Comm 150 Exam 2

dialogue

2001 has less than 40 minutes of...

a subjective non-verbal experience

2001 is..

stop action animation

2001 uses

Arthur Clarke's short story: the Sentinel

2001 was based on

center of 50s films

Character's psychological development, tried to visualize the internal dynamics as opposed to just providing action for exposition.

Max Shumacher

Ethical programming, truth meaning, etc that is past its moment

The Sacco-Vanzetti Story

Lumet achieved notoriety for his TV drama on

old hollywood production code(hayes code)

The films could be more edgy and could show more of the sordid stuff of life which also helped differentiate movies from TV.

Adolescents obsessed with their own creature comforts

The middle class men of Mr Robinson's generation in The Graduate could best be described as?

the graduate ending

They are going back to the suburbs they were trying to escape all along.

women

They represent this leisured class of people and its relentless conformity.

how the passage of time is conveyed

Through the interesting visual transitions which are elliptical (jump forward) in their sense of time. By the sense of repetition between the places represented in the match-cuts By the choice of music. "April comes she will" is about the course of a love affair set against the changes of seasons. By Ben's change in appearance and behavior.

howard beadle

Throwback to Golden Era. A "mandarin" of television

reason for using Simon and Garfunkel

Using a music so associated with the generation of the protagonist allowed the music to be part of the cultural critique present in the rest of the movie

a jump cut

What technique did Kubrick use to transition the film from the past to the future?

The moralistic representation of sex and violence

Which of the following themes does not belong to the cinema of the 1960s associated with the Hollywood Renaissance?

lumet directing 12 angry men

a critical success and established him as a formidable director who excelled at theatrical adaptations, especially psychodramas.

satire

a form of storytelling that employs irony

dr.strangelove

a satire of the Cold War logic, which was his real breakout film in that it finally showed his particular styles and treatment of themes, exemplary of the style kubrick is known for

The Ford

a significant detail that connotes intimacy

irony

a use of language whereby the implied meaning is the exact opposite of the literal meaning.

What is the final irony of The Graduate?

after working so hard to reject the normative lifestyle associated with his parents, Elaine and Ben seem destined to repeat it

men

all seem to be adolescents who have escaped into their own creature comforts rather than growing up

plastics

another name for the suburban lives bens parents live

the center of the ideas that Kubrick wanted to pursue

arthur c. clarke's novels, such as Childhood's End and The City and the Stars

influenced the younger generation of filmmakers

avant-garde stylistic challenges to linear Hollywood narratives seen in the the French New Wave, Italian neo-realism and other types of international cinema.

ben and mrs.robinson's relationship

based on psychological manipulation and conflict.

the graduate original screenplay

began with Benjamin delivering a speech at his college commencement, where the wind blows his notes off the podium just as he is about to explain what the meaning of college was. He awakens to find his plane about to land.

1948

beginning of ten year television period

network

begins with a situation that speaks to the political economic changes in the industry and their impact on members of the old guard

ben's house

castle-like façade which conveys a sense of over-protection

water

comes to connote the feeling of being submerged and trapped in this world. He wants a future that is different from this constricting, yet meaningless world of his parents.

frank hackett

corporate man

stanley kubrick

directed 2001. Bronx, New York. Son of Austro-Romanian Jewish immigrants. His father, Jacques, a doctor, was concerned that his obviously intelligent son did not seem to apply himself to anything.

Alfred Hitchcock

directed rear window born in London 1899, son of Green grocer. Family was Catholic, and this was the Victorian era, so both senses of morality influenced his work

mike nichols

directed the graduate, attended the University of Chicago and worked with an improvisation comedy troupe the Compass players,

sidney lumet

directed the network, Born into a theatrical family in Philadelphia. His family moved to NY when he was one because his father, Baruch, and mother, Eugenia, were part of a vibrant Yiddish theater scene.

mgm and united artists

financed the network

slitscan photography

for the wormhole sequence

suspense thriller

genre hitchcock invented

united artists

got international distribution rights to the network

mgm

got north american distrubiton rights to the network

Frederick Ordway and Harry Lange,

had assisted some of the major contractors in the aerospace industry and NASA with developing advanced space vehicle concepts, as technical advisors on the film.

robert o'brien of mgm

had faith in Kubrick's vision, and gave him almost unlimited license and control over the production of 2001.

satiric irony

has a distancing effect on the audience, forcing viewers to look at things in a different way. It often uses the same terms and ideas of the dominant paradigm and turns them around, exposing them and holding them up for ridicule or farce.

