Modernism and Postmodernism Film Final 2023/2024 verified to pass

Modernism and Postmodernism Film Finalmodernism - correct answer an aesthetic response to the modernity historical era; cinema as art, director as artist (personal style significant) traits of modernist cinema - correct answer form over function, abstraction, reflexivity, nontraditional narrative structures reflexivity - correct answer when a medium refers to itself; a film making the audience aware of the filmmaking process or the fact that they're watching a movie circular narrative - correct answer action begins and ends at the same point spiral narrative - correct answer films with narratives motivated by problems to be solved, but in which each potential solution creates new problems, resulting in a chain that is never fully resolved "abstract individual" - correct answer typical protagonist in modernist cinema, detached from worldly concerns, entirely involved in his own psychic interior, alienated, lonely, often wanders the city postmodernism - correct answer a classification for works that articulate the themes and ideas of postmodernism; attempt to subvert the mainstream conventions of narrative structure and characterization, and tests the audience's suspension of disbelief pastiche - correct answer mixture of genres/styles/textual elements, often seemingly at random nostalgia film - correct answer "a film about the past and about specific generational moments of that past;" also includes movies that just evoke significant cultural experiences of the past