Terms
A film production system based on assembly line production, talent contracting, studio genre specialization and style.
What is the studio system?
This period of cinematic production included production line techniques, a producer-unit system, genre production and extensive use of a contract.
What is the Golden Age of cinema? (studio system production)
This film style presents a coherent organization of time and space, involves the creation of character types with recognizable personalities and needs, a linear narrative of actions, reaction and results that moves toward the resolution of familiar problems and issues.
What is realist film?
A theory primarily concerned with the way the in which viewers engage with cinematic texts.
What is spectatorship theory?
Name of character who said: "Play it Sam"
Who is Ilsa?
The name of a standardized system of film editing that organizes film elements so that the film reality corresponds to the audience’s reality and no individual element calls attention to itself.
What is continuity editing?
Anti-trust legislation, growth in demand for films, the stars seeking independence from studios, rise in production costs due to growth in trade unions, import taxes on Hollywood films abroad, interest in European art cinema, suburban development, television.
What caused the demise of the studio system?
A post-war European cinema addressing the difficult economic conditions of the post-war period, filmed on location, often with unprofessional actors.
What is Italian neo-realism?
The question at the heart of national cinema.
Can a film speak to a nation’s history of culture?
Director of Bonnie and Clyde.
Who is Arthur Penn?
Sound whose sources is visible on the screen or whose source is implied to be present by the action of the film.
What is diegetic sound?
A historical form that questioned the independence and wisdom of the individual, and rejected the conventions of 19th century art?
What is modernism?
A self-effacing form of storytelling, that draws on general tendency in art to hide the means of its making in favor of the impression that the world it represents exists on its own.
What are the formal characteristics of realism.
A critical position responding to the ideal spectator of apparatus theory, this body of thinking took into consideration the role the social identities of viewing subjects.
What is feminist film theory?
Who are the girlfriends in Girlfriends?
The processes by which we are “stitched into” the story-world, or “fabric,” of a film.
What is suture?
Dadaism, Surrealism, Constructivism, German Expressionist, Soviet Realism represent historical instances of this art movement.
What is the historical avant-garde?
Formally, this style often calls attention to itself through a high degree of quotation, homage, borrowing, copying and otherwise recycling previous work.
What is postmodern film?
A concept that describes the ways in which women are exhibited in film.
What is "the male gaze"
Name of dog in Umberto D?
Who is Flike?
The types of shots used to introduce viewers to Jeff Jeffries as he scanned the activities of his neighbours in the opening sequence of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window.
What is the eye line match?
A cultural period defined by transnational globalization.
What is postmoderism?
Techniques used distance the viewer from emotional involvement with individual characters so to intensify involvement with underlying social issues and conflicts of the film story.
What is the alienation effect?
The belief that race is socially constructed and systematic are central tenets of this theory.
What is critical race theory?
The name of the business that OJ and Emerald run in Nope.
What is Heywood Hollywood Horses?