The kinetic movement of the camera

helps make the viewer anxious like Ben

the uncanny

hitchcock had an attraction to

subjective

hitchcock is famous for what kind of camera

catholic parents and victorian era

hitchcock's influence

drama is life with the dull bits left out

hitchcocks definition of drama

extreme close up

how does hitchcock emphasize jeff's love for lisa

Paddy Cheyefsky

is considered one of the most renowned dramatists of the Golden Age of Television, due to his intimate and naturalistic dramas of the 1950s.

professional voyeur

jeff is a

detail

key to suspense

fear and desire

kubrick's First narrative feature film

lightning quick director

lumen became known as a

elaine may

mike nichols teamed up with her They would have a long standing standup act that took him to Broadway. He began directing on Broadway in 1961, where he had great success.

the 1950s

more self-conscious about style and filming, fewer films were shot on soundstages and more attention was paid toward trying to make things look real rather than cinematically perfect.

hand held camera

n The Graduate, which of the following techniques is not used in the montage sequence characterizing Ben and Mrs. Robinson's affair, featuring the song April Comes She Will?

dustin hoffman

played ben braddock(the graduate)

wendell corey

played detective doyle(rear window)

gary lockwood

played dr. frank poole(2001) astronaut with pug nose

keir dullea

played dr.dave bowman(2001) skinny tall one main character

katharine ross

played elaine robinson(the graduate)

jim stewart

played l.b. jeff jeffries(rear window)

grace kelly

played lisa fremont(rear window)

judith evelyn

played miss lonelyhearts(rear window)

william daniels

played mr.braddock(the graduate)

murray hamilton

played mr.robinson(the graduate)

elizabeth wilson

played mrs.braddock(the graduate)

anne bancroft

played mrs.robinson(the graduate)

raymond burr

played scary murderer husband(rear window)

thelma Ritter

played stella(rear window)

an event that is totally unexpected(hitchcock)

pure cinematic event

most self reflexive movie

rear window is hitchcock's what?

day of the fight

rubric's first film where he broke even

visual pleasure

scopophilia

christine chubbuck

shot herself on camera as viewers watched on July 15, 1974. This idea, and the way in which tragedies like this are exploited for raitings, became the central conceit of the story.

soap operas(melodramas)

sidney lumet originally acted in

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

started mike nichols film directing debut

lack of conversation

symbolizes the meaningless of suburban life

Diana Christensen

the generation raised on TV and the logic of TV incarnate

a coming of age film

the graduate is

charles webb's novel

the graduate was based on

classification and ratings administration

the old production code administration was replaced by the, the basis for the form of self-regulation that we see today

berkeley

the symbol in popular culture of 1960s social rebellion.

programming in the early 50s

was modified versions of established radio shows or live theater, partly because the major networks (CBS and NBC) did not want Hollywood to compete and they pushed against it being an outlet for the distribution of film.

kubrick's first films

were self-financed documentary shorts for RKO pictures, while he was still working at Look.

dark comedy

what do the newlyweds represent?

the uncanny

what do the thorwalds represent?

melodrama and pathos

what does miss lonelyhearts represt

the helicopter

what was added in post production of rear window

it has to be murder by cornell woolrich

what was rear window based on

dial m for murder

what was rear window originally called

all on one set

where was rear window shot

John Michael Hayes

who adapted the rear window script

mgm then paramount

who did alfred hitchcock work for

Calder Willingham and Buck Henry (who plays the hotel clerk)

who did mike nichols adapt the novel with

younger crowds

who did the movie industry have to attract in the 50s

the mcguffin

word for misdirecting the audience