Film Exam 4

Front 1

Basic unit of construction in movies is ________

Back 1

shot

Front 2

What are the two major sources of info in theater?

Back 2

action and dialogue

Front 3

Who is the true author in film?

Back 3

the director

everyone else is the collaborator

Front 4

Basic unit of construction in theater is __________

Back 4

scene

Front 5

The aesthetic of film is based on ___________

Back 5

photography

also, shots

Front 6

A view that stresses the dominance of the director in film art is called _________

Back 6

auteur theory

Front 7

Whoever controls the ________ is the true author of a movie

Back 7

mise en scene

Front 8

_________ is the study of how stories work and makes sense of raw materials

Back 8

narratology

Front 9

Aristotle says there are two types of storytelling called ________ and _________

Back 9

mimises (showing) and diersis (telling)

Front 10

_________ is the province of live theater where the events tell themselves

Back 10

mimises

Front 11

Forms that message sender use to communicate with message recievers

Back 11

rhetoric

Front 12

_________ is the province of the literary epic and the novel and a story told by a narrator who's sometimes reliable

Back 12

diegesis

Front 13

__________ is the raw material, general subject matter in a chronological sequece

Back 13

story

Front 14

__________ is the storyteller's way of superimposing structural patterns over the story

Back 14

plot

Front 15

Six steps in classical paradigm

Back 15

1. exposition
2. inciting moment
3. series of conflicts
4. climax
5. resolution
6. closure

Front 16

__________ describes a certain kind of narrative structure that has dominated fiction film


ever since?

Back 16

classical paradigm


1910

Front 17

Describe the "realistic narrative"

Back 17

loose/discursive plots with no clearly defined beg/mid/end

Front 18

______ narratives hammer home a thematic point more forcefully by rearranging time

Back 18

formalistic

Front 19

The author's personality is in show in ______ narratives

Back 19

formalistic

Front 20

3 broad classifications of movies

Back 20

1. fiction
2. documentaries
3. avante garde

Front 21

__________ and __________ films do not tell stories, have no plots

Back 21

documentaries and avate garde films

Front 22

The realistic documentary is best illustrated by the __________

Back 22

cinema verite or "direct cinema"

Front 23

Cinema verite is a movement of the ____ decade

Back 23

60s

Front 24

__________ rejects voice-over narrations, have no judgement, simply photograph it and record the sound, fast film stock

Back 24

cinema verite

Front 25

Cycles of genres

Back 25

1. primitive (naive and developing)
2. classical (lots of discoveries made, balanced rick, poised)
3. revisionist (starts getting exploited)
4. parodic (parody)

Front 26

4 points of view

Back 26

1. first person narrator
2. omniscient
3. 3rd person narrator
4. objective

Front 27

Point of view where narrators are not participants but narration is all-knowing, enters conscioussness of characters, shoes cause-effect

Back 27

omniscient

Front 28

Point of view where non-participating tells story from consciousness of one character

Back 28

3rd person narrative

Front 29

Point of view where he tells his own story, objective observer

Back 29

1st person

Front 30

__________ is adapting screenplay from another piece of literature

3 types:

Back 30

literary adaptations
;
1. loose adaptation (very loosely based ideas)
2. faithful (attempts to recreate the literary source in filmic terms, close to spirit of original as possible)
3. literal (from a play, problems of time&space)

Front 31

__________ and __________ films do not tell stories, have no plots

Back 31

documentaries and avate garde films

Front 32

The realistic documentary is best illustrated by the __________

Back 32

cinema verite or "direct cinema"

Front 33

Cinema verite is a movement of the ____ decade

Back 33

60s

Front 34

__________ rejects voice-over narrations, have no judgement, simply photograph it and record the sound, fast film stock

Back 34

cinema verite

Front 35

Cycles of genres

Back 35

1. primitive (naive and developing)
2. classical (lots of discoveries made, balanced rick, poised)
3. revisionist (starts getting exploited)
4. parodic (parody)

Front 36

Any unobtrusive technique, thematic idea, that's systematically repeated

Back 36

motif

Front 37

An avert reference/illusion to another movie/director/shot

Back 37

homage

Front 38

A symbolic technique, stylized characters/situations that represent obvious ideas

Back 38

allegory

Front 39

An implied referance to an event/person/art usually well-known

Back 39

allusion