COMM 150 First 6 Weeks Exam | 100% Correct Answers | Verified | Latest 2024 Version

COMM 150 First 6 Weeks Exam | 100% Correct Answers | Verified | Latest 2024 Version In David Company's "Introduction: When to be Fast? When to be Slow?," (CANVAS LIBRARY RESOURCES) his main concern is - the relationship between film and photography Which one of the following does Stephen Apkon's essay "What is Literacy?" (CANVAS LIBRARY RESOURCES) most concern itself with? - the history of forms of communication Which one of the following occurs in Slumdog Millionaire? - a child is blinded by a criminal, in order to be a more successful beggar The Cinematic Imaginary: Elements - narrative premise; episodes of narrative; "fictional" storytelling: emotional logic not intellectual logic; engages human cognition and perception; creates distinction between "the thing" and "the image of the thing": Representation; presents images in transformation to achieve emotional affect David Campany, "When to be Fast? When to be Slow?" - concentrates on unique relationship between film and photography which are shaped by the idea of speed and the flow of images; new methods of viewing reshape old images; Victor Burgin: "cinematic heterotopia," the variety of ways we can consume cinema means we are surrounded by cinema; technology of visual and moving-image media is always changing - but the cinematic imaginary is defined but the capacity to absorb these changes Stephen Apkon, "What is Literacy?" - "Literacy is the ability to express oneself in an effective way through the text of the moment, the prevailing mode of a particular society"; includes the consumption and production of communication messages; about communicating info and emotion; all communication is mediated - the history of communication is the history of mediation; all mediums of communication have their own attributes; individual and cultural power; cinema is a revolution in mediation; language of cinema is the language of now According to this week's lectures, which one of the following is true of the concept of "The Cinematic Imaginary"? - It is useful for studying the present and future of visual and moving image media, but not the past In last week's reading, which one of these authors discussed mathematics, the alphabet, and the printing press, as well as movies? - Stephen Apkon, in "What is Literacy"? The Early Cinema: Originating the Cinematic Imaginary - emergence of 'fictional' storytelling; narrative premise - but not yet episodic narratives; consciousness of 'the image' as representation; engaging human cognition and perception to achieve emotional affect ("The Attraction"); experiments in images-in-transformation Modernity - condition of believing that our era is one of technological and social difference and progress from any previous era; exhilarating and anxiety-provoking; happens when any society undergoes this transformation; in the West is occurred in the late 19th and early 20th century Modernity in the West: - fusing of radical technical, social, political, and cultural change; work becomes alienated and commodified; leisure becomes commodified; kinship ties reduced in importance; growing urbanism of populations; new anxieties of modern life: disjointed, unpredictable, dangerous, and exciting; new technologies: transportation, metallurgy, chemistry, photography; new forms of mass reproducible art and media to represent these realities: tabloid newspapers, magazines, lithographed posters, prints The Cinema & "The Image" - understands the modern split between the thing and the representation of the thing: "The image of the thing is not the thing itself"; establishes relationship between the real and the image as coded: "realistic"; privileges the image as a source of cultural authenticity and excitement; the documentary impulse: accurate description; fantastic impulse: imaginative construction; narrative impulse: recruiting the documentary and fantastic image of story telling purposes Pre-Technologies of the Early Cinema 1: Viewing Devices - DaVinci's notes on the cinema, camera obscura Pre-Technologies of Early Cinema 2: Illusion of Motion - Zoetrope, mutoscope Pre-Technologies of Early Cinema 3: Serial Photography - Etienne-Jules Marey, 'The Camera Gun'; Eadweard Muybridge: Biomechanical Photography & the Stanford Experiments Reception: Early Cinema's Audiences - Arcades, music halls, rented halls, cafes, traveling exhibitors, eclectic programming Early Cinema's Audience Appeals - mechanical novelty; social novelty; textual appeals: realism, magic, spectacle, visceral "cinema of attractions"; film is a cultural locus of modernity "The Cinema of Attractions" - described by author Tom Gunning; associated with visceral audience excitement; could be "realistic" or "fantastic"; substituted moments of excitement for modern complex Some Types of Early Cinema - Actualities: scenics,