Film and Culture Exam 1

Some Like its Hot

1. offers a heterosexual narrative interpretation of a kiss, and a homoerotic visual reading of a kiss uses a three act structure of three spatial groupings: Chicago, the train ride, and Miami 3. Organized on the basis of a three act structure in which Act 1 establishes Chicago as a world od stereotypical sexuality, Act 2 explores how dressing as a women sensitizes two chauvinistic male musicians, and act 3 completes their sensitization and reveals the "women" as men to other characteristics

three point lighting

1. the three points of light used in the standard three point lighting setup employed Hollywood films involves dozens of actual lights not just three 2. refers to lighting design that includes the key light, the fill light, and the back light

Citizen Kane

1. uses an extremely low camera angle in which Kane discusses his defeat in his election headquarter to imply contradictory meanings that Kane is powerful and mysterious but also vulnerable

Spellbound

1. uses mise en scene designed by Salvador Dali to illustrate director Alfred Hitchcocks fascination with freudian dream psychology 2.uses a pan to identify with the "trapped" mental state of a man who has just been identified as a murderer

Rear Window Uses

1. uses point of view shots that cannot be attributed to a particular character to provide details that the protagonists does not know 2. a cinematic essay about how film spectatorship is a form voyeurism 3. can be divided into four sections: establishment, animation, intensification, resolution

Goodfellas

1. violates the "invisibility" of classical plywood visual style by using direct address to reveal the presence of the camera 2. violates classical Hollywood narrative style by beginning in the middle of the story with the killing of made man Billy batts 3. uses a tracking shot to encourage us to identify with the main characters power and affluence as he takes his future wife on a first date

George Melies

A Trip to the Moon- a magician turned filmmaker responsible for a trip to the moon

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Film about a young senator who exposes corruption in Washington. uses a montage

The Black Maria

The first movie studio, owned by Thomas Edison

180 degree rule

a filmmaker who follows the 180 degree rule films action from one side of an imaginary line that runs through the center of a scenes major action. by remaining on ne side of the line the filmmaker maintains spatial continuity, guarantees, matches in scree movement, and constructs a realistic playing space for the characters

Nickelodeon

a movie theater that made movie spectatorship affordable for the working class and situated different classes next to each other, resulting in a common celebration of American ideals as audiences watched movies

Kinetoscope

an early form of motion picture exhibition technology that showed a one minute film of a visual spectacle in a "peep show" format

Zoopraxiscope

an early motion picture exhibition device designed to analyze the motion of a horse as it ran the length of a track

The Kiss

created "synergy" between theater and film by reenacting a kiss between two lead characters in a broadway play popular at the time of the films exhibition

Tracking shot

difficult to execute because actors must recite their lines perfectly, hit their marks precisely and move in exact synchronicity with the camera. mise en scene literally means putting on the stage and refers to the relationship of everything in the shot to everything else

Motion Picture Patents Company

formed by a group of film producers in 1908 in order (in part) to improve the content of motion pictures and the condition of theaters

shadow of a doubt

illustrates how mise-en-scene defines character and advances narrative by using up all the props in the opening scene to establish Uncle Charlie's character motivation.

Rope

observes all three dramatic unities by involving the single character goal of solving a murder, taking place in real time and restricting the story to an apartment

Sylvia Scarlett

offers a homoerotic narrative interpretation of a kiss and a heterosexual visual interpretation of a kiss

modernism

refers to films that violate classical Hollywood narrative and visual styles

Vaudeville Theater

the first type of movie exhibition site to use large screen movie projection and a group audience

battleship Potemkin

uses a montage to expand real time into screen time to force us to contemplate the slaughter of innocent peasants by the Russian czar

Psycho

uses low key lighting and stuffed birds of prey in attack position to suggest the main characters predatory nature