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
