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Chapter 1: Introduction

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Q1) Explain the Kinetograph and the Kinetoscope.

Answer: They were,respectively,a camera that recorded motion pictures on rolls of film,and a machine with a peep-hole viewer that an individual looked through to see those films.

Q2) 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

Q3) In general,what do the study notes accompanying end of chapter essays emphasize?

Answer: Strategies for writing about film

Q4) 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.

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Chapter 2: An Approach to Film Analysis

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Q1) Analyze a film we have screened in class using three different forms of statements. First,make and explore a descriptive claim about this film. Second,make and explore an evaluative claim about this film. Third,make and explore an interpretive claim about this film.

Answer: to be judged by instructor

Q2) In the documentary In a Dream,filmmaker Jeremiah Jagar indicates the emotional cost of his father's marital infidelity by ______________________.

A) inserting a shot of his father that parallels an earlier moment, only with muted colors

B) playing a downbeat song whose lyrics focus on betrayal

C) showing his father out drinking obsessively

D) none of the above

Answer: A

Q3) The feeling of satisfaction that film viewers experience from a conclusion that resolves conflicts is termed ________.

Answer: closure

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) The sample film analysis of Steamboat Bill,Jr.opens with a comparison of the film to ________.

A) Romeo and Juliet

B) As You Like It

C) Macbeth

D) Hamlet

Answer: A

Q2) The following might serve as a good thesis because it is a good example of an interpretive claim: "Inception is utterly compelling thanks largely to its unconventional narrative structure,and its dynamic editing."

A)True

B)False

Answer: False

Q3) The primary function of a research paper is for students to show professors they have read and understood a wide array of articles on a single film,and to demonstrate an ability to summarize these articles for a general audience.

A)True

B)False

Answer: False

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Chapter 4: Narrative Form

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Q1) Most films employ a system of ________ narration,which conveys external events as well as the knowledge,thoughts and feelings of one or two major characters without the intervention of an explicit narrator.

A) restricted

B) open-ended

C) episodic

D) first-person

Q2) The ________ is a series of events in the third act of the film that resolves the conflicts that have arisen.

A) denouement

B) conclusion

C) exposition

D) climax

Q3) The Russian term ________,or "plot," refers to the selection and ordering of events as they unfold onscreen.

A) syuzhet

B) fabula

C) plodtz

D)potemkin

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Chapter 5: Mise en Scène

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Q1) Critics have argued that German Expressionism reflects ________.

A) German interest in mysticism

B) the German industry's desire to distinguish itself from Hollywood

C) the characters' extreme states of subjectivity

D) all of the above

Q2) Three-point lighting was a technique used early in cinema to ensure that actors' faces could be seen. Later,more sophisticated film stock was developed,eliminating the need for this complicated lighting.

A)True

B)False

Q3) Briefly (in 1-2 sentences)explain how the two different settings in Full Metal Jacket suggest the breakdown of order.

Q4) A character who occupies the ________ of a scene gains visual prominence through their apparent proximity to the viewer.

A) lowground

B) background

C) highground

D) foreground

Q5) 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) Special effects,also called mechanical effects,are created after filming has been completed,during post-production.

A)True

B)False

Q3) Cinematography can include many non-photographic processes,such as computer-generated imagery.

A)True

B)False

Q4) ________ is a widescreen process that uses three cameras,three projectors and a wide,curved screen.

A) maskin

B) Cinerama

C) Vista Vision

D) CinemaScope

Q5) A series of drawings that lay out a film sequentially is called a(n)________.

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Chapter 7: Editing

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Q1) 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

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) The title of the film Notorious refers to the film's antagonist,a leader of a group of Nazis actively trying to develop nuclear technology in the years following World War II.

A)True

B)False

Q4) The Hollywood standard for editing is called ________ editing.

Q5) The arrangement of images to depict a unified story time is called ________.

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Chapter 8: Sound

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Q1) Sounds that are not part of the story world (those which characters cannot hear)are called ________.

A) non-diegetic

B) sound effects

C) conceptual

D) ADR

Q2) Identify three common ways sound may differ from the imagery onscreen.

Q3) Almost all commercial films use dialogue re-recorded in post-production.

A)True

B)False

Q4) When films during the silent era were shown in theaters they were accompanied by ________.

A) music

B) live narration

C) sound effects

D) all of these

Q5) Whereas a sound bridge allows a sound to extend beyond a scene,a ________ emphasizes sonic parallels in adjacent scenes. For example,in itizen KaneC,the sound of Charle Kane applauding Susan's musical performance gives way to a crowd applauding at a political rally.

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Chapter 9: Alternatives to Narrative Fiction

Film:Documentary and Avant-garde Films

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Q1) The sequence of events the woman dreams about in Meshes of the Afternoon are repeated ________ times.

A) two

B) three

C) four

D) five

Q2) Documentaries that rely exclusively on interviews are called ________ documentaries.

A) conversational

B) commentary

C) voice of authority

D) talking head

Q3) Man With a Movie Camera uses editing to equate the fluttering motion of blinking eyes with the aperture of a camera.

A)True

B)False

Q4) ___________ films engage viewers by showing them some aspect of the real world.

