Sound Design
Classical & Post-Classical Genres
Modernist Genres
Postmodernist Genres
Movie Miscellany
100
Dialog, singing, and off-screen narration are considered part of this element of the soundtrack.
What is Verbal Element?
100
These are the three ingredients of a genre, and if you don't know them by now then Casper and I have failed you.
What are myth, convention, iconography?
100
This cornerstone of Modernism manifests through emphasizing the formal properties in such a way that one cannot help but notice them (i.e. jump-cuts and other editing techniques) and showing the filmmaking process itself
What is Reflexivity?
100
The date range (in years) that defines the Postmodernist Period
What is 1970-present?
100
He directed PATHS OF GLORY
Who is Stanley Kubrick?
200
Background music not heard within the diegesis that privileges the audience
What is underscoring?
200
These are the three basic genres.
What are Comedy, Tragedy, Melodrama?
200
A type of intertextuality defined by a movie going outside itself into the signifying practices of other aesthetic discourses
What is non-filmic intertextuality?
200
Imitating the formal strategies or content of previous texts with no added meaning or sense of satire/parody.
What is Pastiche?
200
The male star of IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE.
Who is Jimmy Stewart?
300
Type of sound montage that parallels the visuals.
What is analogous sound montage?
300
This type of genre experimentation questions the myths/conventions of the genre but supports it in the end. Deconstructs the genre, but still claims it’s viability.
What is remythologization?
300
This myth is added to the myths of the particular genre; it subsumes the genre myths; a structure of all modernist films
What is the myth of modernism?
300
The term used for recreating the past not based on experience but rather on the surfaces/representations of the past.
What is nostalgia?
300
A manner of representation that seeks a one-to-one correspondence with the real world; between the way things are and the way they are depicted in the film
What is Realism?
400
Two uses of sound: one has a causal relationship between sound and image, the other doesn’t match the image but is often metaphorical.
What are synchronous and asynchronous sound?
400
This type of genre experimentation combines the myths of two or more genres; supporting both genres, not just adding some icons or conventions.
What is Hybridization?
400
Going outside of the text, using structures of material from other sources to create new meanings.
What is intertextuality?
400
The collapse between these two types of culture was in part due to corporations trying to appeal to all audiences/levels at once
What is the collapse between high/low culture?
400
A mode of representation that recreates reality according to an interplay between the subjective view of the artist and the formal strategies of the medium.
What is Formalism?
500
Three of the five ways to analyze sound.
What are size of sound, angles of sound, colors of sound, movement of sound, transition of sound.
500
The date range (in years) that defines the Post-Classical Genre.
What is 1946-1962?
500
Many truths/relative truths, as opposed to the homogeneous Classical periods.
What is heterogeneous POV.
500
Four of the seven characteristics of Postmodernism.
What are "A Tenuous Hold on Reality," "Erasure between high and low culture," "Pastiche," "Nostalgia for past texts," "Depthlessness," "Heterogeneity," "'Hip' Attitude"
500
A film is considered to be this if it is immediately accessible and easily understood, can be readily translated into visual terms, and intersects with other discourses.
What is High Concept?
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