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Film and Culture
chapter 1,2,3
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English
Undergraduate 4
01/11/2013

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cinematic invisibility
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low camera angle
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cultural invisibility
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themes that reinforce viewers’ shared belief systems
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implicit meaning
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lies below the surface of a movie’s story and presentation
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explicit meaning
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available on the surface of the movie.
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cinematic language
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the accepted systems, methods, or conventions by which the movies communicate with the viewer
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shot
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one uninterrupted run of the camera
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editing
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the process by which the editor combines and coordinates individual shots into a cinematic whole
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cutting on action
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most common editing techniques designed to hide the instantaneous and potentially jarring shift from one camera viewpoint to another
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fade out/fade in
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transitional devices in which a shot fades in from a black field on black-and-white film or from a color field on color film, or fades out to a black field (or a color field)
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low-angle shot
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empowerment
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dolly in
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move toward
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duration
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the time a movie takes to unfold
onscreen
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formal analysis
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film analysis that examines how a scene or sequence uses formal elements to convey story, mood, and meaning
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point of view
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the position from which a film presents the actions of the story
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form
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the means by which a subject is expressed; i.e movies--pictures and sound
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content
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the subject of an artwork
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freeze frame
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also known as stop-frame or hold- frame. A still image within a movie, created by repetitive printing in the laboratory of the same frame
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parallel editing
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the intercutting of two or more lines of action that occur simultaneously, a very familiar convention in chase or res- cue sequences
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overlap editing
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an editing technique that expands viewing time and adds emphasis to an action or moment by repeating it several times in rapid succession.
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persistence of vision
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the process by which the human brain retains an image for a fraction of a second longer than the eye records it
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mediation
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an agent, structure, or other formal
element, whether human or technological, that transfers something, such as information in the case of movies, from one place to another
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realism
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an interest in or concern for the actual or real
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antirealism
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a treatment that is against or the opposite of realism
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verisimilitude
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a convincing appearance of truth
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light
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a source of illumination; it is a key formal element that film artists and technicians carefully manipulate to create mood, reveal character, and convey meaning.
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illusion of movement
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figures and objects within the image changing position simultaneously without actually moving
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manipulating space and time
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plays: set and seat vs movies: fixed view
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