Extra-Cinematic
What did the Paramount Decision rule against?
Vertical integration -- Big 5 forced to sell their theaters.
Her work is the basis of the movie Don't Look Now.
Daphne Du Maurier
What is the name for interrogating the myth and showing it to be false or invalid?
De-mythologizing
What is a combination of the myth of two genres?
Hybridization
George Lucas taught the movie industry a hard lesson using this.
Merchandising
What was the effect of the GI Bill?
It gave soldiers money to go to college; led to them starting or joining businesses and blooming the market.
What style is Salvador Dali known for?
Surrealist
What is a story told repeatedly in which people assert their values or resolve conflicts in everyday life?
Mythology
What is iconography?
Images, sounds, or actors that consistently appear in films of that genre.
What is the name for the piecing together of old materials with no point except the effect?
Pastiche
What was the cause for HUAC and the Hollywood Ten?
The Red Scare
What is the theory that the director is the author of the film?
Auteur Theory
What is parody?
An imitation of the key components of a genre (myth, conventions, and iconography) in order to make a comment or observation of a genre. This is fun but provocative.
What are four types of conventions?
Setting, Characters, Patterns-of-Action, and Aesthetics
What is it called when one piece of work engages with or uses another in its structure or organization?
Intertexuality
The growth of the middle class led to the establishment of what?
Interstate Highway System
Who is well known for using the performative method of documentary filmmaking, where there is no clear distinction between the filmmaker and the subject (ie exploration of identity)?
Su Friedrich
How is genre considered a social ritual?
They connect us to the past and make the future less frightening. It's a community, universal experience.
Genres helped filmmakers used this method to integrate difficult themes into their work.
Sugar-Coating the Pill
What is nostalgia?
Evoking "the past" in style, structure, or genre. Most importantly, it erases the politics of the past with the implication that it was better back then.
With the death of this, more films with provocative content were allowed into theater screenings.
The Production Code
Bill Nichols established these six modes of documentary filmmaking.
Expository, Observational, Participatory, Reflexive, Performative, Poetic
What is topical accommodation?
Refers to how genres incorporate current subjects into their stories. The new idea being brought in is overt rather than sugar-coated.
Avant-Garde
What is the difference between Realism and Formalism?
Realism tries to imitate reality and capture the truth objectively; Formalism is subject, focusing on how we experience these things personally. A window versus a canvas.