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Media Studies explores the production, content, and impact of various media forms including television, film, digital platforms, journalism, and social media within contemporary society. The course examines how media shapes public opinion, culture, and identity, as well as the political, economic, and technological forces that influence media creation and distribution. Students will analyze media messages, understand theories of communication, develop critical thinking about media ethics, and gain insight into the evolving roles of media in a globalized world.
Recommended Textbook Film A Critical Introduction 3rd Edition by Maria
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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) During the 1910s and the 1920s,the <i>actualité </i>film began to eclipse other types of movies.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The film industry has emphasized exciting new technological develop?ments in part because it becomes more and more difficult with each passing year to lure customers into movie theaters.Why?
Answer: We can watch films in the comfort of our homes,with DVDs,Blu-ray discs or streaming video,or catch the latest flick on a computer or cell phone.
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) Aesthetically successful films will work to avoid upsetting audience expectations.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Using a title we have screened in class as an example,discuss a motif that contributes to the film in some significant way. In your answer,be sure to define "motif" and explore how that motif is used in this film to develop an idea or convey important story information.
Answer: to be judged by instructor
Q3) In <i>Steamboat Bill,</i>Jr.,Bill Jr.and a female friend are shown to have identical ________,a parallel suggesting that Bill is not manly.
A) haircuts
B) outfits
C) shoes
D) cars
Answer: A
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) 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
Q2) What image is an outward symbol of <i>The Big Heat</i> interest in the duality of Debbie's moral character?
A) She always carries the queen of spade from a deck of cards
B) She always carries the two of diamonds from a deck of cards
C) Half of her face is scarred
D) She refuses to commit a murder, even after police officer Dave Bannion has asked her to
Answer: C
Q3) The term ____________ refers to the effect horror films sometimes create when they make something that was once familiar seem strange and terrifying.
Answer: uncanny
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Chapter 4: Narrative Form
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Q1) Identify some ways that a film might exhibit <i>unconventional characterizations. </i>Incorporate examples from a film or films we have screened in class and explore the ways in which these characterizations relate back to overall themes of their film.
Q2) A non-character voice-over narrates <i>The Royal Tenenbaums</i>,while a visual device opens new "chapters" of the film,creating an analogy between the narration and the act of reading stories aloud to children. These elements are part of the film's diegesis.
A)True
B)False
Q3) 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
Q4) In what way(s)is this scene a turning point in the film? In other words,explain why this scene is so important in terms of the film's narrative structure. Identify at least one cue (visual or sound)that draws attention to the structural importance of this moment.
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Chapter 5: Mise en Scène
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Q1) Directors during the Hollywood studio era preferred working with <i>available light</i> to give their films a more realistic look.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Brief appearances in films by well-known actors playing themselves are called
Q3) ________ colors are vibrant,rich,and bright.
A) Saturated
B) Desaturated
C) Warm
D) Cool
Q4) ________ 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
Q5) Identify two advantages of repeatedly casting an actor in similar roles.
Q6) Name the three attributes that light exhibits.
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Chapter 6: Cinematography
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Q1) Eastmancolor films made before 1983 are considered to be the most superior in terms of color stability.
A)True
B)False
Q2) ________ increase color saturation and contrast in outdoor shots.
A) Fog filters
B) Diffusion filters
C) Neutral-density filters
D) Polarizing filters
Q3) ________ is achieved in the camera by exposing film frames then rewinding the film and exposing them again.
Q4) In ________ objects,remain in focus from points very close to the camera to positions at some distance from it.
Q5) Study this scene (to be decided by the instructor)and analyze how two aspects of cinematography play a role in how audiences might interpret this moment.
Q6) The measurement of an image's width in relation to its height is called ________.
Q7) In<i>Ratcatcher</i> ,what is James unable to retrieve from the canal for Anne Marie?
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Chapter 7: Editing
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Q1) ________ is when a filmmaker cuts back and forth between two events occurring in different spaces.
Q2) The tempo in editing can be effected by which factor?
A) the length of each shot
B) the type of shot transition
C) the musical accompaniment or score
D) A and B
E) A and C
Q3) <i>The Seventh Seal</i> superimposes an image of ________ over an image of chessboard to suggest the tenuous quality of life.
Q4) ________ is the attribute of editing in which shot transitions are choreographed with other visual or sound elements,such as lines of dialogue.
Q5) Flashbacks typically emphasize important causal factors in a film's <i>fabula.</i>
A)True
B)False
Q6) A ________ is when shot B appears to push shot A off the screen; shot B appears and moves from one side of the screen to the other,thus removing shot A.
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Chapter 8: Sound
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Q1) 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
Q2) The ________ of a sound can convey perspective and details about the environment surrounding a character. An echoing voice might suggest an empty space.
Q3) What sound in this sequence becomes a motif that reveals how these characters will be unable to escape their working class status? Be sure to explain how the motif establishes this point.
Q4) Differences in the sound of ________ in <i>Alien</i> and <i>Star Wars</i> evoke the gritty industrial setting of the former and the idealized,highly efficient setting of the latter.
