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In his essay from Film Analysis, Richard Maltby discusses how It Happened One Night (Capra, 1934) is "credited with inaugurating a new type of screen comedy...", which is usually identified as _____________________________.

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screwball comedy

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In the text Film Analysis, context is defined as information "ranging from the personal backgrounds of the film's makers to the institutional and industrial circumstances in which it was made, to the social and economic conditions at the time of its making."

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True

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The three different "types" of meaning within film analysis are______,_______&______

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literal connotative ideological

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Another aspect of analysis that ties into meaning would be to look at how a particular film relates to other films in existence that might share similar traits, aspects, or themes. This would be the study of the film's _________________.

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genre

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Jeffrey Geiger and R.L. Rutsky, the authors of the book Film Analysis, would argue that the film The Lego Movie (Lord & Miller, 2014) invites us to accept one single message or idea: The Lego Movie is a film about the importance of embracing our childlike, imaginative nature to build community.

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False

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"Human vs. Human", "Human vs. Nature", and "Human vs. Divine" would all be examples of _______________________.

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external conflict

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The central character, who pursues a goal and with whom we sympathize, is called the antagonist.

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False

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Within Dana Polan's analysis of Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942) in the text Film Analysis, what genre of film is he referring to when he says "...there is a pessimistic timelessness implicit in the existential brooding that comes when one has seen the perfidy of the world and understood that there's no path to eternal bliss,"?

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film noir

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___________________ meaning refers to themes that are on the "surface" of the film, sometimes even stated by a character within the film.

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Literal

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In terms of Narrative, the opposition between the protagonist and antagonist introduces conflict that produces a ______________________ until the conflict resolves.

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struggle

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Narrators who have no explicit presence are called diegetic because they exist beyond the world of the film altogether.

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False

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Were we to look at the ____________________________ of Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942), the first event to occur would be Rick Blaine running guns in Ethiopia.

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story

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A ________________________ is a "Chain of Events in Cause and Effect sequence occurring in Time and Space" (Bordwell and Thompson).

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narrative

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A common, re-occuring archetype within the film noir genre is the _______________________; an attractive and seductive woman who ultimately brings disaster to a man who becomes involved with her.

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Femme Fatale

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In Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942), we see a flashback of Rick's (Humphrey Bogart) time spent with Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) in Paris, France. This scene would be considered a ____________________________ First Person State.

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mental

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Explicitly presented events and non-diegetic material, such as score and credits/titles, as the film presents them would be known as _________________________.

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Plot

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According to Studlar in Film Analysis, the __________________________ within Double Indemnity (Wilder, 1944) adds to the sense of the protagonist's inevitable, impending doom.

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voice-over

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In analyzing non-fiction documentary films, like American Movie (Smith, 1999), it is important to note that analytical aspects like narrative, plot, and ideology, etc. apply in the same way they would to a work of fiction.

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True

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In the film Stand By Me (Reiner, 1986) a writer named Gordie Lachance (Richard Dreyfuss) recalls the a childhood journey he took with two other friends to find the body of a missing boy near his home town. The film centers around young Gordie and his journey, with narration by his older self, The Writer. What type of narrator is Gordie?

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Diegetic

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James Cain co-wrote the screenplay for Double Indemnity (Wilder, 1944) with Billy Wilder out of necessity rather than desire, because he was broke and needed the money.

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False

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In Hsu's essay "The dangers of biosecurity: The Host and the geopolitics of outbreak", he cites two potential "origins" for the creature within the film. One is the dumping of formaldehyde into the Han River, and the other is ______________________________________.

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The businessman committing suicide, jumping from the bridge.

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Also referred to as a cliché, a _____________________ is a common or overused theme or device, many times within a given film genre.

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Trope

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Genre Deconstruction identifies tropes, conventions, and common premises within an established genre and then presents those tropes in a fashion that is rooted in realism. In other words, the elements of the genre that have become cliché are now played "straight".

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True

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In Bong Joon-Ho's film The Host (2006), all narrative evidence suggest a single protagonist exists; Gang-du (Kang-ho Song).

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False

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In Baillon and Laborer's illustrated analysis of genre hybridization within Shaun of the Dead (Wright, 2004), they argue that the film becomes "unstable" and eventually assimilates into the ________________________________ genre rather than the zombie genre.

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Romantic Comedy

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A ________________________ of a genre accepts the criticisms of the initial clichés/tropes made in the previous deconstruction and then modifies it into something that would resemble the original trope, but still work in reality.

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Reconstruction

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In film theory, ________________________ refers to the method of categorizing films based on similarities in multiple elements from which films are constructed. For example, narrative, iconography, typography, ideology, etc.

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film genre

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In The Host (Joon-Ho, 2006) the opening scene where formaldehyde is poured down the drain into the Han River was inspired by a Korean folktale about man who poisons an entire village by pouring nightshade into a mountain stream.

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False

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Hsu argues in his essay on The Host (Joon-Ho, 2006) that the mutant creature in the film is presented as having "almost sympathetic qualities". One moment from the film he cites is the juxtaposition between the monster and the orphan boys practicing _______________________, the "right of the hungry".

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seo-ri

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According to Baillon and Laborer's analysis of Shaun of the Dead (Wright, 2004), the film initially keeps two different genres separate but intact by dissociating the perception of characters within the film from that of the audience, who are ultimately aware of the film's shifts in genre.

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True

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