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Citizen Kane
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-Orson Wells
-1941 |
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Vertigo
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-Alfred Hitchcock
-1958 |
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Hard Eight
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-Paul Thomas Anderson
-1996 |
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Metropolis
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-Fritz Lang
-1927 |
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True Stories
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-David Byrne
-1986 |
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Design for Living
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-Ernst Lubitsch
-1933 |
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They Live
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-John Carpenter
-1988 |
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Do the Right Thing
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-Spike Lee
-1989 |
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Car Wash
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-Michael Schultz
-1976 |
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Velvet Goldmine
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-Todd Haynes
-1998 |
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Letter from an Unknown Woman
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-Max Ophuls
-1948 |
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Meshes of the Afternoon
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-Maya Deren and Alexander Hamid
-1944 |
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Scorpio Rising
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-Kenneth Anger
-1960 |
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Un Chien Andalou
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-Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali
-1929 |
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Capturing the Friedman's
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-Andrew Jarecki
-2003 |
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Who wrote and directed "The Girl from God's Country"?
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Neil Shipman
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Where is Letter from an Unknown Woman set in?
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Vienna
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Who is the film Superstar about?
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Karen Carpenter
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What company did Barbara Streisand co-found in the 1970s?
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First Artists
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Who was the first and only female to win Best Director and what film was it for?
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Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
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What was the film Tongues United about and who directed it?
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Marlon Riggs, a quasi-documentary about his experience of being a gay black man
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Who wrote the essay "Visual Pleasures and Narrative Cinema" and what was it about?
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-Laura Mulvey
-Feminist approach to Hollywood films, concept of male gaze |
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What stereotypes are embodied by Lisa in Letter from an Unknown Woman?
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The Wife, The Mother, The Virgin (not the Femme Fatale)
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Who directed Un Chien Andalou?
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Luis Brunuel and Salvador Dali
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Are there staged elements in Nanook of the North?
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yes
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Did any women direct a major Hollywood film between 1930 and 1950?
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Yes
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Did any of Bowie's songs actually appear in Velvet Goldmine?
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No
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Was Leni Riefenstahl the chief director of propaganda for the Soviet Union in the 1930s?
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No
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Did Alice Guy start a studio with her husband in the United States?
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Yes
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What is mise en scene?
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The arrangement of what appears in front of the camera. Set design, characters, props, ect.
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What is a point-of-view shot?
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A shot that shows what a particular character is seeing
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What is crosscutting?
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An editing pattern in which the film cuts back and forth between two different actions
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What is the diegesis?
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The story world in the film
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What is depth of field?
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The span of distance from the camera over which the image remains in sharp focus.
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What is a stedicam?
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A harness used to absorb the jerkiness of human motion.
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What is an establishing shot?
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A shot that provides an overview of the scene, often placing action in a larger context
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What is the aperture?
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The camera opening through which light passes
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What is a closed frame?
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A shot that gives the sense that it is entirely self-sufficient. The film's world is occupied all within the shot.
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What is a montage sequence?
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A sequence of shots that represent a passage of time or the unfolding of a process
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What is a pan?
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The horizontal movement of the camera
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What is the three-point light system?
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-Fill light
-Back light -Key light |
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Which character was not interviewed by the journalist in Citizen Kane?
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Mr. Thatcher
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Where is the majority of Vertigo filmed?
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San Francisco
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What is an example of a non-diegetic sound?
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Voice-over commentary
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Do filmmakers break the 180-degrees rule?
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Yes
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What is shot/reverse/shot?
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A technique used to convey conversations between characters.
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What is graphic match?
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A technique that attempts to guide the viewer in a transition from one shot to the next by making the two shots similar in apperance
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Can you have off-screen space that is still diegetic?
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Yes
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What is plan americain?
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French term used to Hollywood's tendency to use medium long shots after the introduction of sound.
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What are all the possible lengths of shots?
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XLS, LS, MLS, MS, MCU, CU, XCU
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What is semiotics?
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The study of communication, "language of film"
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Who created the allegory of the cave?
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Plato
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What is the Birth of a Nation about and who directed it?