A) computers whirring
B) doors opening
C) weaponry being fired
D) air whooshing through empty corridors
Q5) Describe two characteristics of sound effects at the foundry.
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Chapter 9: Alternatives to Narrative Fiction
Film:Documentary and Avant-garde Films
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Q1) The increasing popularity of documentary film is evident in the growing number of Academy Award categories developed to honor different aspects of documentary film production in recent years.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Films made with the sole intent of persuading viewers of the rightness of a single view are referred to as _______________.
Q3) Documentaries that rely exclusively on interviews are called ________ documentaries.
A) conversational
B) commentary
C) voice of authority
D) talking head
Q4) Man <i>with a Movie Camera</i> reflects fears about the dangers of the mechanical age.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What is the difference between an abstract film and a surreal film? Use examples drawn from class screenings and/or the textbook to illustrate your answer.
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Chapter 10: Film and Ideology
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Q1) Systems of beliefs,values and opinions based on underlying assumptions about the way the world should be are known as ________.
Q2) John Schlesinger's <i>Midnight Cowboy </i>(1969)was the first film to depict gay characters.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Edison film <i>The Gay Brothers</i> from 1895 depicts two men ________.
A) kissing
B) holding hands
C) dressing in women's clothing
D) none of these
Q4) The 1915 release of <i>The Birth of a Nation</i> has been linked to a revival of the Ku Klux Klan organization,whose numbers had been dwindling for more than a decade.
A)True
B)False
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) In <i>Breathless</i>Breathless,director Jean-Luc Godard uses ________ to visibly interrupt time,even though the song the character is singing remains intact and unaffected on the soundtrack.
A) jump cuts
B) slow-motion
C) fast-motion
D) dissolves
Q2) Because many of the international film productions received government financing,the filmmakers were not influenced or motivated to make a profit as their counterparts in Hollywood were.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Hollywood's reliance on the star system is symptomatic of how studios developed a system of filmmaking practices that encouraged efficiency.
A)True
B)False
Q4) New York City was the center of commercial filmmaking until the 1950s.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Film Stardom As a Cultural Phenomenon
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Q1) Lata Mangeshkar's star persona in India ________.
A) thrives even though many fans might not know what she actually looks like
B) even though her performances reflect her adherence to Western value systems
C) demonstrates how a star's biographical background influences the way audiences "read" her work
D) all of the above
Q2) During the Hollywood studio era,stars were ________.
A) under lengthy contracts with one particular studio
B) less of an economic factor than they are today
C) typecast less often
D) all of these
Q3) Gay audiences identify with Judy Garland because ________.
A) there is a discrepancy between her onscreen image and her personal life
B) she was not allowed to marry the person she loved
C) she had a larger-than-life "campy" persona
D) her star persona was not especially feminine
Q4) Occasionally writers,directors,and producers design a project specifically with a particular star in mind,hoping to capitalize on audience expecta?tions.What are these projects called and why?
Q5) Describe Indian star Lata Mangeshkar's unusual star persona.
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Chapter 13: Genre
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Q1) Identify two characteristics of the Western narrative.
Q2) <i>Paranoid conspiracy </i>films are generally set ________.
A) in creepy, remote locations
B) in suburban America
C) in crowded urban centers
D) in Washington D.C.
Q3) Cultural resonance of genres such as the Western (closely identified with America ideology)and the samurai film (closely identified with Japanese ideology)greatly limit their appeal to international audiences.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What's the difference between the way audiences respond to violence in horror films and the way they respond to violence in action films?
Q5) Using the horror film as an example,explain how a genre might be studied as a culturally responsive artifact.
Q6) How did Alfred Hitchcock upset audience expectations in North By Northwest?
Q7) What is the relationship between rationality and emotions in most science fiction films?
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Q8) Explain the difference between the backstage musical and the integrated musical.
Chapter 14: Film Authorship
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Q1) Despite being an animated film,<i>Fantastic Mr</i>.Fox has much in common with Wes Anderson's earlier live action comedies like <i>The Royal Tenenbaums.</i>
A)True
B)False
Q2) Describe (in 1-2 sentences)ONE of the commonly used arguments against the auteur theory.
Q3) The case of Ousmane Sembene demonstrates how the <i>auteur</i> critic can
A) look at how atypical films fit into the director's <i>ouvre</i>
B) consider how biographical details influence a director's work
C) argue that the <i>auteur</i> can exist only in a non-industrialized film culture
D) study the tension between a filmmaker's national origin and the style he develops to cultivate an international audience
Q4) <i>Cahiers du Cinema</i> is/was ________.
A) an influential film journal
B) an important production company
C) a famous movie theater in Paris
D) the official association of French film critics
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Chapter 15: Cinema As Industry: Economics and Technology
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Q1) Hollywood studios make more money at the box office overseas than in the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q2) 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>
Q3) A film that swamps all competition,in part by the sheer number of prints all in circulation at once is known as a ________.
A) blockbuster
B) sleeper hit
C) bomb
D) vanity project
Q4) What was The Paramount Decree? What effect did it have on the film industry? Is that effect still visible today?
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