TFM 364A QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
sound cinema - -Edison developed the idea of synchronous sound
1930
-Hay's Code - -means of self-regulation to maintain moral descent of movies, not
glamorized indecency or crime
-The Motion Picture Production Code - -every film passing approval a system of self-
regulation policed by own members
-The Jazz Singer - -1927
alan crosland
synchronize sound and image
-The Public Enemy - -1931
William Wellman
breakout for James Cagney
not re-eddited though product code was not enforcing regulations
-Vitaphone - -synchronized sound and image
1925
Warner Bros
-10 major studios - -Columbia
Universal
United Artists
Warner Bros
Paramount
RKO
-Gangster Cinema - -successful and controversial
1930s
anti claimed for glamorizing crime
rise and fall of anti heroes
-Genre - -plot, thematic, stylistic
-Horror storytelling - -audiences should know what's happening foreground, middle,
background
-Diegetic Sound - -characters can hear sound
-non-diegetic sound - -sound that can be heard by the audience only, not the characters
, -Rise fo Musicals - -1930s
became genre
number of stories
-Golden Age of Hollywood (Horror) - -generous built around audience expectations and
stars provided most common way to differentiate genres
-Busby Berkeley - -staging and producing musicals
Moving dancers all over the stage in kaleidoscopic patterns and imaginative floor patterns
filmed from overhead.
-Fred Astaire - -created new form of musical where song and dance were integrated into
romance
-Gold Diggers - -1933
NYC- Depression
life of showgirls
screwball comedy element to dialogue
class tension
-Visceral thrills - -create emotional response in viewer
-universal and monster movies - -1930s
genre became clear: mad scientists, monsters, dangerous settings
ex: Dracula 1931
-The Black Cat - -1934
Edgar G Ulmer
master of genres
imposing figures, moody lighting, rain, trauma
- couple gets in crash with man who invites them into home
-Screwball Comedy - -satirizes and deconstructs the traditional love story
-importance of dialogue in screwball comedy - -heavily on script and actors ability to
speak fire dialogue in epic verbal battles (couldn't show sex or foreplay)
-Preston Sturges - -screenwriter, filmmaker
films= political and socially subversive
view of marriage, work, sexuality
-His Girl Friday - -1940
Howard Hawks
characters forced to hang out for long time
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sound cinema - -Edison developed the idea of synchronous sound
1930
-Hay's Code - -means of self-regulation to maintain moral descent of movies, not
glamorized indecency or crime
-The Motion Picture Production Code - -every film passing approval a system of self-
regulation policed by own members
-The Jazz Singer - -1927
alan crosland
synchronize sound and image
-The Public Enemy - -1931
William Wellman
breakout for James Cagney
not re-eddited though product code was not enforcing regulations
-Vitaphone - -synchronized sound and image
1925
Warner Bros
-10 major studios - -Columbia
Universal
United Artists
Warner Bros
Paramount
RKO
-Gangster Cinema - -successful and controversial
1930s
anti claimed for glamorizing crime
rise and fall of anti heroes
-Genre - -plot, thematic, stylistic
-Horror storytelling - -audiences should know what's happening foreground, middle,
background
-Diegetic Sound - -characters can hear sound
-non-diegetic sound - -sound that can be heard by the audience only, not the characters
, -Rise fo Musicals - -1930s
became genre
number of stories
-Golden Age of Hollywood (Horror) - -generous built around audience expectations and
stars provided most common way to differentiate genres
-Busby Berkeley - -staging and producing musicals
Moving dancers all over the stage in kaleidoscopic patterns and imaginative floor patterns
filmed from overhead.
-Fred Astaire - -created new form of musical where song and dance were integrated into
romance
-Gold Diggers - -1933
NYC- Depression
life of showgirls
screwball comedy element to dialogue
class tension
-Visceral thrills - -create emotional response in viewer
-universal and monster movies - -1930s
genre became clear: mad scientists, monsters, dangerous settings
ex: Dracula 1931
-The Black Cat - -1934
Edgar G Ulmer
master of genres
imposing figures, moody lighting, rain, trauma
- couple gets in crash with man who invites them into home
-Screwball Comedy - -satirizes and deconstructs the traditional love story
-importance of dialogue in screwball comedy - -heavily on script and actors ability to
speak fire dialogue in epic verbal battles (couldn't show sex or foreplay)
-Preston Sturges - -screenwriter, filmmaker
films= political and socially subversive
view of marriage, work, sexuality
-His Girl Friday - -1940
Howard Hawks
characters forced to hang out for long time
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