Cinema and Society
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Course Introduction
Cinema and Society explores the dynamic relationship between film and the cultural, social, and political contexts in which it is produced and consumed. The course examines how movies reflect societal values, beliefs, and issues, as well as how they shape public attitudes and contribute to cultural change. Through the analysis of influential films from various eras and regions, students will investigate topics such as representation, identity, ideology, censorship, and the impact of technological advancements on cinematic expression. The course encourages critical thinking about the power of cinema as both a mirror and a molder of society.
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Film A Critical Introduction 3rd Edition by
Maria T. Pramaggiore
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Q1) Alternative modes of filmmaking and spectatorship,including independent art cinema,experimental films and documentaries,have only come into existence in the last 10-20 years of film history.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Essential tools for developing a critical approach to the film medium should be based on ________.
A) knowledge about the way films are made
B) knowledge about how films are interpreted in aesthetic contexts
C) knowledge about how films are interpreted in cultural contexts
D) all of these
Answer: D
Q3) Discuss why Maxim Gorky called the cinema a "kingdom of shadows."
Answer: Because audiences immerse themselves in the lives of fictional characters and story worlds that are created by the artistic combination of color,light and sound.
Q4) In general,what do the study notes accompanying end of chapter essays emphasize?
Answer: Strategies for writing about film
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Chapter 2: An Approach to Film Analysis
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Q1) As the Captain grows more and more hostile in <i>Pan's Labyrinth</i>,Ofelia grows to trust the mysterious Faun,who nurtures her and encourages her to follow her own feelings.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Some critics and scholars argue that our ability to embrace new innovative filmmaking practices can be hampered by the fact that most of us have grown up seeing only one type of filmmaking practice .
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) <i>Avatar </i>repeatedly makes reference to what historical event?
A) the attack on Pearl Harbor
B) dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima
C) the first Earth Day
D) the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Answer: D
Q4) Audiences automatically associate actor John Wayne with what type of movie?
Answer: Westerns
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Chapter 3: Writing About Film
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Q1) A scholar conducting <i>archival</i> research might study ________.
A) internal studio memos
B) published scholarship on a film
C) post-screening audience responses to a film
D) secondary sources
Answer: A
Q2) According to the sample film analysis on <i>Steamboat Bill,Jr.</i>.Bill's father associates his son with ________.
A) elitism
B) old ways
C) masculinity
D) modernity
Answer: D
Q3) These letters "ls," "ms," "ts," "la," are a few examples of ____________________.
Answer: shorthand system for taking notes
Q4) In <i>The Big Heat</i>,gangster moll Debbie and the wife of a corrupt police officer are "sisters under the ________________."
Answer: mink
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Chapter 4: Narrative Form
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Q1) The opening scenes of a film,during which a great deal of information about characters and situations is imparted,is known as the ________.
A) exposition
B) backstory
C) prelude
D) denouement
Q2) Which of the following traditions is most commonly associated with classical narration?
A) art films
B) independent cinema
C) commercial Hollywood cinema
D) non-Western films
Q3) The standard pattern that shapes narrative films is the ________ structure
A) three-act
B) five-act
C) eight-act
D) one-act
Q4) Music always functions as a non-diegetic element.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Mise en Scène
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Q1) Filmmakers can design a set using <i>forced perspective</i> to ________.
A) encourage the audience to identify with one character
B) guarantee that the audience notices an important detail in the frame
C) withhold important information about screen space from the audience
D) exaggerate the audience's perception of depth.
Q2) In <i>Thelma and Louise</i>,the men who pursue the main characters are associated with ________.
A) open spaces
B) confined spaces
C) desolate landscapes
D) the desert
Q3) ________ describes an image in which figures have a great deal of open space around them,often suggesting either freedom or isolation.
A) Loose framing
B) Tight framing
C) Spacial framing
D) Fit framing
Q4) Explain the differences between Susan's and Charles's personalities. Then illustrate how the use of setting in this shot illustrates these differences.
