Term
|
Definition
| Paramount, 20th Century Fox, MGM, Universal Studios, Warner Brothers |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| One of the first inventions of film where the public would pay to see a small clip os something. Edison |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Actors and Actresses sign a contract with studios that are sometimes exclusive. It guaranteed work for some while limited work for others. 1928-1938 boasted stables of stars |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The final Technicolor that was the industry standard. Studios would have to hire technicolor operators and equipment. 1932 |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a style of painting, music, or drama in which the artist or writer seeks to express emotional experience rather than impressions of the external world.The German Expressionist movement was largely confined to Germany due to the isolation the country experienced during World War I. In 1916, the government had banned more foreign films in the nation. The demand from theaters to generate films led film production to rise from 25 films (1914) to 130 films (1918). With inflation literally on the rise, Germans were attending films more freely because they knew that their money's worth was constantly diminishing |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The term melodrama refers to a dramatic work that exaggerates plot and characters in order to appeal to the emotions. |
|
|
Term
| Classical Hollywood style |
|
Definition
| The style that hollywood uses to portray certain people, places, or things. Tend to use traditional perspectives vs. liberal perspectives. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| visual theme or way of telling a story. "Staging" in french |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The Adventures of Robin Hood |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Casablanca, The adventure of Robin Hood |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The Catholic Legion of Decency — a group that evaluated the content of movies, advised Catholic congregations about a film's content and made them pledge to boycott it. Philadelphia' boycott, however, was enough to convince the major Hollywood studios that immediate action had to be taken. On the 13th of June, 1934, the SRC was renamed The Production Code Administration (PCA), and a Catholic reformer named Joseph Breen was made its director |
|
|
Term
| Explain why urbanization and egalitarianism matter to late 19C American Film history |
|
Definition
| With urbanization came a centralized population with the means to purchase tickets to films. Long hours drove these workers to escape reality. Every person who could afford a ticket was essentially an equal vote for popularity. |
|
|
Term
| Comment on two aspects of film censorship |
|
Definition
Motion Picture Production Code created 12 areas of concern
Sex censorship- Censoring sex was deu to very powerful people and organizations like the church feeling that it was promoting a lifestyle against religion and common decency.
Crime- censorship of crime was because they believed movies were teaching common people how to commit crime. This included murder, stealing, blowing things up, and alcohol production in 1930. |
|
|
Term
| Comment on comedy as a social force |
|
Definition
| comedy is a social commentary that speaks to people's norms and values. |
|
|
Term
| Describe Women's roles in early films |
|
Definition
| Women were displayed as dependent, needed rescuing and as a goal for every man to aim for. Assumed traditional roles mostly and America Sweetheart roles like Mary Pickford |
|
|
Term
| Comment on how Gangster films were quintessentially American |
|
Definition
| Gangster films were framed in the perspective of the Gangster. It was a man who ignored his inhibitions, rose to fame an prosperity, then went down in a hail of bullets (or shot in a way to be killed by the state like Public Enemy #1). Censorship was rampant and the movie could only air if the viewer recognized the point that crime is wrong after a segment at the beginning of the movie. |
|
|
Term
| Comment on Hollywood's desire for/ resistance to historical accuracy |
|
Definition
| Hollywood is loose with historical accuracy and will only shoot something objectively if it fits the story line or will make money. The influence on historical accuracy often has to do with the directors and if they have underlying racism or other preconceived notions like in D.W. Griffiths Birth of a Nation. |
|
|
Term
| Comment on the Transition from silent to sound film for one actor/director/studio. |
|
Definition
Actor- Charlie Chaplin held out till the last second, and though giving th "little tramp" a voice would destroy him.
Director- Charlie Chaplin used social commentary in his movies that pointed out his and others fears about technology.
Studio- Warner Brothers invested most of what they had to produce sound in their movies like "Jazz Singer" with Al Jolson and reaped the benefits of many viewers. |
|
|
Term
| Comment on the effects and fears produced in horror movies |
|
Definition
| Horror moves play off the fear of the unknown and the nervousness for the actor or actress who might have something happen to them but only the viewer knows. Often horror films are low budget. In Frankenstein in 1931 with Borris Karloff a advisor warned the viewers and almost told them how to feel. |
|
|
Term
| Comment on the attractions of movie musicals for the 1930's America |
|
Definition
| Movie musicals gave viewers a happy and warm feeling. This was in a time of serious economic misfortune. the musicials were medium that could release the viewer from their own lives for a short time. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The man with the Golden arm, The moon is blue |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Who's afraid fo Virginia Woolf? |
|
Definition
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton
Director Mike Nichols |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Major Director John Ford
John Wayne
"The Searchers" Explicit racism and portrayal of Native Americans |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Born in London, did much work abroad, then came here. Many films feature characters in irreconcilable moral dilemma. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
ambiguous urban melodrama
low contrast cinematography
labyrinthine plots
Treacherous and violent chronicles
"Femme Fatale"
Dark films lighting wise and portray dark morality |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Director Billy Wilder
Fred MacMurray is tricked to kill Barbara Stanwych's Husband
Quintessential Film Noir |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| anti monopoly making Hollywood more horizantal than vertical |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Saw a decrease in salesfrom $120,000,000 to $31,000,000 |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a perfect patsy easily digested and controlled by wife |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
House comittee on Un-American Activities
Kazan was the biggest fish reeled in and he cooperated and game several names of writers and actors blacklisted. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Afred Hitchock played off a term called Voyerism. This is the pervasion and attraction of human beings to watch intimate parts of life that are otherwise resticted. An example is "Rear Window" |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Mia Farrow new american horrow in 1968 |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, and Richard Pryor |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a Spaghetti Western is an Italian produced Western, or commonly an Italian-Spanish co-production - Italian financed with the principle cast and crew being for the most part Italian - although these films in fact attracted stars of all nationalities. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
(December 24, 1886 – April 10, 1962) was an Academy award winning Hungarian-American film director.[1] He had early credits as Mihály Kertész and Michael Kertész. He directed more than fifty films in Europe and more than one hundred in the United States, many of them cinema classics, including The Adventures of Robin Hood, Captain Blood, Dodge City, The Sea Hawk, Angels with Dirty Faces, Casablanca, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director, Yankee Doodle Dandy, andWhite Christmas. He thrived in the heyday of the Warner Bros. studio in the 1930s and '40s.
He was less successful from the late 1940s onwards, when he attempted to move from studio direction into production and freelance work, but he continued working until shortly before his death. |
|
|
