HUM 3321 Final Exam Study Guide The Final Exam will be held on Thursday May 1 our regular classroom You will only be able to take the exam during this time slot please note that make up final exams will not be given If you miss the exam you will receive a zero for this assessment Although this is not a cumulative final exam numerous terms are listed on this study guide as they apply to a general knowledge of topics discussed and pertain to all units The Final Exam is worth 100 points and will determine 15 of your overall grade st from 10 00 am until noon in Williams 214 Final Exam Format points Terms Fill in the blank with word bank 25 questions at 3 points each 75 possible Film Analysis 25 possible points see Film Worksheet Template on Blackboard o Analysis is limited to the following films Puccini for Beginners Da Vinci Code Visitor You can buy this for two dollars already filled out at http moolaguides com note 9403 Terms Belton Star Actor Actual Person the three aspects of a star the actual person the personality that they cultivate for on stage performances and the persona which is the various pieces of the personalities of the characters they have played in the past Star System Studio Contract Stars are not born but made and they are made with a purpose to sell films Belton 119 The studio contract was the legal binding that studios could use actors however they wanted for whatever film they needed to create Term of contract 7 years Regulated actors personal life moral clause Actor could not concurrently act in theater radio television Hair styles weight clothing controlled Had to act in any film the studio deemed necessary Loaned out to other studios Long working hours 6 days per week Narrative Pattern Status quo Disruption Conflict Resolution of Conflict This is the exposition rising action climax falling actions and denoument new order Narrative Structure Circular Journey Modernist Circular refers to The spatial movement of the film is away from a place the cabin and then back to it in a symmetrical pattern 29 30 Journey going from Chicago to florida Modernist Vital information is withheld until the end of the film tempting movie goers to form misperceptions 1 Mise en Scene is the way that directors communicate information to the audience through things like camera angles lighting setting props position of the actors and music Kinetoscope Thomas Edison 1893 1894 The Kinetoscope Kineto Movement Scopos To Watch Designed for Kinetoscope parlors which contained a few individual machines and permitted one customer to view a short 50 foot film at any one time Nickelodeon theaters Actualities Movie Palaces 1905 The Nickelodeon era begins Small 200 seat theaters devoted exclusively to the showing of motion picture films The price of admission was initially a nickel hence nickelodeon Films Show not Tell no narrative Actualities included Documentaries Vaudeville acts recorded Scenes from popular plays Movie PALACES A Garden of Dreams Opulent luxurious huge interiors Escape from the congested dirty urban area Featured film newsreel comedy short dancers opera singers and other performers Motion Pictures Patent Company Hayes Production Code These were different laws and codes that put restrictions on what movies could and could not show to the audience slapstick comedy was a main result of showing comedy without sound post WWII they began to test the limits of this code and eventually the code was lifted so they could show sex and violence again MPPC Motion Picture Patents Company controlled by a small number of companies by monopoly stabilized the industry during the nickelodeon era 1915 MPPC in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1915 which gives rise to the Studio System System exploited the feature length films and the stars who acted in these films Dream Factories Studio System Vertical Integration Factory which manufactures dreams Coined by Hortense Powdermaker 1950 anthropological study of the film industry Art manufactures images sounds characters situations and stories 64 Industry product of the Industrial Revolution draws on the techniques of modern mass production the centralization of production the division of labor the increasing specialization and professionalization of the workforce and the assembly line 65 A film depends on the labor and specialization of many people Studios control the raw materials the means of production and the productive forces or workers 2 Films are unique products never before seen by an audience The Studio System evolved to reduce the risks inherent in the production of intangible goods such as motion picture 66 These guaranteed include the Star System and Film Genres Vertical Integration studios now control the production marketing and exhibition of the films Exploitation genre Blaxploitation stemmed from the revival of the code being lifted studios can show more than before exploiting different racial groups for monetary gain New Wave Cinema Cahiers du cinema Auteur Theory Pastiche Began in France in the late 1950s Young directors began visiting the Paris movie theater run by Henri Langois who screened many old films many of which were popular Hollywood productions French New Wave directors did not apprentice at film studios but they were students of film who refused to distinguish between high and low art and who often referenced previous films Cahiers du cinema French New Waive directors did not apprentice at film studios but they were students of film who re Andrew Sarris auteur theory founder Pastiche imitating shots styles etc from previous films in a value neutral manner Wound culture Fetishization of the body Rooted in the most rudimentary form of the celebration of the individual the fetishization of the male body the new conservatism of the 1980s elevated biology to the status of destiny Both success and survival depended more on physical might than political social or economic right The rugged individualist ruled 382 think Arnold Schwarzenegger Suspension of Morality questioning what is really the right thing to do think working girl cheating your way to the top Film Noir German Expressionism Pulp fiction german expressionism is an antecedent to film noir film noir is Made between 1941 and 1958 Often adapted from or inspired by hard boiled novels popular in the 1930 s and 40 s Low key lighting non traditional narrative style and plots focusing on crimes made audiences feel uncomfortable disoriented and disturbed Portrayal
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