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Critical Concepts
Directors and Directed
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Diegesis
100

First introduced commercially in 1986, this medium has largely replaced 35mm film.

What is digital video?

100

These are applicable to both primitive cinema and avant-garde films. 

What are Noel Burch's Four Traits?

100

This director is best known for A Trip to the Moon.

Who is George Melies?

100

You'll write two of these during the course of the semester. 

What are critical response essays?

100

Raise the Red Lantern takes place in this country.

What is China?

200

Pioneered by Eastman, Edison, and Dickson, this is the standard film size for cameras.

What is 35mm?

200

Richard Dyer argues that one of the reasons entertainment like classic Hollywood musicals endures is because of societal longing for this imaginary place.

What is utopia?

200

D.W. Griffith directed this first big-budget Hollywood epic film.

What is The Birth of a Nation?

200

This category is worth 25% of your final grade. 

What is attendance and participation?

200

Every story should have these three things, although director Jean-Luc Godard famously said "not necessarily in that order."

What is beginning, middle, and end?

300

When using analog film, this is usually done to modify film length and create edits. It is the origin of the phrase the [BLANK] room floor.

What is cut?

300

Defined as control by one power over a dependent area or people, this ideology influences the films of directors like Palcy, Pontecorvo, and Sembane. 

What is colonialism?

300

This American director is known for films like Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, To Have and To Have Not, and The Big Sleep.

Who is Howard Hawks?

300

This course fulfills this requirement in the arts and humanities.

What is the liberal education core?

300

Name the musical leitmotif used in M directed by Fritz Lang.

What is "In the Hall of the Mountain King?"

400

Known for its bold and bright visuals, this film process was invented in 1916 but finally perfected for Hollywood in 1932.

What is technicolor?

400

Jean Baudrilliard argued that changes in this aesthetic art documented historical shifts in everyday life.

What is interior design?

400

This 2020 Oscar winner is director Bong Joon Ho's best known film.

What is Parasite?

400

This assignment is worth only 5% of your final grade.

What is the viewing quiz?

400

Chris Marker's film La Jetee takes place in Paris after this often-abbreviated event.

What is World War III?

500

This 2004 movie directed by Jared Hess starring Jon Heder and Tino Majorino was shot entirely on film in Preston, Idaho.

What is Napoleon Dynamite?

500

In his work "Words on Screen," Michael Chion discusses this word naming an iconic toboggan disappearing in flames. 

What is rosebud?

500

She was the first female director to win an Academy Award for her film The Hurt Locker.

Who is Katherine Bigelow?

500

The final essays has this required word count. 

What is 850 to 900 words?

500

Name one of the words originated by Vladimir Propp and Viktor Shlovsky used in formal film studies to describe story or plot.

What is syuzhet or fabula?

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