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When did women lose the right to vote in the UK and US? |
1807 and 1832 |
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What was the focus of the 19th and early 20th century suffragette movement? |
To legally enshrine women's right to vote |
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How did suffragists keep in the public eye? |
Organized eye-catching parades, costumed processions, colourful pageants, fascinating exhibitions and noisy marching bands |
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How did suffragettes dramatized their criticisms and demands of society |
Through civil disobedience, hunger strikes, and radical fashion |
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Who was Emily Wilding Davison? |
A militant suffragette who threw herself under the King's horse during the Epsom Derby in 1913. |
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What was the Gibson girl? |
The early iconic female figure representative of the progressiveness of the post-Victorian era |
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When was the Gibson girl famous? |
1890 to 1910 |
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Who were the first female stars in Hollywood? |
Mary Pickford, Mae Marsh, Lillian Gish |
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The impact of the cinema on gender relations and human sexuality occurs at three levels |
Individual, cultural, institutional |
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When was First National bought by Paramount? |
1919 |
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The MPAA was responsible for how many features and collected how much of rental income? |
76% of features, 86% rental income |
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How many theatres were in the USA? |
18-20K (successful films were in 9k or more theatres) |
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What was block booking? |
Packages including dogs along with hits |
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What was blind buying? |
Forcing exhibitors to buy unseen and unmade films to guarantee an advance market? |
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What was overbuying? |
When exhibitors had to buy more films than could be shown in order to get hits |
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What was clearance? |
Giving an exhibitor regional exclusivity for a specific period of times |
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Which 3 directors were not "glorified foremen"? |
Cecil B. DeMille, Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch |
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What were the 7 popular genres in early hollywood? |
Comedy, Western, Problem pictures, War drama, Adventure films, spectacles, race movies |
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What was the Motion Pictures Production Code? (MPPC) |
Similar to the prohibition, it was a code applied to filmmaking to protect women, demanded respect for indigenous "ethnics" and "foreign peoples", sough to uplift the lower orders and convert the criminal mentality |
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Who were the 3 major female filmmakers? |
Lois Weber, Cleo Madison, Dorothy Arzner |
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What was a staple of the early cinema of attractions in re: the representation of women? |
Erotic display |
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What was the vamp? |
A dangerous, heavily made up woman that reeked of night |
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Our Dancing Daughters |
Dir: Harry Beaumont, 1928, - this opening scene could illustrate how female subjectivity as created out of the discourses of the culture industries is inextricably intertwined with self-commodification and self-objectification |
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What is the flapper's plot concern? |
The pursuit of modern life - independent from parental and other authoritarian control - and a modern romance in which her actions, behaviour, and dress are obstacles or catalysts |
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What is the super ego? |
Consists of the conscience and ego ideal, moral imperatives, social component |
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What is the ego? |
Psychological component, reality principle, reality testing |
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What is the id? |
pleasure principle, biological component, wish fulfillment |
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What is the eros drive? |
The freudian theory that a human strives for life, survival, sex |
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What is the thanatos drive? |
The freudian theory that a human can strive for death and self destruction |
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What is the oedipal/electra complex? |
a child's desire, that the mind keeps in the unconscious via dynamic repression, to have sexual relations with the parent of the opposite sex |
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ngl idk what tf this is |
look at it again? idk |
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What does continuity editing and the creation of synthetic space allow? |
An identification with the camera in its mobility, thus establishing the subject position of the film |
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The subject position of the film is both |
hypothetical and ideal |
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What 3 theories did Laura Mulvey come up with? |
Spectatorship, gender of cinema, and recommended response |
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What did women function as in the "screen story" according to Mulvey? |
Erotic objects |
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Laura Mulvey sees erotic display in film as evidence that... |
cinema has been structure by patriarchal, voyeuristic values which block women's access to the realm of the symbolic |
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What's the result of Mulvey's theory of patriarchal values in cinema? |
Women are unable to establish a female voice or perspectic and thus remain marginal to the power and prestige that are acquired through participation in public life |
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It (this is a film, btw) |
dir: Clarence Badger, 1927, - this film is significant because it inverts the active and passive binary of previous films, putting the desiring female gaze of Clara bow in the foreground |
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Dinner at the Ritz |
dir Harold D Schuster, 1937 - tbh not sure why it's significant, maybe cause the woman gets a point of view |
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What was the significance of Valentino? |
He was an "ethnic other" AND erotic object despite being a man |
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Ever is Over All |
dir Pipilotti Rist, 1997 - art installation, inspired beyonce, challenged the male gaze |
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What is the historical context of a film? |
The habits of viewing of its audience |
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What is the exhibition context of a film? |
whether it's in a gallery, smarthphone, theatre, any platform, which shapes the audience's experience |
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What is intertextuality? |
It is produced when a newer film uses one that predates it to shape or enrich its meaning |
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Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks |
dir: Lev Kuleshov, 1924, - It is notable as the first Soviet film that explicitly challenges American stereotypes about Soviet Russia and its editing has "creative geography" |
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Battleship Potemkin |
dir Serge Eisenstein, 1925 - first used intellectual montage + collision in such a way as to produce the greatest emotional response, so that the viewer would feel sympathy for the rebellious sailors of the Battleship Potemkin and hatred for their overlords - all for propaganda purposes |
