CTCS 190g Study Guide - Midterm Guide: The Babys, Jackson Pollock, Social Realism

• School: USC
• Department: Cinema and Media Studies
• Course: CTCS 190g
• Professor: Casper Drew

Document Summary

Formalism: conveys subjectivity through formalist strategies takes the tree and molds/changes/transforms it to give personal vision of the tree. Realist: lets reality of tree wash over him. Mode of representation: the type of reality that the lmmaker is trying to convey: realism or formalism. Primitive realism/ photojournalism stuff from real life taken and put up onto screen early lms: simply scenes from life (like arrival of the train) documentary realism. Formalist types soviet expressive realism: related to soviet (collision) montage combining scenes in a very expressive way : attempts to create a meaning out of dynamic editing. Expressive stylization: modern hollywood formalism (the graduate montage) a strong meaning conveyed using lm school type tricks and techniques: lighting, lters, etc. Avant- garde lm: very abstract abandons traditional notions of story telling like the works of jackson pollack animation. Film noir grew out of hollywood romantic realism, and german expressionism.