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Film 230 Exam 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Plot | the ordering of events in film |
| Story | the subject matter audience reconstructs from plot |
| Narration | the perspective through which the plot appears (1st person, omniscient, restricted, reflexive, unreliable, multiple); diegetic and non-diegetic material |
| Character Types | protagonist, antagonist, love interest, hero, foil, etc. |
| Diegetic vs. Nondiegetic | within the story vs. outside the story |
| Classic Film Narrative | follows a chronological structure and plot builds as characters experience it |
| Alternate Film Narrative | follows a non-chronological structure and plot builds through other means |
| Documentary | captures real objects, people, and events |
| Expositional Practices (Organization) | shows experience according to logic or order (cumulative, contrasting, developmental) |
| Cumulative Organization | uses accumulated catalogue of images or sounds to build the story |
| Contrasting Organization | uses contrasting images or sounds to build story |
| Developmental Organization | uses non-narrative images or sounds to build a story |
| Rhetorical Positions (Perspective) | uses shapes formal practices according to some point of view (explorative, interrogative, persuasive, reflexive/performative) |
| Explorative Perspective | view through travel/explorer investigating world |
| Interrogative Perspective | view through a subject under investigation |
| Persuasive Perspective | view through a position as expression of emotions, beliefs, and/or tries to persuade the audience to feel a certain way |
| Reflexive/performative | view through a call to attention of the filmmaking process/perspective of filmmaker |
| Genres of Documentaries | social, political, historical, anthropological, cinema vérité, subjective, mockumentaries |
| Experimental Film | reflections on material specificity of film medium and its conditions of reception |
| Modernism | new forms of painting, music, architecture related to broad cultural transformations |
| Avant-garde | advance military guard, 1920s art movements; postwar American movements |
| Abstraction | formal experiments, tend towards being nonrepresentational, emphasis on form rather than story |
| Hybrid Genre | a film made up of more than one genre (women's film) |
| Periodization | early cinema, classical cinema, postwar, contemporary |
| Classic Hollywood | 1920s-1960s |
| New Wave | 1960s-1980s |
| Modern Film | 1980s-Present |
| Orphan Films | films that no one cares for and could be lost to time |
| Soviet Montage | is an approach to understanding and creating cinema that relies heavily upon editing |
| Auteur Theory | an artist with a distinctive approach, usually a film director whose filmmaking control is so unbounded and personal that the director is likened to the "author" of the film, |
| Genre Theory | classifying a film into a category that contains other films that have similar aspects |
| Apparatus Theory | the idea that film is a machine, the technology, the setting, the viewer, and the film work together to create a machine |
| Feminist and Queer Theory | suggested that the 'homosexual' is not the only identity formation subject to heteronor- mative forces |
| Laura Mulvey | voyeuristic-sadistic scopophilia and fetishistic scopophilia, identification, point-of-view |
| Kracauer | film, Medusa, and Athena’s polished shield |
| Artaud | witchcraft, the cinema, and the occult life of things |
| Doane | the women's film, the subjectivity and sexuality of its female protagonist, its female address |
| Gunning | cinema of attractions mode of addressing the spectator |
| Cherchi Usai | ethics of film preservation; duplication vs. conservation vs. restoration |
| Blonde Venus | (Josef von Sternberg, 1932) A nightclub singer becomes a playboy's mistress to support her son and ailing husband. |
| Cléo from 5 to 7 | (Agnes Varda, 1962) Florence, a young singer known professionally as "Cléo Victoire", from 5 p.m. until 6:30 p.m. on June 21, as she waits to hear the results of a biopsy that will possibly confirm a diagnosis of stomach cancer |
| Cameraperson | (Kirsten Johnston, 2016) Follows the unchronological story of documentaries Kirsten has filmed throughout her career |
| The Wonder Ring | (Stan Brakhage, 1980) Footage from New York City's elevated train. |
| The Dante Quartet | (Stan Brakhage, 1987) Abstract film based on the divine comedy. |
| Wasteland No.1 | (Jodie Mack, 2017) Abstract film following a circuit board. |
| A Movie | (Bruce Connor, 1958) A montage of old films that follow anywhere from cars racing and falling of cliffs, to skydiving, to surfing. |
| Fireworks | (Kenneth Anger, 1947) Follows the dreamlike life sequence of a gay marine and the abstract feelings that come with. |
| Kustom Kar Kamandos | (Kenneth Anger, 1965) A short film of a man seductively polishing a car which represents a woman |
| Rebecca | (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940) Follows the marriage of the Dewinters and looming presence of his ex-wife "Rebecca" over their lives. |
| Home Stories | (Matthias Muller, 1990) Demonstrates the women's film using old hollywood female movie clips. |
| The Dancing Pig | (George Mielies, 1907) A humongous and obese anthropomorphic swine dressed like a fine gentleman in a fancy dinner attire tries to make a pass at a solitary lady having a picnic. |
| Trip to the Moon | (George Mielies, 1902) The scientific movement that deals with a rocket flying into the sentient moon. |
| Be Kind Rewind | (Michel Gondry, 2008) Follows VHS store employs as they have to remake all the tapes that had been erased in the store. |
| Light is Calling | (Bill Morrison, 2004) Deals with orphan films and the loss of time in an abstract montage. |
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