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Mother |
Vsevolod Pudovken, 1926 - important for its shots spliced together that form a coherent whole |
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Man with a Movie Camera |
Dziga Vertov, 1929 - importance of rhythm in editing, This film is famous for the range of cinematic techniques Vertov invents, deploys or develops, such as double exposure, fast motion, slow motion, freeze frames, jump cuts, split screens, Dutch angles, extreme close-ups, tracking shots, footage played backwards, stop motion animations and self-reflexive visuals (A LOT) |
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Earth |
Alexander Dovzhenko, 1930 - slow paced, photographic tableau |
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What was a agit-train? |
An agit-train was a locomotive engine with special auxiliary cars outfitted for propaganda purposes by the Bolshevik government of Soviet Russiaduring the time of the Russian Civil War, War Communism, and the New Economic Policy. |
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What is agitprop? |
stage plays, pamphlets, motion pictures and other art forms with an explicitly political message. |
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The Dickson Experimental Sound Film |
dir Thomas Edison, 1894 - This short film was a test for Edison's "Kinetophone" project, the first attempt in history to record sound and moving image in synchronization. This was an experiment by William Dickson to put sound and film together either in 1894 or 1895. |
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What did Lee De Forest do? |
Invent the phonofilm |
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What was a phonofilm? |
an optical sound-on-film system developed by inventors Lee de Forest and Theodore Case in the 1920s. |
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Billy Merson Singing 'Desdemona' |
1927, Britain's first sound film |
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Name 5 early phonofilms |
Barking Dog (1921), Eubi Blake (1923), Calvin Coolidge (1924), Helen Lewis and her All-Girl Jazz Syncopators (192?), The Victoria Girls (193) |
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Who directed M? |
Fritz Lang |
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What was M's visual culture? |
Expressionism > Noir |
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What was M's important technological advance? |
Integration of Sound |
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Who was the main actor in M? |
Peter Lorre |
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What was M's historical context? |
Germany during the rise of fascism, economic crisis, popularity of psychoanalytic concepts and serial killers |
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What was the future cinematic influence of M? |
The use of sound, camera movement, and style (film noir)
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What was Fritz Lang's preoccupations as a director? |
Social conflict and change, paranoid reaction, and moral ambiguity |
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Metropolis |
dir Fritz Langg, 1927 - It is regarded as a pioneering work of the science-fiction genre in movies, being among the first feature-length movies of the genre. |
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What was the UFA GmbH? |
The largest German studio, founded in 1917 but eventually bought by the Nazis to create propaganda |
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What was Nero-Films? |
Founded in 1925 by Heinrich Nebelzahl, artistically ambitious company that made Fritz Lang and GW Pabst films |
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What were the 3 differences between America and German early cinemas? |
Germans did not demand a happy ending, the directors were the focal point of marketing, and they rejected American-style celebrities |
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What were 2 of the German cinematic tecniques? |
Tracking and dolly shots and dramatic lighting techiques |
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What is a leitmotif? |
Associating a tune with a character |
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Howard Hawks was what kind of filmmaker? |
An auteur |
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Describe the 3 premises of auteur theory |
Technical competence of director, distinguishable personality of the director, and interior meaning |
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Hawks films almost always... |
deal with a tightly knit group of professionals trying to perform a difficult task together while upholding their own rigorously defined code of conduct |
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Who was in Bringing up Baby? |
Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant |
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Bringing up Baby |
1938, Howard Hawks - the film has received acclaim from both critics and audience for its zany antics and pratfalls, absurd situations and misunderstandings, perfect sense of comic timing, completely screwball cast, series of lunatic and hare-brained misadventures, disasters, light-hearted surprises and romantic comedy. |
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What is a screwball comedy film? |
Screwball comedy is principally a genre of comedy film that became popular during the Great Depression, originating in the early 1930s and thriving until the early 1940s. Many secondary characteristics of this genre are similar to film noir, but it distinguishes itself for being characterized by a female that dominates the relationship with the male central character, whose masculinity is challenged.
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On the Waterfront |
Dir: Elia Kazan, 1954 - showcasing of method acting, political issues and controversies around its production mirrored the conflicts of Cold War and the anti-communist paranoia gripping the states |
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What was the HUAC? |
The House Un-American Activities Committee, established to investigate subversive (communist and fascist activities of citizens) |
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What was the Waldorf statement? |
Fired the Hollywood ten and pledged to safeguard "free speech and free screen" |
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Who was Roy Brewster? |
A man under the control of organized crime and the Hollywood bosses and guaranteed low wage contracts and no strikes |
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Roy Brewster told Cohn what? |
That the script of On the Waerfront was a lie and that there was no gangster influence on the waterfront - union revolt should be against communist leaders |
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What does genre consist of? |
Systems of conventions both static and dynamic - grammar and utterance |
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Who was Weegee? |
a photographer and photojournalist, known for his stark black and white street photography |
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What was Stella Adler's theory to acting? |
Actions precede emotion |
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What was Lee Strasberg's theory to acting? |
Emotions precede acting |
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What are the themes of On the Waterfront? |
Brotherhood, male bonding, love, betrayal, loyalty, collective vs individuals, snitches |
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Who are the 4 characters of On the Waterfront? |
Brother Charley, Father Barry, Johnny Friendly, Edie Doyle |
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What were the symbols of On the Waterfront? |
Jacket, gloves, pidgeons |
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What were the locations of On the Waterfront |
pidgeon hutch, docks, no domestic space led to a sense of drifting and uprootedness |
