Films
Compositional Elements
Organizational Elements
Contextual Elements
Readings
100
This was an important early film of the French New Wave.
Breathless
100
In a three point lighting system, there is a back light, fill light, and _______ .
Key light.
100
This key role in film noir is almost always played by a woman.
Femme fatale
100
This is the term for popular Hindi film.
Bollywood
100
When writing about camp, Barbara Klinger discusses gay camp, intellectual camp, and a third kind of camp that results from historical distance.
Mass camp
200
This film was made entirely without a camera.
Mothlight
200
This term describes the arrangement of voice, music, sound effects, and atmospheric sounds.
Sound hierarchy
200
The function of this mode o filmmaking is to provide new imaginative or intellectual insight.
Experimental film
200
This is what we call most popular movies made between the 1930s and the 1960s in the United States.
Classical Hollywood cinema
200
Jackie Stacey studied middle class women from this country who had lived through WWII and used cinema as a form of escape.
UK
300
Among other things, this movie features the dance of the lens cap (along with a whole lot of leftover vegetables).
The Gleaners and I
300
Unlike naturalistic mise-en-scene which focuses on narrative, __________ mise-en-scene is more associated with spectacle.
Theatrical
300
The changing set of rules or conventions that comprise the boundaries of a genre are often called this.
Horizon of expectations
300
These promotional short films are often made without the participation of the main film's director.
Trailers
300
According to these authors, media are constantly in the act of mediating each other in a continuous process of remediation.
Bolter and Grusin
400
This time travel story begins and ends with the same man's death.
La Jetee
400
This kind of editing draws attention to itself, is plainly visible, and produces meaning by juxtaposing shots up against each other.
Disjunctive editing.
400
Hollywood narratives almost always feature a single protagonist at their center. This is in part because of this Western ideology.
Individualism
400
This is the French name for the school of film theory that works to identify the creative imprint of directors in their films.
Politique des auteurs (Doctrine of the authors)
400
Richard Neupert argues that Breathless made key revisions to this American film genre.
Film noir
500
The main character in this film has a side kick who just wants to "make 'em laugh".
Singin' in the Rain
500
When a camera looks from side to side (not tracking from left to right) it is called this:
Pan
500
The primary function of this mode of filmmaking is to make an argument about the world.
Documentary
500
There are four aspects of a star: worker, private person, commodity, and ______ .
Cultural sign
500
Rabinowitz discusses this films an anti-hollywood psychodrama.
Meshes of the Afternoon
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