Cinema and Society
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Course Introduction
Cinema and Society explores the dynamic relationship between film and the social, cultural, and political landscapes in which it is created and consumed. This course examines how cinema both reflects and shapes social attitudes, values, and identities, considering topics such as representation, ideology, and historical context. Through critical analysis of key films from various periods and cultures, students will learn how cinema acts as a powerful medium for storytelling, social commentary, and cultural expression, providing insights into issues of race, gender, class, and power.
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Flashback A Brief Film History 6th Edition by Louis Giannetti
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Chapter 1: Beginnings
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Q1) Identify the melodramatic movie that used wooden planks as sight lines to keep actors in frame.
A)Max Takes Quinine
B)The Count of Monte Cristo
C)The Great Train Robbery
D)Queen Elizabeth
Answer: B
Q2) The evidence is clear that movies were invented by
A)Thomas Edison.
B)Georges Méliès.
C)many people .
D)unknown.
Answer: C
Q3) Edison decided to make a projection machine called a "kinetoscope" which
A)allowed only one person at a time to watch a brief loop of film.
B)he copyrighted for an additional $15.
C)William Dickson actually invented.
D)became his primary engineering focus over such things as the electric storage battery and talking doll.
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Griffith and His Contemporaries: 19081920
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Q1) Marcus Hanna ___
A)Griffith one-reeler containing 68 scenes
B)Our Lady of Constant Sorrows to a generation of filmgoers
C)hailed as the director who made the breakthrough with mise en scene
D)purposely photographed action and characters at a faster-than-life speed
E)after Lillian Gish,Griffith's most expressive actor
F)film technique altering frame size used in Orphans of the Storm
G)Griffith used this device for ironic contrast between hungry workers and a bountiful banquet
H)Griffith's artistically first-rate films,but a political/sociological embarrassment
I)powerbroker/kingmaker
J)four stories linked by titles,a symbolic mother image,and cross cutting
Answer: I
Q2) Which of the following is not true about Nickelodeons?
A)They were air conditioned.
B)Their audiences came from the professional and upper classes.
C)They showed full length (over 90 minutes)movies.
D)None of the above
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: American Cinema in the 1920s
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Q1) Charlie Chaplin was always famous,even before getting into movies,for his "Little Tramp" character.___
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Who of the following is considered a carefree flapper?
A)Clara Bow
B)Greta Garbo
C)Lillian Gish
D)Mary Pickford
Answer: A
Q3) The female actor whose own career paralleled the development of movies themselves was
A)Mary Pickford.
B)Mabel Normand.
C)Greta Garbo.
D)Lilian Gish.
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: European Cinema in the 1920s
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Q1) G.W.Pabst's Pandora's Box
A)faithfully recreates the myth.
B)is a relentless parable of a sensually insatiable woman's destruction.
C)concerns street-wise profiteers and destitute middle-class.
D)portrays capitalism's connection to war.
Q2) F.W.Murnau ___
A)The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari
B)Le Million
C)The Last Laugh
D)editing is the essence of cinema
E)L'Age d'Or
F)The Lodger
G)Lulu in Hollywood
H)Storm over Asia
I)Spies
J)Napoleon
Q3) Abel Gance's "polyvision" anticipates Cinerama.___
A)True
B)False
Q4) Do Fritz Lang's symbols in his films keep his films from being realistic?
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Chapter 5: The Hollywood Studio System: 1925-1955
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Q1) classical cinema ___
A)specialized in lavish spectacles
B)major studio especially receptive to comedy
C)top male star of the 1930s
D)Twentieth Century-Fox production head
E)inaugurated the era of screwball comedy
F)shaped writing the script,had say in casting,etc.
G)most popular film star in film history
H)concerns goal-oriented characters
I)over half of majors' movies were these
J)devised the studio system
Q2) Major studios often viewed their stars as valuable investments,"properties." ___
A)True
B)False
Q3) The choices of movies which Bette Davis fought for made considerably less money than the ones her Front Office favored for her.___
A)True
B)False
Q4) Why was the development of the classical narrative script form in Hollywood inevitable?
