Flashcards in Reading 2: Inevitability of Narrative Deck (81)
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Name of first family thriller
Suspense
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Plot of Suspense
tramp threatens mother/child, father saves the day
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What team made Suspense
Husband/Wife team
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Suspense special fx
3-way split screen, triptych
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Birth of a Nation Director
DW Griffith
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Father of film grammar
DW Griffith
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Root of Griffith's innovations
did not actually begin with him
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Result of Birth of a Nation
spike in race riots, uprising of klansmen #s
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Whats tough about birth of a nation?
hard to separate formal from social
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Battleship Potemkin dir.
Eisenstein
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Battleship Potemkin genre
Fictional narrative meant to glorify real-life anti-Tsarist uprising
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Most famous sequence in Battleship Potemkin
Odessa Steps, montage
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Evil people in Odessa steps
cossacks
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Style of Odessa Steps
Montage
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Conflict in Montage of odessa steps
juxtaposition of images of innocent w/ violent
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Eistensteins' overlooked masterpiece
October
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October $
Commissioned by Soviet Central Committee to commemorate 10 year anniversary of Oct. Rev.
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October's revolution
early Lenin/Socialist revolution
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October locations
REAL (i.e. Winter palace)
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Film's leading grammarian
Eisenstein
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Director who was all about organicness
Eisenstein
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Eisenstein scale of extras
LARGE SCALE (thousands of extras)
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Eisenstein had strong sense of
chaos
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October biggest 2 scene (+ex.)
BRIDGE SCENE
-Dead horse hanging off
-falling corpse
+TOPPLING OF ALEXANDER II Statue
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Eisenstein pro-
Lenin/propoganda
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Man Ray's big film
Return to Reason
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Genre of Return to Reason
Early Dada film
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Man Ray's invention
Rayograph: Object placed between light source and photo sensitive film>Moyion pivtures
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Example of rayograph material
sprinkling salt/pepper on film
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Added shots in return to reason
night shots of carnival
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Key model in return to reason
nude Kiki in striped light
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ballet mechanique dir.
fernand leger
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ballet mechanique
masterpiece of modern art & influential expiramental film
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Ballet Mechanique concerns
concerns about modernization/times
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Ballet mechanique shows a mechanical universe, with _________________
a very human face
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techniques used in ballet mechanique
repetition to rep. clockwork structure of everyday life
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photographer of ballet mechanique
dudley murphy
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ballet mechanique music
eric Satie/overwhelming sounds
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shots in ballet mechanique
rapidly cut, like a cubist painting
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Directors of Realism (2)
Lumiere/Edison
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Film of Classicism
Birth of a Nation
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Film of Formalism
Battleship Potemkin
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Film of Docu
Nanook of the North
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Avante-Garde director
Meilies
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Examples of Style in film
Realism, Classicism, Formalism
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Examples of Type in film
Docu, Fiction, Avante-Garde
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Basis of narrative films
cause/effect
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primitive cinema and narative
primitive cinema has own non-narrative modes
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Narrative cinema and viewer
Narrative cinema in nature relegates viewer to "observer-voyeur"
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CInema of attraction is different from narrative because
it addresses viewers directly
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Gaze of contemporary cinema
voyeuristic spectorial gaze
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Early cinema more _______ in nature
exhibitionist in nature (spectator INVITED to look)
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Evolution of film spectatorship in Early Cinema necessary ________
to replicate realism
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Male gaze theory
camera is male
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Audience that identifies w/ actor, actually identifying with
camera
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Cuts between frames & the viewer
require viewer to interpolate b/w frames
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Another name for Montage Editing
Soviet Montage
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Montage editing
placing 2 unrelated shots together to build meaning from combo
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Big fan of soviet montage
Sergei Eisenstein
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how did Eisenstein use montage
created metaphor (i.e. carnival attractions+shocks=collisions)
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Continuity editing= ______ style
Hollywood
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Invisible editing
to hide visual impact of moving from one shot to next
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Dada
Significant movements of historical avante-garde born in heart of Europe
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When was Dada?
World War I
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What did Dada do?
Challenge tradition and art-making was challenged forever
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Inspiration of Dada artists
Dismayed by stupidity and horror of WWI
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Who did Dada discredit?
European society
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What Dada artists thought about social construct in Europe
gender roles, culture, etc. all failed to prevent war b/c of "rational mindset". LED TO WAR
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Dada saw art as
WEAPON
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No guarantee in technology of film that
narrative is a given
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Why narrative is most popular
tradition/$
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Parallel tracks
simultaneous action in story occurs
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Cinema of Attraction based on
shock & sensation
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Mise-en-scene eliminates
frame, we get SUTURED into film
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Eisenstein technical juxtaposition in
camera angles
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Example of Eisenstein angles
Lenin's Godlike low angles
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What quality does battleship Potemkin have?
docu feel
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Propaganda film by soviet union
battleship potemkin/october
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Dada artists worked w/ _____
Avante-garde musicians for scores
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Ballet Mechanique made by
Leger & Murphy
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