{"id":674,"date":"2006-08-22T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nolanpro.com\/wordpress\/?p=333"},"modified":"2006-08-22T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T21:15:00","slug":"buzzwords-i-use-and-what-i-think-they-mean-for-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/2006\/08\/22\/buzzwords-i-use-and-what-i-think-they-mean-for-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Buzzwords I use and what I think they mean, for class."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Definitions of Film Theory and Criticism<\/p>\n<p>From Biology by Campbell the 5th Ed. page 426 &#8220;The colloquial use of &#8220;theory&#8221; comes close to what scientists mean by a &#8220;hypothesis.&#8221; Campbell defines a hypothesis on page 14 as being   &#8220;&#8230;a tennative answer to some question &#8211; an explanation or trial.&#8221; So a film theory could be understood as a potential explanation for what a film does. Unlike scientific theories they are grounded more in dogma and tradition but like scientific theories they must be justified by a rigid methodology of observation and analysis of facts.<\/p>\n<p>Criticism is finding the proper context to judge a work of art and then applying the expectations<br \/>that come with that context to arrive at a judgement about how well the artist has fulfilled these<br \/>expectations.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/674_0.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/>                                                       &#8221; . . . or we could take my car. Gosh!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Definitions of Film Theory and Criticism From Biology by Campbell the 5th Ed. page 426 &#8220;The colloquial use of &#8220;theory&#8221; comes close to what scientists mean by a &#8220;hypothesis.&#8221; Campbell defines a hypothesis on page 14 as being &#8220;&#8230;a tennative answer to some question &#8211; an explanation or trial.&#8221; So a film theory could be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}