Film Titles
The 2014 film directed by Alan Garland.
What is Ex Machina?
One of the "Granddaddies" of African American Cinema, he directed Within Our Gates (1920)
Who is Oscar Micheaux?
A special effect in which the negative is run through the camera twice during recording (record, rewind, record) to get two images to appear as one.
What is double exposure?
The 1927 film directed by Fritz Lang
What is Metropolis?
A former stage musician who became one of the founding innovators for cinematic special effects.
Who was George Melies?
A post-production process that drains out almost all of the color from a shot, leaving only one color in the image (Sin City is a really good example).
What is selective saturation?
The 1915 film directed by D.W. Griffiths.
What is "Birth of a Nation"?
A 1970s film genre that both depicted and exploited African American issues, designed to attract African American audiences, often depicting hypermasculine male heroes and hypersexualized women.
What is Blaxploitation?
The adjective that describes something that takes place within the world of the film (not in the world of the audience.)
What is diegetic?
First all-Asian cast Hollywood film (in 1961).
What is Flower Drum Song?
The first woman director, she created what is probably the first narrative film, "The Fairy of the Cabbages"
Who was Alice Guy Blanche?
A special effect that places a mirror at an angle in front of the camera so it reflects a model, and also removing the reflective coating from part of the mirror so it is transparent glass. The camera then records both the reflected model and the live action seen through the glass.
What is the Schufftan process?
The 1902 film that is arguably the first science fiction film.
What is "A Trip to the Moon"?
A movement of the 1930s and 40s that widenened the panorama of black life shown in the movies, and offered positive depictions of African Americans.
What was Black Separatist Cinema?
A way of thinking that characterizes Asia as technologically hyper-advanced but also intellectually or culturally retrograde, imagining a dystopian future in which a dominant economic East serves as an antagonist to the economic West.
What is Techno-Orientalism?