Film Studies

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Lucilius

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Fellini Satyricon

Father of Roman Satire, uses hexameter verse for contemporary criticism. Member of scipionic circle, a group of writers under scipio africanus

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Prosimetric

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Fellini Satyricon

Mix of prose and verse, another form of satire seen by Varro. Modeled after Greek cynic Menippus

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Juvenal

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Fellini Satyricon

Satirist, wrote about the failures of the public morals of Romans and abuse of the vices. Speaks out against the rich and women

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Satire

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Fellini Satyricon

Romans claim of their contribution toward literature. Satirists used their method to poke at Roman flaws.

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Trimalchio

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Fellini Satyricon

Extremely wealthy freedman. Wife is Fortunata, Encolpius and his friends attend a two day feast here.

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Italian Neorealism

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Fellini Satyricon

Making films at attempting almost documentary like films portraying the poor in a very realistic fashion

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Parodos

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Chinatown

Ode that the chorus sings as they walk in. Start of most tragedies besides the prologue

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Stasimon

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Chinatown

Choral song ending each episode. A Pause from the narrative.

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Iocasta

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Chinatown

Oedipus Rex's mother and wife after he kills his father unknowingly.

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Tiresias

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Chinatown

Blind prophet, refuses to believe him, but in the end Oedpius discovers that he was right, blinds himself and sends himself into exile.

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Hamartia

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Chinatown

Greek word for tragic flaw, the tragic hero has to have this according to Aristotelian characteristics

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Peripeteia

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Chinatown

Greek word for reversal of fortune also contained with Aristotelian characteristics. The hero must undergo excessive suffering

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Anagnorisis

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Chinatown

Recognition of the consequences for their actions in a tragedy

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Dramatic Irony

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Chinatown

generated by audience's knowledge and character's ignorance. We know something that the character's do not.

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Plague

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Chinatown

Present in Oedipus Rex as a curse, and appears as a drought in the film, pushes the narrative along

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Chinatown

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Chinatown

Title of the movie, a symbolic meaning of things that are beyond reason and out of our control. When the characters enter Chinatown, reason loses.

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Flaw in the Iris

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Chinatown

Conflict between flawed vision and destiny

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City Dionysia

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A Funny Thing

comedic competitions occur here in Athens among the tragic shows giving birth to comedy.

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Plautus

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A Funny Thing

Inspired by New Comedy, wrote the basis for the film and introduced the type of comedy we see in the film.

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Miles Gloriousus

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A Funny Thing

Based on another Plautus play, this is the character of the braggart soldier that appears in the film as such.

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Erronius

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A Funny Thing

Played by Buster Keaton and is the man who spends the entire movie running around looking for his children until the end.

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Senex

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A Funny Thing

The old man, Hero's dad. The name is the adjective for an old man and the characters are simply named after their traits.

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Maenads

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Orphee

The group of women who dismember orpheus, but does not die and is carried to the sea where he speaks oracles

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Orphism

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Orphee

Type of religion, mystical figure, guides one through their journey to the underworld. Emphasis on purification, asceticism, and metempsychosis

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Metempsychosis

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Orphee

People who die who don't understand the Orphic mysteries drink from the fountain of forgetfulness whereas those who do live happily on

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Horizontal Development

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Orphee

a narrative development such as occurs in drama from action to action. A vertical development such as occurs in poetry is part plunging down, or a construction which is based on the intent of the moment

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Huertebise

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Orphee

Sort of an angel, not dead not alive, guides Orpheus from his world of the living to the world of the dead.

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Ut Pictura Poesis

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Review

Do good poems come by nature or by art? Comes to the conclusion that good poems need a healthy relationship of both

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Sublime

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Review

produces ecstasy, rather persuasion in the hearer. Distinction between convincing someone that something is true and creating a human emotion within someone.

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Ecstasy

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Review

Longinus "On the Sublime" the ecstasy is the feeling that is created rather than persuaded within the hearer

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Vomitaria

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Gladiator

Multiple entrances to the arena

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Hypogeum

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Gladiator

tunnels below the area leading to gladiator school, sanitarium, and spoliarium

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Spoliarium

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Gladiator

dead gladiators were stripped of the gear here

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Stoicism

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Gladiator

strong preoccupation with death and fate, determinism vs free will. virtue lies in bending one's will to one's fate; willingness to accept what is not within one's control

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Fidenae

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Gladiator

Arena collapsed and left 50,000 dead. Which leads to a more imperial stone version of the games

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Amphitheatrum Flavium

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Gladiator

original name for the collesum at Rome built by the Flavians

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Venationes

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Gladiator

mock hunts, slaughter animals sometimes thousands at a time or put up against condemned prisoners as a public execution

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Commodus

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Gladiator

emperor during the film, likened himself to hercules, cared more about the games then governance

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Munera

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Gladiator

Funeral games, these were games held in honor of a famous person's death, quickly becomes a way for the promoter to build status and popularity.

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Ratiarius

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Gladiator

Net and trident type of gladiator out of the four main ones. Murmillo, Samnite, and Thraex being the other 3. Usually would be matched to a particular opponent type

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Gracchus

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Gladiator

A senator in the film that is meant to represent the voice of the old republic throughout the empire

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Restoration of the Repbulic

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Gladiator

Misleading, 200 years away from the repbulic but it is mentioned often

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Ben-Hur

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William Wyler

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

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Richard Lester

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Fellini-Satryicon

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Federico Fellini

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Gladiator

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Ridley Scott

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Orphee

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Jean Cocteau

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Chinatown

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Roman Polanski