A batch of genre films that enjoy intense popularity and influence over a distinct period.
What are "cycles."
100
The incorruptible marshal, the drunken doctor, and the outlaw hero are all examples of this.
What are archetypes.
100
In French New Wave films glossy studio lighting was replaced by this.
What is available light.
100
This form of documentary presents a persuasive argument.
What is rhetorical form.
100
This is a euphemism for Abstract Experimental Films.
What is "avant garde".
200
The idea of "Manifest Destiny" serves as this in the Western genre.
What is "the genre's myth."
200
These men find themselves on vague searches for justice, peace, adventure, freedom, and treasure.
Who is the Westerner.
200
Bordwell and Thompson declare this as one of the most salient features of New Wave films. One example given is a character swearing that he's not lying: "May my mother drop dead if I'm not telling the truth." Cut to a shot of an old lady keeling over.
What is casual humor.
200
B&T use the film "Gap-Toothed Women" as an example of a documentary form in which the parts treat distinct subsets of a topic.
What is categorical form.
200
Michael Snow's film "Wavelength" with its single, continuous dolly shot, is an example of this type of experimental film.
What is structuralist.
300
In the postmodern stage, when a film knows it's a genre film and comments on it.
What is "self-reflexivity."
300
CLIP: THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES
This scene exemplifies something quite common in the Western genre.
What is homosociality.
300
French New Wave films typically end in this way.
What is ambiguously.
300
This type of argument appeals to the emotions of an audience.
What is viewer-centered arguments.
300
In this animation style, still photos are used to bring inanimate objects to life.
What is pixilation.
400
During this stage, a genre's conventions, iconography, and myth have not yet been refined and codified into a recognizable set of characteristics.
What is "The Experimental Stage."
400
Through the trials of a lone protagonist, this becomes the measure of any social relationship and the value of most western communities.
What is rugged individualism.
400
CLIP: BAND OF OUTSIDERS (Godard, 1961)
In this clip, narrative continuity is disturbed/confused when this happens to the music.
What is become 'non-diegetic.'
400
This documentary mode is one in which the filmmaker attempts to efface themselves and make subjects forget about them.
What is the observational mode or "direct cinema."
400
This type of experimental film plays with temporal and spatial logic, resulting in disorientation and repetition.
What is experimental narrative.
500
The production, regulation, and distribution of materials in ways that anticipate the desire for those materials and the efficient delivery of them.
What are "The Economics of Predictability."
500
Richard Slotkin coined this term, which served as a structuring metaphor of the American experience.
What is regeneration through violence.
500
The film journal Cahiers du Cinema championed this term, which proclaimed certain directors as stamping their personalities on studio products.
What is auteur or auteurism.
500
This mode of documentary emphasizes the subjective nature of the documentarian (think "Supersize Me").
What is the performative mode.
500
This was the first full-length animated feature film.