http quizlet com 53876435 multicultural film flash cards Spring 2014 HUM 3321 Midterm Study Guide While you are responsible for all of the articles in the Anthology and chapters in the Belton the following articles are the most important to study Hall Althusser Anderson Grossman Omi Winant Sue et Al Bird and Schrock Schwalbe articles mcnamee and miller Quotes of movies and matching them to authors and articles Highlights of belton article Explain the arguments and key terms of the above articles Hall talks about Reflexive Intentional Constructionist Althusser ISA and RSA Anderson Sovereign self governed Limited Imagined Community Grossman deals with femme fatale Grossman argues the femme fatale rarely exists in film noir insisting that film noir s lead female characters predominantly demonstrate complex psychological and social identity resisting the spectator s habit of seeing past her as opaque or ambiguous thus a screen on which to project male fears and desires or of fixing on her as the thing a dangerous body to be labeled and tamed by social roles and institutions Omi and Winant race is a social concept and the greatest racial construction is when Europeans came to America and kicked out the Native Americans and slave trade Sue et Al microagression Bird hegemonic masculinity it s the institutionalized practices that keeps men dominant Emotional attachment sexual objectifation of women Shrock and schwalbe in order to be part of the dominant group you have to have a manhood act Mcnamee and miller meritocracy myth people that even work hard will not get you to top of the game Inheritance and other social status benefits will get you to the top Film Terms B Films low budget commercial motion picture second run of the film Blind Bidding vertical intergration u dont know what your bidding on Block Booking forcing theatres to buy multiple movies at the same time this is a selling tactic Clearances Close up extreme medium camera gets close Cut An individual strip of film consisting of a single shot the separation of two pieces of action Dissolve fade in and fade out In the middle you will see both images Establishing shot Fade A transitional device in which either an image gradually dims until the viewer sees only a black screen Graphic match Crane Shot on the train A shot taken from a boom that can move both horizontally and vertically Crosscutting Parallel Editing A method of editing in which the point of view p o v switches alternately from events at one location to those of another related action Captures action occurring at the same time in two different locations Deep Focus everything is in focus Diegetic Non Diegetic diegetic characters can hear the sound Non diegetic characters cannot hear the sound Dissolve transition from one shot to another by briefly superimposing one image upon another and then allowing the first image to disappear Dolly Shot A moving shot taken from a dolly Dream Factories produces and intangeable goods Fade A transitional device in which either an image gradually dims until the viewer sees only a black screen Genre categories of movies Freeze Frame when the movie continues but the image is frozen God s Eye View in a room but a helicopter shot Looking directly down on something Helicopter Shot moving shot taken from a helicopter usually ouside High Angle shot Low Angle shot film noir A shot taken from above a subject creating a sense of looking down upon whatever is photographed Iris in Iris out coming into a cirle in or out Exp james bond with the gun Key lighting low key high key High Key light brilliantly illuminates a set is relatively bright involves a high ratio of fill light and is prevalent in comedies and musicals Low key light provides dim lighting usually with heavy dark shadows Mise en scene french word for putting on the stage When the director puts whatever he wants on the stage the way that directors communicate information to the audience through things like camera angles lighting setting props position of the actors and music Montage to expand or compress time with film Pan A shot in which a stationary camera turns horizontally revealing new areas Point of view shot editing 3 shots Motion Pictures Patent Company bodies of self censcership when movie companies Movie Palaces movie theathres they had cigars and food service Nickelodeon nickle movie theatre Paramount Case 1948 broke up the monopoly of the verticle movie company Process Shot Production Code aka Hays Code or Hays Production Code Runs how long the movie is out We can have 3 or more Shot Steadicam when we have the camera on a backpack Tilt when the camera tilts in different directions Tracking Shot any shots that move are tracking shots Vertical Integration when the movie companies own everthign in the movie making process including the movie theatres Voice Over Narration often found in fim noir voice is narrating in the background Wipe A transitional device in which one image slowly replaces another by pushing the other out of the way Match on action when cameras Shot reverse shot requires 2 shots Zones an area where the movie is being shown when movies get pulled out and realeased again Zoom Rack Focus when something is focused in the foreground Other Terms Hegemony dominance or control over others Miscegenation sexual intercourse with Misogyny fear of women Homophobia fear of homosexuals Social Consent everything we do is social consent Patriarchy male dominant society Romans noir black novels used in film noir movies Romantic Comedy comedy and romance RSA ISA Althusser Interpolated Subject Ruling Class Ruling Ideology Screwball Comedy slapstic and romantic comedy combined together Slapstick Comedy helps mystify marriage Triadic love triangle when we have 3 main acters Sovereign Limited Imagined Community Anderson Stereotypes privelaged beliefs and false generalizations according to Andre Decimated to wipe out something comes from the romans that means killing every 10nth men Diaspora to disperse what happened to the native americans Double Entendre two meanings used a lot in comedy and film noir Femme fatale Spider Woman french term for women actors that were vindictive Film Noir French for black film film practice in which the content of the film is conveyed in ways that unsettle and disturb the viewer through its dark mood Neo noir anything made after the 1950 s Pseudo noir Lumen hills natural light Lux fake lighting luxury Gothic Horror Literature Willing Suspension
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