Unit+10+Key+Concepts

=Unit 10 Key Concepts=


 * Motif**- is any recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story. Through its repetition, a motif can help produce other narrative (or literary) aspects such as theme or mood.


 * Low-Budget Film Making**- A motion picture shot with little or no funding from a major film studio or private investor. usually used to save money.Many independent films or films with inexperienced or unknown filmmakers are made on low budgets.Many low budget films that do not gain some form of attention or acclaim are never released in theatres and are often sent straight to retail because of its lack of marketbility, look, story, or premise. Modern day young filmmakers rely on film festivals for pre promotion.


 * Serials (Movies)** - Anything published, broadcast, etc., in short installments at regular intervals, as a novel appearing in successive issues of a magazine. Also known as Movie Serials, Film Serials, or Chapter Plays. Serials are very much like television shows nowadays, based on the fact that they were shown at the same time once a week.


 * B-Movies -** A low budget made for especially to accompany a major feature film on a double bill. There was a massive rise in these films in the horror and western genre, because they were the films that entertained the audience the most, so they quickly tried to cash in on this popularity. Second movie on a double bill. A couple movies that were considered B-movies were Columbia's "That Certain Thing" and "The Raven"

A brief, usually indirect reference to a person, place, or event--real or fictional. It is also usually a reference to something that was seen in a piece of work such as Raiders of the Lost Ark when Indy was running away from the boulder which is often seen today in other films.
 * Allusion** - an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication. a passing or casual reference. something being there but really isnt there.


 * Homage** - S omething done or given in acknowledgment or consideration of the worth of another; respect or reverence paid. Dedication to someone or something by simplicity usually through something artistic or poetic. A show or demonstration of respect or dedication to something or someone that is very iconic or important.


 * Product tie-ins** - An authorized product based on a media property a company is releasing. Movie makers are paid to advertise products and influence people, these can be very powerful.


 * Conglomerate** **Take-Overs**- When more than one type of film companies merger with eachother. The acquisition of a target form in a field apparently unrelated to the acquirors existing activities.


 * Post-Modernism** - Is a range of conceptual frameworks and ideologies that are defined in opposition to those commonly associated with ideologies of modernity and modernist notions of knowledge and science, such as formalism, materialism, metaphysics, positivism, realism, and reductionism, structuralism.