FILM_S 2860 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Medium Shot, Establishing Shot, Long Shot
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Backstage film any film that captures the efforts of its characters to produce a musical or theatrical piece. Classical hollywood cinema a style of mainstream filmmaking that privileges story, character, and works with invisible editing; a term also applied to characterize the golden age of the studio system, 1916 1960. Invisible editing a style of film editing that makes the transitions between shots (or cuts) appear as seamless as possible. Period film a film set in the historical past that tries to recreate the clothing, setting, and behaviors of the historical moment in which it is set. Adaptation a film whose screenplay is derived from another source-text, frequently a novel. Fidelity discourse a way of judging a film based on its relationship to a literary text. Filmic mode a kind of filmed adaptation of shakespeare that emphasizes the filmmaker"s art over the playwright"s, frequently rejecting at least some of the language or sequence of events of the play.
