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ARTH 374: Surrealism & Film: SPRING 2018 > MIDTERM > Flashcards

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Who Directed The Exterminating Angel and what Date was it released?

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Bunuel 1962

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Who Directed Last Year at Marienbad and what Date was it released?

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Renais 1961

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Who Directed Belle de Jour and what Date was it released?

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Bunuel 1967

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Who Directed Weekend and what Date was it released?

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Goddard 1968

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Who Directed Discrete Charm of the Bourgouesie and what Date was it released?

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Bunuel 1972

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Who Directed Eraserhead and what Date was it released?

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Lynch 1977

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Who Directed True Stories and what Date was it released?

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Byrne 1986

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Who Directed Ghost Dogs and what Date was it released?

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Jim Jarmusch 1999

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What does the term absurdity Mean?

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The term absurdity means the quality or state of being unreasonable

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What does the term Ambiguity Mean?

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Something that is obscure or open to interpretation. It could have multiple meanings

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l’amour fou is?

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insane love,” this saying describes a wild and uncontrollable passion that takes over when people fall in love.

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Automism is?

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An aert form that is defined by its unconscious thoughts or intentions

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What is corrosiveness?

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Corrosiveness is a term coined by dali in which Dali said what simulacar do is corred or destroy the line between reality and the original between surreal and a copy

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What is disorientation?

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A jarring feeling because a lack of structure or continuity

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What os Frustration

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A manufestation of anger projected outward of something that isnt just right

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What is Iconclasm?

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The destruction of an iconic figure

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What is Icendiary?

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Designed to cause fires

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What is Incongrous?

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Not in harmony, or unacceptable behavir considering ones surroundings

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What is Ineffable?

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Unable to be described in words?

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In psychology, “automatism” refers to involuntary actions and processes not under the control of the conscious mind—for example, dreaming, breathing, or a nervous tic. Automatism plays a role in Surrealists techniques such as spontaneous or automatic writing, painting, and drawing; free association of images and words; .is?..

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Involuntary surrealism

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What is Irrationality?

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The quality of being illogical or unreasonable

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The fact of two things being close together with contrasting effort is?

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Juxtaposition

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The concept of the marvelous also played a crucial role in Surrealist works. Differing from one era to the next, the marvelous was defined basically as exacerbated beauty. Provoking an involuntary shudder in the reader or viewer, the marvelous mirrored the perpetual anxiety underlying human experience is?

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The marvelous

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What is Mystery?

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A genre or feeling of unknowing or hard to understand or explain

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What is oneric

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Relating to dreams or dreaming

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What is Provocatgive/

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Causing annoyance anger or another strong reaction especially deliberately

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The state of no longer being needed or unuseful

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Redundancy

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What is Repition

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The concept of repeatingsomething over and over again for a soecific point

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What is scatology

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Refers to a type of intrest in excrement

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What is serendipity?

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The occurance and development of evenets by hance in a happy or beenficial way

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shock

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a sudden upsetting or surprising event or experience

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The undermining of power and authority ?

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Subversion

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Transformation is?

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A dramatic change or metamorphsis caused by something

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Vouyerism is?

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The act of spying or looking onto people an event or an action withput the knowledge uof others deriving some form of pleasure or knowelge that may be private

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Who was a famous poet write and deifned surreaqlism as pure psychotic automism?

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Andre Breton

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Who was apart of the first spanish surrealist club and made most of the movies we are watching including un chian andalou?

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Luis Bunel

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Who was De chirico?

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Giorgio de Chirico was an Italian artist and writer. In the years before World War I, he founded the scuola metafisica art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists

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Who was Fernando Rey?

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Fernando Rey was one of the actors that was most associated with working with surrealist filmmaker Lui Bunuel

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Who was Fransisco Franco?

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Francisco Franco Bahamonde was a Spanish general who ruled over Spain as a military dictator from 1939, after the Nationalist victory in the Spanish Civil War, until his death in 1975. This period in Spanish history is commonly known as Francoist Spain.

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Who wrote ther dada manifesto?

