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First Midterm Film 2
International Film
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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 1
04/20/2014

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Term
"Fast Runner"
Definition
Director : Zacharias Kunich
ACTING: NATURALISTIC/REALISTIC
Two brothers destined to be great, one has to fight to win a girl
Term
"Satyricon"
Definition
Director: Fredirico Fellini
FORMALIST FILM
Rome in the 60s
Ioncopious was a slut and god punished him for it by not allowing him to get an erection.
Term
"The Return to Reason"
Definition
Director: Man Ray
AVANT GARDE
kinetic
naked woman
Term
Who is known as The Fathers of Cinema?
Definition
Lumiere Bros
Term
What is Edison known for?
Definition
Kenetograph and Kenetoscope
Term
What is the Black Mariah?
Definition
Place where Edison filmed at
Term
What does 24 fps create?
Definition
The Iluision of movement
Term
Who invented the cinematographe
Definition
Lumiere Bros
Term
Cinmetgraphe functions?
Definition
3 in 1 machine:
camera
printer
projector
Term
Lumiere Bros
Definition
end of the 19th century
founders of documentary
filmed actualities
implemented depth
First film with story? THE SPRINKLER SPRINKLE
Term
What is directing?
Definition
staging actors in front of a camera
Term
What was the name of the Lumiere Bros film that has a story?
Definition
sprinkler Sprinkle
Term
Conversion Act
Definition
Creating an illusion with the camera
Term
George Melies
Definition
1902-WWI
1st one to use scenes in a movie
Founder of Production design, special effects, editing, film genres
showed things that didn't exist in reality
Term
What is the Proscenium effect?
Definition
film is happening on stage for the viewer's benefit.
FLAT images.
Camera doesn't move because the camera is the viewer
Term
Melies popular films?
Definition
Trip to the Moon
The infernal Boiling Pot
Term
Film d'Art
Definition
French uses film to immortalize plays as a historical document
Term
German Expressionism
Definition
Dobble Ganger: are we good or bad?
Delves in the Dark side
Term
Oskar Messtar
Definition
Did both actualities and fictional films
used close ups, lighting, actors
Term
Max Reinhardt
Definition
most important playwright of German history
suggested use of camera to preserve plays
Term
When did cinematic language evolve?
Definition
after 1913
Term
"Student of Prague"
Definition
Directed by Danish Director: Stellan Rye
Genre: Psychological horror
Content related to Max Mack's "The Other One"
FORM AND CONTENT
Major Breakthrough by moving the camera and showing PoV of characters in the story
Big push in Subjective POV
Invades the Proscenium and focuses on Doppleganger
Term
When the camera invades the proscenium what is the result?
Definition
Subjective POV
Term
UFA
Definition
Germany's Hollywood
Term
Expressionism
Definition
Expressing internal realities through external means
Term
Stimmung
Definition
idea of moodiness, tone, setting.
starts with directional premise and combines all elements of film to heighten emotions through external means
Term
Modern day examples of German Expressionism
Definition
Bat Man
Nightmare Before Christmas
Term
Aufbruch
Definition
creative high
Term
Nosferatu
Definition
love story based on dobbleganger
Metaphysical occurrences
Ellen's dramatic premise: connected to the dark side and doesn't understand why
Theme: redemption through self-sacrifice
symbols of death: rats, empty ship, negative film
Term
style
Definition
approaching a physical reality in different ways
Term
Where do 95% of films fall between?
Definition
classicism and fiction
Term
Realism
Definition
making series of choices to convey that physical reality as really is.
preserves INTEGRITY
CONTENT more important than interpretation
suspension of disbelief
Term
Formalism
Definition
stylizes and interprets
FORM IS AS IMPORTANT AS CONTENT
Term
AVANT GARDE
Definition
absence of story
colors,textures, movement
connect aesthetically not narratively
Term
Soviet Montage
Definition
Basis of contemporary cinema
ignited by Russian (Bolshevik) Revolution of 1917
Used footage that was already captured
Emphasis on Editing
Term
Kuleshov
Definition
"The Art and Science of Montage"
Focused on 3 things:
STORIES
MEANINGS
EMOTION
Term
What is the essence of Russian Cinema?
Definition
Editing
Term
What are the 3 levels of editing?
Definition
NARRATIVE
INTELLECTUAL
EMOTIONAL
Term
3 different ways you can tell the narrative story?
Definition
linear
nonlinear
crosscutting (different actions occurring simultaneously)
Term
3 different ways you to make viewer think intellectually?
Definition
metaphorical
contrast cut
parallel cut
Term
3 ways we can affect the audience emotionally through editing?
Definition
rhythmic cuts
tonal cuts
form cuts
directional
Term
Eisentein
Definition
Directed "Battleship of Potempkin"
Dialectic Montage developed after Kulsehov
applied Marxist Dialectic to editing
stated synthesis occurs in spectator's mind
Term
Eisentein's Dialectic Montage
Definition
thesis(force) > antithesis(counterforce) = new synthesis(new thesis) < new antithesis
aka Collation Contrast Conflict
Term
What types on conflicts Eisentein used?
Definition
conflicts in directionality
rhythm
bolague
Angle
lighting
Term
what is a synthesis
Definition
new meaning, underlying message of a film / subtext
Term
What did the conflict in time do for cinema?
