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HUM 1010 unit 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Genres of dance | -ballet -modern -world/ritual -folk -jazz |
| Ballet | Classical form prescribed movements and actions |
| Gisselle | Romantic |
| Modern | antiballetic movements |
| Isadora Duncan | -barefoot and emotional dancing, loose costumes -introduced new style |
| Martha Graham | -no rules -emphasize asymmetry in positions -barefoot hugs the floor |
| World/ritual | Hopi Snake Dance |
| Hopi Snake Dance | purpose: to bring rain - danced with snakes -snakes associated with rain spirits |
| Folk | Hoop Dance |
| Hoop Dance | -native american -ment to keep cultural traditions alive |
| Jazz Evalution | -Calke Walk -Charleston -90's hip hop |
| Calke Walk | plantation dances |
| Charleston | social dances in segregated black communities |
| 90's hip hop | the kid'n play |
| Pantomimetic | "acting out" of dramatic action |
| Narrative | tell the story |
| Abstract | communication through ideas of human emotion or the human condition |
| Divertissement | absense of a narrative |
| Types of staging | -proscenium -thrust -arena |
| Proscenium | typical stage, distance between audience and action, view through a frame |
| Thrust | stage comes into audience, apart of the action |
| Arena | audience surrounds all sides |
| Exposition | introduce characters and setting |
| Inciting Moment | dramatic question emerges |
| Complication | "thickening of the plot" |
| Crisis | "point in no return" movement towards the end |
| Climax | high point of action, question answered |
| Denouement | falling action "unraveling" |
| Dramatic Irony | audience knows things that the characters don't |
| Situational Irony | audience may expect a certain event, but the opposite happens |
| Verbal Irony | a character says one thing that means another (sarcasm) |
| Dialogue | conversation between 2 or more characters |
| Monologue | extended speech by one character |
| Soliloguy | Type of monologue expressing personal thoughts and feelings |
| Aside | addressing the audience directly |
| Ancient Greek Drama | origins: festival of Dionysus |
| Dionysus | god of wine and theater |
| key elements: | -judge on comedey, tragedy, -actors wore masks -religous event |
| Aristotle created | formula of tragedy |
| step 1 | starts with a noble heroic character |
| step 2 | character is brought down |
| step 3 | character suffers a reversal of fortune |
| Hamartia | greek for "tragic flow" |
| Catharsis | purging or purification of the emotions |
| Hobris | greek for "excesive pride" |
| Sophocles, Oedipus the king themes | -blindness and sight -truth -fate |
| Renaissance/ Shakespearean | -Thrust stage -women were not allowed to perform -for all classes |
| Hamlet themes | -vegence -maddness -accepting death |
| Modern Tragedy | every individual capable of suffering |
| Exitentialism | (no) meaning in human existance |
| Cinema types | -narrative -documentary -absolute |
| Thomas Edison | Kinetoscope film's |
| Edison's films | - simply novelty -short -no elaborate points |
| Cinematographe | Aguste Lumiere 1895 |
| DW Griffith invented film grammer by: | -camera movements -"close ups" and "quick ups" - created more dramatic editing -refined "cross cuts" to create parrallel action |
| Subjective viewpoint | 1st person narrative, emotionally involved, drawn into action |
| Objective viewpoint | ominiscient viewer, 3rd person narrative |
| Pan | camera turns horizontally |
| Low-angle shot | looking up at the character or object, showing fear |
| High-angle shot | looking down on a character, showing weakness |
| Straight cut | to save time or maintain suspense by not showing unnecessary details |
| Jump cut | jumps forward in time, disrupts temporal continuity |
| Jump cut in Run Lola Run | adds suspense |
| Match cut/ Form cut | cut from one scene to another in which the visual elments are similar |
| Crosscutting | moves back and forth between actions to suggest simultaneous action |
| Crosscutting in the Godfather | creates irony -while micheal is solemnly renounces satan his hitmen are doing satans work |
| Montage | elongation or compression of time Battleship Potempkin |
| Montage in Battleship Potempkin | creates propoganda of being scared of the soldiers and the Tzar |
| Mime | movements associated with people or animals |
| Mise-en-scene | props, costumes, lighting |
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