CTCS 190 Periodization

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