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Film 220

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The three types of associations in experimental film   metaphoric, symbolic, and structural  
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Director of "Meshes of the Afternoon"   Maya Deren  
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Director of Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story   Todd Haynes  
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An experimental film association that isolates objects and assigns abstract meanings that are either given by culture or by the film itself   Symbolic  
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An experimental film association that links visuals to generate a new idea   Metaphoric  
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An experimental film association that engagea audience through a formal principle rather than a narrative or a chain of associations   Structural  
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compositional elements of cinematography   points of view, framing of the shot, camera movement  
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Point of view that recreates a character’s perspective as seen through the camera   subjective  
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Point of view that represents the more impersonal perspective of the camera   objective  
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a camera worn by a camera man which compensates for movement and jumpiness giving smooth and fast camera movement   stedicam  
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the pleasure we take in looking at and observing others   scopophila  
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Film theorist who argued • The camera’s vision aligned with a heterosexual male perspective • Female characters connote “to-be-looked-at-ness” • Women in films are bearers (not makers) of meaning   Mulvey  
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Three things that destiguish genre   conventions, formulas and myths, and audience expectations  
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The six main genres   comedies, westerns, melodramas, horror, crime and musicals  
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the three crime subgenres   gangster films, hard-boiled detective films, and film noirs  
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Semantic elements of genre   characters types, locations, sets, shot types, costuming, attitudes  
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Syntactic elements of genre   between onscreen elements, narrative structure, central problems  
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Film theorist who argued that categorization of genre should be devided between semantic and syntactic elements   Altman  
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a category or classification of films that share similar subject matter, setting, iconography, and narrative and stylistic patterns   genre  
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Director of Rope   Alfred Hitchcock  
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Director of Walle   Andrew Stanton  
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Director of Singing in the Rain   Gene Kelly and Stanley Donan  
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Director of Harlan County USA   Barbara Kopple  
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Director of Touch of Evil   Orson Welles  
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the subject matter and raw material of film   story  
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order of events and actions of the story   plot  
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Four types of evolution characters undergo over the course of the story   progressive, regressive, internal, external  
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Four types of narrative space   SHIP: symbolic, historical, ideological, psychological  
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Perspective identified by individual voice-over narration   first person  
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A perspective that confines itself to the experiences and thoughts of the major characters   3rd person limited  
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Type of narrative enters on one or more central characters who propel the plot with cause-and-effect logic   classical Hollywood  
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creator of dialectical montage and director of Battleship Potemkin   Sergei Eisenstein  
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a voice that originates from a speaker who can be inferred to be present in the scene but who is not visible onscreen   voice-off  
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a voice whose source is neither visible in the frame nor implied to be off-screen, it typically narrates the films images, such as in a documentary or flashback   voice-over  
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over illustrating the action through the musical score   mickey-mousing  
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relationship where sound sounds like the action on the screen   iconic relationship  
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a sound that continues over a picture transition or a sound belongings to a coming scene heard before the image is seen   sound bridge  
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the six modes of documentary filmmaking   POPPER: participtory, observational, poetic, performative , expository, and reflexive  
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mode of documentary which emphasizes verbal commentary and the "voice of God"   expository  
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mode of documentary which does not include reenactment and where ocial actors essentially behave as if no filmmakers were there   observational  
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mode of documentary that creates impressionistic instead of explicit meaning   poetic  
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mode of documentary that ay draw attention to the assumptions and expectations of the documentary form itself and increase awareness of constructedness of the medium’s representation of reality   reflexive  
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mode of documentary that uses interviews and other forms of direct involvement from conversation to provocation. Emphasizes and welcomes interaction between the filmmaker and the subject   participatory  
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mode of documentary which makes the filmmaker the subject and emphasizesthe subject or expressive aspect of the filmmaker's own involvement in the process   performative  
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Antecedents to documentary film   Actualities, newsreels, home movies, and "useful" films  
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