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Director: Chris Smith
Stars: Mark Borchardt, Mike Schank and Tom Schimmels
Date: 1999
Plot: Documentary about an aspiring filmmaker's attempts to finance his dream project by finally completing the low-budget horror film he abandoned years before
Themes: American Dream |
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Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: James Stewart, Grace Kelly and Wendell Corey
Date: 1954
Plot: A wheelchair bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder
Themes: Love Triangles, Danger in unexpected areas |
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Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh and Vera Miles
Date: 1960
Plot: A young woman steals $40,000 from her employer's client, and subsequently encounters a young motel proprietor too long under the domination of his mother
Themes: Love Triangle, Danger in unexpected areas |
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But I'm A Cheerleader |
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Director: Jamie Babbit
Stars: Natasha Lyonne, Clea DuVall and Michelle Williams
Date: 1999
Plot: A naive teenager is sent to rehab camp when her straitlaced parents and friends suspect her of being a lesbian
Themes: Acceptance, Coming of age, Self Realization |
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Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Stars: Chihico/ Sen, Haku, Yababa
Date: 2001
Plot: a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and monsters; where humans are changed into animals; and a bathhouse for these creatures
Themes: Coming of Age, Friendship |
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Director: Michael Moore
Content: Birth Of the HMO |
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The Film Is Not Yet Rated |
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| Content: Ratings Given to Gay and Lesbian Films vs. Stright Films/ Rating system when dealing with sex vs. violence |
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Director: Spike Lee
Content: The converation between Pierre Delacroix and his Boss/ the montage of cartoons at the end |
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Date: 2008
Content: Monks Protesting/ Government Police reacting |
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Waiting For Guffman |
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| Content: Talking Heads interviews |
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Director: Werner Herzog
Content: Timothy Treadwells Monologe with narrating captions by the Director. |
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Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Date: 1959
Content: the incounter between Carey Grant and Eve Marie Saint in the dinning car/ sexual referance and hollywood film code |
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Cels: Transparent sheet for artists to draw over a non moving background
First Full Length Animated film: Snow White
Anime: Started in Japan in the 50's and 60's Not intended for children
Rotoscope: a device that projects footage onto glass so the images can be converted into animated images. |
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Chapter Nine
Three Modes of Film Making |
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Mode of Production
Mode of Exhibition Venues
Mode of their formal organization and visual style |
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Chapter Nine
Documentary Film |
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- started with Actualites
- shows some aspect of the real world
- Cinema Verite- Director as unobstructive as possible
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Harlan County USA |
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| 1977 documenary about the struggle between coal miners and coal mine owners. one dramatic scene, no narration and it is visually impacting summing up the idea visually |
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Narrative Documentary |
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| A Documenary that follows a naturally occuring story arc |
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Documentary Form
(Voice of Authority, Talking Heads, Director - Participent, Self- Reflexive, Mockumentary) |
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- Voice of Authority- voice over narration with images to press a particular claim
- Talking Heads- interviews of real people who are shown talking
- Director participent- director is actually in the film
- Self reflexive- the Process of filmmaking as part of subject matter for the film
- Mockumentary- not documentary films but fiction that poses as documentaries
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Chapter Nine
Ethics and Ethnography |
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| Documentary film whose purpose is to present a way of life of a culture or subculture |
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Chapter Nine
Avande- Garde Film |
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| Also called "experimental film" not for commercial success but artistic invention. |
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Chapter Nine
Surrealist Cinema |
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| Type of Avande- Garde film whichexpores the irrational, unconcious mond beneath the surface of reality. it began in Paris and grew out of Dadaism |
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Chapter Nine
Abstract Film |
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| Type of Avande- Garde film where human figures are abandoned altogether. the idea of Abstract Film is that the filmmaking is painting in motion. |
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Chapter Nine
The City Symphony |
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| Type of Avande- Garde Film where it combines Documentary and experimental film |
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Chapter Nine
Structuralist Film |
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| Developed in the 60's a type of filmmaking where directors focus of the strips of film, sound waves, cameras and lenses |
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Chapter Nine
Complication Film |
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| Film that uses existing film footage in an entirely new context to generate innovative ideas |
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| Motion Picture Producers and Distributers of America, an organization designed to help the industry regulate its own content |
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Chapter Ten
Italian Neorealism
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| influential postwar cinema whose social and economic contect defined its style |
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| championed a political stance that favored liberation and cultural decolonization |
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Chapter Eleven
Ideologies |
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| a closely organized system of beliefs, values, and ideas forming the basis of a social, economic, or political philosophy or program |
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Chapter Eleven
Classical Hollywood ideology |
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| Hollywoods characteristic of its standurized films by use of the production code |
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Chapter Ten
International Art Cinema |
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| wave during the 50's and 60's that went against Hollywood, complext characters, little or nothing phycially happens |
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Chapter Eleven
The American Dream Myth |
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The idea that in America, you have the potential to become whatever you want and reach your goals.
To have a good life and money |
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Chapter Eleven
Cinematic Sterotypes of African Americans
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| Poor, Low, Servant like, lazy and ignorant, often Hollywood brings white male heros over african american ones |
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Chapter Eleven
Cinematic Sterotypes of Gays and Lesbians
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| Criminalized in the Hollywood Production Code. used in Secret actions during movies that only gays would have understood |
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Chapter Eleven
Oscar Micheaux |
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| wrote and directed "Withing Our Gates" story about a young educated black woman who returns to the south to educate black children |
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Chapter Eleven
Blaxploitation
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| action film style the depected bold, rebellious african american characters |
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Chapter Eleven
Gender and Cinema |
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Chapter Eleven
Disablity and Cinema |
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| Not characterized in films alot, many times with the idea of "normalization" |
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Chapter Fourteen
Cahiers du Cinema |
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| Film Journal that arugued for the auteur approch to film critizism |
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Chapter Fourteen
Sarris- Kael Debate |
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which directors deserved to be called Auteurs.
Sarris- directors must be able to make a well made film, demonstrate a distiguishable personality, and all of the works must share am interior meaning
Kael- interior meaning impossibly vague. and that the ablility to make a well made film does not matter. |
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| a term coined by French Marxist philosopher Louis Althousser, describes the process by which ideology addresses the individual |
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| when a character states exactly what he wants/ emphisises whats already known though dialoge |
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| the quality of realism in something |
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| header of the MPPA and made the Hayes code |
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| Documentary film maker, Harlan County USA |
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| American Film Director. Thin Blue Line |
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| Documentary film maker focused on ethnic documentaries. Nanook of the north |
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| American non-narrative filmmaker experimental film, Cats Cradle |
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| was a German sociologist, philosopher, and musicologist |
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| French markist philosopher |
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| was a French film theorist, best known for pioneering the application of Ferdinand de Saussure's theories of semiology to film |
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| is a British feminist film theorist. |
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| is a French film critic and film director, came up with the idea caméra-stylo |
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| one of the founders of the French New Wave, Fahrenheit 451 |
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