Film Analysis
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Course Introduction
Film Analysis is a comprehensive course that introduces students to the critical methods and theoretical frameworks used to examine films as complex cultural texts. Through the study of cinematic techniques such as narrative structure, cinematography, editing, sound, and mise-en-scène students learn to analyze and interpret films from various genres, periods, and cultures. The course encourages thoughtful discussion and written analysis, fostering a deeper understanding of how films create meaning, convey emotion, and reflect and shape society. By engaging with influential works and seminal film criticism, students develop the analytical skills necessary to appreciate film as both an art form and a medium of communication.
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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) Nickelodeons failed to provide a good place for the classically democratic phenomenon that was (and still is)the movies.___
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) All of the following is true Edwin Porter's The Great Train Robbery except A)it uses pans.
B)it has hand tinted color.
C)it uses a matte shot.
D)none of the above.
Answer: D
Q3) The Arrival of a Train from 1895 wowed views with its changing camera angles and multiple scenes.___
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Griffith and His Contemporaries: 19081920
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Q1) Early on,unwritten rules required movies be made to look like live theatre as viewed from front row center.___
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) One of the main detractions of The Birth of a Nation is
A)the realism of its battle scenes.
B)the clear racism demonstrated in the film.
C)melodrama of the ride-to-the rescue climax.
D)Billy Bitzer's camera work/cinematography
Answer: B
Q3) Griffith was willing to collaborate with others like Allan Dwan to create the effects that Griffith wanted for his movies.___
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) The serial was a staple of second- and third-run theaters for forty years.___
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: American Cinema in the 1920s
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Q1) Most female film directors flourished when the "talkie" era began.___
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Buster Keaton's analytically abstract humor is more in tune with modern sensibilities than Chaplin's open vulnerability.___
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Charlie Chaplin was always famous,even before getting into movies,for his "Little Tramp" character.___
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) The film that opened Hollywood to sound in movies is
A)The Blue Angel.
B)Tabu.
C)The Jazz Singer.
D)Wings.
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: European Cinema in the 1920s
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Q1) Do Fritz Lang's symbols in his films keep his films from being realistic?
Q2) How did Sergei Eisenstein use reverse angles in his filmmaking?
Q3) 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
Q4) What does the term "plastic" mean as it applies to Soviet/ Russian movie making?
Q5) The "Griffith of Europe" was the German director
A)Ernst Lubitsch
B)Fritz Lang
C)Emil Jennings
D)Walter Ruttman
Q6) Explain Abel Gance's "Polyvision" as an example of his extravagant filmmaking.
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Chapter 5: The Hollywood Studio System: 1925-1955
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Q1) The best American movies of this period were movies that A)ennobled human beings.
B)made a great deal of money.
C)both a and b
D)neither a nor b
Q2) To what is classical cinema oriented and to whom?
Q3) All of the following made up the "Front Office" of a major studio except the A)studio head.
B)producers.
C)production chief.
D)directors.
Q4) Narrative structure in classical movies is linear and often takes the form of a journey,chase,or search.___
A)True
B)False
Q5) Classical narrative structure
A)begins with an implied dramatic question.
B)involves subsequent scenes that intensify action in a rising pattern.
C)suppresses any dramatic detail that does not intensify the central conflict.
D)all the above
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Chapter 6: American Cinema in the 1930s
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Q1) The Gold Diggers of 1935 ___
A)Busby Berkeley's musical in which pianos move
B)Mae West puts Cary Grant in his place
C)William Wyler films starring Bette Davis
D)Marx Bothers' surrealistic assault on order and reason
E)starred James Cagney,bruised,without illusions
F)George Cukor film starring Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor
G)Frank Capra film starring James Stewart
H)director John Ford's first critical hit
I)gangster film written by Ben Hecht,directed by Howard Hawks
J)starred Fred Astaire,the musical's inventor
Q2) John Ford's movies are characterized by which of the following?
A)visual economy
B)independent women
C)loosely structured plots
D)none of the above
Q3) What was the appeal of the American musical,both in technique and story,to American audiences?
