Name That Mode
PBS loves this narration heavy mode
What is Expository Mode?
This was the first attempt for Hollywood to control its own content.
What is the production code?
She's typically innocent, and typically in for tragedy.
What is an Ingenue?
This challenges the central myth of a genre, perhaps making an assertion of its own.
What is de-mythologizing?
The three post-modern modes.
What are Nostalgic, Critical, and Playful?
The basis of Michael Moore's career
What is Participatory Mode?
Let's go to the new mall to watch a movie near the dawn of this cinematic era.
What is the Post-Modern Period?
While Gothic Melodramas had narrative roots in literature, it borrowed some visual cues from this European art movement.
What is German Expressionism?
This involves an investigation that pits the moral values of the typically male protagonist against the corruption around him.
What is the myth of the hard-Boiled Detective Genre?
A feature of post-modern film in which the film presents an imitation or adaptation of at least one other piece of art.
What is Pastiche?
Lighter cameras and longer takes helped shape this mode around the middle of the 20th century.
What is Observational Mode?
Experimentation doesn't start in this era, but it starts to get into almost everything.
What is the Modernist Period?
This author's work influence the Gothic Melodrama genre, and some pieces were even adapted
Who is Daphne Du Maurier
The film Attack The Block incorporates the Myth of these genres. (include at least two)
What is the Gangster film genre, the science-fiction genre, the coming of age genre.
The usual approach to genre in the Post-Modern period.
What is an approach that revives and reconsiders genre?
Focused on the form
this style is unusual
and has much to show.
What is Poetic Mode?
This put distance between production studios and theaters.
What is the Paramount Decision?
The conventional 19th century setting of Gothic Melodramas is NOT an example of this element of post modernism.
Post-Modern nostalgia.
Films in this genre style may re-mythologize one genre even as they de-mythologize another.
What is hybridization?
These two structural elements tend to collapse under post-modernism.
What are binaries and hierarchies?
The subject matter isn't the only thing being explored in this metacognitive mode.
What is Reflexive Mode?
This historic government program led people to the suburbs--and their TVs
What is the GI Bill?
The myth of the Gothic Melodrama
Which part of the genre typically involves a young woman in a doomed relationship which hinges on secrets in an old, ornate house or mansion.
This can happen to the myth of a film even if the film has new iconography, new or abandoned conventions, topical accommodation, and unconventional themes.
What is Re-mythologization?
These are at least three qualities of Post-Modernism.
What are a reaction to modernism, interrogation of what is 'real, heterogeneity, frequent inclusion of nostalgia, rampant intertextuality, frequent use of integrated pastiche, the collapse of binaries and hierarchies