FILM 111
Edison - answer movies serve as a showcase for consumer goods
Griffith - answer provided new audiences with a narrative which they were familiar
Porter - answer composed narratives of succession of separate attractions and was
more theatrical, he showed the same action from two different perspectives so more
suspenseful
Narrative - answer characters achieve a goal or solve a problem, triumph or transcend
limitations and come to a resolution
Segmentation - answer breaks film down into narrative units designed to expose the
underlying discontinuity
Character centered cinema - answer narrative is used to describe character psychology
and visualize the goals and desires of characters
Mise-en-scene - answer(staging of the scene) details convey a lot,
behavior/clothes/belongings/setting, elements of film are not merely ornamental
Camera angle & distance - answerexpressive devices that derive their meaning through
a relative process that depends on the specific dramatic context in which they are used
Zooms - answerused to designate a character's subjective point of view or reaction to
something
pans - answerpanoramic view of a space by rotating right to left
tracks - answermoves bodily through space in a direction parallel to the floor
Three-point - answer3 dominant sources of light. these are key light, fill light, back light
Persona - answerActors develop one, of themselves out of the personalities of the
various characters they have played over the course of their careers and out of
elements of their personal lives that have become public knowledge
Stars Personalities - answerstar, actor, actual person
Film noir - answerBlack film. French phrase that refers to an American phenomenon
made in Hollywood
, The Production Code - answerthe body of censorship regulations governing what
Hollywood was permitted to show on the screen
From 1926 to 1967 Hollywood produced more ____________ than any other kind of
film - answerwesterns
The birth of the Western film was due to... - answerthe death of the west
who published the first dime novel - answerErastus Beadle
dime novel - answermass-produced novels that sold at prices from 5 to 25 cents,
enjoyed wide circulation in the Civil War and post-Civil War era, gave way to magazines
Most dime novels and westerns resemble___________ from the 1920s - answerJames
Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, the main character is Bumpoo who was based on the
real life Daniel Boone
Boone and Bumppo were torn between what? - answerwilderness and artifice of
civilization
When did spending for space program increased and why? - answerin 60s, americans
made math and science a priority in primary and secondary school, Kennedy and
Johnson had a goal of conquering space
Purpose of horror movies - answergenerate horror, terror, or dread in the audience
through figure of the monster and the threat it poses
Horror "oh, no" - answerobsessed with the supernatural, the occult, and the irrational,
frequently look back on the past to an earlier trauma, experience, or event
Sci fi "what if" - answermarked by its focus on science and reason, grounded in
scientific facts, assumptions, and hypotheses which built speculations about future,
investigates relationships between humans and nonhumans
Extrapolative - answerVERNE, contemporary science and tech into future, drawing on a
chain of cause-effect logic and possible course of change
Speculative - answerWELLS, great leaps into the future that are often improbable or
impossible,
Classical Horror - answerheavily influenced by gothic literature and stage adaptations
with expressionist themes
ex: Psycho, Dracula, ect.
Edison - answer movies serve as a showcase for consumer goods
Griffith - answer provided new audiences with a narrative which they were familiar
Porter - answer composed narratives of succession of separate attractions and was
more theatrical, he showed the same action from two different perspectives so more
suspenseful
Narrative - answer characters achieve a goal or solve a problem, triumph or transcend
limitations and come to a resolution
Segmentation - answer breaks film down into narrative units designed to expose the
underlying discontinuity
Character centered cinema - answer narrative is used to describe character psychology
and visualize the goals and desires of characters
Mise-en-scene - answer(staging of the scene) details convey a lot,
behavior/clothes/belongings/setting, elements of film are not merely ornamental
Camera angle & distance - answerexpressive devices that derive their meaning through
a relative process that depends on the specific dramatic context in which they are used
Zooms - answerused to designate a character's subjective point of view or reaction to
something
pans - answerpanoramic view of a space by rotating right to left
tracks - answermoves bodily through space in a direction parallel to the floor
Three-point - answer3 dominant sources of light. these are key light, fill light, back light
Persona - answerActors develop one, of themselves out of the personalities of the
various characters they have played over the course of their careers and out of
elements of their personal lives that have become public knowledge
Stars Personalities - answerstar, actor, actual person
Film noir - answerBlack film. French phrase that refers to an American phenomenon
made in Hollywood
, The Production Code - answerthe body of censorship regulations governing what
Hollywood was permitted to show on the screen
From 1926 to 1967 Hollywood produced more ____________ than any other kind of
film - answerwesterns
The birth of the Western film was due to... - answerthe death of the west
who published the first dime novel - answerErastus Beadle
dime novel - answermass-produced novels that sold at prices from 5 to 25 cents,
enjoyed wide circulation in the Civil War and post-Civil War era, gave way to magazines
Most dime novels and westerns resemble___________ from the 1920s - answerJames
Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, the main character is Bumpoo who was based on the
real life Daniel Boone
Boone and Bumppo were torn between what? - answerwilderness and artifice of
civilization
When did spending for space program increased and why? - answerin 60s, americans
made math and science a priority in primary and secondary school, Kennedy and
Johnson had a goal of conquering space
Purpose of horror movies - answergenerate horror, terror, or dread in the audience
through figure of the monster and the threat it poses
Horror "oh, no" - answerobsessed with the supernatural, the occult, and the irrational,
frequently look back on the past to an earlier trauma, experience, or event
Sci fi "what if" - answermarked by its focus on science and reason, grounded in
scientific facts, assumptions, and hypotheses which built speculations about future,
investigates relationships between humans and nonhumans
Extrapolative - answerVERNE, contemporary science and tech into future, drawing on a
chain of cause-effect logic and possible course of change
Speculative - answerWELLS, great leaps into the future that are often improbable or
impossible,
Classical Horror - answerheavily influenced by gothic literature and stage adaptations
with expressionist themes
ex: Psycho, Dracula, ect.
