WELCOME, FILM STUDENTS.  ON THIS PAGE, YOU WILL FIND SEVERAL HELPFUL DOCUMENTS AND LOTS OF SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.

NOW SHOWING: 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY

 

THEORIES SO FAR:

Phenomenology

Theory of the Cave

Cognitive Dissonance

Auteur Theory

Lacan's Mirror Theory

Media as a Mirror Theory

Genre Theory

VOCABULARY SO FAR:

Four Values: Entertainment, Educational, Artistic, and Literary

Montage

Diegesis/Diegetic

Mise-en-scene

Motif

Suture/Misrecognition

Four Pillars:  Technology, Sociology, Economics, and Aesthetics

Synchronic/Diachronic

Generic Frustration

Cinematography Terms (See "Cinematography" under "Documents" to the left.)

IMR (Institutional Mode of Representation)

Documentary Modes:  Poetic, Expository, Observational, Participatory, Reflexive, and Performative

Cinema Verite

Psuedo-Documentary/Mocumentary