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-DW Griffith
-A film that valorizes the Ku Klux Klan |
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Who is consider the primary "author" of a film?
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Director
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What are the 3 fundamental styles of cinema according to Nichols?
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1. Postmodernism
2. Modernism 3. Realism |
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Who came up with the "alienation effect"?
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Bertolt Brecht
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What was the Iran cinema known for and when did it begin?
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-After the Cultural Revolution of 1979
-Focused on children and outdoor settings to sidestep religious restrictions |
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When was the Production Code first strictly enforced?
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1934
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Give examples of artisanal and non-artisanal directors
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-Artisanal= Jean-Luc Godard, Agnes Varda
-Steven Speilburg |
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What is an allegory?
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A sustained narrative in which characters and situations that stand in for more general qualities or states.
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Do below-the-line personnel have a lot of control over the filmmaking process?
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No
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Who administers the ratings system?
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Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)
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Is Charles Foster Kane ever interviewed by the reporter in Citizen Kane?
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No
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What are the characteristics of art cinema?
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Episodic plots, noticeable style, open-endings
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When did Italian neorealism begin?
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In the aftermath of WW2
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Are irony and questioning of individualism characteristics of realism?
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No
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Who was Oscar Micheaux?
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The most prolific African-American filmmaker between 1919 and 1948
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Who was Sidney Poitier?
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Most prominent African-American film star in the 50s and 60s, and also in 1967 became the top box office draw of an actor
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Did Spike Lee direct Boys N the Hood?
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No
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What are 3 other films directed by Spike Lee?
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-She's Gotta Have It
-School Daze -Jungle Fever |
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What won best picture over Do the Right Thing in 1989?
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Driving Miss Daisy
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Who sings "Fight the Power"?
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Public Enemy
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What is the name that ppl call Abdullah in Do the Right Thing?
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Duane
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Who doesn't enter Sal's Pizza shop to protest at the end of the film?
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Da Mayor
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What was Uncle Tom's Cabin?
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One of the most commonly adapted books in the first decade of cinema
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Why were Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor different from most black actors?
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They played characters largely divorced from the black community in films surrounded by white characters
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What did Tyler Perry do before he started making films?
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Acting, Writing, preforming in theatrical productions
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What is Blaxploitation?
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Cycle of black focused films released in 1972 and 1976
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Do the Right Thing ends with 2 quotes from which two black leaders?
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Malcolm X and MLK Jr.
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What Plato's allegory of the cave?
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-Looking at shadows on a wall and thinking it's reality
-Impression of reality for a brief time, like cinema |
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Who was Edward Muybridge?
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Did the photography experiment with the horses feet leave ground when galloping (1877)
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Who were the Lumierre Brothers?
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-French, breakthrough with moving image
-Inventing a small, mobile camera that printed and projected images -First screening ever was train arriving at station |
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Who was George Melies?
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-Magician who used film as part of his routine
-Re-thought how to edit films |
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What was the first big monopoly film production company?
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American Biograph
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Who was DW Griffith?
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-Worked at Biograph, created modern language of film
-The Birth of a Nation=story of Southern of re-construction, very racist |
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What are the main points in Citizen Kane?
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-Theme of journalism=uncovering a man's life through other people's perspectives
-Snowglobe and sleds as symbols |
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Define: breaking the 4th wall
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Draws attention to the fact that the film is constructed and is a film
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What are the main points in Vertigo?
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-Acrophobia
-Midge vs Madeline vs Judy, feminism |
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What are the main points in Metropolis?
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-Political allegory for present even if set in future
-Marxism undertones |
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What is realism?
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-Story in an unobtrusive way
-Continuity editing, narrative unnoticable -Socially or formally realistic |
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What is Italian neo-realism?
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Simple realistic storylines after World War 2
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What is modernism?
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-Makes thematic rather than literal sense
-Socially=interior, subjective life of characters, individual realities -Formally=montage, narration, discontinuity editing |
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What is postmoderism?
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-No objective truth, reflexive
-Making ordinary into something else |
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What are the main points in true stories?
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-Making fun of human kind
-Patchwork of all David Burn's headlines/articles -Cultural anthropologie -Post-modern film |
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When and how did silent cinema end?
