
Definition
The General
Term
The Tramp
Definition

The Immigrant

 

Term
The Girl
Definition
The Immigrant
Term
The Hulking Waiter
Definition
The Immigrant
Term
The Artist
Definition
The immigrant
Term
Harry Langdon
Definition
Tramp Tramp Tramp
Term
Betty Burton
Definition
Tramp Tramp Tramp
Term
Nick Kargas
Definition
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
Term
The american silent clown tradition
Definition

The american success story:

Reality of Poverty,class differences

Social Structures(rules, laws, police.)

Term

Silent Comic

Definition
The featured silent comic is often a man struggling to achieve a satisfying role in society. Realize the american dream who starts out as an outsider.
Term
Farce
Definition
Lowbrow, light, humorous play stary revolces around a skillfully epxlioted situation rather than chavracter or thematic development.
Term
Satire
Definition
critical Attack on persons, institutions, ideas using wit, exaggeration, and irony. Police,politicians targets, pomposity punctured.
Term
The american silent clown tradition
Definition
Slapstick, gags, bits, stunts, pratfalls, chases.
Term
Stylized, exaggerated costumes, makeup
Definition
incongruity, clown features:white face, painted mustache, etc.
Term
slapstick
Definition
hyperbolic physical action to get a laugh
Term
gags: 
Definition
ingenious use of a prop to get a laugh
Term
Bits:
Definition
Idiosyncratic, small actions:signal a character
Term
Stunts
Definition
Involve physical difficulty danger.
Term
Pratfalls: 
Definition
comically artful falls, esp. on buttocks
Term
Chasis
Definition
Term
Key American Silent Comics:
Definition
Joseph "buster KEaton
Term
American Silent Comics: 
Definition

W.C.Fields Vaudeville star

Known for sound comedies

Term
Stan Laureland Oliver Hardy
Definition

Comedy Team=incongrous pair.

Biolence: Tit for Tat aggression

Term
Harry Langdon
Definition

White Face

Child in a mans body persona

Comedy of Often Biszarre Reaction

 

Term
Harold Lloyd 
Definition

The glasses Character

A regular guy, an everyman

alway striving= american dream

an optimist, confident

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