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This is probably going to get moved, but at least it's better than asking it on Yahoo Answers or (heaven forbid) asking my idiot lecturer.

If these terms mean the following:

Period style: how the film was produced within a particular period and/or nation, and how the film uses significant formal, stylistic, and thematic elements in common with other films inspired by this film style / film movement).

Movement style: how the filmmaker self-consciously and deliberately adopts a way / approach / philosophy of making the film in order to highlight significant formal, stylistic, and thematic elements in common with other films belonging to the film movement. When a group of filmmakers deliberately share and use a common film style they’re said to belong to a film movement.

Personal style: how the personal style of one key creative person has impacted upon significant formal, stylistic, and thematic elements in the film. You should try to find out if this key creative person has also made other films, and then compare these (or some of these) films to see if the films have significant formal, stylistic, and thematic elements in common. If you’re focusing on the personal style of the director for your seminar presentation, you will need to consider if the director is an auteur director.

Would looking at JFK as Soviet/Intellectual Montage (which was a movement style of a particular period) come under "movement" style or "personal"?

Personal style.

Personal style.

I actually disagree. Given the guidlines, in order to do that she'd have to establish that soviet/intellectual was a stylistic element in all of Stone's movies. I think what she wants to argue is Stone is using soviet/intellectual montage was used purposefully by Stone to use that in a film about the cold war. I think you can effectively argue that Stone is an auteur director, but she'd have to argue that soviet/intellectual montage is part of that auteurship and even then its still a style of a movement that he's adapted into his style. So I'd say it's movement.


Damn, I kinda miss film school...where renting equipment was free...

Well, that was my reservation but I figure all these terms come with a free lump of bullshit anyway. I wouldn't say it's movement, as laid out by the definition provided because it's not being used in the specific context of that movement (although obviously some overlapping is unavoidable).

Edit: Despite that, the OP should probably listen to the guy who went to film school rather than to me.

Well, that was my reservation but I figure all these terms come with a free lump of bullshit anyway. I wouldn't say it's movement, as laid out by the definition provided because it's not being used in the specific context of that movement (although obviously some overlapping is unavoidable).

Edit: Despite that, the OP should probably listen to the guy who went to film school rather than to me.
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