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define mise-en-scene.

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anything on the screen at any particular time.

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What is Film Analysis?

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looks at what is ON the screen.

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define The Realist Approach

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what actually happens, the subject matter.

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define The Formalist Approach

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technical elements of a film: the lighting, scoring, sound and set design, use of color, shot composition, and editing.

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What is film theory?

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Film Theory asks “why” to everything. conceptual framework (i.e. King Kong and african enslavement)

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What are the three ways to interpret a text?

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Dominant, Negotiated, Resistant. (i.e. Temoc shirt)

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define Marxist film theory.

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mass media are “the means of production” owned by the ruling class in a capitalist society.

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define feminist film theory.

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grew out of second wave feminism, function of female characters, “The Male Gaze.”

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What was Casablanca (1942) based on?

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Based on a play called “Everybody Comes To Rick’s” (1940). the play provided the spine but many changes were made.

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Casablanca: Who played Rick Blaine?

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Humphrey Bogart

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Casablanca: Who played Victor Laszlo?

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Paul Henreid

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Casablanca: Who played Ilsa Lund?

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Ingrid Bergman

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Casablanca: Who played Captain Louis Renault?

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Claude Rains

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Casablanca: Who played Sam?

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Dooley Wilson

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Casablanca: Who played Signor Ferrari? (of the Blue Parrot)

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Sydney Greenstreet

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What is the significance behind the song “As Time Goes By?”

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the unchanging quality of love. the lyrics are a lie?

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When did Pearl Harbor occur?

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December 7th 1941

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what was the thaumatrope?

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a paper disc wound up to spin, the persistence of vision

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who was Edward Muybridge?

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photographs a horse galloping using a series of 12 cameras. first continuous recording of a live action event.

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what was the “gun camera?”

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it could take 12 photos per second.

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Who invented the kinetograph (completed 1891)?

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William Dickson (assigned by Thomas Edison to invent a motion picture camera).

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Who projected the first film to a private audience in 1895?

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Auguste and Louis Lumiere: “Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory.”

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who was George Melies?

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french stage magician turned filmmaker, used magic lanterns in his stage shows, quickly saw the possibilities in film, “A Trip to the Moon.”

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who was Edwin S. Porter?

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former projectionist turned director, “Life of an American Fireman” and “The Great Train Robbery,” cross-cutting and parallel-cutting.

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The "star system" begins with whom?
Florence Lawrence, the first movie star, "the biograph girl."
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What prominent film came out of the Silent Feature Era (1915-1929)?
Birth of a Nation (1915) racist movie, post civil war, heroes are KKK.
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who were some of the top stars of the 1920s?
Charlie Chaplin (comedy), Rudolph Valentino (romance), Clara Bow (the "it" girl), Lon Chaney (best silent film actor)
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What is formed in 1922? (MPPDA.)
Motion Picture Productions and Directors
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define two-strip technicolor.
red and green film pasted together.
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what was the name of the first documentary?
Nanook of the North (1922)
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what was the name of the first screen "epic?"
Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments" (1923)
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what is the name of the first film with synchronized sound?
The Jazz Singer (1928)
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when did three-strip technicolor come out?
1932. Robin Hood and Wizard of Oz
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who were the guys in Head?
Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, & Peter Tork
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What were the Big Five Studios?
1. MGM 2. Warner Brothers 3. 20th Century Fox 4. Paramount Pictures 5. RKO (Royal Keith Orthium).
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What were the Little Three Studios?
1. Columbia 2. Universal 3. United Artists
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define full-line forcing.
if you wanted the big films you had to take everything else too.
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what were block-booking and blind-bidding?
a way of forcing theater owners to take a studio's entire annual output; sight unseen.
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Studio identity: Warner Brothers
working class, crime/gangster pictures, social problems, respectable biopics.
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Studio identity: MGM
"prestige pictures," big budget, epic level productions, $$$
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studio identity: Paramount
European, the most artsy, emigrators from nazi germany
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studio identity: 20th century
slick pictures, tightly controlled budget, best at the business, shirley temple movies
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studio identity: RKO
smallest, most risk taking, King Kong
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studio identity: universal
family run under "uncle carl," not a great businessman
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studio identity: columbia
low-budget westerns, series films, hired big stars to make first rate pictures
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studio identity: united artists
founded by DW Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, and Mary Pickford.distributor of independent films.
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studio identity: poverty row
2 movies for the price of one, very little risk little reward, B Films, best serials came out of poverty row
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Define PCA.
Production Code Administration, films had to be approved before distributing
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define HUAC.
House UnAmerican Activities
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define US v Paramount case
vertical integration ruled illegal, forced studios to sell theaters, block booking outlawed, allowed for independent studios to compete. tv ownership exploded as a result.
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who was Kirk Douglas and Dalton Trumbo?
Kirk Douglas hired Dalton Trumbo to script "Spartacus," commie writer of book turned film, was a success, helped break the blacklist.
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who was Sergei Eisenstein?
a Russian director and film theorist.
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What are the four keys to Film Form and Style?
cinematography, editing, sounds, mise-en-scene
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define a short focal length (or wide angle lens)
foreground objects are huge, far away is even smaller. distorts straight lines.
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define medium focal length.
"Normal." the lens used the most.
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define long focal length (or telephoto).
depth & volume is distorted, distance between objects is compressed, everything is in focus.
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define deep focus
allows everything in scene to be in focus. distance between nearest and farthest objects in a scene.
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define deep space.
several actions on same plane (may or may not be in focus).
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define shallow focus.
only one thing in focus.
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define framing
the way in which an object is presented on scene. "this is important I want you to look at this."
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define extreme long shot (aka establishing shot)
alien engraved farm/field, building or mountain.
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define medium shot
puts character in setting. probably the most common shot. clint eastwood, lamp lady. 3/4 of person on screen.
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define close up shot
character is everything, the shining, typically of a face or object
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define enhanced closeup
has so much impact, should not be used often.
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define pov shot
see the world thru character's eyes
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define high angle shot
subject harmless, bird's eye shot
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define low angle shot
viewer is submissive, looking up at subject
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define eye level shot
the way we normally see the world, forrest gump.
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what is the titled angle shot called?
Canted, or Dutch Angle. something's not right here...
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define long shot
more relaxed, really focus on it
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define short shot length
more frenetic, faster paced, caught up in the action
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what is the 180 degree rule?
staying on one side of an axis, an attempt to build a reality.

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