COMM 150 First 6 Weeks Exam 100% Correct Answers Verified Latest 2024 Version
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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? - th...
COMM 150 First 6 Weeks Exam | 100% Correct
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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: 1815 - 1905 - ✔✔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
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