Definition
Cinema can now handle time and space in its OWN terms
Term
One of the most famous sequences in film history?
Definition
the odessa staircase
Term
Dovzhenko
Definition
Director of Earth (1930):
showed different farmers in separate shots and only time their together is when hands reach in frame to give old man a pear
uses dialectic montage to enhance meaning
Term
Poetic Realism
Definition
EMERGENCE OF SOUND
respected time and space in realistic way
opposite of Soviet Montage
Use of LONG TAKES (no cuts)
Term
Jean Renoir
Definition
French Director of "The Grand illusion" (1937)
Mise-en-scene= TELLING A STORY
every character's motives should be understood, no good or bad guy
Term
two elements of poetic realism?
Definition
BLOCKING
MOVEMENT
Term
One word that describes what a director does?
Definition
MIS EN SCENE
Term
Was their mis en scene before Renoir?
Definition
lumiere bros
Term
What makes something Poetic (realism)
Definition
planned
literary dialouge
beautifully shot
humanistic
Term
The Grand illusion (1937)
Definition
Dir. Renoir
WWI (1914)
all characters (German and French) portrayed in humanistic way
Creates metaphors through camera movement: squirrel in cage to men in jail
Major theme: aristocracy=extinction
Term
Italian NeoRealism
Definition
WWII
NEW AESTHETIC
AMBIVELANT ENDINGS
CREATED EMPATHY
NON ACTORS
HUMANISTIC
AUTHENTIC DIALOGUE
SHOOT ON LOCATION
portrays life as it REALLY IS rather than what it SHOULD BE
Italy controlled by Mussolini- bad reputation caused PISA to form.
No resources, EXTREME REALISM, Defined moral standpoint aimed to restore dignity to Italy
Term
PISA
Definition
resistance group in Italy that started italian neorealism fed up with Mussolini
Term
White telephone movies:
Definition
first films in italy
Term
Frederigo Fellini
Definition
Began as neorealist than converted to FORMALIST
Term
Vittorio DeSica
Definition
actor from white-telephone movies that made neorealism popular
Term
"Rome Open City"
Definition
Directed by Roberto Rossellini
most popular neorealist film
Term
Cesare Zavattini
Definition
defined/ founder of NEOREALISM
Term
"Response to terrible moment in history, immobling common man, films had great responsibility"
Definition
Cesare Zavattini
Term
Visconte
Definition
filmmaker of Neorealism that used wealth to make films
Term
What other film movement is Italian Neorealism?
Definition
Poetic Realism
Term
Umberto ' D (1952)
Definition
Directed by Vittorio Desica
AFTER WWII, ITALY EARLY 50'S
TONE: APATHETIC

focuses on old man that is no longer needed in the community and his landlord tries to kick him and his dog out.
Term
"ideal realistic movie, no real plot but STORY of an individual will present dramas of the most peoples existence "
Definition
Zavattini
Term
what scene in UMBERTO 'D represents Neorealism as a whole?
Definition
Maria cleans out ants and makes coffee
tedious task that represents reality
Term
French New Wave
Definition
1960's
Movement started by FILM CRITICS "Cahier's Du Cinema"
Auteuer Theory
used ideas from American movies although they rejected it
OUT CAST
BEGAN JUMP CUTS
CASUAL
HUMOR
PLOT CONSTRUCTION
MIXED GENRES
LIBERAL SOUND
embraced by 3rd world countries
Term
Auteur Theory
Definition
real individual voices of directors focusing on form and content
french new wave
Term
Metacinematic
Definition
cinema that starts reflecting on itself.
french new wave
Term
Agnus Varda
Definition
Directed Cleo from 9 to 5
said to be the first FRENCH NEW WAVE film
Term
Two FRENCH NEW WAVE pioneers?
Definition
Godard
Truffat
Term
"Breathless'
Definition
Directed by Goddard
Guy obsessed with Henry Bodard
Term
"form is content"
Definition
Godard
Term
"400 Blows"
Definition
Directed by Truffat
kids parents don't want him because he gets in trouble at school
Term
Sandow The Strongman
The Kiss
Glenroy Bros
Definition
Edison
Term
Exiting Factory
Arrival on Train
Feeding the Baby
Definition
Lumiere Bros
Term
"if you can imagine it, you can film it"
Definition
George Melies
Term
Trip to the Moon
Music Lover
Infernal Boiling Pot
Man with the Rubber Head
The Living Playing Card
Fat and Lean Wrestling Match
Definition
Melies
Term
What is the difference between the kenetoscope and the kenetagraphe ?
Definition
kenetoscope: viewing celluloid of film (nickelodeon)
kenetagraphe: camera used to film actualities
Term
What is similar to Film' d Art?
Definition
Autorrent film in Germany
Term
when do we first see nosferatu?
Definition
as a hyena/wolf
Term
Crosscutting
Definition
two different actions happening at the same time
Term
rhythmic cut
Definition
longer and shorter cuts put together
Term
tonal cut
Definition
light and dark tones
Term
Form cut
Definition
uses shape for aesthetic purposes
Term
Andrew Sairis
Definition
made Aeuteur theory popular
resulted in Directors Guild
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