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Classical film theory
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Writings on the fundamental questions of cinema produced in roughly the first half of the twentieth century. Important classical film theorists including Eisenstein, Rudolf Arnheim, Andre Bazin, and Siegfried Kracauer
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Formalism (-ist for this)
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A scholar who believes work's form or structure is primary, and posits that objective meaning is to be found in the work itself and not in an outside source, such as the author's biography
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Realism
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An artwork's truthful picture of society, person, or some other dimension of everyday life; an artistic movement that aims to achieve verisimilitude
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Iconography
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Images or image patterns with specific connotations or meanings
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Dream work
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to explore the various images and emotions that a dream presents and evokes, while not attempting to come up with a single, unique dream meaning. In this way the dream remains "alive" whereas if it has been assigned a specific meaning, it is "finished" (i.e., over and done with).
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Neorealism
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a national film movement characterized by stories set amongst the poor and the working class, filmed on location, frequently using nonprofessional actors.
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CGI (computer generated imagery)
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Still or animated images created through digital computer technology. First introduced in the 1970s, CGI was used to create feature-length films by the mid-1990s and is widely used for visual effects
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Formalism
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a theory of film study that is focused on the formal, or technical, elements of a film: i.e., the lighting, scoring, sound and set design, use of color, shot composition, and editing. It is a major theory of film study today.
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Realism
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terms that describe manifestations of philosophical realism, the belief that reality exists independently of observers. Scientific realism and Realism in the arts are two of a number of different senses the words take in other fields. In this broad sense Realism frequently contrasts with Idealism.
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Ontology
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the philosophical study of the nature of being, existence, or reality as such, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations. Traditionally listed as a part of the major branch of philosophy known as metaphysics, ontology deals with questions concerning what entities exist or can be said to exist, and how such entities can be grouped, related within a hierarchy, and subdivided according to similarities and differences.[citation needed]
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Genre
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is the term for any category of literature or other forms of art or culture, e.g. music, and in general, any type of discourse, whether written or spoken, audial or visual, based on some set of stylistic criteria. Genres are formed by conventions that change over time as new genres are invented and the use of old ones are discontinued. Often, works fit into multiple genres by way of borrowing and recombining these conventions.
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