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Q5) Why do some argue that a filmmaker's decision to film another culture or a group of people always involves questions of ethics?

Chapter 10: Film and Ideology

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Q1) Using a film that has been screened in class,articulate an ideology that you feel it presents. In what ways does it do this overtly? In what ways does it do this implicitly?

Q2) ________ directed the first African-American feature film.

A) Oscar Micheaux

B) D. W. Griffith

C) Sidney Poitier

D) Charles Burnett

Q3) How did The Birth of a Nation depict the black politicians who ran the South Carolina legislature?

Q4) In The Birth of a Nation,African Americans are ________.

A) played by non-professional African American actors

B) characterized as rapists who threaten white women

C) depicted as the victims of the South Carolina legislature following the Civil War D) all of these

Q5) Robin Woods' analysis of It's a Wonderful Life contends that,"Wonderful Life It's a manages a convincing and moving affirmation of the values (and value)of bourgeois family life." But what is revealed when "disaster releases George's suppressed tensions"?

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Chapter 11: Social Context and Film Style:National,

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Q1) Explain how either Whale Rider or Smoke Signals reflects Fourth Cinema's interest in the "tension between competing national allegiances."

Q2) Which of the following films was not one of the five major studios during the studio era?

A) MGM

B) Paramount

C) Warner Brothers

D) Disney

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) Pather Panchali was a ground breaking art film from ____________________.

A) Holland

B) Russia

C) India

D) France

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Chapter 12: Film Stardom As a Cultural Phenomenon

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Q1) Audiences of the silent era nicknamed Buster Keaton's signature character the "Great Stoneface" due to his ________.

A) perceived lack of facial expression

B) resemblance to one of the faces on Mount Rushmore

C) heavy white make-up

D) lack of sympathy for female characters

Q2) Studying how The Wrestler exploits actor Mickey Rourke's decaying looks demonstrates how audiences can respond to a performance on two levels: on the level of the diegesis and in the context of a star's personal history.

A)True

B)False

Q3) How do recent studies question the economic logic of spending so much money to secure performances from big stars?

Q4) Hollywood is the only film industry that relies on stars as an integral part of its profits.

A)True

B)False

Q5) Describe Indian star Lata Mangeshkar's unusual star persona.

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Chapter 13: Genre

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Q1) Rick Altman equates a genre's visual conventions with a sentence's _________________; just as we know that some words don't logically work together,we also sense that a menacing castle doesn't fit in the Western.

A) punctuation

B) semantics

C) linguistic arrangement

D) structure

Q2) Smaller clusters of films within a genre in which additional conventions come into play are called ________.

A) microgenres

B) neogenres

C) subgenres

D) intergenres

Q3) What international film movement helped influence the visual conventions of the horror film?

Q4) Identify and explain two approaches a film scholar might adopt when studying a genre.

Q5) In a sentence,explain Robert Warshow's argument about the Western's relationship to the status quo.

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Chapter 14: Film Authorship

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Q1) The case of Ousmane Sembene demonstrates how the auteur critic can

A) look at how atypical films fit into the director's ouvre

B) consider how biographical details influence a director's work

C) argue that the auteur 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

Q2) The promotional materials for United 93 neglected to mention the fact that the film's director,Paul Greengrass had ________.

A) directed a spy thriller that trades on excitement generated by violence

B) directed an earlier version of the film as a student filmmaker

C) directed an romantic comedy that contained a sub-plot about terrorism

D) directed campaign ads for politicians who supported the US entry into war in 2003

Q3) When they were marketing United 93 (one of the first films to tackle the terrorist attacks on September 11,2001),why did studio heads try to hide the fact that director Paul Greengrass had directed two entries in the extraordinarily popular Bourne trilogy?

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Chapter 15: Cinema As Industry: Economics and Technology

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Q1) The dramatic contrast between the press coverage of the independent film Paranormal ctivity and the coverage of the epic blockbuster Avatar demonstrates ________.

A) how popular writing about independent and mainstream film tends to focus on budget and profits

B) how writing about independent film avoids focusing on budget issues and focuses more on aesthetic issues

C) how writing about budgets and profits has fallen out of fashion in the film industry

D) how both films draw from conventions of the 50s science fiction films that focused on alien invasion

Q2) The term "bubble" refers to ___________________________________.

A) inflated value of DVDs in the 1990s

B) the inflated budget for the average summer blockbuster

C) the amount of time between a film's theatrical release and the time when it's available for home viewing

D) the marketing strategy of using websites and viral marketing to advertise a film

Q3) Explain how Hollywood's production of ideas has been "creatively centralized."

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Course Introduction

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: An Approach to Film Analysis

Chapter 3: Writing About Film

Chapter 4: Narrative Form

Chapter 5: Mise en Scène

Chapter 6: Cinematography

Chapter 7: Editing

Chapter 8: Sound

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Chapter 9: Alternatives to Narrative Fiction

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Chapter 10: Film and Ideology

Chapter 11: Social Context and Film Style:National,

Chapter 12: Film Stardom As a Cultural Phenomenon

Chapter 13: Genre

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Chapter 14: Film Authorship

Chapter 15: Cinema As Industry: Economics and Technology