HUM 3321: Final Exam Study GuideThe Final Exam will be held on Thursday, May 1 st , from 10:00 am until noon in Williams 214 (our regular classroom). You will only be able to take the exam during this time slot; please note thatmake-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. Final Exam Format:- Terms: Fill in the blank (with word bank); 25 questions at 3 points each; 75 possible points - 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, VisitorYou 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 misperceptions1Mise-en-Scene-is the way that directors communicate information to the audience through thingslike 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 performersMotion 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 canshow more than before exploiting different racial groups for monetary gainNew 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
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