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People who critique movies fall into what three general classes?
- Reviewers
- Critics
- Theorists
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Three general classes of movie critiques...
Theorists are concerned with...
the wider context of the medium - its social and political implications
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Traditionally, critics and theorist have focused their attention on three areas of inquiry:...
- 1. the work of art
- 2. the artist
- 3. the audience
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For the most part, film theory has been dominated by...
Europeans, especially the French and British.
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Those who have stressed the work of art have...
explored the inner dynamics of movies - how they communicate, the language systems they use.
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Film theorist can be divided into what two categories?
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The most important artist-oriented approach is...
the auteur theory, the believe that a movie is best understood by focusing on its artistic creator, presumably the director.
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What were the dominant theories of the 1970s?
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What do the two dominant theories of the 1970s emphasize?
a synthetic approach, combining such concerns as genre, authorship, style, iconography, social context, and ideology.
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