Brainscape's Knowledge GenomeTM

Browse over 1 million classes created by top students, professors, publishers, and experts.


See full index

Midterm Flashcrads > cin final > Flashcards

cin final Flashcards

1
Q

Screening: Us

A

d. Jordan Peele, US, 2019

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

Screening: Clean

A

d. Oliver Assayas, France, 2004

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

Screening: Goodfellas

A

d. Martin Scorsese, US , 1990

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

Screening: All About My Mother

A

d. Pedro Almodovar, Spain, 1999

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

Screening: What Time Is It There?

A

d. Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan, 2001

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

Screening: La Ciénaga

A

d. Lucrecia Martel, Argentina, 2001

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

Screening: Stories We Tell

A

d. Sarah Polley, Canada, 2012

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

Screening: Irma Vep

A

d. Oliver Assayas, France, 1996

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

Screening: Meek’s Cutoff

A

d. Kelly Reichart, US, 2010

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

Screening: Blockers

A

d. Kay Cannon, US, 2018q

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

“Media archeologist Erkki Huhtamo has described the proliferation and coexistence of screens of greatly dissimilar
dimensions as the ‘Gulliverisation’ of our modern environments, ‘a two-directional optical-cultural mechanism that worked
against the idea of a common anthropomorphic scale’” Martine Beugnet, “The Gulliver Effect,” 306-307.

A

Butterfly, d. Atom Egoyan, Canada, 2019

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

Signifier

A
  • what is materially presented to a viewer
  • an object, a person, or a combination of them
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

Signified

A

The meaning that the viewer gives to the signifier

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

Sign

A

the relation of signifier and
signified

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

Style

A

The particular way a filmmaker organizes cinematic signifiers

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

Shot

A
  • An unbroken span of action captured by an uninterrupted run of the camera
  • lasts until it is replaced by another shot of a cut or a transition
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

The duration of a shot is indicated by “take”

A

long take, a shot that lasts a minute or longer

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

Close-up

A

Nichols:
- Close-ups fill the screen with an object or figure of
significance
- typically the face but the shot is also used for important objects such as a
key, knife, or letter
- The shot leaves no room for doubt where the viewer’s attention should be directed

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

Medium long shot

A

the body is visible from the ankles or knees up

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
20
Q

Medium Shot

A

the waist up

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
21
Q

Medium close shots

A

presents the figure from mid-chest up

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
22
Q

Long Shot

A

shows the central characters as small figures relative to their surroundings

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
23
Q

“It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his two-ness—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.” P. 38 (1997 ed.)

A

W.E.B Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, 1903

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
24
Q

“A camera is an opening in a box: that is the best emblem of the fact that a camera holding on an object
is holding the rest of the world away. The camera has been praised for extending the senses; it may, as the
world goes, deserve praise for confining them, leaving room for thought.”

A

Stanley Cavell

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
25
Q

Rhetoric

A

The art and techniques of persuasion

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
26
Q

Continuity

A

The unbroken and consistent existence or operation of something over time. (OED)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
27
Q

Continuity Editing

A
  • standard rhetorical form of editing
  • creates a smooth sense of flow so that the story
    takes priority over the mechanics of storytelling
  • Viewers do not notice most of the edits; attention goes to the characters and actions, situations and events that take place in the story, be it fictional or non-fictional
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
28
Q

Match Editing/action

A
  • element of the shot from one shot is carried over to the next shot to smooth the
    transition
  • Matches using movement are the most common, but other choices include matching the position of the
    object in the frame
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
29
Q

Screen Direction

A

The onscreen direction in which characters are looking (e.g. screen right, screen left)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
30
Q

Master shot

A

camera is positioned at a sufficient distance from the actors to cover all their movements and gestures

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
31
Q

Establishing Shot

A

provides an overview of the scene

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
32
Q

Over the shoulder shots

A

filming over each character’s shoulder in succession

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
33
Q

Inserts or cut-aways

A
  • separate shots that are inserted into scenes
  • normally closer shots of objects that can be shot at an entirely different time or place, and then inserted or cut into the scene at the appropriate point
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
34
Q

Shot-reverse shot pattern

A
  • One of the characters talks
    to the other, who is off-screen
  • The next shot reverses the
    view and shows the other
    person talking to the first
    person, who is now off-screen
35
Q

Tilt

A

the camera moves in vertical direction

36
Q

Pan

A

Horizontal movement; the camera scans left or right

37
Q

Zoom shots

A
  • shots that changing the focal length of the lens rather than moving the camera.
  • the perspective changes
  • It does not conform as closely to human perception as a tracking shot
  • They can be more impressionistic
38
Q

Dolly Shot

A

A Wheeled platform that rolls the camera to a new location

39
Q

Tracking Shot

A

A shot where the camera is moved from place to place while continuously filming

40
Q

Steadicam

A

A harness, used during tracking shots, that absorbs the jerkiness of human movement

41
Q

Point-of-view

A

Shot that shows what a character sees, usually to produce subjective identification with the characters

42
Q

Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which knows each object encountered in life through and adventure in perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of “Green?” How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye?

