GERM 1171 Chapter 2: textbook notes
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In the movies resembles the art of painting in that an image of formal patterns. Form and content are best used as relative terms, useful concepts for temporarily. Categorize movies according to a variety of criteria, 2 most common are style and type. 3 types of movies- documentaries, fiction, and avant-garde. Most fiction films tend to conform to classical paradigm, what critics refer to as classical. Before 1900 movies developed in 2 directions: realistic and formalistic. Realists most extreme example of style is found in avant garde cinema. Critics and theorists champion film as the most realistic of all the arts capturing sound. 1-9: and looks cinema isolating specific aspects of a movie for purposes of closer examination. 46-67: and shapes is presented on a flat surface and is enclosed within a frame matter heightened rectangular surface is generally held in some kind of balance or harmonious equilibrium.
