MPF 290 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: 180-Degree Rule, Dziga Vertov, D. W. Griffith
19 Oct 2016
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Week 1 (film: the purple rose of cairo, woody allen) 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 study them. Social, sociological, cultural, economic, political, psychological, historical . 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. It comes from the greek word meaning narration" (465). Active viewers are an audience that engages with a film in energetic and dynamic ways (corrigan. As movie spectators, we are not passive audiences who simply absorb what we see on the screen. We respond actively to films, often in terms of our different ages, backgrounds, educational levels, interests, and geographical locations (corrigan and white, 9).