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Tristan Tzar- romanian and french avant garde poet essayist

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Who’ definition of surrealism is this?
“Pure psychic automatism by which one intends to express verbally, in writing, or by any other method, the real functioning of the mind. Dictation by thought in the absence of any control exercised by reason and beyond any aesthetic or moral preoccupation.

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Andre Breton

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Breton said there are two paths open to surrealist artist. They are?

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  1. Automism- unmediated path directly from unconcious

2. 2. Representation of a dream replicating a dream using illusiomn

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Who said.\, cinema has the ability to complete and enlarge a tangible reality?

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Bunuel

44
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Who said, “Mysdtery is the essential element of any artform?

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Bunuel

45
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Antonin Artaud paraphrased to define juxtapositioning: ”…elements uprooted from their normal environment and presented in uncustomary relationship to other elements, equally displaced.”

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46
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Who said, as handsome as the fortuitous encounter upon a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella?

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Lauteramont

47
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What was dada created as a reaction against?

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WW2 IN 1916

48
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DADA originally had its intial expressions in performances from?

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Cabaret Voltaire

49
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Dada was basically an ______ _____ protest rejecting everything anti art anti everything

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Anti war

50
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In dada a famous quote if rational states of mind created war then irrationality is perferable

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51
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DADA OR SURREALISM?

The practitioners often made their art of found objects including trash to form a nonsense, irreverent , irrational art.

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DADA

52
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DADA OR SURREALISM?

Their live performances would deliberately provoke the audience to outrage and sometimes minor riots

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DADA

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DADA OR SURREALISM?

No political point-of-view. No point-of-view at all. Extreme nihilism

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DADA

54
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DADA OR SURREALISM?

Used automatic writing and drawing. Films used no narrative. Used found film footage in-part or in-whole. Mainly about inanimate objects. No humans generally except as props or objects.

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DADA

55
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Man Ray’s return to reason used what type of phtotgraphic technique?

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Rayograms

56
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What does Marcel Duchamp’s Anemic Cinema Attempt to do?

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defeat and frustrate traditional viewing pleasure by presenting 2 dimensional spinning discs he called “Roto-reliefs” with spiral nonsense poems.

57
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How was Duchamps Anemic cinema typical of dada?

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is one of pure visual form without a storyline or appearance by humans. Most viewers will find themselves trying to see in the spinning discs perspective or see deep into the picture as we are trained but the discs create only the vaguest illusion of depth and constantly send the focus back onto the surface to flatten out space

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Surrealism pretty much came from the ashes of?

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DADA

59
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Surrealism shares some traits with dadism but also diverges from it in other ways? T O F?

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How ius surrealism and dada the same?

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Both forms did try to outrage and even shock and were nonsensical and illogical.

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In what ways did surrealism differ from dadaism?

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Surrealists believed in a storyline or narrative, but a dreamlike story using dream logic (illogic.)

advocated a political belief(marxism/communism)

anti religion specifically roman catholocism

critqued contemporary avant garde melodrama art

62
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What did surrealist films utilize?

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Humans as well as objects

63
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In surrealist films, juxtapositions of images that did not belong togetjher were crucial

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Why did surrealist typically like motion pictures as an art form?

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because the narrative flow could be manipulated to capture a dream experience better than, say, paintings.

65
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Any good surrealist does not believe in?

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Symbols

66
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Bunuel is sometimes reffered to as the old?

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The old iconlast

67
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This film by Bunuel had scatalogical references?

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L’age d’or

68
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Who was Jacks Dream the Short Film Directed by

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Joseph Cornell 1938

69
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Who was meshes of the afternoon directed by

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Maya deren 1943

70
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Who directed the short film rabboits moon

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Kenneth Anger 1950

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Who dircted the short film Rose Hobart

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Joseph Cornell 1936

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What kind of Surrealist art Tend to reject reality altogether or else expand reality. Inanimate objects and animals take on human traits. Distortion, metamorphosis, exaggeration, transformations.

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Animated Cartoons

73
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What are some Animated Cartoon Notables ?

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Betty Boop

Bimpbo

Popye

Koko the Clown

74
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Who created Betty Boop
Bimbo
Koko the Clown
Popeye the Sailor

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The Fleischer Brothers

75
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Who was Fernando Ray’s Character in the Discrete Charm of the Bourgeoisie ?

