Chapter 1 (a)
For how long were motion pictures popular before they were considered worthy of serious study?
50 years
Who is the coordinating lead artist of a film?
Director
The accepted systems, methods, or conventions by which the movies communicate with the viewer.
Cinematic Language
The basic organizing structure of most movie narrative.
Cause and Effect
The categorization of narrative films by the stories they tell.
Genre
The essential quality that separates movies from all other two-dimensional pictorial art forms is—
Movement
Used in a film to convey a passage of time in between scenes.
fade out/fade-in
Element of film that is organized into tracks of dialogue, music, ambience, and effects.
sound
Term for a work of art that attempts to capture the unedited flow of experience through the mind?
stream of consciousness
A unifying idea that a film expresses through its narrative or imagery.
Movie's Theme
This term is best defined as an unbroken span of action captured by an uninterrupted run of a motion-picture camera.
Shot
A shot used to convey dominance or empowered position of a character.
a low-angle shot
A still image is shown on-screen for a period of time.
freeze-frame
What is the name for documentary footage that shows action as it unfolds?
b-roll
A familiar character with a few essential traits that recurs throughout a genre.
Character Type
The joining together of discrete shots is called—
Editing
Reviews, word-of-mouth feedback from our friends, etc. influence our—
expectations
The single most essential ingredient in the creation and consumption of film.
Light
What is another term for experimental cinema?
avant-garde
What is the central theme of the Western?
The conflict between civilization and wilderness.
The act of taking something apart to figure out what it is made of and how it fits together.
Analysis
What is term for the reaffirmation of traditional, popular values?
cultural invisibility
Hitchcock used this term to refer to something that is vital to the characters but insignificant to the overall narrative.
MacGuffin
List the three major types of movies.
Narrative, Documentary, and Experimental
The process by which a particular genre is adapted to meet the expectations of a changing society.
Generic Transformation