Flashcards: Cinema Evolution and Impact — 18 cards

British Documentary Movement — focus?

Creative non-fiction blending art and reality

John Grierson — contribution?

Coined 'documentary,' emphasized creative treatment of actuality

Creative treatment of actuality — meaning?

Artistic, subjective approach to portraying real events

Nanook of the North — significance?

Early creative documentary influencing the style

Documentary as art — shift?

From raw recording to expressive, artistic films

Origins of cinema — era?

Late Victorian period in Britain

Public/private spheres — in Victorian society?

Division with limited female visibility in public

Bicycle’s role?

Enabled women’s independence, challenged gender norms

Department stores — significance?

Spaces for women’s social visibility in public

Early instruments — examples?

Magic lantern, thaumatrope, zoetrope, praxinoscope

Kinetoscope — feature?

Individual viewing device for moving images

Cinematograph — innovation?

Projection device for collective cinema experience

First films — example?

Phantom Ride, slapstick shorts

Early cinema — audience?

Shared, interactive, emotional communal responses

Cinema evolution — progress?

From static shots to complex editing techniques

Documentary boundaries — challenge?

Blurring of fact and fiction, staged scenes included

Cinema grammar — development?

From unedited shots to montage and sequencing

Propaganda purpose?

Influence public opinion and reinforce social norms