CDM 001 Final questions and answers(latest update)

Cleo from 5 to 7 Agnes Varda, 1962 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974 Do the Right Thing Spike Lee, 1989 In the Mood for Love Wong Kar-Wai, 2000 Semiotic Signs iconic, indexical, symbolic Icon an image or picture; a symbol Indexical written or spoken signs Symbolic serving as a visible symbol for something abstract Six Modes of Documentary Poetic, Expository, Observational, Participatory, Reflexive, Performative Poetic Documentary Documentary that makes use of montage, metaphors, and rhythm to convey ideas in an imaginative way Expository Documentary An approach to documentary filmmaking that uses formal elements, a script prepared in advance, and an authoritative narrator to explain subject matter to the viewer. Participatory Documentary An approach to nonfiction filmmaking in which the filmmaker interacts with the subjects and situations being recorded and thus becomes part of the film. Reflexive Documentary A documentary style that draws attention to its own constructedness and the fact that they are representations; questions the authenticity of documentary in general; most self-conscious of all modes and highly skeptical of realism. Performative Documentary An approach to nonfiction filmmaking related to the participatory documentary. The filmmaker's interaction with the subject matter is deeply personal and often emotional. In a performative documentary, the filmmaker's experience is central to the way viewers engage and understand the subject matter. Ethnographic Film A type of documentary film whose purpose is to present the way of life of a culture or subculture French New Wave A film movement (1950s and 1960s) in France in opposition to the conventional studio system. Films often low budget with young actors, shot on location, used unconventional sound and editing patterns, and addressed the struggle for personal expression. Auteurism a filmmaker whose individual style and complete control over all elements of production give a film its personal and unique stamp. Neorealism a version of realist theory that emphasizes the influence on state behavior of the system's structure, especially the international distribution of power Photographic Realism exact replication of forms from real life Camera-Stylo the use of camera as a means of personal expression, especially as practiced by some directors of the New Wave. Aka camera-pen in which film was regarded as a form of audiovisual language & the filmmaker. permits the cinema to become " a means of expression as supple & subtle as that of written language" Cahiers du Cinema A popular magazine in which young French film critics like Godard and Truffaut wrote about French cinema. In English it means The Film Journal Modernism A cultural movement embracing human empowerment and rejecting traditionalism as outdated. Rationality, industry, and technology were cornerstones of progress and human achievement.