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Cronenberg = begins career as art house filmmaker in 1960s The Tax Shelter Boom = massive tax incentives provide a huge shot in the arm for commercial filmmaking and genre filmmaking Rashomon = was one of the films that popularized the Samurai film genre around the world Bordwell = Hong Kong movies were made simply because millions of people wanted to watch them

martial arts films set in the distant past featuring wandering soldiers, often with remarkable (even superhuman) skills, especially with swords = wuxia films Lee = died at an early age—the last film completed before he died, Enter the Dragon (1973), was a US/HK co-production—Warner Bros The master of this new breed of action films was John Woo = However, martial arts action films got displaced to a certain extent by crime action films na = na

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Black stereotypes per nichols (examples) = The Mammy, The Buck, The Uncle Tom, The Tragic Mulatto Bertolt Brecht = was a playwright and theatre director who created an approach to theatre that rejected bourgeois narratives— he developed techniques that were meant to keep the audience from being lulled into passivity Nichols describes the film’s famous “racial diatribes” sequence as being an example of = Brechtian cinema na = na

The performance principle = “[revolves] around work, toil, sacrifice, discipline, and obedience” The pleasure principle = “centered on play, pleasure, spontaneity, creativity, and joy Voyeurism = the practice of gaining sexual pleasure from watching others when they are naked or engaged in sexual activity Fetishism = a form of sexual behavior in which gratification is strongly linked to a particular object or activity or a part of the body other than the sexual organs

Sadism = the tendency to derive pleasure, especially sexual gratification, from inflicting pain, suffering, or humiliation on others Masochism = the tendency to derive pleasure, especially sexual gratification, from one's own pain or humiliation repression = the inhibition of a feeling or desire sublimation = to divert or modify a tendency or desire into a socially more acceptable activity

Patriarchy = a system of society or government in which men hold the power and women are largely excluded from it the AIP approach to exploitation filmmaking = spend as little money as possible • play up the most sensationalistic angle • exaggerate wildly in advertising, • book each film in as many theatres as possible (“saturation booking”) in order to counter negative word of mouth na 1 = na 1 na 2 = na 2

high concept film = basic & easily understood, primal in its simplicity merchandising & spin-offs = key aspects of the blockbuster phenomenon James Cameron = blockbuster auteur politicaly disperse = blockbusters

cult movies = notable for their fixation on the bizarre, the outrageous, the perverse, the taboo, the tasteless Klosterman = There has never been a movie I wanted to see as much as Dazed and Confused. This was primarily due to my somewhat fanatical affinity for Slacker (1991), a movie I sometimes watched twice a day Ensemble acting = Monahan & Barsam: “…emphasizes the collaborative interaction of a group of actors, not the work of an individual actor” Dazed and confused = an example of ensemble acting