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In Titanic, Mr. Andrews tells the Captain that the ship will sink in an hour, maybe two. This dire statement introduces this kind of narrative structure into the film
What is a deadline structure?
In The Big Lebowski, the Coen Brothers draw from this genre of film in its numerous dance sequences that help express the Dude's emotional state
What is the musical?
This is an indirect or passing reference to a prior work or story
What is an allusion?
According to auteur theory, this person is the major creative force behind a motion picture
Who is the director?
This is the term for a love of cinema
What is cinephilia?
As the film crew gets more hopelessly lost in The Blair Witch Project, the woods in Burkittsville come to correlate between the characters' state of mind. The woods are therefore an example of this kind of setting
What is a psychological setting?
In contrast to classical black-and-white or subdued color palettes of the classical Hollywood film noir, 1990s neo-noir features this kind of color palette
What is neon?
This is the term for the proximity or faithfulness of an adaptation to its source material
What is fidelity?
This is the term for the repeated and salient uses of film techniques that characterize a film or set of films
What is style?
This school of film criticism focuses on the role of subjectivity, the unreliability of language, and the construction of social power
What is poststructuralism?
Titanic uses several different narrative perspectives for a single story, making it a film based on this kind of narration
What is multiple narrations?
This new genre of film thrived in the 1990s and is characterized by its cast of low-achieving, unmotivated misfits
What is the slacker film?
Stan Brakhage's experimental short films are examples of this filmmaking form
What is abstract?
In Rushmore, Max's final play Heaven and Hell takes place during the Vietnam War. This allusion to a real-world event that viewers are expected to recognize is an example of this kind of meaning
What is referential?
Realism focuses on the role of cinema to reflect reality as accurately as possible. This opposing approach to film theory focuses on film's technical abilities and the artifice of the medium
What is formalism?
When Mike throws the map into the river in The Blair Witch Project, he introduces an opposition that creates conflict and impedes the characters' ability to achieve their goal. This act, then, serves as what in the narrative?
What is the blocking element?
This type of film is characterized by mixed forms and the interaction of different genres
What is a hybrid film?
What is the associational form?
When Max tells Rosemary, "Nah, I didn't get hurt that bad," he is stating overtly a significant meaning of Rushmore, meaning that he is expressing this kind of meaning
What is explicit?
Many horror studies theorists focus on the genre's use of a male gaze and objectification of female bodies onscreen, meaning that they are approaching their analysis through this school of thought
What is feminist film theory?
The plot events and actions in The Blair Witch Project proceed one after another as a forward movement in time, meaning that the film is organized according to what style?
What is linear chronology?
This classical Hollywood genre frames The Big Lebowski, with the film's focus on Los Angeles as a frontier
What is the Western?
This is the transfer of a work or story, in whole or in part, into another work or story
What is an adaptation?
This kind of meaning is more subtle and requires the viewer to draw their own conclusions from cues in the film
What is implicit meaning?
"Celebrating the Queer Femme Power of But I'm a Cheerleader" emphasizes how Babbit's film questions the perception that cisgender and heterosexual identities are "normal" or "standard." This article is an example of what theoretical school of thought?
What is queer theory?