The period of film genre, 1946-1962, known for the breaking up of genres.
What is post-classical?
100
I manage the budget of a motion picture, and the day-to-day physical aspects of film production. They say when I look through a script I see dollar signs passing by rather than ideas.
Who is the Line Producer?
100
This technique imposes its will on reality.
What is formalism?
100
Longing for the past, especially one that never existed, as in Postmodern genres.
What is nostalgia?
100
This style (aka mode of representation) of filmmaking seeks a one-to-one correspondence with the world.
What is realism?
200
The film shows itself making itself, associated in the modernist genre period.
What is reflexivity?
200
A process where many different people re-write the script, seemingly forever; a stage of production that some projects never escape.
What is development hell?
200
These non-narrative films are sometimes considered the purest example of formalism.
What is avant-garde or experimental cinema?
200
Instances where a film incorporates forms and structures that are unrelated to media in the course of its narrative.
What is extra-filmic intertextuality?
200
A concept used to describe the style which hides the formal properties of filmmaking in an effort to draw the viewer into the experience of the film, and sometimes make more apparent story content/themes.
What is transparency?
300
A mode of genre experimentation that combines the myths of two or more genres; not just adding an icon or convention, but supporting both genres.
What is a hybrid?
300
The wages of technical and crafts people (such as gaffers, assistant directors, boom mike operators, etc), the cost of renting space and equipment, food and insurance, etc.
What are below-the-line costs?
300
A filmmaking stye that features a homogeneous, idealized world, with people who are morally good as protagonists. Despite some probing of the status quo, it is ultimately re-affirmed through happy endings.
What is Hollywood Classical Realism?
300
A genre where situations are larger than life but typical of life as well. It wants you to feel more than think, and involves heavy identification with characters.
What is melodrama?
300
This aspect of principle photography looks at the contrast between the amount of film that is shot and the amount that is actually used.
What is the shooting ratio?
400
This postclassical development takes apart genre, asking the audience why we believe in it.
What is demythologization?
400
A body that took over censorship from the Production Code Administration in 1962.
What is the Ratings Board?
400
This type of filmmaking that originated in Europe immediately after World War II that broke with Hollywood by featuring the lives of real people. It became an influential style in Hollywood in the modern period (1960's).
What is Italian neo-realism?
400
Systems of culturally-specific beliefs and values--e.g., political, ethnic, racial, religious, cultural--that influence the making of a film. One of the extra-cinematic determinates.
What is ideology?
400
Overdetermination is a concept that argues that there are numerous factors which influence a film's production and _________?
What is reception?
500
A form of imitation of formal strategies, myths, etc., with no sense of satire. Usually indicative of the postmodernist period.
What is pastiche (blank parody)?
500
Film promotion through communication media, that uses space and time not purchased. "free promotion"
What is publicity?
500
The manner in which a piece of art is rendered, conceived, and executed--and how that rendering enters into its meaning
What is mode of representation (AKA style)?
500
A mode of film criticism that celebrates the director as the primary creator of a film, and celebrates his or her force of personality as it is expressed over a number of films.
What is the auteur theory?
500
Auteur, feminist, psychoanalytic, and historiography are examples of what type of film criticism?