Humanities Chapter 9: Global Interaction and Cultural Change
Auteur - ANS ✔✔French term for author, used by FILM historians in reference to certain
directors who develop a reputation as serious artists whose imprint is found in almost every film
they make because of recognizable camera styles, rhythms, themes, and symbols
Cinematography - ANS ✔✔The way the camera tells a story
Close-Up - ANS ✔✔in film, when the camera moves in to enlarge the image of one character on
the screen
Conventions - ANS ✔✔Elements of filmmaking often unnoticed by audiences
Cut - ANS ✔✔A director's command that the shooting of a scene must stop; also, when the
camera moves from one character to another or from one scene to another
Dissolve - ANS ✔✔When one scene fades out to be replaced by another; or when the camera,
instead of cutting from one scene to another, superimposes the next scene on the present one,
then gradually fades out
Documentary - ANS ✔✔Nonfiction film that usually has a narrator but not a structured storyline
Elongated moment - ANS ✔✔technique associated with Eisenstein in which an action that may
be brief in real time is broken into component details and thus lasts longer in screen time
Film noir - ANS ✔✔French term for a genre of film known for dark settings, cynicism and
emphasis on the seamy side of human nature
Auteur - ANS ✔✔French term for author, used by FILM historians in reference to certain
directors who develop a reputation as serious artists whose imprint is found in almost every film
they make because of recognizable camera styles, rhythms, themes, and symbols
Cinematography - ANS ✔✔The way the camera tells a story
Close-Up - ANS ✔✔in film, when the camera moves in to enlarge the image of one character on
the screen
Conventions - ANS ✔✔Elements of filmmaking often unnoticed by audiences
Cut - ANS ✔✔A director's command that the shooting of a scene must stop; also, when the
camera moves from one character to another or from one scene to another
Dissolve - ANS ✔✔When one scene fades out to be replaced by another; or when the camera,
instead of cutting from one scene to another, superimposes the next scene on the present one,
then gradually fades out
Documentary - ANS ✔✔Nonfiction film that usually has a narrator but not a structured storyline
Elongated moment - ANS ✔✔technique associated with Eisenstein in which an action that may
be brief in real time is broken into component details and thus lasts longer in screen time
Film noir - ANS ✔✔French term for a genre of film known for dark settings, cynicism and
emphasis on the seamy side of human nature
