Film - Guerro

Naturalism

An attempt by a performer to appear not to be performing

The method

Performers explore their own feelings and memories in an attempt to create more naturalistic characters on stage and on screen.

type

easily-grasped image of how people are in society

stereotype

An oversimplified and sometimes demeaning type

Persona

the role one consistently displays in public

Publicity

The management of the public’s perception of a person

casting against type

The knowledge of the star’s type that the audience brings into the film going experience is deliberately challenged.

Physiognomy

Judgements of facial features

exploitation

Marketing campaign for films

Paramount decree

In 1948 the Supreme Court's "antitrust ruling which forced Paramount (the first studio named in the suit) and the other majors to divest their all-important theatre chains and to severely curtail the sales policies which had enabled them to control the industry for decades.

plantation genre

a genre of literature based in the Southern United States that is heavily nostalgic for antebellum times

blaxploitation

a genre of movies, made particularly in the 1970s, that largely featured Black actors and were aimed at Black audiences.

problem pictures

films that dramatize some set of concerns, which they depict as broadly representative of the conditions of their historical moment

Sidney Poitier Syndrome

a good guy in a totally white world, with no wife, no sweetheart, no woman to love or kiss, helping the white man solve the white man's problem

Guerilla Filmmaking

a form of independent filmmaking characterized by ultra-low budgets, minima crews, and using whatever props, locations and equipment is available.

The oppositional gaze

looking from a location that disrupts

The pleasure of interrogation

the acts of analysis, of deconstruction and of reading ‘against the grain’ offer an additional pleasure