Early American
Architecture-In-Motion
Painting-In-Motion
Sculpture-In-Motion
What are the Splendor Film, The Intimate Film, and the Action Film?
Literally referring to "light writing".
Involved intercutting to engender a "thematic effect", going beyond the sum of its parts.
What is Early Montage?
Categories of Montage.
What are Metric, Rhythmic, Tonal, Overtonal, and Intellectual?
Cinematic benefit from the Weimar Republic.
What is the Institute of Social Research/Frankfurt School?
Film style that prioritizes a clear, linear, character-driven narrative.
What is Classical Hollywood Cinema?
The idea that the director is the primary creative of a film, imposing their unique vision and style within the mise-en-scène.
What is Auteur Theory?
Makes objects appear strange and unfamiliar.
What is Defamiliarization?
Trained filmmakers and explore the formal structure of film.
What is The State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK)?
Referred to what the camera reveals that is normally unseen or unconscious, like a "nature which speaks to the camera".
What is Optical Unconscious?
Hollywood's emergence as an international leader in production led to this.
What is Cinephilia?
Inspired Photogenie.
Who is Jean Epstein?
A style of filmmaking that emerged in post-WWII Italy, characterized by stories about everyday people, often using non-professional actors, on-location shooting, and a focus on social issues.
What is Neorealism?
An aggressive device to produce specific emotional shocks in the spectator.
What is Attraction?
An academic discipline that examines how societies work, including power structures, culture, and individual experiences.
What is Social Theory?
The beginning of film theory is marked by these men.
Who are Vachel Lindsay and Hugo Munsterberg?
Challenged traditional filmmaking conventions with experimental techniques, often focusing on themes of alienation and social commentary.
What is the French New Wave/ Nouvelle Vague?
Refers to the spectrum of emotional and visceral experiences provoked in the viewer by a movie.
What is Affective States?
Demonstrated that editing the same shot with different reverse shots changes the actor's appearance, forming the basis for subsequent Soviet filmmaking.
What is the Kuleshov Effect?
Describes the popular fashion and formations.
What is Mass Ornament?
Both establish a strong emotional connection with viewers, making film a psychological experience.
What are Close-ups and Flashbacks?
Used superimposition, wipes, dissolves, etc, because cinema is marvelously equipped to express dreams, memories, thoughts, and emotions.
Who is Germaine Dulac?
Approach that prioritizes the artistic and technical elements of filmmaking—like editing, cinematography, sound, and special effects—over narrative realism?
What is Formalism?
State-mandated artistic doctrine that aimed to depict an idealized future and a communist society.
What is Socialist Realism?
Uses irrational, dreamlike imagery, non-linear narratives, and shocking juxtapositions to explore the subconscious, challenge reality, and evoke the unconscious mind.
What is Surrealism?