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Levi-Strauss’ binary opposition – Narrative tension is based on opposition or conflict. This can be as two characters fighting, but more often functions at an ideological level. Dissidence : The act of opposing and ideology. ISA: ideological state apparatus A term developed by the Marxist theorist Louis Althusser to denote institutions such as education, the churches, family, media, trade unions, and law, which were formally outside state control but which served to transmit the values of the state , to interpellate those individuals affected by them, and to maintain order in a society, above all to reproduce capitalist relations of production . Binary opposites Good vs. evil Black vs. white Boy vs. girl Peace vs. war Civilized vs. savage Democracy vs. dictatorship First world vs. third world Domestic vs. foreign/alien Articulate vs. inarticulate Young vs. old Man vs. nature Protagonist vs. antagonist Action vs. inaction Motivat...

Film is considered both as entertainment and as an art form in its own right. Aesthetics considers how all aspects of film form are combined artistically - for example, individual shots, framing, and also miss-en-scène. The aesthetic is therefore the distinctive look or style of film .

Richard Curtis               Writes and directs whitewashed, saccharine, improbable, middle class visions of the UK that                                 are supposed to be funny. An Auteur is a cinema individual who is a big body of work, has great influence on certain cinemas and has a uniquely authentic style. Alfred Hitchcock is a famous example. Binary opposite = 2 things that are different Binary opposition = 2 things that clash

A Star Is Born The star is consists of three component parts: -the real person -the reel person -the star's persona (independent of, but a combination of the other two parts) The star-image has four pa;rts: -what the industry puts out -what the media says (including critics) -what the star says or does -what we say stars can mean different things to different people (so Sidney Poitier has a different relationship to black audiences and white audiences) Overall stars might be considered intertextual - a cluster of meanings and parts, often referencing one another. Stars might be considered: - As a deviant - the star's life is controlled by the studio and there is little room for resistance - as a cultural value/sign/fetish - stars are shifting signifirers; they reflect the time in which they work and their work becomes a sign reflected in society; the star is also a mediator between the real and imaginary world. - As an object of star-gazing - remember that t...

-Framing/composition -Colour Palette (Bright, pastel, muted, monochromatic, analogous, colour discordance(clash of colours)) -Props -Costume -Setting/Location -Hair/makeup -Casting

Music Music terms :- Key - major/minor Pitch - high/low Timbre/mood/tone Genre Crescendo/Diminuendo Harmony Texture Dynamics - soft/harsh Tempo Instrumentation - RIDM (rhythm, instrumentation, dynamics, melody). key terminology synchronous sound - sounds that match what we can see on screen Asynchronous sound - sounds not matched with a visible source Dissonance - unpleasant sounds lacking harmony Sound Bridge - Where sound carries over from one scene to another Ambient Sound - sounds of a given location (e.g. woodland sound) Soundscape - a sound pr combination of sounds arising from a particular environment background music diegetic/non-diegetic - wether the the spectator would be able to hear the sound thats happening if he were in the scene.

Social Realism A social realist film is a film that shows a realistic perspective of society at a specific time and place. An example of a social realist film is   Hue and Cry  (1947),   which was a film shot promptly after the aftermath of the Blitz, shot on real bombed out sites across Britain. Most early post world war 2 social realist films received funding from the government in order to show people what British Society is like at the time.  Early  British cinema picked up on the revelation of everyday social interaction to be found in Dickens and Thomas Hardy . In the years following World War I, it was widely felt that the key to a national cinema lay in 'realism and restraint'. Britain's contribution to cinema in the 1930s lay in a state-sponsored documentary tradition that would feed into the 1940s mainstream. T he  British  industry   has had a  longstanding rivalry with Hollywood in...