Name that Theorist
As a theorist, he's all about that apparatus.
Who is Jean-Louis Baudry?
The poster boy for Soviet montage, this filmmaker and theorist proposed that editing based on juxtapositions could create perceptual, emotional, and intellectual effects.
Who is Sergei Eisenstein?
Laura Mulvey suggests that in narrative cinema, women are typically stylized and fetishized to give them this quality.
What is a "to-be-looked-at-ness?"
This term describes the quality by which a viewer can judge an onscreen object or action to be believable or tangible, even if they logically know that what they are looking at is a fictional construction.
What is perceptual realism?
Does anyone have a Kleenex? This body genre, also known as the "women's weepie," will have you reaching for the tissues.
What is the melodrama?
This theorist who championed silent cinema was always ready for a close-up.
Who is Béla Balázs?
As a fanatic of realism, Andre Bazin praised filmmakers like Orson Welles and William Wyler for their use of this technique, which allowed viewers the time and perspective needed to study an image.
What is the deep focus long take?
This theorist and psychiatrist produced scholarship on race and culture that would become essential to postcolonial film theory.
Who is Frantz Fanon?
"Shocks," "instants," amusement park rides? All valid descriptors of the style and aesthetics of this early period of filmmaking that was characteristic of modernity.
The auteur theory was popularized by the film critics of this French film publication.
What is Cahiers du cinema?
If this theorist of genre and gender dropped an album with Megan Thee Stallion, it might be called "Film Body ody odies."
Who is Linda Williams?
A term for a disembodied vocal presence or a "voice character" in a film who is heard, but not seen.
What is an acousmêtre?
Theorist Alexander Doty reappropriates this term to describe a "mass culture reception practice" open to LGBTQ+ and straight viewers alike.
What is "queerness?"
What is medium specificity?
Ideological film theory, with its class-related and political concerns, is heavily influenced by the work of this philosopher.
Who is Karl Marx?
This American theorist and critic helped introduce the auteur theory to the U.S.
Who is Andrew Sarris?
Influenced more by the classical Hollywood principles of continuity editing, Pudovkin's approach to editing in Soviet cinema emphasized these two frameworks for creating narrative coherence and cinematic meaning through editing.
What are structural and relational editing?
In "Eating the Other," bell hooks argues that mainstream culture often seeks to capitalize on diversity, viewing it from a perspective of __________, where it can be packaged, sold, and purchased.
What is consumption? or What is commodification?
As animation techniques become more central to filmmaking practices in the digital age, one theorist has argued that cinema can now be understood as a subcategory of this more traditional art form.
What is painting?
This theory of childhood psychological development proposed by Jacques Lacan is drawn on by scholars ranging from Laura Mulvey to Christian Metz.
What is the "mirror stage?"
Film Theorist? To be more accurate, this theorist's work is more in line with new media or the digital humanities.
Who is Lev Manovich?
Providing a little something extra to the cinematic experience, this term describes the expressive and informative quality that a sound gives to an image, enhancing it.
What is added value?
Epistolarity, tactile optics, longing for the homeland, and themes of journeying and displacement are just some of the qualities one might encounter in this type of filmmaking.
What is accented cinema?
Discussed in early theories of photographic and cinematic realism and contemporary theories of digital cinema, this term is used to indicate the profilmic object the photo or film image indexes.
What is a referent?
Christian Metz suggests that this type of pleasure derives from the distance that is maintained between a viewer and the object that they are looking at. Experience it at the movies... or looking out a rear window.
What is voyeurism?