Q4) What was it that Fred Astaire managed to achieve through his dance musicals in the 30s?
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Chapter 7: European Cinema in the 1930s
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Q1) Hitler targeted two areas to condemn and promote his policies: Americans and movies.___
A)True
B)False
Q2) 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
Q3) Silence was better suited to Renoir's films than sound because of the films' contemplative and realistic perspectives.___
A)True
B)False
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) Billy Wilder was a
A)director
B)reporter
C)scriptwriter
D)all of the above
Q2) What could,like Ben Hecht,Billy Wilder do almost instinctively and why?
Q3) All of the following are true about the state of the American film industry during World War II except
A)American's love affair with movies continued through most of the 40s
B)the value of studios leaped by almost $150,000,000 in one year alone
C)many studios lost money because of the war
D)the admission price to movies was less than 50 cents
Q4) Which of the following did not contribute to Hollywood's loss of profitability after World War II?
A)anti-trust action against the majors
B)bad movies
C)television
D)HUAC investigations
Q5) Were Warner Brothers cartoons or Disney cartoons more in keeping with the feelings of the times?
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Chapter 9: European Cinema in the 1940s
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Q1) Anna Magnani ___
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
Q2) Which of the following American actors starred in Luchino Visconti's The Leopard?
A)Kirk Douglas
B)Burt Lancaster
C)Robert Mitchum
D)Raymond Burr
Q3) Why did neorealism emerge in Italy after World War II?
Q4) What was the condition of the French movie making culture in the years following World War II?
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Chapter 10: American Cinema in the 1950s
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Q1) The Production Code finally began to allow all of the following except:
A)sexual deviance
B)drug addiction
C)kidnapping
D)words like "virgin"
Q2) The Production Code's censorship standards slowly gave way to new ideas and language before the onslaught of such directors as Otto Preminger.___
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Band Wagon ___
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
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Chapter 11: International Cinema in the 1950s
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Q1) What is not true regarding Kenji Mizoguchi's depiction of women in his Japanese women's pictures?
A)portrayed lives of prostitutes
B)portrayed lives of the middle class
C)portrayed lives of the aristocracy
D)portrayed lives of professional women
Q2) The most commercial French director of the period probably was
A)Francois Truffaut
B)Rene Clement
C)Jean Luc Goddard
D)Eric Rohmer
Q3) Which of the following is not a Bergman film centering on women?
A)Wild Strawberries
B)Persona
C)Autumn Sonata
D)The Silence
Q4) Jaques Tati worked austerely as did Bresson,but was a more cheerful artist as can be seen in Jour d' Fête.___
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: American Cinema in the 1960s
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Q1) Which of the following tended to be true of Vietnam era movies?
A)big-budget films ruled
B)the protagonist(s)often died
C)westerns disappeared
D)non-political positions were taken in the movies
Q2) What became true of movies of the 1960s?
A)They were careful not to mix tones like anguish and absurdity.
B)They focused on extraordinary,heroic characters.
C)Downbeat themes in movies were often money makers.
D)They used almost no film techniques like fast forward,slow motion,jump cuts,etc.
Q3) Films became more strident as the 60s neared the end because of
A)The National Rifle Association
B)Vietnam
C)The Civil Rights Movement
D)Psychedelic music
Q4) Because they came from a different background,new directors had no sense of movie-making style.___
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: International Cinema in the 1960s
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Q1) Alain Resnais differed from other New Wave directors in that he
A)preferred tightly written scripts.
B)preferred to work with movie stars.
C)preferred to work in America.
D)none of the above
Q2) The French director who liked to "throw the rough draft [of a movie] at the public" was
A)Louis Malle
B)Jean-Luc Godard
C)Alain Resnais
D)Agnes Varda
Q3) After Stalin's death in 1953,the cinema in communist-ruled countries became A)freer.
B)more expensive.
C)less personal.
D)none of the above
Q4) New Wave directors favored tightly structured plots and clear fully realized characterizations to avoid digressions of a personal sort.___
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: American Cinema in the 1970s
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Q1) Martin Scorsese films are often imprinted with A)tight plots.
