Film History I Midterm Exam Study Guide The Midterm Exam will cover chapters 3‚ 4‚ 5‚ 6‚ and 7 from the Thompson and Bordwell text‚ chapters 1 and 2 from the Allen and Gomery text‚ and the following powerpoints: “Origins of Cinema‚” “Edison Co.‚” “Lumiere Bros.‚” “Early Industry‚” and “Narrative Begins.” Any material from those texts or class meetings may be covered‚ but pay particular attention to the material listed below. Terms 1. Bricolage- “Tinkering” the bringing together of bits and pieces
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Bobby Waldron Mr. Clapham Cinema IV College Prep Class 20 November 2014 Odessa Step Sequence Analysis The Odessa Step Sequence was one of the most violent‚ uncomfortable‚ and symbolic scenes I’ve watched. In most of the movies I’ve seen the fight is usually only between good and evil but this scene showed something you don’t normally see. It showed the murder of innocent people which will make any sane person cringe. But in relation to the movie‚ this scene was one of the most profound. It symbolically
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| |1905 |January |Bloody Sunday in Saint Petersburg. | |1905 |June |Battleship Potemkin uprising at Odessa on the Black Sea (see movie The Battleship Potemkin). | |1905 |October |General strike‚ Saint
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In June‚ 1905‚ the Potemkin Mutiny took place and industrial workers all over Russia went on strike. In October‚ 1905‚ the railwaymen went on strike which paralyzed the whole Russian railway network. Later that month‚ Leon Trotsky and other Mensheviks established the St. Petersburg Soviet. Over the next few weeks over 50 of these soviets were formed all over Russia. Witte‚ the new Chief Minister‚ advised Nicholas II to make concessions. He eventually agreed and published the October Manifesto
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Why was the opposition to the state more often unsuccessful than successful in the period 1855 – 1964? Divided opposition. One reason why opposition to the state between 1855 and 1964 was mostly unsuccessful is the divided nature of oppositional forces. One example of this is the Civil War of 1918 where Richard Pipes argued it was a ‘foregone conclusion’ that the Reds would win. The Whites were made up of many different oppositional groups such as the SRs‚ Liberals looking for a tsarist revival
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recognized artistic movement‚ several influential film genres had begun their push into a global cinematic conscience. Such genre-defining films as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) and Nosferatu (1922) for German Expressionism‚ and Battleship Potemkin (1925) for Soviet Montage‚ were all released within a few years of Andre Breton’s First Manifesto of Surrealism in 1924. But Surrealism itself would not see its first film with popular recognition until later in the decade with Un Chien Andalou (1929). It
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1905 Russian Revolution At the beginning of the 20th century the Russian industrial employee worked on average an 11 hour day (10 hours on Saturday). Conditions in the factories were extremely harsh and little concern was shown for the workers’ health and safety. Attempts by workers to form trade unions were resisted by the factory owners and in 1903‚ a priest‚ Father Georgi Gapon‚ formed the Assembly of Russian Workers. Within a year it had over 9‚000 members. 1904 was a particularly bad year
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How serious were the dangers to the tsarist government of Russia from 1900 to the outbreak of war in 1914? The Russia Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian revolution of 1917. Last Tsar was Nicholas ll Romanov. The First World War began in 1914 and lasted until 1918 in Europe. It involved the entire world’s great power‚ UK France and Russia against Germany‚ Italy‚ and Austria-Hungary. In the following information there shall be an analysis how serious were the dangers to the
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a) sequence shot - contains no editing at all b) cutting to continuity – merely condenses the time and space of a completed action c) classical cutting – interprets an action by emphasizing certain details over others d) thematic montage – argues a thesis – the shots are connected in a relatively subjective manner e) abstract cutting – is a purely formalistic style‚ totally divorced from any recognizable subject matter 1. The correlation between film styles and types of
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Mary Gallagher Due: January 16‚ 2013 CLL 156 Mid-Term Many works of literature and even some films contain themes and evidence which supports Marx’s view of capitalism‚ as expressed in the Communist Manifesto. The Communist Manifesto includes many concepts relating to the continuous struggles between classes and their inevitable impact on history. The specific classes discussed in the Communist Manifesto are the proletariat and the bourgeois
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