Film Movements
This film movement emphasized the role of the director in filmmaking as an expressive author
What is French New Wave?
A certain form of love for cinema as advanced by the writers of Cahier du Cinéma
What is old cinephilia?
The joining of Shot A and Shot B
What is Cut?
Camera movement between two positions within a frame
What is reframing?
Analysis of this component of film sound can reveal a character's social, cultural, economic background
What is dialogue?
From the 1890s to the 1910s, documenting the everyday was the most common form of filmmaking.
What are actualities?
They are credited with the invention of the first motion picture camera
The overall storytelling framework of a film that includes the choices to shape the plot
What is a narrative form?
Shot A has character x speaking, followed by Shot B with character y's response
What is Shot/Reverse Shot
The acting style in which actors inhabit the psychological relaity of their characters
What is method acting?
This film tradition is known for the priority given to continuity in narrative, cinematography, and editing.
What is Classical Hollywood?
The political filmmaking tradition from previously colonized nations opposes films from the first and second worlds.
What is Third Cinema?
The fictional or real place where the events of the film occur
What is a setting?
When the dominant sound of shot A carries to shot B
What is a sound bridge?
The theory that editing can be used to highlight the differences between shots to produce meaning
What is Soviet Montage?
In post-WWII Italy, this film movement revived film culture by depicting postwar social crises through a realistic style.
What is Italian neorealism?
The film movement known for breaking many cinematic conventions of the Classical Hollywood tradition?
What is the French New Wave?
Sound coming from within the story world
What is diegetic sound?
This shot traces the movement of a subject across the frame
What is a tracking shot?
Exposition->initial turning point-central turning point-> climax->resolution
What is Kristin Thompson's 4-act narrative structure?
What is German Expressionism?
The first feature-length film to include synchronized sound and music numbers
An uninterrupted shot of more than one minute in length
What is a long take?
In the Mood for Love uses this kind of narration where the story is conveyed outside any single character's experience.
What is third-person narration?
What is restricted narration?
This kind of shot helps with cinematic realism in a film
What is a long take?