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Sherlock Jr.

slapstick comedy

Mothlight

The film was made without the use of a camera or traditional celluloid film

Jennifer’s Body

begins hunting the men of her small town, Devil’s Kettle

Nope

It deals with themes of spectacle, control, domination, and erasure.

The Lure

Silver (Marta Mazurek) and Golden (Michalina Olszanska), two mermaid sisters

Parasite

In total, it won four Oscars including picture, director, original screenplay, and editing

Illusions

Dash was a big part of the UCLA Rebellion

To Be Or Not to Be

A light film about a very serious topic, this film is a classic example of Lubitsch’s “Lubitsch touch.”

Battleship Potemkin

The film’s “Odessa Steps” sequence is one of the most cited in film history

Meshes of the Afternoon

It has been heavily influential for hundreds of filmmakers and several genres, but especially music videos

Taste of Cherry

The conclusion of the film breaks from this style, ending with an extended fourth wall break.

You’ve Got Mail

Book superstore magnate, Joe Fox (Tom Hanks) and independent book shop owner, Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan)

The Power of the Dog

continuing a cycle of toxic masculinity started by Bronco Henry.

The Watermelon Woman

$300k with help from a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Hal County This Morning, This Evening

“What is the orbit of our dreaming?”

Uncle Yaco

Agnès Varda meets a lost uncle she had never heard of

My Favorite Picture of You

In only three minutes

Paprika

DC Mini, a machine that allows therapists to enter their patients’ dreams. Paprika has been frequently compared to Inception

World of Tomorrow

Emily Prime, is contacted by a clone of her future self from 227 years in the future.

Cats

Featuring original music from Taylor Swift. grossed only $27 million on a $95 million budget.

Narrative

A chain of events linked by cause and effect and occuring in time and space

Film Form

the overall set of relationships among a film’s parts; patterns created through repeated stylistic, narrative, and material elements

Referential Meaning

the film’s story

Explicit Meaning

the film’s point or message

Implicit Meaning

ideological meaning of a film

Mise-en-scene

the physphysicalucal elements within a given shot; elements from _____ include sets, props, costumes, makeup, hair, blocking, performance, lighting

blocking

the staging, arrangement, and planned movement of performers in a scene

three point lighting

standard lighting technique; utilized three light sources (key, fill, and back lights) to illuminate a subject and create depth, dimension, and balance in the image

three point lighting

standard lighting technique; utilizes three light sources (key, fill, and back lights) to illuminate a subject and create depth, dimension, and balance in the image

high-key lighting

even lighting throughout the image; no shadows and soft light

low-key lighting

uneven lighting throughout the image; prevalent shadows and hard light

Verisimilitude

appearance of being real

Cinematography

how the camera is positioned to capture subjects

camera movements

tilt, pan, dolly push, dolly pull, dolly zoon, handheld crane, and tracking shot

shot scales

extreme close up, close up, medium close up, medium shot, medium long shot, long shot, extreme long shot

camera angle

high angle, low angle, straight on, canted angle, birds eye, worms eye, and POV shot

Depth of Field

refers to how much of an image is clearly legible

Deep Focus

when entire image is clearly in focus

Shallow Focus

when only the foreground of the background of an image is in focus

Focal Length

How strongly the lens converges or diverges light

Continuity Editing

style and system of editing which works to establish and maintain a coherent system of spatial relations

Chaos Cinema

video essay my Mathias Stork; argues the filmmakers increasingly use sound to maintain spatial coherence instead of editing

Diegetic Sound

sounds that occur within the story space and are heard and/or create by characters

Nondiegetic Sound

sounds that occur outside of the story space

Sound Bridge

a sound used to connect two scenes or locations in film

Leitmotif

a music motif which recalls a specific person, place, or idea

Vertical Integration

tudios control production, distribution, and exhibition; studios control practically every element of a films life cycle from conception on

Studios controlled every aspect of production, leading to the standardization of most production practices today

The Hays Code

morality code enforced from 1930s until late 1960s; prevented things like drinking, sex, interracial romance, and extreme violence from being depicted in Hollywood films

Discontinuity Editing

disregards rules of continuity editing like the axis of action or shot reverse-shot; leads to obscure, confusing story (if any narrative at all) and demands active viewership

Montage

editing style developed by Soviet filmmakers; emphasizes the relationship between shots and the meaning made in their juxtaposition

Metric Montage

cutting to a meter or measure of time, regardless of the content; eg. rapidly cutting to create a sense of chaos

Rhythmic Montage

cutting according to the actions of shots; eg. continuity editing

Tonal Montage

cutting based on the emotion, or tone, of shots; eg. linking separate shots via sonic or visual qualities

Overtonal Montage

cutting based on the various tones and overtones of a scene; eg. cross cutting according to mood

Intellectual Montage

cutting in accordance with a shot’s relation to an intellectual concept; eg. expressing ideas through cuts

Neorealism

style of filmmaking that depicts the everyday lives of ordinary people in a realistic way

Iranian New Wave

film movement beginning in 1980s Iran; follows regular people in rural Iran; often features children or lower class characters

Abbas Kiarostami

key figure of the Iranian New Wave and neorealist filmmaking

Genre

a category or classification of a group of movies in which individual films share similar subject matter and similar ways of organizing subject through narrative or stylistic patterns

The Canon

list of works considered to be permanently established as the highest of quality

Counter Cinema

film movements, genres, and makers producing work to counter mainstream film practices and/or politics

Male Gaze

relations of looking created by classical film editing; positions men (subjects) as dominating and controlling of women (objects) through their look

Oppositional Gaze

form of counter-looking that reads against dominant practices or readings of narratives

Modes of Documentary Filmmaking

poetic; expository; observational; participatory; reflexive; performative