Compositional Elements
Narrative and Genre
Film Promotion and Reception
Screenings
Readings
100
Name the four compositional elements in film.
mise-en-scene, editing, sound, and cinematography
100
This term refers to the chain of related events in a film which constitute its beginning, middle, and end. 
The narrative
100
Define paratext.
Paratexts are materials that are related to and inform the primary text but are not part of the primary text's diegesis. Examples: movie posters, commercials, opening credits, trailers. 
100
This film featured a mute woman with a preference for a particular keyed instrument. 
The Piano
100

Mark Berettini argues that the setting for Devin in a Blue Dress was particularly resonant at the time of the film's release because of what recent historical events?

Rodney King riots in LA (1992)
200
This kind of editing is typically used in traditional Hollywood film. 
continuity editing
200
These types of women are commonly found in classic film noir.
femme fatale
200

This term refers to the rhetorical structure of trailers, whereby they construct a unique narrative designed to sell the feature film to a particular audience. 

Trailer logic

200
This film features a major Hollywood star who struggles with new mental and physical powers after a drug overdose.
Lucy
200
Lakshmi Scrinivas's essay "The Active Audience" uses the term "masala" to describe what difference between Hollywood and Indian cinema?
In Indian cinema, a film is praised for offering a mixture (masala) of genres in one film, as opposed to adhering to one or two generic conventions. 
300
Define low-angle shot
Shot that occurs when a camera is shooting a shot from below, looking upward
300
This term refers to the arrangement of story elements (i.e. the whole narrative) that we experience temporally as we watch a film.
The plot
300

This term refers to a mode of reading whereby classic films that exhibit excessive adherence to heterosexual norms and melodrama are read "against the grain" by gay audiences. 

gay camp

300
This film's exclusive use of found footage of Hollywood cinema heroines is an example of gay camp.
Home Stories
300

Sophia Nguyen's essay on Scarlet Johannson argues that this theoretical concept can be used to understand the actor's performance in the films Her, Under the Skin, and Lucy.

Posthumanism
400
Define Shock Cut
When the relationship between shots is jarring and contradicting
400
These are recognized as the three modes of filmmaking.
Narrative, experimental, and documentary
400
These four elements constitute a "star."
Star as private person, worker, commodity, and cultural sign
400
This film's title comes from the names of the main characters, but is also an intertextual reference to a dance number from an older film. 
Om Shanti Om
400
Alexandra Heller-Nichols reads this film as asking its spectators to become active readers and question the truth claims of its talking heads. 

The Thin Blue Line

500
These four elements makeup the sound hierarchy.
voice, music, and sound effects, and atmospheric sounds
500
This form of film narration challenges classical narrative form by undermining the centrality of main characters and questioning objective realism. 
Alternative film narration
500
This French phrase translates as "doctrine of authors" and refers to auteur theory, which "emphasized the role of the director as an expressive author" (C&W 71).
La Politique des Auteurs
500

This film's title comes from a garbage collection problem inflicting a Scottish town. 

Ratcatcher
500
Lev Manovich's essay on new media describes these two aesthetics as indicative of Hollywood's use of digital film technologies. 
Digital special effects and "DV" realism
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