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Chapter 6: Cinematography
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Q1) The DP will often work with the editor during post-production in order to ensure that the desired look is achieved.
A)True
B)False
Q2) ________ refers to the creation of a single image by combining elements filmed separately.
A) Compositing
B) Masking
C) Set extension
D) Doubling up
Q3) Which of the following aspects of cinematography can NOT be enhanced by digital technology?
A) compositing
B) the ability to capture character movement in action sequences
C) animation
D) Digital technology can enhance ALL of the above.
Q4) A ________ lens dramatically distorts images so that most straight lines appear to be curved.
Q5) A ________ shot films the subject from the waist up.
Q6) What does it mean to <i>compose in depth</i>?
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Chapter 7: Editing
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Q1) Editing in <i>The Godfather</i> draws from the tradition of ________.
A) Soviet montage
B) continuity
C) German Expressionism
D) A and B
Q2) The principle that the meaning of a shot is determined not only by the material content of the shot,but also by its association with the preceding and succeeding shots is known as the ________ effect.
A) Kuleshov
B) Pudovkin
C) Hitchcock
D) Eisenstein
E) Welles
Q3) Failure to adhere to the 30-degree rule can cause editing to feel ________.
A) continuous
B) fragmented
C) dramatically weighted
D) like the tempo is too slow
Q4) Akira Kurosawa's use of wipes influenced what important science fiction film?
Q5) The Hollywood standard for editing is called ________ editing.
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Chapter 8: Sound
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Q1) Music specifically composed or arranged to accompany a film is called a ________.
Q2) The Big Five Agreement stated that the major exhibitors of films would jointly agree to ________.
A) adopt a single sound system for the entire film industry
B) distribute musical cue sheets with all of their films
C) compose individual scores for each of their films
D) all of these
Q3) In <i>Days of Heaven</i>,sound effects help establish for the audience the pleasure the main character takes escaping the bustling world of Chicago for the tranquility of the Southwest.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following sentences is describing a <i>vocal tic</i>?
A) Kane's voice reverberates down the empty hallways of Xanadu.
B) The gangsters in <i>Pulp Fiction </i>repeatedly utter foul words.
C) Owen Wilson speaks in slow, fluid phrases with offbeat intonation.
D) In <i>Alien</i>, Ripley's voice is soft, conveying her calm, rational approach to the crew's problems.
Q5) Identify three common ways sound may differ from the imagery onscreen.
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Chapter 9: Alternatives to Narrative Fiction
Film:Documentary and Avant-garde Films
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Q1) Fiction films that pose as documentaries by using its familiar conventions are
A) outfoxumentaries
B) faux-mentaries
C) mockumentaries
D) self-reflexive documentaries
Q2) Documentaries that rely exclusively on interviews are called ________ documentaries.
A) conversational
B) commentary
C) voice of authority
D) talking head
Q3) Unlike commercial films,documentaries abandon narrative in favor of capturing lived experience.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A technique commonly used in avant-garde film is super-imposition.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Film and Ideology
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Q1) Contemporary film scholarship reveals that gay and lesbian characters ________.
A) make appearances throughout the history of cinema
B) often function as plot devices that affirm heterosexual coupling
C) are frequently meant to provoke humor or pity
D) all of these
Q2) Female directors in Hollywood were most numerous during the 1910s and the 1920s.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Systems of beliefs,values and opinions based on underlying assumptions about the way the world should be are known as ________.
A) biases
B) theoretical models
C) ideologies
D) cultures
Q4) How did <i>The Birth of a Nation</i> depict the black politicians who ran the South Carolina legislature?
Q5) How does the storyline in <i>Freaks</i> disturb the tendency to identify the disabled as "others"?
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Chapter 11: Social Context and Film Style:National,
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Q1) _____________________ films complicate the notion of national identity and the very idea that audiences can link a film to a fixed national origin.
