Ancient Greece
Dating back to Ancient Greece, the concept of imitation, the creative process, or the representation of truth through art
What is Mimesis?
Analyzed the elements and function of tragedy
What is The Poetics?
The following are examples of what?
What are binaries?
A movement of activists and scholars studying and transforming the relationship among race, racism, and power. The goal of the movement was to develop new theories and strategies to combat subtler forms of racism.
What is Critical Race Theory?
Refers to everything that appears on stage or before the camera—staging (position of objects), blocking (position of actors), camera angles (film), elements of visual design—color, costume, décor, lighting, set decoration, special effects, visualizing the story (storyboards), images, and tableaux.
What is mise en scene?
A change in fortune or a reversal of circumstances, often the turning point of the play
What is Peripeteia?
Elinor Fuchs Visit to a Small Planet says this about the world of the play
What is, nothing is arbitrary and everything is there for a reason?
This type of feminism is focused on working within existing societal structures to create change. A belief that women will eventually gain equality with men.
What is liberal feminism?
A form of theatre (or film, TV, etc.) that dramatizes actual historical events - focusing on the facts of an event as known, but allowing for a certain amount of dramatic license.
What is docudrama?
Metered language in which each line consists of 5 beats
What is iambic pentameter?
A change from ignorance to knowledge, usually coupled with an acceptance of that knowledge as the truth
What is Anagnorisis?
Two types of exposition
What is information every character knows and information only some character knows?
This type of feminism believes that the patriarchy is the system by which men are elevated to positions of power.
What is radical feminism?
A form of theatre that transcribes and performs the exact language testimony and oral history presented by the people interviewed.
What is verbatim theatre?
The deep desires and goals of the characters that move the plot ahead.
What is Dramatic Action?
A miscalculation or “missing the mark,” often shorthanded as the fatal flaw
What is Hamartia?
The six elements of tragedy
What are Plot, Character, Thought, Diction, Song, Spectacle?
This form of feminism is taken from Marxism, which believes class under the system of capitalism is the most important aspect of a person's social situation.
What is Material feminism?
Aart of the Federal Theatre Project of the 1930's, this proposed to dramatize the important social and political issues of the day and called for a specific action to be taken
What is Living Newspaper?
The dominant style in theatre and film, which seeks to look and feel like real life; this style emphasizes individual psychology, particular environments for characters, a linear narrative structure, and a series of cause-and-effect events activated by the choices and actions made by the characters.
What is Realism?
A dramatic structure that features a proliferation of characters, locations, events; usually features subplots or parallel plots; scenes do not necessarily link causally
What is episodic plot structure?
Aristotle's conclusion about the relationship between poetry and tragedy
What is: Tragedy is superior to epic poetry because it has epic elements and is pleasurable to behold, thus we are more likely to learn from it
The apparatus of cinema itself is "male" and constructs the audience as "male." The image of the woman is a threat that must be redeemed or destroyed by the male viewer/protagonist/camera.
What is "the male gaze"?
Any form of communication designed to excite emotions among people with the aim of stimulating action.
What is agit-prop?
The interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.
What is intersectionality?