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Classical Hollywood Cinema (CHC) define itself as the
“excessively obvious cinema”
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CHC possess a style that is largely ______ and difficult for _____
- Invisible
- the average spectator to see
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Why is CHC invisible
Proficiency in narrative
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CHC is designed to apprear to the audueince that it has no
Source
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Goal of CHC is to
deliver powerful stories and absorb audience into the fictional world
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2 Elements of CHC
- Narrative process
- Character and goals
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CHC's general plot structure
- 1.) psychologically define individual who struggle with a problem
- 2.)person is reliable/ in right state of mind
- 3.)Character enters conflict
- 4.)Story ends with defeat,resolution, clear achievement or non achievement
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CHC plot consists
1.) an undisturbed stage , disturbance, struggle, elimination of disturbance.
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CHC take place in _________
Linear time and space
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How is time configured in CHC
Through time and effect
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What is compositional necessity and example from notourtious
everything is necessary and serves a spefic function (when alshia drinks out of the coffe cup)
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Space is configures by two motivation
Realism and compositiona nescessity
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Strucutre of CHC two plot lines involving
- 1.) hetersexual romance
- 2.)evil thing the people are fighting
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CHC is more focused on the _____ not the ____
story not the style
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Notorious movie is a ___ cloacked into a
romance cloacked into a spy movie
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Narritvie films are directed toward_____ will documentarty films are difected towards_____
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What different allegiances do narrative and documentary hold?
Narrivie film is to dramtic story telling while documentary is to recording reality
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What reasons characterize why documentaries are never objectively true?
- -All doc. employ storytelling
- -all dos employ subjective cinematic language
- -no one acts same on film
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What are the four basic approaches to documentary? Examples?
- 1.) Factual
- 2.) Instructional
- 3.) pervasive
- 4.) Propaganda
- superstar was mix
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Direct cinema versus Traditional documentary?
Direct cinema someone is shapeing the storying through editing and shots
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Why is experimental cinema difficult to define?
-pushes the limit of what people think movies should be
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What are the six characteristics of experimental film?
- 1.) non commerical
- 2.) personal
- 3,) o not conform to story
- 4.)Explot possiblitesod cinema
- 5.) Crtiques culture
- 6.) invites indivual interpreatation
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What kind of documentary appoch does catfish utlizes and what style
Factual - direct cinema
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What type of film of super start
-expermintal, persudive, narritive though
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What are the origins for art cinema?
from early art films; and silent cinama; appeared after WWII
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How does it emerge in the US?
shortage of films
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CHC
narrative motivations,
cause and effect,
characterization,
time and space,
viewer expectations,
and resolution
- cinematic representation
- logic
- defined goal
- linear time and space
- approximates reality
- closed ending
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Art Cinemanarrative
motivations,
cause and effect,
characterization,
time and space,
viewer expectations, and
resolution
- ojective/subjective realism
- lose cause and effect
- lack desired goals
- voliated time and space
- -viewer might lose this
- -ending is open
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Experimental
motivations,
cause and effect,
characterization,
time and space,
viewer expectations,
and resolution
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