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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 D.W. Griffith | Classic American filmmaker, known for close-up shots |
| Vertical Integration | Studios control the distribution, production, and execution of a film. |
| U.S. Film Censorship | Self-imposed, MPAA motivates studios to censor to reach larger audience. |
| U.S. vs Paramount (1948) | Ruled that block-booking is monopolistic, ended vertical integration. |
| Sergei Eisenstein | Major Soviet Montage figure, known for dialect. |
| Kuleshov Effect | Audiences could be shown unrelated images but connect them emotionally in their minds, part of Soviet Montage. |
| Mise En Scene | Everything you see within a shot. |
| 1st Technicolor Film | Flowers and Trees, Disney |
| Seamless Editing | Shots are edited together in such a way that the viewer is not aware of each cut. |
| Deep Focus | Shots that contain many points of interest in the foreground, middle ground and background, all clearly in focus, seen in Citizen Kane |
| Black Maria | First retractable roof studio, made by Edison. |
| Serial Photography | Precursor for motion pictures, initially used to study the movements of animals. |
| Invention of Color in Hollywood | After it's invention, people still wanted to see black and white films, an artistic choice until the 70's. |
| The Jazz Singer | First full-length sound film. |
| Double-System | Sound integration with a separate machine for sound. |
| Single-System | System in which sound is photographed simultaneously with the film in the camera, called Phonofilm. |
| Invention of the Television | Changed the film industry in the mid 20th century that caused attendance to drop dramatically. |
| Reflexive (Anti-Illusionist) Film | displays the way the movie was constructed. |
| Active-Subject Film | Themes of primal human desires and anxieties, seen in Japanese New Wave. |
| French New Wave Directors | Started as movie critics. |
| MPAA Rating System | Replaced the Hays Code rating system. |
| Roger Corman | Credited for starting the film careers of many of the Hollywood New Wave's directors, such as Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola. |
| Auteur Theory | When a good film director's vision was valued above a film's marketability or movie stars, gave unlimited power to directors. |
| Franchise Filmmaking | Films are developed for marketing before they are filmed, making more money on merchandise than ticket sales. |
| 1980's Budget for Marketing/Distribution | 1/2 or 50% |
| Home Videos | Embraced by Hollywood as a major new revenue market for films, first seen as a threat. |
| Film Festivals | Where studios found emerging talent and marketable films from the Independents. |
| Invention of New Digital Technology | Most continued to shoot with 35mm instead of switching to digital. |
| Celluloid Film | Film type used since the 1890's, since 2000 the type has been switched 20x. |
| Invention of the Internet | Huge change in access to audience, allowed for easier fan-director contact. |
| Crowd-Sourcing | To attain funds, content, and support through your fan community |
| Trans-media Storytelling | Conveying a story of experience across multiple platforms. |
| Dogme 95 | Films that followed a set of rules called the 'Vow of Chastity', started by Lars and Vinterberg, "The Celebration." |
| Mumblecore (Bedhead Cinema/Slackmetes) | Term for low-budget dramas in the early 2000's, started by Duplass Brothers, "Funny Ha Ha." |
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