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Don Rafael Acosta

76
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Who was forest Whitakers Character is Ghost Dogs the Way of the Samurai

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Ghost Dog

77
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Who was Jack Nance’s Character in Eraserhead?

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Henry Spencer

78
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Who was John Goodman’s Character in True Stories?

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Louis Fyne

79
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Who was Snub Pollard ?

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Early Slient Film era Actor

80
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In earlier classes we watched a film by _____ _______ called A Nightt at the Show

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A night in the show 1915 Mack Sennbet and Charlie Chaplin

81
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One film we watched with Snub Pollard contained what eccentric prop?

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A Magnetic Car

82
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Why did the Surrealists loved the early movies before movies became too perfected?

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The pioneer filmmakers were learning and not as sure of how to put together good films in the first couple of decades of movies, and the rough edges showed.

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Because the Early silent movie s wre imperfect the surrealists thought this set up a ?

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a collaboration between the maker and the viewer.

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How did early slient films set up a collaboration between the maker and the viewer?

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The viewer had to participate more in putting the film together in a sense. The viewer had to bring something to the experience rather than it all being served up on a platter.

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These films tended to be nonsensical, appealingly anarchic, nearly spinning out of control, and connecting with the subconscious.

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Early Silent Era Films

86
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In the Emobolism Essay we talked about in class what does the rise in mobile technology bring about?

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Brings surrealism into the digital age

87
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What does emobolism talk about?

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Talks of “Cinema of Complexity” that refers to e-mobility and totality of imagery in our digital era.

88
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What does the “Cinema of Complexity” mean ?

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“cinema” has changed. Cinema has become countless moving image productions that are ubiquitous and surround us constantly.

89
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In terms of a computer how does this represent the cinema of complexity?

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A computer itself may be a Surrealist tool in that it juxtaposes a work station with a play station.

90
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If you see someone walking down the street playing on theoir phone how would the mobolism author argue this ?

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It can be argued that operating our many electronic devices and moving about with them are Surrealist acts.

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What would Breton and other surrealist friends do (think of how this relates to emobolism)

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Breton and Surrealist buddies would visit numerous movie theaters in an afternoon and view only 5 or 10 minutes of each movie or until bored and leave to go to the next movie. By the end of the day, the excerpts of all these movies would add up to a marvelous movie of no plot or title in their minds.

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In relation to this quote and what Breton use to do with movies

“Breton and Surrealist buddies would visit numerous movie theaters in an afternoon and view only 5 or 10 minutes of each movie or until bored and leave to go to the next movie. By the end of the day, the excerpts of all these movies would add up to a marvelous movie of no plot or title in their minds. “

How might this play out today and with which medium?

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Today, maybe Breton would simply channel graze with remote control.

93
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Who did Catherine Deneuve play in Belle De Jour?

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Severine/ Belle de Jour

94
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Who did Delephine Seyrig play in Last Year in Marienbad + Discrete Charm of the Bourgeosie

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A- la femme Brune

Simone Thévenot

95
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Who was one of the cannon slapstick comedians of the early silent era?

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Charlie Chaplin

96
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Who were the three performers to note whos music videos we watched?

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Beck

Bjork

Devo

97
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What does Anthropomorphism mean?

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the attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object.

98
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What is the Definition of an Exquisitie Corpse ?

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method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled.

99
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What is the definition of fetish

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Form of sexual desire which gratification is linked to a particular item object part of the body

100
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What was Fluxus?

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is an international and interdisciplinary group of artists, composers, designers and poets that took shape in the 1960s and 1970s. Dutch gallerist and art critic Harry Ruhé describes Fluxus as “the most radical and experimental art movement of the sixties”.

101
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When and Where did Fluxus form?

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New york 60s George Maciunas formed it

102
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What is the definition of Imperfect

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Some inconsistencies with the perfect or ideal thing

103
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What is Impercise

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Lacking exactness of expression or detail

104
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What is redundancy

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Something that is repeated unnecessarily: No longer useful or necessary

105
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What is Scopophillia

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Deriving Pleasure from Looking

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