Important Authors and their work
Important Directors
Film Quotes
Editing
Last Semester Potpourri
100
"To summarize, the cinema of attractions directly solicits spectator attention, inciting visual curiosity, and supplying pleasure through an exciting spectacle - a unique event, whether fictional or documentary, that is of interest in itself."
What is Tom Gunning's "The Cinema of Attractions?"
100
This Asian director is internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylised, emotionally resonant work
Who is Wong Kar-Wai?
100
"There's an old newspaper superstition that the first big check you get, you put in the lining of your hat. In your hat! It brings good luck."
What is His Girl Friday - dir Howard Hawks?
100
"A system of editing in which the spatial and temporal relationships between shots are matched to insure a clear and continuous line of narrative action."
What is continuity editing?
100
"Never forget who you are and where you're from," said the main character in this film.
What is Persepolis?
200
"FOR ART IS ALWAYS CONFLICT: 1. because of its social mission, 2. because of its nature, 3. because of its methodology."
What is Sergei Eisenstein's "The Dramaturgy of Film Form?"
200
This American film director made pioneering use of advanced camera and narrative techniques, and the immense popularity of his film "Birth of A Nation" set the stage for the dominance of the feature-length film in the United States
Who is D.W. Griffith?
200
"That's my daughter. Or it may be the police to tell me they've found her dead. She's a drug addict."
What is the Sweet Hereafter - dir. Atom Egoyan?
200
"The camera must stay on the same side of the narrative action to insure consistent spatial relations and constant screen direction from shot to shot."
What is the axis of action?
200
A man is a prisoner in the aftermath of the Third World War, in a destroyed, post-apocalyptic Paris where survivors live underground in the Palais de Chaillot galleries in this famous film
What is La Jeteé?
300
"One reason to be wary about making the author a real person derives from the single authorship assumption. If one is hesitant to single out one of the many real-life collaborators on a film project as the film's author but nevertheless holds onto the assumptions that a film can only have one author..."
What is Katherine Thompson-Jones's "Authorship?"
300
This director, often associated with the surrealist movement of the 1920's was born in Spain.
Who is Louis Bunuel?
300
"Didn't you heard what he said? Marx says we're all brothers!"
What is Weekend - dir Jean Luc Godard?
300
"A cut linking a shot of a character looking offscreen and a shot of what the character is looking at."
What is an eyeline match?
300
A shot of the whole of a standing character or equivalent.
What is a long shot?
400
"The cinema's commercial feedback system rarely affords the audience any direct or immediate creative input. Rather it allows it to affect future variations by voicing collective approval or disapproval of a current film. Such a response has a cumulative effect, first isolating and then progressively refining a film story into a familiar narrative pattern."
What is Thomas Schatz's "Hollywood Genres?"
400
This famous director once said: "Your camera movements 
are ugly because your subjects are bad, your casts act 
badly because your dialogue is worthless;
 you don’t know how to create cinema because you 
don’t even know any longer what it is"
Who is Jean-Luc Godard?
400
"Proud of yourself, little man?"
What is Blade Runner - dir Ridley Scott?
400
"Any alternative system of joining shots together using techniques unacceptable within continuity editing principles. Possibilities would include mismatching of temporal and spatial relations, violations of the axis of action, and concentration on graphic relationships."
What is discontinuity editing?
400


Music, noise, and speech recorded from the event at the moment of filming; opposite of postsynchronization.
What is direct sound?
500
"Aestheticisation has utopian implications for users. To aestheticise is to transcend the mundane world as it is experienced. Aestheticisation remains an active mode of appropriating the urban, transforming what exists, making it the user's own."
What is Michael Bull's "The Audio-Visual Ipod?"
500
This European avant-garde director was in constant trouble with the government of her home country because of her controversial films.
Who is Vera Chytilova?
500
"We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was us that scorched the sky."
What is The Matrix - dir The Wachowski's?
500
"The juxtaposition of a series of images to create an abstract idea not present in any one image."
What is intellectual montage?
500
A performance technique of Soviet Montage cinema whereby an actor is given features believed to characterize a social class or other group.
What is Typage?
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