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Movie Character Analysis & Key Terms
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ReviewTerms you already know characterization-characters are understood as a product of their appearance, gestures and actions, dialogue, and comments of other characters, and incidental features. classical film narrative-actions, behaviors, and desires of a character create casual logic, whereby one action or event leads to another action or event
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ReviewTerms you already know -character coherence-the product of different psychological, historical, or other expectations that see people as fundamentally consistent and unique -evaluate this based on: values, actions, behaviors -character doubling-when 2 characters become mirror images of each other -Film characterization reflects certain historical and cultural values.
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New Terms Pertaining Characters -Character grouping refers to social arrangement of characters in relation to each other. -Protagonists=positive force/ Antagonist=negative force -Social hierarchies come into play in the arrangements of film characters. -When social groupings are more important than individual characters, the collective character of the individuals in the group is primarily defined in terms of the group's action and personality.
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New Terms Pertaining Characters -Character types= characters that share distinguishing features with each other. (prominent across genres) -Character types convey clear psychological or social connotations that imply cultural values. -Figurative typescharacters so exaggerated or reduced that they no longer seem at all realistic and instead seem more like abstractions. -Archetypea reflection of a spiritual or abstract state or process, such as when a character represents evil or oppression -Movement from figurative type to stereotype occurs when a film reduces a realistic character to a set of static traits. -Public images of actors correlates to how we see them promoted within society.
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New Terms Pertaining Characters -Character developmentthe patterns through which characters move from one mental, physical, or social state to another in a particular film. -Character development usually follows one of four schemes: internal/external change and progressive/regressive developments. -Character development is frequently symptomatic of the larger society in which the character lives.
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