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CTCS 190- Final
Films with their respected genres and eras
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Undergraduate 1
05/07/2008

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Jaws
Definition

Post-Modern

Expressive Stylization (music, choreographed image, calls attention to how movie is made. Not high-tech because of the failure of the shark) 

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Glengarry Glen Ross
Definition

Modern or Post-Modern (Nothing really happens in movie, just about moral values

Psycho/Sociological Realism  (nitty gritty, about the  interior of the man, had method acting, accents, about high and low culture, deglamorizing costume, about work, more about character than plot)

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The Heiress
Definition

Post-Classical (Demyth of classical genre)

Psychological/Sociological Realism (nitty gritty, deglamorized character, emphasis on character, emphasis on class differences, speech very telling)

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The Lives of Others
Definition

Post-Modernist (Has ending)

Social Realism (trying hard to create real life, man against social institutions, cynical, commentary about society, common man protagonist, ) 

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The Sea Hawk
Definition

Classical (Typical example of hero, pretty girl)

Hollywood Classical Realism (immersing spectator in characters, life is idealized and larger than life, young and beautiful characters, good vs. evil and good triumphs, all societal or sociological tensions are eventually smoothed over, heterosexual romance)

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Go
Definition

Post-Modern

Expressive Stylization (different ways of telling the story: episodic, thematic use of color, awry/split/secentered framing, crazy camera motion, handheld camera, modern and eclectic music, heavy awareness of spectator that it is a film, makes you notice or appreciate film as medium)

 

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Breakfast at Tiffany's
Definition

Post-Classical and Modernist (cusp of both, not a real ending)

Hollywood Classical Realism (about immersion of the spectator in the character and realness, protagonists are pretty, heterosexual, triumph of good vs. evil, disruptions are eventually smoothed out, ending is upbeat and happy)

Expressive Stylization (some choreographed passages, specific scoring and source music)

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On Dangerous Ground
Definition

Post-Classical

Expressionist (focuses on inner-feelings, subjective states, interiority, personal reality, visual design used to draw viewer to mind, about psychological breakdown, subjective and intense lighting, puts the camera inside Mary)

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The Lineup
Definition

Post-Classical

Documentary Realism (like it's depicting "real-life" events, nitty gritty subject matter, aimed to portray police work just like it really happens, audience learns how drugs are really smuggled, shot on location, deglamorized, available light, no score)

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The Day the Earth Stood Still
Definition

Post-Classical and Classical (The ending is classical)

Documentary Realism (although fiction made to look like non-fiction, shot on location in washington, about human reaction to one subject matter, emphasis on tv news reels and radio, interviews, attempt to teach)

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Back Street
Definition

Classical

Social Realism (focus on individual against social institutions, cyical attitude)

Psychological/sociological realism (emphasis on character, gender)

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The Damned Don't Cry
Definition

Post-Classical

Expressive Stylization (different ways of telling story: flashback, extravagant lighting, intense music)

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A Passage to India
Definition

Modernist

Expressive Stylization(thematic use of color, available light, focus on off-screen space, subjective shots, long-takes, intense scoring, awareness of film as art)

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Notes on a Scandal
Definition

Post-Modernist

Psychological/Sociological Realism (emphasis on character-mostly the inner psychy of Barbara, about class and gender, method acting, deglamorizing character costume and makeup)

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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Definition

Post-Classical

Expressive Stylization (they break into song and dance, something that isn't normal, calling attention to the fact that it's a movie, emphasis on the scoring, cinemascope, choreographed passages) 

Term
Sergeant York
Definition

Classical

Social Realism (biography, tries to erase the fliming techniques, emphasis on individual within social institutions, common man as protagonist, ordinary "man-in-the-street" looks) 

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Citizen kane
Definition

Modernist (Social critique, no real plot, more about character)

Documentary Realism (emphasis on news articles, objects that a person owned, interviews, attempt to teach and not just enlighte)

Expressive Stylization
(different ordering of stories: episodic, interview-based, thematic light  and music)

 

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