B)logical endings.
C)inconspicuous camera use.
D)violence.
Q2) What happened to the conventions of classical cinema in the early 70s?
Q3) 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
Q4) All of the following are true of a Robert Altman film except A)overlapping dialogue
B)optimistic view of the human condition
C)de-emphasis of plot
D)subversion of genre expectations
Q5) How was sex portrayed in movies of the 70s?
Q6) Robert Altman eschews planning his movies tightly in favor of capturing the movie.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: International Cinema in the 1970s
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Q1) Nicholas Roeg ___
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
Q2) In a film by French director Bertrand Blier,a woman is usually a
A)femme fatale.
B)catalyst of action.
C)mother figure.
D)intruder/outsider .
Q3) With what other medium was German cinema of the 70s linked and in what ways?
Q4) Were Australian movies of the 70s generally optimistic and success driven as in classical cinema,or where they generally pessimistic and bleak? Use examples.
Q5) How would French director Diane Kurys' female characters best be described?
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Chapter 16: American Cinema in the 1980s
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Q1) Oliver Stone ___
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
Q2) Unlike their predecessors,young director emerging in the 1980s often
A)knew more about movies than life
B)worked off cultural grants
C)starred/acted in their movies
D)all of the above
Q3) Robert Zemeckis knew immediate success when he entered the movie because he worked for Steven Spielberg.___
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: International Cinema in the 1980s
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Q1) The Cannes award-winning move "that demonstrates that all people [especially women] in the story are prisoners,as much of their own minds and values as of the state" Is
A)Pixote
B)The Gods Must Be Crazy
C)Yol
D)The Hour of the Star
Q2) The interesting fact about the British filmmaking tandem Merchant-Ivory is that neither is British - nor is their principal screenwriter.___
A)True
B)False
Q3) Japanese audiences became increasingly internationalized in the 80s especially enjoying films made in
A)Germany
B)Australia
C)China
D)America
Q4) What was the character of the British film renaissance of the 80s?
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Chapter 18: American Cinema in the 1990s
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Q1) Hughes brothers ___
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) Which of the following B-movie types gained A-movie status
A)horror movies
B)gross-out comedies
C)teen movies
D)all of the above
Q3) Part of the appeal of movies has always been movement for movement's sake,the principal domain of action films.___
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 19: International Cinema in the 1990s
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Q1) One of the problems that foreign-born directors experienced in the 1990s was
A)language barriers.
B)constant union strikes.
C)growing censorship.
D)none of the above
Q2) What qualities did British filmmakers possess which helped make British movie making diverse and resurgent in the 90s?
Q3) The top American grossing movie in foreign countries in 1990 was Pretty Woman.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Luc Besson's La Femme Nikita was so American in subject and style that one critic said the film signaled the end of true French movies.___
A)True
B)False
Q5) British cinema has proven to be one of the least diverse or most uniform in the world in terms of the kind(s)of movie made there.___
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 20: American Cinema Since 2000
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Q1) 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
Q2) The Coen brothers' No Country for Old Men was
A)basically a faithful adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel
B)about a killer straight from the id
C)both a and b
D)neither a nor b
Q3) What characteristics shape the ethos of the movie business today according to director Sydney Pollack?
A)geared to a demographic that provides repeat business
B)grab attention fast and furiously
C)experience is shaped by what happens at home with DVDs
D)all of the above
Q4) How is it possible that a state-of-the-art home-entertainment system can very nearly equal the film-watching experience of a movie theater?
Q5) What has helped independent films find an audience?
Q6) Are the directors of the 2000s realists,classicists,or formalists generally?
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Chapter 21: International Cinema Since 2000
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Q1) Kandahar ___
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) How does Yuen Wo Ping,choreographer of The Matrix Trilogy,achieve his "action as dance" effect?
Q3) The Spanish director known for his insights into the female psyche is
A)Penelope Cruz
B)Guillermo del Toro
C)Pedro Almodóvar
D)none of the above
Q4) What has enabled movie making to tear down barriers to become an inter-cultural,international art form and business?
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