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HUM Exam 1 Study Guide Paper. 100% Coverage, rated A+. Pedagogy - ✔✔Media teaches us how to behave, think, feel, fear and desire. -Identity-based on gender, class, ethnicity, nationality, and... sexuality. -values:what one thinks, feels, believes, fears, and desires. Multiculturalism - ✔✔Affirms the worth of different types of culture and cultural groups ex: sex, gender, class, religion and race Hegemony - ✔✔Power of dominance ruling social, political, and cultural forces In our culture? Middle/upper class, moderate, white males Semiotics - ✔✔Study of how symbols form meaning Madonna Phenomenon - ✔✔Came about through the time of the production of MTV, music industry, concerts, marketing, images. Empowered teenage girls and gays. 3 Areas of Media Inquiry - ✔✔1. External-why a film is made, who it is made for, what historical elements contributed to its production. 2. Internal-what people are depicted are portrayals fair, how does my personal identity affect my experience. 3. Reactionary-how others respond to the media, what other media it influences. Social Consent - ✔✔More effective means of control than coercion or force. Four aspects of cinema as an Institution - ✔✔1. Economic-designed to make money 2. Social-provides appropriate form of social contact, way to spend leisure time 3. Technological-success depends on industrial-revolution era invention 4. Psychological-provide entertainment that appeals to people. The Kinetoscope - ✔✔Transformed the face of the late nineteenth-century culture -Permitted customers to view a short, 50-foot film at any one time. Nickelodeon - ✔✔Small, 200-seat theaters devoted exclusively to the showing of motion picture films. Price of admission:only a nickel -A shift in the audience to more lower class individuals. Birth of A Nation - ✔✔-complex 3-hour long narrative film -success transformed the nature of American film production and exhibition -notorious for its racist agenda, illustrating enormous power of motion picture medium to communicate ideological arguments. -Glorified the KKK ISAs & RSAs - ✔✔Ideological state apparatus: ISAs-plural, private (kind of), functions by ideology and violence, non-government agencies that teach beliefs. Repressive state apparatus: RSAs-singular/unified, public, functions by violence and ideology, government agencies that use force. Ideology - ✔✔Represents the imaginary relationship of their real conditions of existence in imaginative form. Beliefs about how the world works. Style - ✔✔Consists of a films elements such as costume, setting, lighting, camera, angles, cameras zooming, and panning, lighting, sound, music, and scene transitions. Mise-en-scene - ✔✔Literally, refers to the relationship of every aspect of a shot to every other aspect of the shot. -a way for directors to communicate info to the audience. Angle - ✔✔camera angels often communicate a character's power or lack thereof. Ex: karate kid Distance - ✔✔close-ups, medium shots, and long shots to help to draw attention to the most significant aspect of the shot. Movement - ✔✔zooming (in or out) provides the illusion of movement or the camera may actually move. Three point lighting - ✔✔-key light-the chief light used to light the main object of the shot. -fill light-a weaker light used to fill in the shadows cast by the key light. -back light used to light the backdrop of the shot High/low-key lighting - ✔✔high key- relatively bright, involves a high ratio of fill light, and is prevalent in comedies and musicals low key- relatively dark bc of its low ratio or fill light. Used in mysteries, horror, and film noir. Star lighting - ✔✔makes the star the source of light. the light does not come from an identifiable source Transition - ✔✔shifting from one scene to the next can involve a straight cut, fade, dissolve, iris, or wipe. Narrative structure - ✔✔refers to the way in which shots comprise a scene and in which scenes are woven together to give meaning to the entire picture. Eyeline mathcing - ✔✔Eyeline Matching includes two shots: 1st, the character looks off-screen. 2nd, audience sees what the character is looking at from the direction and angle of the character 180 Degree rule - ✔✔maintains the illusion of spatial reality by shooting from one side of an imaginary line Segmentation - ✔✔a process of analysis in which films are broken down into individual shots or sequences in order to discuss them as parts of a larger whole Dramatic unities - ✔✔unity of action- action makes sense as a discernible unit unity of time-one moment flows into the next as in real-time unity of space-events take a place in a given, demarcated space Color palette - ✔✔comprised of the range and type of colors selected to help convey meaning and mood. Stereotype - ✔✔conventional, formulaic, and usually oversimplified conception opinion or belief, a person, group, event or issue considered to typify or conform to an unvar [Show More]

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