A

Stan Brakhage, from Metaphors on Vision

43
Q

Colour is Relational

A
  • Our perception of colour depends on the relation between two or more colours
  • No colour appears the same way in every context nor in every different relation
44
Q

Natalie Kalmus “colour consciousness”

A

Klumas was the Colour Supervisor for Technicolour from 1934-1939

45
Q

Colour as Mood: Warm & Cool Colours
(Natalie Kalmus)

A
  • colours fall into 2 groups
  • “warm” (red, yellow, orange)
    • advancing colours
    • excitement, activity, heat
  • “cool” (green, blue, violet)
    • retreating colours
    • rest, ease, coolness
  • white
    • youth, gaiety, informality
  • gray
    • subtlety, refinement, charm
  • black
    • strength, seriousness, dignity
46
Q

Figure/Ground Relations

A

Relating to or denoting the perception of objects
as they appear to be separated from the background

47
Q

Colour Stenciling

A

An early colour process where colour was stencilled onto black and white films

48
Q

Necessity

A

When something cant not occur

49
Q

Contingency

A

Something may occur, but it is not guaranteed to occur

50
Q

Time

A

period and context

51
Q

Period

A

a particular span of time; e.g. ten weeks, one hour, one decade

52
Q

Historical context

A

major events, cultural norms and expectations that define a certain period

53
Q

Heterogeneous time

A
  • Time is multiple, non-coincident, and not restricted to the traversal of space
  • There is always more than one time in place
54
Q

Citation

A

a direct quotation, insert, or reference to another work

55
Q

Allusion

A
  • An indirect reference to another work
  • we understand on the basis of a visual similarity
56
Q

Intertextuality

A
  • a relationship that is established between two works of art
  • begins as citation or allusion
  • so much so that what happens in one film affects the way we think about the the other
57
Q

“In theperformance arts, rhythm is the timing of events on a human scale; ofmusical sounds and silencesthat occur
over time, of the steps of a dance, or the meter of spokenlanguage and poetry. In some performing arts, such as
hip hop music, the rhythmic delivery of the lyrics is one of the most important elements of the style. Rhythm may also
refer to visual presentation, as “timedmovementthroughspace” (Jirousek 1995) and a common language ofpattern
unitesrhythmwithgeometry.” OED

A

Martin Arnold, Passage à l’acte (Martin Arnold, 1993)

rhythm

58
Q

“The Roundness of clocks is convenient, but it naturally
misleads us about something clocks tell, because its hands
repossess their old positions every day and every night.
The reels on a projector, like the bulbs of an hourglass,
repeat something else: that as the past fills up, the future
thins; and that the end, already there against the axle,
when the time comes for its running, seems to pick up
speed.”

A

Stanley Cavell, The World Viewed,

59
Q

Colour as Leitmotif

A

as a theme that recurs through a musical or cinematic work

60
Q

Diegetic Sound

A

sound that appears to naturally in the story world

  • Traffic noise, dialogue
61
Q

Extradiegetic Sound

A

Comments on the story world and belongs to the narration

  • voice over narration, film score
62
Q

Subjective Sound

A

Sound rendered as a character hears it rather than as an objective auditor would hear it

Point-of-audition v. Point-of-view

63
Q

Contrapuntal music

A

two or more independent melodic lines

64
Q

fiction - liter

A
  • literature in the form of prose
  • describes imaginary events and people
65
Q

Fiction pt. 2

A
  • something invented or untrue
  • a belfie or statement that is false but is often held to be true because it is expedient to do so
66
Q

non-fiction

A

noun prose writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people, such as biography or history

67
Q

fact

A
  • a thing that is known or proven to be true
  • information used as evidence or as part of a report or news article
68
Q

The reflexive mode

A

It makes the viewer aware of the conventions, the expectations, and assumptions that usually go unspoken

69
Q

nounthe ideals of journalistic accuracy and objectivity

A

impartiality, absence of bias/prejudice, fairness,
fairmindedness, equitableness, equitability , even-handedness, justness, justice, open-mindedness, disinterest, disinterestedness, detachment, dispassion, dispassionateness, neutrality

70
Q

“The three premises of the auteur theory
may be visualized as three concentric
circles: the outer circle as technique; the
Middle circle, personal style; the inner
circle, interior meaning.”

A

Andrew Sarris, The Auteur Theory

71
Q

“If an individual is not an author, what are we to make of those things that he has written or said, left among his papers or communicated to others? Is this not properly a work?”

A

Michel Foucault, What is an Author?

72
Q

Discourse

A

a way of speaking or organizing signs that determine what will be legible or sayable at a particular moment in time

73
Q

Foucault continued: Author and Discourse

A
  • Texts (or films) must be eliminated from the list of works that are inferior to the others.
  • Those texts whose ideas conflict with the doctrine expressed in the others are eliminated.
  • Those texts that refer to events subsequent to the author’s death are eliminated.
74
Q

Clean central preoccupation

A

Cosmopolitan difference as the ground of forgiveness

75
Q

Irma Vep (central preoccupation)

A

Global media as a source of conversation and the recognition of difference

76
Q

Summer Hours (central preoccupation)

A

Generational change and national belonging

77
Q

Genre films

A
  • Films that share thematic and stylistic features which become known as conventions, such as shoot-outs in westerns.
  • These conventions establish sets of constraints, and opportunities, that individual
    films explore in distinct ways
78
Q

Auteurism

A

An approach to the study of film that seeks to identify the central preoccupation of a single director, thematically and stylistically.

79
Q

Outer Form

A
  • The iconic objects and/or relations that identify a film’s belonging to a genre.
  • setting, clothes, “tools of the trade,” particular objects
80
Q

Inner Form

A

refers to the unique way in which those iconic objects are assembled so as to indicate variation (the single film) within sameness (the genre, as such)

81
Q

The Political

A
  • a representational order that imagines what goes missing in the social
  • The political is the ground of the social
82
Q

The Social

A

lived ways of being, doing, and saying in a culture as they currently exist

83
Q

Hegemony

A
  • An equivalent relation is where members of a society are united by what they share rather than what is different between them.
  • Hegemonies express a shared relation to a cultural value
84
Q

Generic Variation

A

When the Political Becomes the Ground of the Social

Midterm Flashcrads (35 decks)

Brainscape helps you reach your goals faster, through stronger study habits.
© 2024 Bold Learning Solutions. Terms and Conditions