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MACS 100 Exam 1- UIUC | Questions & Answers (100 %Score) Latest Updated 2024/2025
Comprehensive Questions A+ Graded Answers | With Expert Solutions


Media "text" - 1. a construction- representation of reality based on values and assumptions

2. can be "read"- analysis and interpretation



Aesthetic Value VS Social-ideological - 1. Aesthetic value: film as "art"

2. Social-ideological value: cultural studies approach



Auteur Theory - Film is "work of a highly individual artist"

-director as all important artist, more so the "author" of a movie than the writer of the screen play



celebrates the technological innovation and artistry at the origins of film



Nostalgia - a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past



Modernity - the rapid change in the early-mid 20th century

-Industrialization, Urbanization, Mass production and Mass media



Hugo - Pattern: Man and Machine encountering each other

-train station

-train guard's legs

-hugo's dream about train crash

Pattern: Early film artistry and technology

Pattern: The effect of special effect on film

-scene where moviegoers freak out when train appears to be coming out of the screen



George Melies - historical figure and character in Hugo

-Hugo is a celebration of this man

, -magician/illusionist

-early filmmaker and innovator of special effects



Editing - the "unique" language of cinema

-linking of two different shots with cuts



Power and Difference - who has influence over the production of culture and what culture says about or
to groups of people



Hollywood Studio System: dream factories - 1. Mass production

2. vertical integration: owned all elements of production integration

3. "stable of stars" on contract-actors owned by studios

4. classical narrative feature films

5. dominant globally



Hugo's Showing of Melies A Trip to the Moon - -celebrates film innovation and artistry

-demonstrates Melies trick photography

-hand painting each frame to colorize it

-(contemporary innovation) by adding the actress playing Melies's wife to A Trip to the Moon



Schorsessee - director of Hugo



Media criticism - 1. Analysis: Identify themes, patterns, elements of content and form to see how
meaning is being produced

2. Interpretation: Argue the meanings of those themes, patterns and elements

3. Evaluation: Value, is it good, aesthetically as a text and ideologically for the world?



Classical Narrative - 1. plot with logical relation between events

2. a sense of closure at the end

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