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1927 with Jazz Singer
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What was the Catholic League of Decency?
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Religious group that wanted to fight for morals in films
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What was the "Code"?
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-Will Hays
-But at first wasn't enforced just for show -New guy appointed, super strict until 1950s |
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What were the HUAC Hearings?
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Congressional committee to weed out communists
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What are the main points in Design for Living?
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-Female character exhibiting morals of a man
-Film questions the code |
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What are Linda Williams "body genres"?
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-Horror film
-Melodrama -Pornography |
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What are the main points in Velvet Goldmine?
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-About gender identity
-Alludes to David Bowie -Glam rock movement |
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Who was Alice gee?
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-1st female director
-Her and husband start their own studio and never go into Hollywood |
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Who was Louis Weber?
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-Prolific, lots of films
-Mostly short films -Evangelical Christian, POV films |
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Who was Neil Shipman?
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-Silent era
-The Girl From God's Country=female action hero |
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Who was Ida Lupino?
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-Italian American actress, becomes a TV director
-Legitimate power figure |
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Who was Lenny Refenstal?
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-Part of Nazi propaganda
-Directs Triump of the Will |
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Who was Angus Varda?
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-French New Wave director
-Political and feminism |
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Who was Maya Derrand?
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-Avante-garde filmmaker
-Meshes of the Afternoon |
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Who was Shirley Clarke?
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-Not commercial, race/class
-The Cool World |
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Who was Barbara Streisand?
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-60s/70s filmstar Broadway actress/director
-Forms First Artist Pictures production -Began to craft roles for herself |
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What is "The Decline of Western Civilization"?
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-Documentary by P. Spheris
-Badass rocker, music world |
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Who was Amy Heckerland?
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-"Fast Times at Ridgemont High"
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Who was Nora Emphran?
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-Film writer
-"When Harry Met Sally", romantic comedy |
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Who was Penny Marshall?
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-Sitcom star, director
-"A League of Her Own" |
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Who was Mira Nier?
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-From India
-"Thirteen" |
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Who was Kimberley Pierce?
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-"Boys Don't Cry", deals with gender identity
-A lesbian |
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Who was Katherine Bigelow?
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-1st woman to win best director/identity
-"Hurt Locker" |
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What are the main points in Un Chien Andalou?
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-Eye ball cutting/shot of moon
-Function of time non linear -No clear plot or narrative -Freud free association |
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What is Avant-Garde cinema?
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-A marginal branch of cinema but influences mainstream films
-Naturally abrasive art form -Meant to upset, comment on Bourgeis society |
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What are the main points in Meshes of the Afternoon?
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-Maya Derren made with husband
-Feminist commentary -Artist is subject of film |
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What are the main points in Scorpio Rising?
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-Biker's montage, homoerotic
-Using underground film movement to express his identity |
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What are the main points in Mothlight?
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-Physical object applied to film and projected
-Clear film strip, about cinematic process/art more than narrative |
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How did documentary develop?
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-Capture real life
-Lumiere Brothers |
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What are the main characteristics of documentary?
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-Typical form narrative of real life
-About real life, but isn't real life -People change in front of the camera |
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What was "Nanook of the North"?
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-First documentary
-About eskimos, ethnographic -Used staging |
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How did Soviets use documentary?
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For propaganda because people are more likely to believe it is the truth
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What is Cinema Verite?
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"Cinema of truth", hand held camera
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What was "Don't Look Back"?
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-Pennebaker
-About Bob Dylan, follow shim on tour |
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Who were the Maysal Brothers?
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Titicut Follies about mental institution
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What are the subgenres of documentary?
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-Public affairs
-Government propaganda -Advocacy -Historical -Ethnographic -Nature -Concert -Experiential |
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The Thin Blue Line.
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Advocacy, gets accused murder suspect acquitted
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Atomic Cafe
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Combines footage of atomic bombs
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The Times of Harvey Milk
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Follows gay politician, public affairs
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Gimme Shelter
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About Rolling Stones Concert tragedy, obersvationalist
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Sherman's March
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Documentary about Sherman that turns into the director's search for love
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