CTCS 190 Periodization

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Cinematic Arts Flowchart on CTCS 190 Periodization, created by Sean Lim on 30/04/2017.
Sean Lim
Flowchart by Sean Lim, updated more than 1 year ago
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Flowchart nodes

  • Classical (1926-1945)
  • Topical Accomodation
  • Postclassical (1945-1962)
  • Hybridization
  • Vehicle for Social Statement
  • Parody and Nostalgia
  • Remyths Genre
  • Demyths Genre
  • Transitivity = an outcome directly follows from an action
  • Goal-oriented Protagonist
  • Omniscient POV
  • Identification with Characters
  • Few Characters
  • Closure = clear conflict and clear resolution
  • Closed text = movie speaks for itself from itself
  • Transparency = formal elements not meant to be shown
  • Pleasure = audience oriented and for cathartic release
  • Modernism (1962-1976)
  • Intransitivity = rules of causality are fragmented
  • Abstract Characters and Issues
  • Selective POV = gives into and acknowledges uncertainty
  • Distance from Characters
  • Many Characters
  • Nonclosure = no clear resolution of conflict
  • Intertextuality = nostalgia for past time periods
  • Self-Reflectivity = film foregrounds its creation
  • Confrontation
  • Themes
  • Subversion = go against the point of the game
  • Journey to understand character's place in society
  • Pose questions that are not necessarily answerable
  • Acknowledge heterogeneous world
  • Wants to find out how processes behind the obvious work
  • Emphasis on situational ethics
  • Societal Drives
  • Societal Drives
  • Italian Neorealism
  • French New Wave
  • Angry Young Men
  • Eastern Europe dark comedy
  • Swedish chamber dramas
  • Director as auteur
  • End of censorship
  • Conglomerate takeover of the studio
  • Exposure to Asian and European cultures via the war
  • Genre Drives
  • Appeal to the consumer, proven to be money-maker in other arts
  • Show consumer what they're buying
  • Props can be reused next year
  • Repetition every year would increase quality
  • Hard to come out of mold because industry forbids it
  • Familiarity and simplicity of sucking audience in without much effort
  • Represents society as it is in that time period
  • Cathartic and inspirational for that time period
  • Vehicle for communication points
  • Ritualistic = perpetuates culture because you're watching with others
  • Tragedy
  • Comedy
  • Melodrama
  • Main Types
  • Subtypes
  • Romantic
  • Male/Female
  • Mystery / Detective
  • Western / Gangster
  • Courtroom
  • Thriller / Sci-Fi
  • Cynicism about life, tradition, and the American male
  • Too much classical films on TV, people want to make something new
  • All other art was doing the same thing
  • Studios outcompeted by TV, so external indie producers needed
  • People tried to get around censors
  • Foreign films seen in art houses, experimen-tation broke genres
  • Postmodernism (1976- )
  • Disregard of reality and truth = stay in fantasy forever
  • High and low culture erased = every film is intended to appeal to all
  • Imitation of old work to evoke same emotion
  • No nostalgia for the past eras but just for the images of the past
  • Lack of depth, spiritually dead
  • Mashing = heterogeneous causes
  • Societal Drives
  • Anti-imperialist youth
  • International capitalism, post-industrialism
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