film
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
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film form
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overall organization/ system of relations throughout film
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function
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purpose, fulfilling roles within the whole system
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referential meaning
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plot summary
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explicit meaning
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point of film
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implicit meaning
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abstract interpretation of film
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symptomatic meaning
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social ideology of film
- evaluation
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goodness or badness of film
- analysis
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setup of film broken down into parts and elements
- pattern
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formal repetition
- motif
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repeated significant formal repetition
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formal system
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structured narrative form, art films, categories
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stylistic system
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cinematography aspects, motifs, sound
- Roshomon
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Year=1950
Director=Akira Kurosawa
Summary=
a woman is raped and her husband killed. The film gives us four viewpoints of the incident - one for each defendant - each revealing a little more detail. Which version, if any, is the real truth about what happened ? - Lenny
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Year=1974
Director= Bob Fosse
ExProducer= David Picker
Summary=
Interview-style biography of controversial and pioneering stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce. The film traces Bruce from his beginnings as a Catskills comic to his later underground popularity based on his anti-establishment politics and his scatological humor - ì bout de souffle
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Year=1960
Director=Jean Luc Godard
Summary=
Michel Poiccard, an irresponsible sociopath and small-time thief, steals a car and impulsively murders the motorcycle policeman who pursues him. Now wanted by the authorities, he renews his relationship with Patricia Franchini, a hip American girl studying journalism at the Sorbonne, whom he had met in Nice a few weeks earlier. Before leaving Paris, he plans to collect a debt from an underworld acquaintance and expects her to accompany him on his planned getaway to Italy. Even with his face in the local papers and media, Poiccard seems oblivious to the dragnet that is slowly closing around him as he recklessly pursues his love of American movies and libidinous interest in the beautiful American