A) Neorealist
B) Expressionist
C) Transnational
D) Geo-fluidic
Q2) Identify one reason why filmmakers ventured to California in the early 1900s,establishing Hollywood as the United States' filmmaking center.
Q3) One of the first feature-length narrative films to demonstrate cinema's artistic and commercial potential,________ was released in 1915,the year many critics pinpoint as the beginning of the Hollywood studio era.
A) <i>The Birth of a Nation</i>
B) <i>The Great Train Robbery</i>
C) <i>A Trip to the Moon</i>
D) <i>The Gay Shoe Clerk</i>
Q4) The Production Code linked Catholic doctrine to Hollywood's formula.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Film Stardom As a Cultural Phenomenon
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Q1) After studying box office receipts of nearly 200 films released in the early 1990s,economist S.Abraham Ravid found a strong correlation between a star's presence and a film's box office gross.
A)True
B)False
Q2) ________ developed the signature "Little Tramp" character and,due to the character's continuing appeal,is one of the few silent film stars still recognizable to mainstream audiences today.
A) Buster Keaton
B) Mary Pickford
C) Charlie Chaplin
D) Lillian Gish
Q3) A <i>star persona</i> consists of ________.
A) the catalog of an actor's roles
B) biographical information
C) studio efforts to advertise an actor's films
D) all of the above
Q4) Explain how one of these figures demonstrates the way the star persona collapses the boundary between performance and biography: Jodie Foster,Mickey Rourke,or Jennifer Anniston
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Chapter 13: Genre
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Q1) Critics like Robert Warshow and Judith Hess Wright argue that genre films are a modern mythology because ________.
A) as a mass-produced form of entertainment, they can reflect and/or influence cultural beliefs
B) a genre's character types are larger than life, idolized by children and adults alike
C) the most important genres (e.g.,the Western, the screwball comedy, science fiction) repeat storylines that grow directly out of classical Greek narratives
D) like classical myths, they provide directors a standard template to work with but allow room for the "storyteller's" individual input
Q2) Most film critics didn't value genre films until the 1960s because ________.
A) they associated these films with mass-production practices
B) they were turned off by the often gory violence
C) this was the era when sophisticated revisionist films became popular
D) all of these
Q3) Genre films share narrative,stylistic,and thematic characteristics called ________.
Q4) Identify two characteristics of the Western narrative.
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Chapter 14: Film Authorship
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Q1) The early auteur critics did NOT ________.
A) extol the work of French writer-directors
B) argue for the artistry of Hollywood directors
C) disparage Hollywood films as assembly-line mass entertainment
D) argue that directors should be viewed as authors of their own films
Q2) Auteur theory proposes that the ________ is the primary creative source for a film.
A) star
B) screenwriter
C) producer
D) director
Q3) Fantastic <i>Mr.Fox</i> marked a dramatic departure for director Wes Anderson.How?
Q4) Describe (in 1-2 sentences)ONE of the commonly used arguments against the auteur theory.
Q5) Auteur theory emerged from French film critics' study of ________.
A) American literature
B) Japanese cinema
C) American cinema
D) Japanese literature
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Chapter 15: Cinema As Industry: Economics and Technology
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Q1) Which of the following films is widely credited with helping to convince Hollywood to open a film in theaters across the country on the same day instead of unrolling films from city to city?
A) <i>The Moon is Blue</i>
B) <i>The Godfather</i>
C)<i>E.T.</i>
D) <i>Raiders of the Lost Ark</i>
Q2) What was The Paramount Decree? What effect did it have on the film industry? Is that effect still visible today?
Q3) Pro-business government policies of the 1980s effectively rendered the Paramount Decree irrelevant.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Some critics think that video games are partially responsible for audiences' increasing willingness to embrace the fractured narratives once almost solely associated with foreign art films.
A)True
B)False
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Q5) Explain how Hollywood's production of ideas has been "creatively centralized."
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