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Cinema Test 3 Raddy
cinema
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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 4
12/15/2008

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180 Degree Rule
Definition

if the camera crosses the 180 degree line, the characters/objects change positions, thus confusing the audience.

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Anime
Definition
Japanese animation, similiar to Manga
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Artificial Landscape
Definition
Built environment
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Associational Cut
Definition

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Benshi
Definition
Japanese performers provide live narration for a silent film
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Contrast cut
Definition
When one scene is followed by a completely different scene (ex: rainy scene followed by a bright and sunny scene)
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Creative Anatomy
Definition
using stunt doubles or stand ins for a scene
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Creative Geography
Definition
using movie sets or different locations to depict another location. (ex: a film about Greece is filmed in New Zealand)
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Cross cut
Definition
Camera cuts away from one action to another to show that the events are happening at the same time
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Curtain shot
Definition

A shot between scenes that function as a transition from one scene to another, Ozu

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Dadaism
Definition
Anti-war art movement during World War I, Man Ray
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Directional Cut
Definition
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Diegetic Sound
Definition
Sound coming from within the film, in the scene (ex: music playing on a jukebox in the scene)
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Emotional cut

Definition

Cuts made to create different emotions in the audience.

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Existential
Definition
Awareness of self and existence..?
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Film Noir
Definition
Heavy patterns of shadows and darkness. Hollywood crime drama
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Flashback
Definition
going back in time in the narrative to show scenes that may provide a back story for the present
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Flashforward
Definition

interjected scene that takes the narrative forward in time from the current point of the story. A look into the future

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Form Cut
Definition
 A cut from one scene to the next on the basis of similar geometrical, textural, or other compositional values.
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Intellectual Cut
Definition
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Kulshov Experiments

Definition

Actor-soup, funeral, child

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Linkage
Definition

A  factor or relationship that connects or ties one thing to another

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Narrative cut

Definition
Further tells the story
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Non-diegetic Sound
Definition
Sound that comes from outside the film
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Odessa Steps
Definition
Giant stairway in Ukraine. Battleship Potemkin (film with baby carriage going down steps)
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Parallel cut
Definition
Same as cross cut, same actions at the same time, in a different place.
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Rhythmic cut
Definition
Scene goes along with music in movie, paper folding
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Surrealism
Definition

Cultural and artistic movement in the 1920s.

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Tonal Cut
Definition

Seven? Old office vs modern office, waist level light means head is in the dark.

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Yojimbo
Definition
Akira Kurosawa, Japanese take on a Western film
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Untouchables
Definition
Al Capone, gang film
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Un Chien Andalou
Definition
Salvador Dali and Bunuel, surrealist
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Touch of Evil
Definition
3 minute long shot in the opening scene
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Throne of Blood
Definition
Akira Kurosawa, Japanese translation of Shakespeare's Macbeth
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Passion of Joan of Arc
Definition
Carl Theodore Dreyer, masterpiece of emotion realism/expressionism
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The Magnificent 7
Definition

John Sturges, group of gunmen protect Mexican village, based on Seven Samurai. Gun fight, but the loser got stabbed in the chest.

(1:45)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWIlGnJDRzw

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Strike
Definition
Eisenstien, factory workers on strike
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Star Wars
Definition
Remake of Kurosawa's Hidden Fortress
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Steamboat Willie
Definition
Disney, Mickey Mouse, Ub Iwerks, First cartoon with sound, controversial parts taken out (mama pig)
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Seven Samurai
Definition

Kurosawa, based on western Magnificent Seven.

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Ran
Definition
Kurosawa, based on Shakespeare's King Lear
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Que Viva Mexico
Definition
Eisenstien. Very artistic and angular in position of characters.
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Mother
Definition
Vsevolod Pudovkin
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