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BCA Exam 3 Questions & Answers 2023/2024 Hollywood Renaissance Years - ANSWER- Renaissance definition - ANSWER-revive, rebirth Hollywood Renaissance - ANSWER-counter-cultural films, critiquing myths American auteur films-personal films Common characteristics of films of this era: - ANSWER-1. offbeat anti-hero 2. America as a "sterile" society 3. explorations of sexual conflicts and/or psychological problems 4. mixing of the comic and the serious 5. self-conscious use of ci...

Media "text" - 1. a construction- representation of reality based on values and assumptions 2. can be "read"- analysis and interpretation Aesthetic Value VS Social-ideological - 1. Aesthetic value: film as "art" 2. Social-ideological value: cultural studies approach Auteur Theory - Film is "work of a highly individual artist" -director as all important artist, more so the "author" of a movie than the writer of the screen play celebrates the technological innovation...

BCA 101 Exam 1 Study Guide Questions & Answers 2023/2024 3 ways to look at film: - ANSWER-As an art form, as a business, and as a reflection of culture How did film start? - ANSWER-As a business. Inventors were marking/selling gadgets Auteur - ANSWER-A filmmaker who edits, writes, and has complete artistic vision over a film Movies resulted from a combination of: - ANSWER-Popular entertainment, physiological phenomenon, and technological developments Magic Lantern Shows - ANSWER...

What era of silent film are we studying? - correct answer-American silent comedy Silent cinema - correct answer-The silent period saw filmmakers working to develop film narrative and film form to communicate ever more effectively through purely visual means. Films during this period are associated with the wider cultural and artistic movement of modernism Who was the most surreal out of the great and innovative American silent comedians of this period - correct answer-Buster Keaton Wh...

Shot Those images that are recorded cont. from the time the camera starts until it stops. Long Shot A shot that includes an area within the image that roughly corresponds to the audience's view of the area within the proscenium arch in live theatre. Extreme Close Up A minutely detailed view of an object or a person. Extreme Long Shot A pan view of an extreme location, photographed from a great distance, often as far as a quater of a mile away. Editing The joining of one shot with anothe...

Which of the following are and which of the following are not types of questions a social history film scholar might ask? Might ask: How were these films evaluated? Who made this film, and why? Who saw these films? Might not ask: What technology was available to this filmmaker? How was the studio system funded? Who are the most significant film directors? Which of the following are and which of the following are not elements of the editing process? Elements: shots, sequences, scenes ...

Mise-en-scene Rebel Without a Cause, Nicholas Ray, (1955) Mise-en-scene definition 'to put in place' or 'to put in the scene' What is mise-en-scene? The activity through which the film event is staged and presented for the camera. Main elements of mise-en-scene Setting, Costumes, Lighting, Staging Bordwell and Thompson- Mise-en-scene "In controlling the mise-en-scene, the director stages the event for the camera." Wood- Mise-en-scene "A director is about to make a film. She has...

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