Reading 2: Inevitability of Narrative

Question 1

Name of first family thriller

Answer 1

Suspense

Question 2

Plot of Suspense

Answer 2

tramp threatens mother/child, father saves the day

Question 3

What team made Suspense

Answer 3

Husband/Wife team

Question 4

Suspense special fx

Answer 4

3-way split screen, triptych

Question 5

Birth of a Nation Director

Answer 5

DW Griffith

Question 6

Father of film grammar

Answer 6

DW Griffith

Question 7

Root of Griffith’s innovations

Answer 7

did not actually begin with him

Question 8

Result of Birth of a Nation

Answer 8

spike in race riots, uprising of klansmen #s

Question 9

Whats tough about birth of a nation?

Answer 9

hard to separate formal from social

Question 10

Battleship Potemkin dir.

Answer 10

Eisenstein

Question 11

Battleship Potemkin genre

Answer 11

Fictional narrative meant to glorify real-life anti-Tsarist uprising

Question 12

Most famous sequence in Battleship Potemkin

Answer 12

Odessa Steps, montage

Question 13

Evil people in Odessa steps

Answer 13

cossacks

Question 14

Style of Odessa Steps

Answer 14

Montage

Question 15

Conflict in Montage of odessa steps

Answer 15

juxtaposition of images of innocent w/ violent

Question 16

Eistensteins’ overlooked masterpiece

Answer 16

October

Question 17

October $

Answer 17

Commissioned by Soviet Central Committee to commemorate 10 year anniversary of Oct. Rev.

Question 18

October’s revolution

Answer 18

early Lenin/Socialist revolution

Question 19

October locations

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REAL (i.e. Winter palace)

Question 20

Film’s leading grammarian

Answer 20

Eisenstein

Question 21

Director who was all about organicness

Answer 21

Eisenstein

Question 22

Eisenstein scale of extras

Answer 22

LARGE SCALE (thousands of extras)

Question 23

Eisenstein had strong sense of

Answer 23

chaos

Question 24

October biggest 2 scene (+ex.)

Answer 24

BRIDGE SCENE
-Dead horse hanging off
-falling corpse
+TOPPLING OF ALEXANDER II Statue

Question 25

Eisenstein pro-

Answer 25

Lenin/propoganda

Question 26

Man Ray's big film

Answer 26

Return to Reason

Question 27

Genre of Return to Reason

Answer 27

Early Dada film

Question 28

Man Ray's invention

Answer 28

Rayograph: Object placed between light source and photo sensitive film>Moyion pivtures

Question 29

Example of rayograph material

Answer 29

sprinkling salt/pepper on film

Question 30

Added shots in return to reason

Answer 30

night shots of carnival

Question 31

Key model in return to reason

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nude Kiki in striped light

Question 32

ballet mechanique dir.

Answer 32

fernand leger

Question 33

ballet mechanique

Answer 33

masterpiece of modern art & influential expiramental film

Question 34

Ballet Mechanique concerns

Answer 34

concerns about modernization/times

Question 35

Ballet mechanique shows a mechanical universe, with _________________

Answer 35

a very human face

Question 36

techniques used in ballet mechanique

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repetition to rep. clockwork structure of everyday life

Question 37

photographer of ballet mechanique

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dudley murphy

Question 38

ballet mechanique music

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eric Satie/overwhelming sounds

Question 39

shots in ballet mechanique

Answer 39

rapidly cut, like a cubist painting

Question 40

Directors of Realism (2)

Answer 40

Lumiere/Edison

Question 41

Film of Classicism

Answer 41

Birth of a Nation

Question 42

Film of Formalism

Answer 42

Battleship Potemkin

Question 43

Film of Docu

Answer 43

Nanook of the North

Question 44

Avante-Garde director

Answer 44

Meilies

Question 45

Examples of Style in film

Answer 45

Realism, Classicism, Formalism

Question 46

Examples of Type in film

Answer 46

Docu, Fiction, Avante-Garde

Question 47

Basis of narrative films

Answer 47

cause/effect

Question 48

primitive cinema and narative

Answer 48

primitive cinema has own non-narrative modes

Question 49

Narrative cinema and viewer

Answer 49

Narrative cinema in nature relegates viewer to "observer-voyeur"

Question 50

CInema of attraction is different from narrative because

Answer 50

it addresses viewers directly

Question 51

Gaze of contemporary cinema

Answer 51

voyeuristic spectorial gaze

Question 52

Early cinema more _______ in nature

Answer 52

exhibitionist in nature (spectator INVITED to look)

Question 53

Evolution of film spectatorship in Early Cinema necessary ________

Answer 53

to replicate realism

Question 54

Male gaze theory

Answer 54

camera is male

Question 55

Audience that identifies w/ actor, actually identifying with

Answer 55

camera

Question 56

Cuts between frames & the viewer

Answer 56

require viewer to interpolate b/w frames

Question 57

Another name for Montage Editing

Answer 57

Soviet Montage

Question 58

Montage editing

Answer 58

placing 2 unrelated shots together to build meaning from combo

Question 59

Big fan of soviet montage

Answer 59

Sergei Eisenstein

Question 60

how did Eisenstein use montage

Answer 60

created metaphor (i.e. carnival attractions+shocks=collisions)

Question 61

Continuity editing= ______ style

Answer 61

Hollywood

Question 62

Invisible editing

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to hide visual impact of moving from one shot to next

Question 63

Dada

Answer 63

Significant movements of historical avante-garde born in heart of Europe

Question 64

When was Dada?

Answer 64

World War I

Question 65

What did Dada do?

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Challenge tradition and art-making was challenged forever

Question 66

Inspiration of Dada artists

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Dismayed by stupidity and horror of WWI

Question 67

Who did Dada discredit?

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European society

Question 68

What Dada artists thought about social construct in Europe

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gender roles, culture, etc. all failed to prevent war b/c of "rational mindset". LED TO WAR

Question 69

Dada saw art as

Answer 69

WEAPON

Question 70

No guarantee in technology of film that

Answer 70

narrative is a given

Question 71

Why narrative is most popular

Answer 71

tradition/$

Question 72

Parallel tracks

Answer 72

simultaneous action in story occurs

Question 73

Cinema of Attraction based on

Answer 73

shock & sensation

Question 74

Mise-en-scene eliminates

Answer 74

frame, we get SUTURED into film

Question 75

Eisenstein technical juxtaposition in

Answer 75

camera angles

Question 76

Example of Eisenstein angles

Answer 76

Lenin's Godlike low angles

Question 77

What quality does battleship Potemkin have?

Answer 77

docu feel

Question 78

Propaganda film by soviet union

Answer 78

battleship potemkin/october

Question 79

Dada artists worked w/ _____

Answer 79

Avante-garde musicians for scores

Question 80

Ballet Mechanique made by

Answer 80

Leger & Murphy

Question 81

Ballet Mechanique fascination

Answer 81

What's happening in society (speed and mechanization)