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MACS 100 Exam 1- UIUCMedia "text" - answer1. a construction- representation of reality based on values and
assumptions
2. can be "read"- analysis and interpretation
Aesthetic Value VS Social-ideological - answer1. Aesthetic value: film as "art"
2. Social-ideological value: cultural studies approach
Auteur Theory - answer 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 - answera sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past
Modernity - answerthe rapid change in the early-mid 20th century
-Industrialization, Urbanization, Mass production and Mass media
Hugo - answerPattern: 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 - answerhistorical figure and character in Hugo
-Hugo is a celebration of this man
-magician/illusionist
-early filmmaker and innovator of special effects
Editing - answerthe "unique" language of cinema
-linking of two different shots with cuts
Power and Difference - answerwho has influence over the production of culture and
what culture says about or to groups of people
Hollywood Studio System: dream factories - answer1. 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 - answer-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 - answerdirector of Hugo
Media criticism - answer1. 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 - answer1. plot with logical relation between events
2. a sense of closure at the end
3. character focused stories
4. narrative style that attempts to be objective/realistic seeming
Mise-en-scene - answereverything that is put before the camera
-setting/sets
-costumes
-actors and acting
-lighting
-props
-coloring
Truman Show: mistakes in mise-en-scene make Truman suspicious
-light falling
-walking in on break room
Setting/Set: 1. Town: Seahaven 2. Lunar Room 3. The real world - answer1. Visual
embodiment of the ideal american community
-pristine, orderly, controlled
-imagined realism
2. control room of the reality tv set
-demonstrates the powerful role of the director
3. a contrast to Seahaven
-dark, disorderly, messy and chaotic
Lighting/Coloring - answer-Bright pastels in Seahaven, always sunny
-so bright, things are washed out--dull normality
-the perfectness is boring/stifling
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