Final Exam Cinema Flashcards
(38 cards)
How is sexuality used in EXOTICA?
- Another vision of sexuality, club not sexy (nudity and feminity not sexualized.
What is preferred reading?
When audiences respond to the product the way media producers want/expect them to.
What is negotiated reading?
When a member of the audience partly agrees with part of the product. e.g Film, documentary, TV programme.
What is oppositional reading?
When the audience are in complete disagreement with the product’s message or setting.
Explain what the Gaze is def + 4 essential
Cinema poses questions about the way(s) the unconscious structures ways of seeing and the pleasure in doing so.
- Laura Mulvey
- Woman put in a movie for her degree ‘’looked-atedness’’ to attract the male gaze
- Consume
- Regarding the female audience, they will compare themselves to the other women on screen.
What theory is characterized by having the need to possess the character?
Fetishistic scopohilia
What is Fetishistic scopohilia theory?
When you need to possess the character.
What is the destruction of pleasure?
(seen in feminist film) produce to understand what the director is doing. You have to stop ‘’consuming for fun’’ Tool used by filmmakers who have a political slant to convey their message.
Difference between drive and desire
- Drive: basic needs, drink, sleep, what you need to do to survive
- Desire: become the father, possess the mother
What is the concept of interpellation and who is the author?
- Louis Althusser
Interpellation expresses that ideas are not simply yours alone but rather an idea that has been presented to you to you to concept
‘’ To explain the way in which ideas get into our heads and have an effect on our lives’’
What is apparatus theory?
- Apparatus Theory is a model of spectatorship and institutions. It argues that cinema is ideological (based on ideas) because the films are created to represent reality.
What are the 2 types of spectator?
Passive spectator
- The spectator of political and social science
- Reacts to the film in the same way than a mass audience would
- Accepts the intended meaning of the film’s spectator
Active spectator
- The active spectator acts as an individual
- Allowed to make a choice regarding the film
- Can create a narrative based on his own
What are the three possible responses to a movie?
- Affective: whether you like it or not (complexity)
- Cognitive: respect to the filmmaker
- Cine-literate: Analyzing a film
What are the 4 selves?
- Cultural self: Culture being,
- Social self: the self that you are when you are when you are with other people
- Private self: The someone you are with someone you are very close to.
- Desiring self: The self you are when you don’t want to admit (id)
7 types of violence
- physical assault (punch)
- threat (blackmail, bullying)
- reported violence (the news)
- sanctioned violence (sports)
- loss of dignity (undress a woman without her consent)
- unruly behaviour (riot)
- intensity
11 things you need to create a film noir
- Crime is committed
- Perspective of criminal (not the police)
- Inverted views of traditional sources of authority
- Unstable allegiance + alliance
- Femme Fatale
- Brutal violence
- Perversity + moral transgression
- Fate plays a huge role (usually tragic)
- Displays (disjunctive, non linear times)
- Bizarre plot twist (motivations, things hidden from audience)
- Lighting is dark
What is SATIRE?
Form of rhetoric that uses various devices to expose flaws, critique society, and ridicule politics
What are the four forms of satire?
Exaggeration
Incongruity
Reversal
Parody
What is Antonio Gramsci’s theory?
Antonio Gramsci: It is by showing in movies as normal. You impose your thought process to the others.
Who is the psychotic spectator?
incapable of making the difference of seeing a movie and being a movie
What is Willful suspension of disbelief?
Willful suspension of disbelief: watch a movie and accept that you are ‘’inside the movie’’ but still know where you are
Jobs in movies
Producer: Gets the movie made, getting sure that you have the money for the film.
Director: On the sets, direct the casts and everything going on the set
Writer: Wrote the story, screenplay
Editor: View the final product and select the scenes together
Actors: People who act or play roles in the film
Cinematographer: is responsible for lighting and photographing (technical esthetic)
Costume/Make up: Person who provides the
Special effect designers:
Sound of music:
Distribution & Exhibitions and Sales: person who chooses and make sure on where you can see it
Critics: People who gives their take on the film. Scholars, journalists, theoretical analysis
What is the cultural hegemony?
Cultural hegemony is the philosophic and sociological concept, originated by the Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci, that a culturally-diverse society can be ruled or dominated by one of its social classes. It is the dominance of one social group over another, e.g. the ruling class over all other classes.
Who directed the film Pulp Fiction and who are the main characters?
Quentin Tarantino: director
Characters: Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman), Vincent (John Travolta, Jules (Samuel L. Jackson)
