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23 Cards in this Set
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Classic Hollywood Style
Narrative is...? |
CASUALITY + TIME + SPACE
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RULES of CHC Narrative (5) ?
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1. action from Protagonist
2. goal oriented protag. Faced with obstacles 3. psychological editing 4. Hollywood ending 5. Time subordinate to cause-effect |
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Beat
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make up scenes. Exchange of behavior in action/reaction
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Scene
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creates meaningful change, expressed in terms of value, achieved through conflict, turns in minor/significant way
Key Value change; positive to negative |
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Sequence
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series of scenes (2-5) turns in moderate impactful way.
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Act
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causes major reversal of values, more powerful impact than scene, squen
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Story Climax
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the acts build to bring final and irreversible change
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Camp
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exaggerates the normative to expose its artifice (over the top, tongue-in-cheek, poor taste, EXCESS)
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Camp as Production (excessive...)
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-Spectacle- excessive bright mise-en-scene, crane
-Genre- “acceptable” conventions stretched to grotesque proportion -Gender- identities are artificial. “woman” |
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Camp as Reception (finding...)
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-Pleasure/value from “low culture” b-cinema, cult movies, sleaze
-Humor in strained seriousness -Subversive pleasure not intended |
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Act 1- (setup)
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purpose is to tell vital info.
-Begin image. -Catalyst (incident) begins action. Central Question Raised. |
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1st Turning Point
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turns action in new direction
-raises cen. Ques. Again. -Raises stakes -pushes story into act 2. |
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Act 2
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develops characters,
-add complications to protag from goal |
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2nd turning point
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same as 1st but speeds up
-sets DEADLINE |
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Act 3 (Resolution)
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problems resolved & questions answered
crisis, climax, resolution |
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Ideology
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societal narrative that guides believes
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Art Cinema's place in History
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-decends from art schools and national cinema schools (German expressionism, italian neorealism)
-appears after WWII, court decree breakup Hollywood monopolies and TV thrives, -U.S. firms sponsored foreign production, used to fill screen time |
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What does Post-Modernism Cinema do?
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o Increasingly diverse and experimental
o Questions social hierarchies o Depicts society in midst of turmoil, chaos, and violence o Social order rises and sustains popular mood of anxiety, cynicism, and powerlessness |
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Boggs
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Post-modern cinema
-thematic emphasis on chaos -Intrigue -Paranoia -Death of hero -Disjointed narrative structure -Embracing dystopia |
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Bordwell
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Art Cinema
conventions: Realism, Authorship, Ambiguity |
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in Art Cinema... Ambiguity's purpose?
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To unite the realist aesthetic and expressionist aesthetic (realism and authorship) which unify the art film
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High Concept
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Pitchable, Merchandising, Star Power.
critics- -Repeated story, hollywood as business Designed to be Marketed |
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Camp as Production, Genre...
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"acceptable" conventions stretched to grotesque proportions
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