Flashcards in Reading 3: Organized Time/Truth of the Docu form & Silent Comedy Deck (48)
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What is mise-en-scene
everything that goes into the composition of a shot, including composition itself
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1st genre of film
docu
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What was value of docu eventually used for?
social/political critique, ideology, propaganda
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Docus during war
strict controls placed on docus in WW1 to keep secrets hidden
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When did docus come into their own significance?
1902s
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Nanook of th eNorth about
Eskimo life
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Hybrid docu
Nanook (part docu, part modernist film)
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Nanook location
Canada
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How real was Nanook?
Not very, Flaherty staged many scenes/portrayed story he wished to show vs. real life
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Docus and filmmaker
docus often manipulated by filmmaker in one way or another
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Feminists view on docus
believe them to be "conservative institutions which reinforce ideological status quo"
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3rd genius of silent comedy
Harold Lloyd
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Harold Lloyd was
actor/producer
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Lloyd & $$
outgrossed counterparts by retaining ownership of films
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Lloyd's character
boy next door
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Lloyd look
horn rimmed glasses
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Lloyd known for
real stunts (i.e. climbing up building)
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Films in truth
films want to be "objective" and tell "truth" when in reality such is impossible (viewers never see way footage is manipulated)
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Docus appeal to
epistephilia
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epistephilia def
pleasure in knowing
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docu narrator
voice of god, makes narration seem objective
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Documentary boun up in
hierarchies (race, gender, etc.)
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Earliest form of film comedy
slapstick
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slapstick poked fun at
farcical situations and physical mishaps
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Who began Keystone Studios?
Mack Sennett
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Mack Sennet nickname
King of Comedy
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Leading producer in slapstick
Mack Sennett
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Msvk Sennett motion
frantic and fast, comedic
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Mack Sennett casting
casted exaggerated/grotesque people
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Keystone featured (ppl)
Fatty Arbuckle, Chaplin
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Charlie ChaplinChaplin
silent actor/pantomimist
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Who was Sennetts most important discovery?
Chaplin
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Buster Keaton look
stoneface
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Keaton known for
acrobatic visual gags
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Most acclaimed keaton film
the general
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Most meta early film & dir.
Man with the Movie Camera by Veritoff
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Why was Man with a Movie Cam revolutionary
People genuinely didn't know how films were made, pulled curtain back
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German Propaganda film + Director
Triumph des Willens (aka “Triumph of the Will”), Leni Riefenstahl,
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Real Nanook
Died 2 years after filming in storm
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Nanook family was
"The happy family"
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Riefenstahl as a director
REAL Star, placed each camera
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# of cameras under Riefenstahl
30
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How hitler saw film
most powerful weapon in attitudes
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Angles in Triumph of the Will
Made hitler look godlike
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Theatrics in Triumph of the Will
Hitler's persona/voice/projection/fame/etc.
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Sherlock Jr. does what to movies?
Exposes movie projections/movies
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Funny edits in Sherlock Jr.
His dream sequence and funny edits of being in diff. movies
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