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Chapter 6: American Cinema in the 1930s
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Q1) What would be the delights and problems with director William Wyler's excessive attention to detail in making his movies?
Q2) Ernst Lubitsch was the screen's resident master of the grotesque through the early 1930s.___
A)True
B)False
Q3) What was it that Fred Astaire managed to achieve through his dance musicals in the 30s?
Q4) What quality of speech most characterized how actors spoke in early "talkies"?
A)poetic
B)colloquial
C)proper
D)accented
Q5) Howard Hawks's films are characterized by a concise sense of plot,verbal economy,visual economy,and,at their end,triumphant characters.___
A)True
B)False
Q6) With what character type was John Ford preoccupied in his movies?
Q7) What things did the Production Code prohibit in movies?
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Chapter 7: European Cinema in the 1930s
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Q1) Rembrandt ___
A)Jean Renoir classic of study of French classes
B)angels wore black leather Orpheus
C)German actress turned director
D)star of Port of Shadows
E)The Blue Angel star
F)Liebelei
G)Fritz Lang's first talkie
H)Marcel Carné masterpiece
I)The Lady Vanishes
J)Alexander Korda
Q2) Alexander Korda's problem with making his movies - those he produced and directed - was that
A)he was not a very creative director
B)he moved from country to country too often
C)he let too many different people direct his movies
D)he had tastes which were much too rarefied
Q3) Was the fabulist/surrealist French film director Jean Cocteau simply ahead of his time in his technique and story development?
Q4) What sense of fate did Max Ophüls achieve in his use of circular narratives?
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Chapter 8: American Cinema in the 1940s
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Q1) The Why We Fight war propaganda films are characterized by which of the following:
A)stock footage
B)animation
C)stentorian narration
D)all of the above
Q2) Which of the following is true of female characters in Preston Sturges's movies?
A)They are shy and retiring.
B)They are "eye candy."
C)They are wily and manipulative.
D)none of the above
Q3) All of the following are true about Orson Welles' Citizen Kane except A)it combines a number of films techniques for the first time.
B)it uses flashbacks for its narrative.
C)it was budgeted for $650,000.
D)it was shot in flat focus.
Q4) John Huston early in his directing career showed a gift for multi-layered filmmaking.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: European Cinema in the 1940s
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Q1) Laurence Olivier used all of the following movie making techniques while directing Hamlet except
A)voice-over interior monologues
B)crane and dolly shots
C)deep-focus photography
D)short takes
Q2) The Red Shoes ___
A)won 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture
B)a typical Nazi cinematic lie
C)finest French film of the occupation
D)superb political thriller with James Mason
E)coined the term "neorealism"
F)Michael Powell film,very popular in America
G)film industry emerged intact
H)The Open City
I)best of "heroes of Mother Russia" films
J)won Best Actress award for The Rose Tattoo
Q3) By what means did British filmmakers finally and successfully crash the American film market during the war?
Q4) Why did neorealism emerge in Italy after World War II?
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Chapter 10: American Cinema in the 1950s
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Q1) What were some of the ways Alfred Hitchcock promoted himself to make sure that the public knew who he was and to further guarantee his success?
Q2) Elia Kazan,and not Fred Zinneman,introduced the most famous method actors like Julie Harris and Marlon Brando.___
A)True
B)False
Q3) Alfred Hitchcock ___
A)starred that muscular dancer,Gene Kelly
B)early 3D movie
C)filmmakers assume reformist perspective on story
D)revisionist western
E)made the Production Code blue
F)made for television movie won Oscars
G)director who relied heavily on storyboarding
H)Marilyn Monroe stars,Billy Wilder directs
I)writer blacklisted as a result of refusing HUAC
J)musical spoof on "hard boiled" fiction
Q4) What were some of the short comings of Cinerama?
