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In The Room, Johnny and Lisa are supposed to get married in one month. What kind of narrative structure does this introduce into the film?
A deadline structure
Under the Silver Lake features a number of sequences that use lighting and framing to create tension between what is seen and what is unseen. What genre of film do these sequences fall into?
Horror
According to auteur theory, this person is the major creative force behind a motion picture
The director
This is the term for a love of cinema
What is cinephilia?
In the classical Hollywood style, settings sometimes come to correlate to a character’s state of mind. What kind of location is this setting?
A psychological setting
This consists of recurring symbolic images that carry meaning from film to film, including things like objects, settings, and actual stars who appear in genre films over and over again
Genre iconography
This is the term for the repeated and salient uses of film techniques that characterize a film or set of films
Style
This school of film criticism focuses on the role of subjectivity, the unreliability of language, and the construction of social power
Poststructuralism
The Room uses several different narrative perspectives for a single story, making it a film based on this kind of narration
Multiple narrations
This genre that initiates the action in Under the Silver Lake features conventions such as the meet-cute and dual focus
Romantic comedy
In The Lighthouse, the final shot of Winslow being devoured by birds is a reference to the myth of Prometheus. This allusion to knowledge that viewers are expected to recognize is an example of this kind of meaning
Referential meaning
Realism focuses on the role of cinema to reflect reality as accurately as possible. This opposing approach to film theory focuses on film's technical abilities and the artifice of the medium
Formalism
In The Disaster Artist, when the Hollywood producer tells Tommy that he will never become an actor in a million years, he introduces an opposition that creates conflict and impedes Tommy's ability to achieve his goal. This act, then, serves as what in the narrative?
The blocking element
This type of film is characterized by mixed forms and the interaction of different genres
A hybrid film
When Wake tells Ephraim Winslow, “Boredom makes men to villains,” he is stating overtly a significant meaning of The Lighthouse. What kind of meaning is this?
Explicit
Many horror studies theorists focus on the genre's use of a male gaze and objectification of female bodies onscreen, meaning that they are approaching their analysis through this school of thought
Feminist film theory
The plot events and actions in The Disaster Artist proceed one after another as a forward movement in time, meaning that the film is organized according to what style?
Linear chronology
This genre follows a crime-solver as they trace a series of clues to solve a mystery
This kind of meaning is more subtle and requires the viewer to draw their own conclusions from cues in the film
Implicit meaning
This school of thought questions the perception that cisgender and heterosexual identities are “natural” or “standard”
Queer theory