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Camp
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100
The scholar who wrote about camp and Douglas Sirk's films.
Who is Barbara Klinger?
100
The mode that self-consciously explores the process of documentary the world.
What is reflexive mode?
100
Associated with a certain group of filmmakers in the post-war period and their desire to show reality. Use of real locations and non-professional actors. Ex. Bicycle Thieves.
What is Italian Neorealism?
100
This WRITER discussed this specific FILM in relation to film noir, employed the term "tragic mulatta," historicized the film in relation to the time period it was set (the 1940s) and the time period it was released (the 1990s).
Who is Mark Berrettini and Devil in a Blue Dress?
100
The type of mise-en-scene with scenic realism that seems to present an accurate evocation of the real work in material, cultural, and historical terms.
What is naturalistic mise-en-scene?
200
A reading strategy available to all viewers that celebrates the outdated and excessive nature of a work.
What is mass camp?
200
The mode that explains the world AND the mode that watches the world.
What are expository mode (explains) and observational mode (watches)?
200
A style with roots in 19th and 20th century visual arts. Also associated with a certain group. This style influenced 30s horror films, 40s film noir, and 50s melodrama. EX. Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
What is German Expressionist Cinema?
200
This WRITER argued that this FILM created a poetic "meditative attitude" by combining a forward moving narrative with the ability to slow down and stretch out a moment for in-depth contemplation.
Who is Annette Kuhn and "Ratcatcher"?
200
The type of mise-en-scene that presents a fiction world that has its own logic independent of the real world; provides an expression of internal states of mind or embodies a set of forces in conflict with the characters; more noticeable than naturalistic MES.
What is theatrical mise-en-scene?
300
That which celebrates artifice and construction of gender; the performative; reads against the grain of text; was originally associated with a specific group.
What is gay camp?
300
The mode that interacts with the world.
What is interactive mode?
300
The type of narrative cinema with elements such as individually centered narratives, individual characters as causal agents, characters have transparent goals and aims, linearity of story (even when using flashbacks), strong degree of narrative closure
What is classical or Hollywood narrative cinema?
300
This WRITER argued of this FILM that the director "prove[d] that sound can be an equal partner to the image" (298).
Who is Elizabeth Weis and "The Birds"?
300
This is how Corrigan and White describe the convention of closely identifying, having an emotional response, and feeling like we are part of the filmic world when watching a film.
What is "image as presence"?
400
A style of camp that is based on generational discord; it celebrates the low brow in effort to resist the snobbery of the establishment values of high culture; associated with elitism.
What is intellectual camp?
400
The mode that evokes the subjective experience of the world (often seen as poetic) AND the mode that re-enacts historical and contemporary events.
What are the performative mode and the reconstructive mode?
400
A type of independent cinema seen as "hip" and "cool," that is usually associated with a form of consumerism seen as in opposition to Hollywood cinema in some way AND the feature film we watched that fit within this type of cinema.
What is Indiewood and "Lost in Translation"?
400
This WRITER argued that this post-cinematic STYLE rejects the use of special effects, choosing to often use cheaper hand-held digital cameras for their films and privilege the "authenticity" of the actor's performance. EX. Timecode.
Who is Lev Manovich and DV Realism?
400
The kind of film that's function is to provide intellectual and imaginative insight into a topic; usually interrogates perception to show a new way of seeing and hearing; often organized aesthetically instead of narratively.
What is experimental (or avant-garde) film?
500
The name of the film featuring the song "The Lady in the Tutti Frutti Hat."
What is "The Gang's All Here" (dir. Busby Berkeley)?
500
The title and documentary mode of Errol Morris's documentary.
What is "The Thin Blue Line" and reflexive mode?
500
This specific group of directors started working the 1950s and 1960s in a certain country. They were known for experimenting with film form, creating cheap films using newly available technologies, and trying to construct an auteurship.
What is the French New Wave?
500
This WRITER argues that this FILM "use[s] sexuality to explore women's unspoken pasts" in a way that is described as more "personal," "challenging," and "dangerous" than discussed in the category of "liberal" reclamations of women's pasts (235).
Who is Stella Bruzzi and "The Piano"?
500
This is Corrigan and White's convention for describing something on-screen that distances us, where we have an analytic reaction, or where we must interpret what we see to understand it.
What is "image as text"?