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Chapter 11: International Cinema in the 1950s
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Q1) An Autumn Afternoon ___
A)Kenji Mizoguchi film about the middle class
B)Robert Bresson movie set almost entirely in a jail
C)Bergman's only successful comedy
D)creates a hauntingly diaphanous dream world
E)Yasujiro Ozu film of a widower's sacrifice
F)basis for The Magnificent Seven
G)Fellini movie about decadence of the privileged
H)means "song of the road," won Cannes Jury Prize
I)Ingmar Bergman's allegory set in medieval times
J)established Toshiro Mifune as a star
Q2) Kenji Mizoguchi made movies reinforcing the traditional roles of women,no matter their class,in Japanese society.___
A)True
B)False
Q3) American authorities practiced censorship of Japanese movies during their occupation and democratization of Japan after World War II.___
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: American Cinema in the 1960s
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Q1) John Cassavetes used which of the following
A)tightly framed close-ups or medium shots
B)fancy camera work
C)action
D)quick cuts,short scenes
Q2) Where did many of the newer directors of the 1960s come from?
A)New York
B)London
C)Paris
D)none of the above
Q3) Sam Peckinpah was a
A)champion of individualism
B)romantic conservative
C)neither a nor b
D)both a and b
Q4) What happened to the Production Code in 1968 and what was the result?
Q5) What was the goal of noted African-American actor Sidney Poitier?
Q6) What was the problem with realism in films at least during the early years of the 60s?
Q7) What characteristics of Sam Peckinpah's westerns made them revisionist?
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Chapter 13: International Cinema in the 1960s
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Q1) Lindsay Anderson ___
A)Hiroshima,Mon Amour
B)Le Voleur (The Thief)
C)The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
D)Shoot the Piano Player
E)A Hard Day's Night
F)Cleo from 5 to 7
G)Ashes and Diamonds
H)L'Avventura
I)Breathless
J)If
Q2) New Wave directors favored tightly structured plots and clear fully realized characterizations to avoid digressions of a personal sort.___
A)True
B)False
Q3) The new British directors of the 1960s Free Cinema movement revolted consciously against the Italian neorealist movement in their films.___
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: American Cinema in the 1970s
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Q1) Woody Allen's sensibility is defined by his being
A)Jewish.
B)New Yorker.
C)both a and b
D)neither a nor b
Q2) Francis Ford Coppola believed in the 1970s that exercising caution is the key to making good art and good show business.___
A)True
B)False
Q3) Francis Ford Coppola's war movie ___
A)Nashville
B)The Heartbreak Kid
C)Blume in Love
D)Raging Bull
E)Apocalypse Now
F)Manhattan
G)Sugarland Express
H)Rocky
I)The French Connection
J)One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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Chapter 15: International Cinema in the 1970s
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Q1) Third World cinema rejected the conventions of both American and European cinema in favor of what was often blended Marxism and nationalism.___
A)True
B)False
Q2) Ken Russell ___
A)The Tin Drum
B)Every Man for Himself and God Against All
C)Peppermint Soda
D)Swept Away
E)My Brilliant Career
F)Xala
G)Solaris
H)Tommy
I)The Marriage of Maria Braun
J)The Man Who Fell to Earth
Q3) Which actor of great comedic skill appears in many of Lena Wertmuller's films?
A)Giancarlo Giannini
B)Gerard Depardieu
C)Klaus Kinski
D)Bruno S.
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Chapter 16: American Cinema in the 1980s
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Q1) How effective was the revived studio system in producing high-quality movies?
Q2) Mark Lester ___
A)Do the Right Thing
B)Salvador
C)The Fly
D)Commando
E)Eraserhead
F)Rain Man
G)Something Wild
H)Brazil
I)Romancing the Stone
J)The Big Chill
Q3) The Oliver Stone film considered superior to Platoon is
A)Talk Radio
B)Natural Born Killers
C)Born on the Fourth of July
D)Salvador
Q4) What was the influence of President Reagan and the conservative cultural climate he called for?
