DPSS- Looking at Movies, Ch. 3 Types of Films

persuasive film

A documentary film concerned with presenting a particular perspective on social issues, or with corporate and governmental injustice. Compare factual film, instructional film, and propaganda film.

instructional film

A documentary film that seeks to educate viewers about common interests, rather than persuading them with particular ideas. Compare factual film, persuasive film, and propaganda film.

propaganda film

A documentary film that systematically disseminates deceptive or distorted information. Compare factual film, instructional film, and persuasive film.

factual film

A documentary film that, usually, presents people, places, or processes in a straightforward way meant to entertain and instruct without unduly influencing audiences. Compare instructional film, persuasive film, and propaganda film.

stream of consciousness

A literary style that gained prominence in the 1920s in the hands of such writers as Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and Dorothy Richardson and that attempted to capture the unedited flow of experience through the mind.]

direct cinema

An approach to documentary filmmaking that employs an unobtrusive style in an attempt to give viewers as truthful and "direct" an experience of events as possible.

digital animation

Animation that employs computer software to create the images used in the animation process (as opposed to analog techniques that rely on stop-motion photography, hand-drawn cels, etc.).

genre

The categorization of narrative films by form, content, or both. Examples of genres are musical, comedy, biography, Western, and so on.

generic transformation

The process by which a particular genre is adapted to meet the expectations of a changing society.