FS201 Study Guide - Final Guide: Buster Keaton, Silent Film, Propaganda Due

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Film Studies
• Course: FS201
• Professor: Elzbieta Ostrowska

Document Summary

Gag - centered comedy a name for a low, physical comedy! Lack of psychological motivation for this comic violence! Belongs to the model of the cinema of attraction ! Fall (caused most often by banana peel)! Blow (usually translated into a pie in the face)! A central comic persona, a charlie or the tramp - a displaced person! Emphasis on psychological and emotional hence his constant interaction with other character! A romance with a woman whom the tramp admires! Serious moral concern but also moral ambiguity! His silent movie is the model of self-suf cient, which is not lacking anything. Visualization of the theme of loneliness and alienation! Casting(other characters are usually larger than him)! Sadistic routines the tramp"s marginalisation in society! Mine gags the tramp"s metaphoric imagination! Mostly use static long or medium shots (long takes are the most ef cient way to convey ideas. Complex comic actions (camera just record it rather than create it)!