Intro to Film: Quiz 3

Western

A film genre that is recognized and understood based on its narrative elements: the characters (cowboys, American Indians, gunslingers, and outlaws), the setting (the wide-open spaces, the saloon), and certain narrative events (the inevitable gunplay)

Horror

A film genre that is recognized and understood based on the effect the narrative has on us, and how the events and characters create the desired sense of suspense and dread

ethnographic film

A film that documents the way of life in a foreign land

Travelogue

A film that presents a tour of a foreign land

Propaganda film

A film that promotes a political agenda

New American Cinema Group

A group of avant-garde filmmakers whose anti-Hollywood manifesto was responsible for initiating the New York film underground of the 1960s.

Cel

A painting or drawing made on celluloid for use in an animated film

Anime

A style of Japanese animation that includes a range of styles and types including adaptations of Japanese Manga (young-adult magazines)

Experimental, or avant-garde, film

A type of film that challenges widely held notions of what movies can or should be and that often challenges the status quo

Animated film

An alternative to live-action film composed of pen-and-ink drawings, illustrations on transparent cels, fabricated models, or computer-designed images

Surrealism

An avant-garde movement of the early twentieth century that explored the workings of the unconscious

Impressionism

An avant-garde style that celebrated the poetry of moving images while resisting narrative forms and formulas

Structural or minimalist cinema

Films characterized by static framing and long takes, that employ anti-illusionist filmmaking techniques

Feminist films

Films that challenge gender inequality and/or assert female identity

Documentary

Films that present themselves as works of nonfiction, as factual and trustworthy, and ask us to view them as such

slice-of-life documentaries

Short films produced for the Edison Manufacturing Company that captured everyday events.

Actualities

Slice-of-life documentaries produced by the Lumiere brothers at the end of the nineteenth century

Non-narrative

Structured by a focus on something other than story

Stop-motion

a method of animation in which three-dimensional objects are moved and photographed for each frame

Found objects

everyday objects that are repurposed to create art

Anthropomorphize

to give human qualities to a non-human creature or object

Direct cinema

A documentary movement in the United States in which the camera acts as an objective, disinterested observer, capturing events as they unfold