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CRITICAL APPROACHES, THEORY, TERMINOLOGY, DOCUMENTARY
MODES ACTIVE RECALL
CRITICAL APPROACHES
1. What are viewing experiences?
2. Examples of different technological viewing experiences
3. Examples of different social viewing experiences
4. What are the different types of contexts?
5. What is social context?
6. What is cultural context?
7. What is political context?
8. What is historical context?
9. What is institutional context?
10. Examples of the different contexts in Force Awakens
11. Examples of different contexts in Skyfall
12. What is reflecting in cinema?
13. What is constructing in cinema?
14. What strategies are used to engage the viewer?
15. What are the different critical debates?
16. What are conventions of a blockbuster?
17. What can be represented?
18. How can representation be constructed?
19. What are the 5 modes of engagement?

THEORY
1. What is Todorov’s theory + type?
2. What is Propp’s theory + type?
3. What is Claude Levi Strauss’ theory + type?
4. What is Steve Neale’s theory + type?
5. What is Rick Altman’s theory + type?
6. What is the semantic approach of Altman’s theory?
7. What is the syntactic approach of Altman’s theory?
8. What is the pragmatic approach of Altman’s theory?
9. What is Roland Barthes’ theory + type?
10. What is hermeneutic coding?
11. What is proairetic coding?
12. What is semantic coding?
13. What is symbolic coding?
14. Types of text within Barthes’ theory?
15. What is an open text?
16. What is a closed text?
17. What is John Sanders’ theory + type?
18. What is Andre Bazin’s theory + type?
19. What is Yvonne Tasker’s theory + type?
20. What is Laura Mulvey’s theory + type?
21. What is the Hypodermic Needle Theory?
22. What was Stuart Hall’s theory?
23. What is the denominate-hegemonic position?
24. What is the negotiated position?
25. What is the oppositional position?
26. When was André Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto published?
27. What was the purpose of the manifesto?
28. What did Breton criticise?
29. What did Breton believe Surrealism was?

TERMINOLOGY
1. Mise-en-scene
2. Cinematography
3. Ariel shot
4. Close up
5. Extreme close-up
6. Medium shot

, 7. Two shot
8. Point-Of-View Shot (POV)
9. Over the Shoulder Shot
10. Overhead Shot
11. Establishing Shot
12. Reaction Shot
13. High Angle
14. Low Angle
15. Canted framing (or oblique)
16. Crane
17. Tilt
18. Zoom
19. Track
20. Pan
21. Top Lighting
22. Under lighting
23. Back lighting
24. Chiaroscuro
25. Blocking
26. Framing
27. Diegetic sound
28. Non-diegetic sound
29. Character theme
30. Aural motif
31. Contrapuntal sound
32. Foley sound
33. Ambient sound
34. Sound bridge
35. Amplified sound
36. Cacophony
37. Discordance
38. The function of editing
39. Continuity editing
40. Jump cut
41. Shot reverse shot
42. Cut-aways
43. Freeze frame
44. Eye-line match
45. Flashback
46. Graphic match
47. J-cut
48. L-cut
49. Linear narrative
50. Montage editing
51. Parallel editing
52. Visual effects
53. Special effects
54. Smash cut
55. Crosscut
56. Match cuts
57. Iris
58. Invisible cut
59. High production values
60. Classification
61. Production
62. Distribution
63. Boards of classification in Britain and America

DOCUMENTARY MODES
1. Who came up with idea of documentary modes?
2. What is the poetic mode?
3. What is the expository mode?

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