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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 1
12/16/2007

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Term
the short film A MOVIE is considered
Definition
a compolation film
Term
Un Chien Andalou
Definition
Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali
Term
Avant-grade film makers expierment with..
Definition
structure and narrative

Ex.
Meshes of the Afternoon
by Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid
Term
director of The Bicycle Thieves
Definition
Vittorio de Sica
Term
metonymy
Definition
makes an association and in its own way makes it logical
EX.
hear the sound of a train while you are sleeping and incorperate the sound into your dream as something else like a whale call or something
-take a real life sound and turn it into something else while dreaming
Term
director of Night and Fog
Definition
Alain Resnais, France 1955
Term
2 types of documentary status
Definition
-French Cinema Vitre
-social documentation
Direct Cinema
-"fly on the wall"
-american version
-be an observer-follow
Term
director of The Maltese Falcon
Definition
John Huston

may very well be the "original Film Noir
Term
parody
Definition
directly references something (spoof)
Term
Satire
Definition
not spoofs, more serious
but both still comedy
relates conventions of film noir
Term
what does Cinema Verite mean?
Definition
cinema truth
Term
self reflexivity
Definition
-aware of its own artificiality
-reveals it self in a technical way
-direct reference to the technical aspect in the movie
Term
pitch
Definition
250 words or less
Term
director of The Player
Definition
Robert Altman
Term
screenplay of The Player by
Definition
Michael Tolkin
-based on his novel
Term
Nosferatu: Symphony of Night
Definition
F.W. Murnau
-Germany 1922
Term
Dracula
Definition
Tod Browing
-US 1931
Term
Mosferatu, The Vampyre
Definition
Werner Herzog
-Germany 1979
Term
Bram Stokers Dracula
Definition
Francas Ford Coppola
-US 1992
Term
2 alagories of a vampyre
Definition
-sexuality
-violence
Term
direct references in The Player
Definition
Touch of Evil, Bicycle Thieves, Sunset Blvd., Citizen Kane
Term
the breakdown of hollywood studio structure
Definition
-studio head
-executives
-story editor
-producers
-directors
-writers
Term
director of the Godfather
Definition
Francis Ford Coppola
USA 1972
Term
writer of the Godfather books
Definition
Mario Puzo
Term
inventor of Science Fiction in the cinema
Definition
George Melies 1900
"A Trip to the Moon"
"Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"
Term
Director of 2001: A Space Odyssey
Definition
Stanley Kubrick, US/UK 1968
also was the
-writer
-special photographic effects designer

really an art film that was commercially popular as well
Term
2 special effect processes invented by Kubrick
Definition
1) slit Scan Machine
-used for stargate corridor sequence
-wormhole
-type of las photography
-built by Douglas Trumbull
2) Front Projection
-used mostly in the first motion
-put projector high up and put projector and background screen at an angle
Term
4 movements in 2001: A Space Odyssey
Definition
1) The Dawn of Man
2) "The Monolith on the Moon"
3) Jupiter Mission
-man vs. machine, mind over matter
4) Beyond the Infinite
-physics of time and space


All 4 movements are connected by Theme and Music
-progression of human intelligence
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