The Film Experience Chapter 7

True or False: STORY and PLOT are terms with identical definitions and can be used interchangeably.

False

True or False: ARCHETYPES and STEREOTYPES are terms with identical definitions and can be used interchangeably.

False

True or False: In Citizen Kane, the character development of Charles Foster Kane shows both EXTERNAL and INTERNAL change.

True

This film's looping narrative is pointed to by Corrigan and White as an example of video games influencing the content and structure of contemporary film narratives.

Edge of Tomorrow

This term of Russian origin refers to NARRATIVE ordering (as opposed to chronological ordering).

Syuzhet

Which one of the following terms means a narrative in which our knowledge is limited to that of a particular character?

Restricted narration

True or False: While a number of adaptations of literary source material are made each year, the vast majority of feature films are produced using original screenplays written exclusively for the screen.

False

This 1954 film based on a New Mexico miners' strike is used by Corrigan and White as an example of real-life events serving as the basis for a narrative film.

Salt of the Earth

Corrigan and White use this David Fincher film as the subject for an in depth analysis of narration and gender.

Gone Girl

Which one of the following films explored by Corrigan and White BEST exemplifies a NONTRADITIONAL narrative?

Daughters of the Dust

Match the following definition to the corresponding key term provided below: The raw material of a narrative (fabula).

Story

Match the following definition to the corresponding key term provided below: The narrative ordering of the events of the story as they appear in the actual work, selected and arranged according to particular temporal, spatial, generic, causal, and other patterns (syuzhet).

Plot

Match the following definition to the corresponding key term provided below: Narration that presents all elements of the plot, exceeding the perspective of any one character.

Omniscient narration

Match the following definition to the corresponding key term provided below: Films comprised of segments by different directors.

Anthology film

Match the following definition to the corresponding key term provided below: the arrangement of plot events and actions that follow one another in time.

Linear chronology

Match the following definition to the corresponding key term provided below: A type of narration that raises questions about the truth of the story being told.

Unreliable narration

Match the following definition to the corresponding key term provided below: The world of the film's story (its characters, places, and events), including what is shown and what is implied to have taken place.

Diegesis

Match the following definition to the corresponding key term provided below: A context or person positioned outside the principal narrative of a film, such as scenes in which a character in the story's present begins to relate events of the past and later concludes their tale.

Narrative frame

Match the following definition to the corresponding key term provided below: A mode of narration that calls attention to the narrative point of view of the story in order to complicate or subvert its own narrative authority as an objective perspective on the world.

Reflexive narration

Match the following definition to the corresponding key term provided below: A narrative structured around a central event or action that must be accomplished by a certain time.

Deadline structure