An early term for documentary film. The Lumiere Brothers are famous for making many of these.
What is an actuality?
100
This early film about the heroics of a family pet served to reinforce late 19th century class and gender roles.
What is "Rescued by Rover"?
100
They believed in art for art's sake
Who are the Impressionists?
100
Filmic-ly, believers in this extremely nationalistic ideology favors vertical lines, geometric shapes, grandeur and order.
What is fascism?
100
Epstein described this as "the soul of cinema"
What is the close up?
200
This popular genre emerged out of Italy. An example would be "Cabiria."
Who are historical epics?
200
Keaton and Chaplin were masters of this, one of the most enduring forms of comedy.
What is slapstick?
200
Considered to be the person responsible for a film's message; from the French for "author."
What is an auteur?
200
According to the dictionary, this is "information, esp. of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view."
What is propaganda?
200
George Melies is a master of this form of early cinema, which made heavy use of special effects.
What are "trick" films?
300
A pre-cinematic entertainment consisting of a large painting that could be viewed in 360 degrees
What is a panorama?
300
Females who somehow flaunted existing social paradigms. For example Edith Hardy (Fannie Ward) from Demille's film "The Cheat" and the woman from the city in Murnau's "Sunrise."
What is "the new woman"?
300
This "clean" theory and practice of film is best characterized by a medium specific use of film form, such as editing, framing or camera tricks, rather than a reliance on narrative, actors, characters or sets.
What is "Pure Cinema"?
300
Films that came out of the French socialist political alliance, the Popular Front, tended towards this type of film style, which was visually lyrical but sought to hold up a mirror to real life.
What is Poetic Realism?
300
Demille made use of these extreme form of low-key lighting in his film "The Cheat."
What is chiaroscuro lighting?
400
Films were kept and traded through these intermediary brokerages that acted like rental libraries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
What is an exchange?
400
John Collier writing in 1908 described these entertainment halls as "selfish and costly" compared to the wholesome family atmosphere offered at the nickelodeons.
What is a penny arcade?
400
These Russian revolutionaries would go on to found the Soviet government and encourage the Constructivist movement in art.
Who were the Bolsheviks?
400
Although not as politically charged as Anarchistic films or the French films of the Popular Front, this Japanese genre about the working class is still a good example of the political in film.
What is shomin-geki?
400
Bazin felt this camera technique re-introduced audience participation to sound film.
What is deep focus?
500
Tom Gunning describes this mode of early cinema as relying on spectacle and direct address more than narrative for its entertainment value.
What is cinema of attractions?
500
When one company controls film business from production to distribution to exhibition it is said to be ------- -------. This is actually an illegal monopolistic business practice.
What is vertically-integrated?
500
James Card, writing in the mid 1990s, believed that silent cinema's greatest strength is that it encouraged this from the audience.
What is participation?
500
Loosely defined as "the domination of one culture over another," Hollywood is an example of this ideology as it appears in film.
What is a cultural imperialism?
500
He originally invented his "camera gun" in order to study birds in flight