Chapter 3 TFM Inquizitive

Seek genre movies:

-the deep cultural roots of a genre -familiarity with genre conventions -an interest in ways of interpreting genre conventions

__movies combine different elements of film form to blur the borders among the three primary ___ categories.

Hybrid , film-type

Film noir was both delayed by and heavily influenced by

WW2

-A narrative tells a story. -Narrative is a type of movie. -Narrative is a way of structuring stories in films.

Way(s) of Looking at Narrative in Film

-Narrative is experimental. -Narrative is self-reflexive.

Way(s) of not Looking at Narrative in Film

Stop-motion, hand-drawn, and 3-D are the three basic types of

animation

What is the name for documentary footage that shows action as it unfolds?

b-roll

Experimental filmmaking is a new field.

false

Genre is the only reliable way of categorizing narrative films.

false (Films may be categorized by many different factors. Origin, budget, audience, and distribution patterns are just a few of the other ways we might categorize films.)

Nanook of the North (Flaherty, 1922) was the first documentary film

false (Flaherty's film was groundbreaking, but it was not the first example of a documentary film. The Lumière brothers were making factual films as early as the 1890s, which included everyday footage of factory workers walking, trains arriving, boats departing, and soldiers traveling off to battle. The footage captured the attention of viewers at the time, in part because moving images were still so novel.)

-Experimental films are commercial. -Experimental films are impossible to fully understand.

false statements

animation creation with

hand-drawn stop-motion computer

As shown in the video, director Errol Morris invented a device that allows interview subjects to respond to questions while looking directly into the camera lens. What is the name of this device?

interrotron

A grassroots subculture that has grown out of the affordability of digital video, ____ is an example of how experimental film continues to grow.

microcinema

We often think of ___ films as fiction and ___ films as nonfiction.

narrative, documentary

The Lego Movie (Lord and Miller, 2014) samples many cultural sources, such as fantasy films, Henrik Ibsen, Joseph Campbell, and classical Hollywood musicals. What is the term for this sort of artistic appropriation?

pastiche

Genre films offer familiar story formulas, conventions, themes, and conflicts. Strict adherence to genre convention often yields derivative and formulaic results. Which of the following are and which of the following are not reasons why filmmakers continue to make genre films?

reasons: -Genre films tend to make sense to viewers culturally. -Filmmakers may want to challenge the limitations of the genre. -Many movie viewers like predictability not reasons: -Studios require all filmmakers to make genre films. -It is extremely difficult to make a film without the guidelines of a genre.

Romantic comedies, like Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Stoller, 2008), frequently feature narratives in which two characters meet and fall in love, are separated by some difficulty, and then return to each other near the end. The genre convention displayed in this example is __.

story formula

Which of the following is the term for a work of art that attempts to capture the unedited flow of experience through the mind?

stream of consiousness

Documentary films are usually narrative.

true

Most experimental films try to break from the formulas and conventions of more mainstream narrative and documentary films.

true

Propaganda films are a type of persuasive documentary.

true

-Experimental films often critique culture and media. -Experimental films invite interpretation. -Most experimental films do not tell a story.

true statements