Mise en sc�ne
depth, camera angle, developed by the French New Wave critics to refer to set design, camera angles, lighting, blocking of actors, etc.
Auteur
the director's aesthetic input
Sound Bridge
link between two filmic spaces
Milieu
how people act in a social setting
Habitus
a system of dispositions: acquired schemes of perception (i.e. "taste"), of thought and action.
Neorealism
shows the perspective of poor people, uses children to show innocence, filmed on location
New wave" (Nouvelle Vague)
shot on location, lay actors (at least minor characters), original sound allegory for the society at large
Dialectical Montage
an editing technique that emphasizes, rather than hides, the discontinuity between one shot and another.
Camp
unrealistic over the top plot, very vibrant colors, bad taste
Pastiche
imitation of style or character, celebrates the work of other filmmakers
Simulacrum
fake reality which often seems more real than the actual one.
Allegory
a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.
The concept of the auteur refers to a director who?
leaves an aesthetic imprint on the filmic text.
Mise en sc�ne is a concept?
developed by the French New Wave critics to refer to set design, camera angles, lighting, blocking of actors, etc.
The sound bridge is?
A ground-breaking technique that links together different filmic spaces
Before making films, Fran�ois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, �ric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, and Jacques Rivette were?
film journalists.
Breathless could be called a prototypical film of the New Wave because Godard?
used only lay actors.
The milieu is the?
physical and social setting in which people live
Certain films are called "Neorealist" because?
they aim to show the world from the perspective of ordinary people.
The new wave is "new" because?
It ushers in an approach to filmmaking that disregards or plays with cinematic conventions and creates new ones
An example of neo-realist filmmaking is?
Germany, Year Zero
An example of New Wave filmmaking is?
Breathless
A typical New Wave film features?
Filming on location, direct sound, fragmented, discontinuous editing, and long takes.
In a typical New Wave film?
the narrative is fragmented.
In a typical New Wave film, the ending is?
most of the times open and fragmented.
The New Wave's famous "jump cut" is the effect?
produced when footage appears to be missing in the middle of a take
Allegory, often used by directors working in non-democratic regimes?
Can convey hidden meanings through symbolic figures, actions, imagery, and/or events.
(Nema-ye Nazdik/ Close-Up)
This film is?
a hybrid of all of the above (based on a true story, a documentary, and a reenactment of true events)
(Close-Up)
The impostor gains admission to a family by claiming to be?
the Egyptian Mohsen Makhmalbaf, director of The Cyclist
(Close-Up)
The family to which the impostor gains access is?
duped by the promise of becoming famous
(Close-Up)
The scenes of the trial are most probably a?
real recording of the actual trial
(Close-Up)
The scene in the bus, where the impostor chats with the mother is definitely a?
reenactment by the persons involved
Close-Up (and other Iranian films like it) purposefully confuse the viewer concerning reality and fiction in order to?
encourage their viewers to question the reality of the government's version of
things
(Close-Up)
Filmmakers in Iran and other countries with censorship have to disguise their critique of their nation's society and its politics?
by using allegories
(Black Girl/La noire de/Post-Colonial Cinema)
Postcolonial directors like Ousmane Sembene are forced to film in the language of the former colonizer because?
this opens up a wider potential audience, among colonizer and colonized
In the film Black Girl/La noire de, the camera fetishizes Diouana, the black girl, in order to?
show that you cannot not fetishize.
(Black Girl/La noire de)
The dinner-sequence, where the male guest kisses Diouana, demonstrates that?
racism and sexism follow the same fetishistic pattern
(Black Girl/La noire de)
When a letter from Diouana's mother arrives?
her employer answers it, without asking her for her consent
The mask in La noire de... /Black Girl is a clear illustration of one of post-colonial theory's main points?
it symbolizes the vicious circle of projection on both sides - colonizer and colonized
The white woman in La noire de.../Black Girl is portrayed?
as equally trapped in the patriarchal order
(Black Girl/La noire de)
The history of fetishism suggests that the novelty of the fetish is located precisely in the problem of the object?
How can material things gain their social, erotic, economic, or religious powers?
(Black Girl/La noire de)
Freud's short essay about the fetish states that the fetish?
is a substitute for the penis
(Black Girl/La noire de)
Freud claims that the fetish serves "as a token of triumph over?
the threat of castration and a protection against it.
(Black Girl/La noire de)
The theory of the "fetish" is a model that helps us to understand?
how culturally constructed racial and sexual difference is mistaken for ontological (i.e. "real") difference.
(Black Girl)
The film plays, and disappoints, with the conventional viewers' expectations in the end by?
employing a cutting technique that signals end to fetishization and shows its destructive, that is castrating powers
(Black Girl/Course Reading)
African filmmaking as a phenomenon?
is relatively recent
(Black Girl/Course Reading)
In the Anglophone, Francophone and Lusophone regions, after independence, African filmmaking?
has developed differently
(Black Girl/Course Reading)
Hollywood films shot in Africa (e.g. Out of Africa, USA 1985)?
deny Africans any point of view
(Black Girl/Course Reading)
African directors are unanimous in?
eschewing the dominant notion of a cinema geared towards entertainment
(Black Girl/Course Reading)
For Ousmane Sembene, the film theatre could provide?
the forum for education unavailable under colonialism
(Black Girl/Course Reading)
Many African filmmakers initiated new narrative patterns by blending their own cultural codes with?
an appropriation and subversion of "dominant" (i.e. classic Hollywood) conventions
(Black Girl/Course Reading)
Filmmakers like Ousmane Sembene and Med Hondo are indebted to indigenous oral storytelling techniques and share a number of Western influences such as?
Italian Neo-realism, Hollywood, Latin American documentary and Soviet montage
Rashomon effect
a term that has been used by a number of different scholars, journalists and film critics to refer to contradictory interpretations of the same events by different persons, a problem that arises in the process of uncovering truth.
Almodovar's criticisms
misogyny
negative political content
wanted to distance himself from contemporary Spanish cinema
Almodovar's MALE characters
structured subservient to female characters
failed masculinity
Almodovar's FEMALE characters
women have gotten the bulk of interest
postmodern clich�s and types, but also touching glimpses of 'real' women who manage to overcome their neuroses, their failed, obsessive relationships with men and women, and who emancipate themselves from cultural ex
Performativity
gives trans characters special interest
Intertextuality
other films are invoked
Intermediality
use of other media, such as a TV, within the film as another filmic layer that raises critical questions. life imitating art.
Melodramatic
cuts across different genres to evoke different emotions