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| Romantic Theory of Entertainment Media |
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| Myth of author being abnormally brilliant. Focuses on individual who pours their genius into works. Figure out who author is, what they are like, and how they epress themeselves through medium. |
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| Economic Theory of Entertainment Media |
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| Money / making most profit matters most, although some people do have important ideas. Form of determinism. Marxist analysis = world driven by material needs which is in turn driven by capital (money) |
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| Cultural Studies Theory of New Media |
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| No easy explanation of how certain media is created or why. Looks at numerous factors; more complex. Particulary looks at 4 moments. |
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| 4 moments of cultural studies theory |
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| production, distribution, exhibition, social context |
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| how access to money, talent, technology, and space shaped filming process. |
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| Path of distribution. Ad campaign. Making copies of film. Regulations. Moment of distribution, aka, tailoring film to demographics. Many ways to distribute today. |
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| getting media from process of being filmed to being exhibited |
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| Showing the film to an audience. (Production of film should be altered depending on where it is being shown: screen size, audio (earbuds vs surround), types of theaters |
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| very important to online video |
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| metaphorical space in which film is watched. changes from location to location and decade to decade. Focused on what's happening in bigger picture, like the world |
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| focus of "film art" (1st chapter) |
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| makes motion picture possible |
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| taking 24 pictures per second and stopping 24 times between them |
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| influence of production capacities and social context on ealry film |
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early edison cameras like the kinetoscope and black maria were heavy, bulky, and difficult to move. As a result, most films were shot indoors in a contained eniroment.
most early films were shown in cities where there were many immigrants. Films were often ethnically focused to appeal to this audience |
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| "adaptation" theory of new media |
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| all new media based off of old content. old media adapted to new format as way of distributing more. |
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| element of hollywood style in 1903's great train robbery |
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| crosscutting, camera panning, more diverse images |
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| drove change to feature length pictures |
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| exhibition spreading out of cities to richer, more educated audiences. they compared books to films and wanted longer, more flushed out, more interesting, and intellegent stories. |
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| ramifications for representations of minorities |
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| in order to get a story out quickly, films represented minorities sterotypically. It strengthened stereotypes in the minds of movie goers and showed minorities in an unfair light. |
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| set of rules films had to follow in order to have their pictures released. some included: men and women must have separate beds / not be shown sleeping in same bed, 2 feet must be showing on the ground at all times, and adultery must be punished. |
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| traits of studio era narrative |
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| "good guy" protagonist. (good and evil easily defined.) 3 act structure. films play out logically. man's world |
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| traits of studio era style |
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| diagetic lighting. seamless editing. continuity style: 3 to 1 rule, eyeline match, 180 degree rule. |
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| close-ups must only be 3x bigger than image they were cut from |
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| when two or more people are talking, cameras can only shoot from one side of the imaginary 180 degree line |
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| people must both face same direct angle from camera |
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| P,D,E,SC conditions of studio system |
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| P,D,E were all controlled by studios. The SC was the Great Depression and WWII |
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| how conditions of P,D,E,SC of studio era manifested themselves in movies |
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| films massproduced because audience guaranteed. created uniform templates in order to help do so quickly and efficiently. As far as social context, people wanted films that helped them escape from their stressful confusing lives. They wanted things that were logical and straightforward. They also liked good and bad guys because it reinforced Axes and Allies roles. |
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| Effect of sync sound on film industry |
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| warner brothers and producers like it made so much money that they bought up theaters with it, creating the studio system. |
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| system in which the studios controlled production, exhibition, and distribution of movies...aka vertical integration. |
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| streamlining film production into individual parts and working on each one of them separately. similar to automobile industry. studios wanted to do in order make films as quickly and efficeintly as possible (bc vertical integration made it profitable to get them out fast). |
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| identified studios as trust vioalting the anti-trust laws. as an immediate result, studios were forced to sell all theaters. |
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| key characteristics of 1950s-60s films |
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| epics. spectacular. special effects. often biblical. bigger (panning landscapes + 70mm scale). more actors + extras-crowd scenes. technicolor. 3D. closups got closer |
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| characteristics fo 50s-60s film driven by... |
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| TV + fight for exhibitors in film raffles. (needed more attneiton and to show off differences between film and TV) |
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| P conditions of New Hollywood |
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production: indie. studios = distributors. films produced over years (more slowly). Film schools emerge (criticize old methods of film production + help make films more director dominated). take more risks
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| Dist condition of new hollywood |
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| Exhibition conditions New Hollywood |
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| film festivals emerge. youth demograhic becomes important. |
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| Social Context Conditions New Hollywood |
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| vietnam war. question social order more. counter culture enters mainstream cultre: people think world system is broken and identity movement imp. |
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| New Hollywood's content (how conditions manifested in) |
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| moral and narrative abiguity: false leads, anti heroes, endings w.out closure--loose ends, sense that all is not right in america or world. |
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| film that's plot can be answered quickly in a reply to a what if question. |
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| how did distribution + exhibition possibilities encourage high concept? |
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| invention of megaplex in 1980s encouraged wide release. as result, film needed to be understood quickly. no longer relied on legs. |
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| how did distribution + exhibition possibilities encourage indie prod in 1980s - 90s? |
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| VHS + DVD. movie rental stores. no longer relied on admissions alone. |
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| trends of localization and globalization today |
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| films produced on different locations around america other than just nyc and california. globalization is the exhibition of film oversees. it has encouraged films to have more ethnically diverse casts, go to exotic locations, more ethnically related back stories in order to appeal to global tastes. |
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| what films have disapeared since 70s? |
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| middle budget films between 4-100 million |
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