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63 Cards in this Set
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The Limey
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60s film style, montage, jump cuts, ellipses, story is familiar but style is fresh and innovative
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Point Blank
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1967, director John Boorman, Lee Marvin as Walker
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Poor Cow
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1967, director Ken Loach, Terrance Stamp as Dave Fuller, used as a backstory for the character
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Easy Rider
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1969, rock music, traveling shot while in car, Terry tells story of being on a motorcycle and being in a wreck
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"tell me about Jenny"
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1st line in movie, repeats it, flashback to jenny as a little girl, threatens to call cops, responsible for his daughters death, walks out of focal plane of shot as if he is vanishing
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screen reality
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pertains to the principles of time, space, character behavior, and audiovisual design that filmmakers systematically organize in a given film to create an ordered world on screen in which characters may act and in which a narrative may unfold
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4 modes of screen reality
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realism, expressionism, fantasy and the fantastic, and cinematic self-reflexivity
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3 categories of realism
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ordinary fictional realism, historical realism, and documentary realism
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ordinary fictional realism
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the world on screen closely resembles the one that the viewer inhabits
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historical realism
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represents a time or place not too far removed from the social world of the film's audiences
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documentary realism
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the camera is used as an instrument of reportage and documentation, perceived absence of fictionalized events
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expressionism
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an extremely stylized mode of screen reality in which filmmakers use visual distortion to suggest emotional, social, or psychological disturbances or abnormalities, 1920s German cinema, Tim Burton and Alfred Hitchcock
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fantasy and the fantastic
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setting and subjects, characters and narrative time are displaced from the viewers own realm into other realms, sometimes futuristic ones, where normal laws of time and space may not apply
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self-reflexivity
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makes no pretense that the world represented on screen is anything other than a filmic construction, tend to be comic or made with didactic intent
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2 capabilities of film
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transforming the real world and recording
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Singin' in the Rain
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1952, cinematic period with no counterpart today, MGM most associated in the 40s, musicals have an abstract design, busby berkely, big stars such as gene kelley and fred astaire, about hollywood in transition, "broadway melody"
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Alfred Hitchcock
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1899-1980, structured childhood with catholic school, early interests include train schedules/maps, early career in Germany, British industry and silent period, loves spy movies and chases, he had box office success, gave good interviews, stable of crew members, Saul Bass-abstract design
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suspense vs. surprise
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suspense the audience knows what is going to happen ex. bomb under the table, surprise the audience does not know
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pure cinema
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no dialogue, purely visual, silent era
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North by Northwest
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1959, wrong man theme "George Kaplan", abstraction/expressionism ex. above UN shot as he walks out, pure cinema in the field scene with no music or speaking, big stars Grant and Saint, cant re-make, no stars like this today, suspense in the Mount Rushmore scene
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Bernard Herrman
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Hitchcock's composer, fusion os image and sound, score essential to "pure cinema" sequences, Psycho, The Birds, Marnie, Torn Curtain
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African American film industry
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blackface, white actors in black make-up, Uncle Tom's Cabin-1914, Birth of a Nation-1915, classic period had racial codes, still mostly supporting roles
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birth of black cinema
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Lincoln Motion Picture Company, Ebony Motion Picture Company of Chicago, Oscar Micheaux-24 films between 1919-1940s
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1950 post classical
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Sidney Poitier debuts in No Way Out (1950)
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blaxploitation
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more radical, Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song, angry, bad role models, had economic success
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modern black filmmakers in late 80s and early 90s
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Spike Lee, John Singleton, Hughes Brothers, Keenan Ivory Wayans
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contemporary black actors
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Tim Story, Will Smith, Ice Cube, Dave Chapelle
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Nothing But a Man
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1964, powerful realistic approach, location filmmaking in Cape May and Atlantic City NJ, Jewish filmmakers-Michael Romer and Robert Young, discussed race and class, Duff breaking the cycle
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what happened during the filming in 1964
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NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers was assassinated, MLK Jr delivers I Have A Dream Speech in DC, the 16th street Baptist Church in Birmingham was bomber killing 4 young girls
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Top 2006 film
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Pirates of the Caribbean $423 million
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the majors
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Columbia Tri-Star, Disney (Touchstone, Hollywood Pictures, Buena Vista) MGM/UA, 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros, Universal, Paramount
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gross vs. rental
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gross is the total amount of income, rental is what finds its way back after all the deductions, split earning 90/10
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negative cost
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all costs incurred by a film production, salaries for talent, pay for technical crew, costs of set design, lab costs, in year 2006 average neg cost was $66 million, average marketing cost was $34 million, yielding an average cost of $100 million per feature
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3 costs
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negative costs, publicity and promotion, "points"
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points
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percentage of the film's gross revenue taken by top directors and stars
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US box office admissions
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one and a half billion, fairly stable audience
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corporate evolution
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from film to comm to synergy, Gulf Western to Paramount Communications Company
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example of synergy
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Top Gun (1986) soundtrack Kenny Loggins, pepsi
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ancillary boom
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videocassette and DVD/laserdisk sales, rental, pay cable, product licensing and merchandising
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effects of the ancillary boom
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did not kill theaters, more production for more movies,
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release pattern
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theatrical to home video in 3 months, pay cable in 6-9 months, then broadcast television, time frame depends on the success in the theatre
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product placement
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ex. wilson in cast away, pay money to put their product name in the movie, studios derive revenue from on screen placements, film as an advertising medium, Total Recall has most with 55 references to 28 brand name products
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independent film
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made with sources outside the major Hollywood studios, Sundance film festival in Park City, Utah, have freedom of creativity and cheaper
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foreign remakes
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Japanese horror films, changes for American markets, incorporate romance and a happy ending
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Real Women Have Curves
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HBO independent productions, distributed by Newmarket, neg. cost $3 million, box office gross $6 million
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Patricia Cardosa
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directed Real Women Have Curves, bron in Colombia, came to US in 1987, graduated UCLA film in 1994, director of Latin American Programs, Sundance Film Institute
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Josefina Lopez
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screenwriter of Real Women, born in Mexico, came with family at age 5 to the US as undocumented workers, lived without documentation for 13 years in east LA, MFA, UCLA form and television school, worked in sewing factories, Estella main character in play, focus shifted to Ana for film
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America Ferrera
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lead role, born in US, parents immigrated from Honduras, this was her first film
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social issues in Real Women Have Curves
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what is beauty? economic status, father works at nice house, no matter how hard he works he will never make enough money to live there, which is more powerful sisterhood or economic status?
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story and plot
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plot refers to the sequencing of events as shown in a given film, it designates the way narrative events are arranged in a film, story designates the larger set of events of which the plot is a subset
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point of view
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movies almost always use the third-person narration
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subjective shot
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point-of-view shot, the camera literally views through the eyes of the character
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classical Hollywood narrative
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a main line of action and one or more subordinate lines of action tied to it
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explicit casuality
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one event clearly causes another in the chain that forms the narrative
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implicit causality
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events joined in a loose fashion
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mockumentary
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fake documentary
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limited-release market
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films are not distributed as widely or promoted as aggressively, independent films
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domestic theatrical market
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US and Canada
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blockbuster
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enormous audience appeal that spreads across a variety of media categories
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criticism
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the attempt to discover and interpret the meanings and intentions of the film or filmmaker that extend beyond a film's surface features
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newspaper and television reviews
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prepared for a general audience, consumer function
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general interest journal based criticism
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falls somewhere between newspaper and television reviewing and scholarly criticism
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scholarly criticism
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explores the significance of a given film in relation to often complex issues of theory, history, or technology
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