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• "what is put into the scene" (what is put before the camera)
• Refers to all those properties of a cinematic image that exist independently of camera position, camera movement, and editing
• Includes lighting, costumes, sets, the quality of acting, etc. and other elements of composition such as the shot, sound, and images
• An illusion of realism |
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• Where the point of view pivots from left to right, or vice versa, but without changing its vertical axis
• Abbreviated as "ps" |
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• The position from which an action or subject is seen, often determining its significance
• A term that film shares with the literary and visual arts |
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• A way of classifying films in terms of patterns of form, content, themes, styles, and narrative structures
• French word meaning "kind" |
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• A type of criticism where one identifies and examines a movie by associating it with its well-known director or occasional actor
• A critical act in that it implies that ihe unifying vision behind what you see on the screen is the director's and that there are certain common themes and stylistic traits that link films by the same filmmaker |
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• Film grammar
• What we expect to see in a film (related to genre, the cast, sound, etc.) |
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• A specific kind of editing in which objects and figures are linked in a variety of creative or unexpected ways
• Usually this kind of editing aims to generate certain effects or ideas |
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• An image in which the distance between the camera and the subject is great
• The film does not cut to another image for an unusually long time
• Abbreviated as "It" |
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• Also known as the Production Code, that censored various scenes, etc. in films
• How Hollywood maintained a rigid system of self-regulation between 1934-1968
• Rules included:
o Criminals having to die/be punished by film's end
o No sex outside of marriage
o Sex had to be handled with extreme discretion
o No abortion, homosexuality, divorce, or miscegenation in stories |
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| Image where the audience can see the characters in the background as sharply as the characters in the foreground |
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• A uniquely modern narrative form that seeks to establish moral clarity in a world which religion no longer provides a shared moral framework
• Situates the struggle between villain and hero within a social context in which the villain's viciousness and the hero's virtue go unrecognized at force due their social standing |
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| Classical Hollywood Narrative |
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| A narrative with a plot development in which there is a logical relation between one event and another, a sense of closure at the end, stories that are focused on characters, and a narrative style that attempts to be more-or-less objective What we usually have in mind when we think of a classical narrative |
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• Refers to everything people know or think they know about law, lawyers, and the legal system
• Includes commercial texts about law, lawyers, or the legal system, such as movies, TV shows, or novels
• Much more narrow compared to "popular culture" that signifies all of the commercial texts or media that are produced and marketed for popular consumption |
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• Saying that law is what judges, jurors, lawyers, legislators, police, and others involved in making or applying statutes or case law actually do as distinguished from what the law books say they should do
• Also known as "law in action" as opposed to "law in the books" |
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• A deal offered by a prosecutor as an incentive for a defendant to plead guilty
• Allows the prosecutor to obtain guilty pleas in cases that otherwise might go to trial |
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| The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong |
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• A system in which the best way to find out the truth is to have two skilled, committed lawyers battle it out
• They choose the jurors, control the issues, and decide who the witnesses will be, in what order they will be called, and what questions will be asked.
• Judge cannot alter the trial as it proceeds, but rather keeps order and rules on evidentiary objections.
• Each lawyer spins the evidence into a story that hopefully will engage with the jury's own experience. |
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| 14th Amendment/Due Process |
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• A judicial requirement that enacted laws may not contain provisions that result in the unfair, arbitrary, or unreasonable treatment of an individual
• Amendment required states to provide equal protection under the law to all persons within their jurisdictions and was used in the mid-201 century to dismantle legal segregation |
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| Equality Theory/Difference Theory |
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• Two "camps" that feminist scholars have split into
• Equality faction believes that men and women are basically alike and should be treated alike. They have lobbied for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (which would guarantee legal equality for women) for decades.
• Difference faction believes that women are different from men and society should value women's attributes equally with those of men. They should take these differences into account and not ignore them. |
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• The standard by which a police officer has the right to make an arrest, conduct a personal or property search, or to obtain a warrant for an arrest
• "a reasonable belief that a person has committed a crime" |
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• An attorney whose duty is to provide legal representation to indigent defenders who have been charged criminally and who are unable to pay for an attorney
• State and federal government pay for public defender agencies that they
employ to provide indigent defense |
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• "to see [them] say"
• The process by which prospective jurors are questioned about their
backgrounds and potential biases before being chosen to sit on a jury |
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Usually refers to a right injury selection for the defense and prosecution
to reject a certain number of potential jurors who appear to have an
unfavorable bias without having to give any reason |
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| Concept of female film theory that argues that all the looks associated with classical Hollywood cinema are either male or assume to be. As such women can only be “looked” and objectified by the male gaze |
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| A case in which any wrongdoing for which an action for damages may be brought |
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| Group of directors and screen-writer in the later 1940’s who refuse to answer questions before the HUAC (people that censor things) and were sentenced to jail |
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| Evidence obtained illegally may not be used in trial legally |
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