MPF 290 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Guide: Shot Reverse Shot, Watching Movies, Reaction Shot
1 Dec 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Spectatorship: the process of film viewing; the conscious and unconscious interaction of viewers and films as a topic of interest to film theorists. Active viewing: an audience that engages with a film in energetic and dynamic ways. Diegesis: a term that refers to the world of the film"s story (its characters, places, and events), including not only what is shown but also what is implied to have taken place. A discipline that reflects critically on the nature and history of movies and the place of film in culture ( corrigan & white, 466). Films are a lot of different things- it makes sense that there are a lot of different ways to stud them. As movie spectators, we are not passive audiences who simply absorb what we see on screen. We respond actively to films, often in terms of our different ages, backgrounds, education levels, interests and geological locations (corrigan & white, 9).