Q5) What are the principal traits of Spike Lee's cinematic world?
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Chapter 17: International Cinema in the 1980s
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Q1) All of the following are true of Scottish director Bill Forsyth's movies except A)concocts rambling tales
B)uses non-actorish Scots
C)follows the grand British tradition
D)makes minimalist comedies
Q2) Why did the movies of Poland and Hungary become intense examinations of various kinds of morality?
Q3) Stephen Frears's movie making career was going nowhere until he teamed up with writer
A)Ruth Prawar Jhabvala
B)Hanif Kureshi
C)Neil Jordan
D)Chris Bernard
Q4) Under the Brezhnev regime in the Soviet Union,Soviet filmmakers began to make more accessible and commercial films.___
A)True
B)False
Q5) What qualities do the films of Netherlands director Paul Verhoeven possess that would make them popular with audiences?
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Chapter 18: American Cinema in the 1990s
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Q1) Whit Stillman ___
A)Rambling Rose
B)Menace II Society
C)Ulee's Gold
D)Happiness
E)The Lion King
F)Unforgiven
G)Titanic
H)Barcelona
I)Sleepless in Seattle
J)Deconstructing Harry
Q2) More women and minorities began directing "mainstream" films in the 1990s.___
A)True
B)False
Q3) Disney animated films - the good ones - make pop poetry out of the bond between humans and animals.___
A)True
B)False
Q4) Why were Woody Allen movies in the 90s usually unpopular with American audiences,but popular with European and Japanese audiences?
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Chapter 19: International Cinema in the 1990s
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Q1) Neil Jordan ___ j.Shallow Grave
A)Babe
B)Il Postino
C)The Butcher Boy
D)In the Name of the Father
E)Eat Drink Man Woman
F)Jerusalem
G)Strictly Ballroom
H)The Wings of the Dove
I)Some Mother's Son
J)Shallow Grave
Q2) How did America come to dominate the European film landscape in the 90s?
Q3) Which of the following is true of Irish movies in the 1990s?
A)written by Irish screenwriters
B)often produced by British television
C)often anti-authoritarian
D)all of the above
Q4) What are the qualities of Irish movies that made them "Irish" in the 90s?
Q5) What qualities did British filmmakers possess which helped make British movie making diverse and resurgent in the 90s?
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Chapter 20: American Cinema Since 2000
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Q1) Ridley Scott is more than just a film director and has a stake in all of the following enterprises except
A)Ridley Scott Recording
B)Scott Free Productions
C)Ridley Scott Associates
D)all of the above
Q2) Many critics regard Mike Leigh,who works in the Kitchen Sink-style,as England's greatest living director.___
A)True
B)False
Q3) Why have gay movies suddenly come out of the closet and found large,appreciative audiences?
Q4) Latin American films of late continue to be slanted to the left,but are also now often funny,sexy,nuanced,and less self-consciously intellectual.___
A)True
B)False
Q5) What has helped independent films find an audience?
Q6) What does quality movie making depend on and where principally could it be found in the 2000s?
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Chapter 21: International Cinema Since 2000
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Q1) Paradise Now ___
A)won the Golden Globe as Best Foreign film
B)a pregnant teen decides to become a drug mule
C)action as dance
D)two friends from childhood become suicide bombers
E)Helen Mirren won the Academy Award for her performance
F)portrayal of "the devastated,hopeless,soul of a nation"
G)political black comedy from Bosnia
H)raising the American flag is but a dot in the distance
I)political thriller about "big brother" surveillance
J)in a childless dystopian world,a single female miraculously becomes pregnant
Q2) The prize-winning animated movie,though French,co-directed by Marjane Satrapi, that focuses on the struggles of a young Iranian woman is
A)Moolaadé
B)Persepolis
C)Taste of Cherry
D)Osama
Q3) What has been Islamic filmmakers' response to their harassment for making movies sympathetic to women?
Q4) Has filmmaking been an aid or a hindrance to women internationally in the 2000s?
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