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Screen Studies explores the history, theory, and cultural significance of visual media, including film, television, and digital platforms. The course examines the evolution of screen technologies, narrative forms, and viewing practices, as well as the ways in which visual storytelling shapes and reflects societal values. Students analyze key works, movements, and auteurs, and engage with concepts such as genre, representation, spectatorship, and global media flows. Through critical readings, screenings, and discussions, the course equips students with the analytical tools necessary to interpret and critique the complex world of screen media.
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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) Movies like Pipe Dreams and The Dream of a Rarebit Fiend
A)show the power of realism in movies.
B)introduce surrealism into movies as early as 1903.
C)were written by Thomas Edison.
D)made stars of the actors.
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) The great realization of Norman Raff was that A)Edison was shortsighted.
B)a machine that threw pictures on a wall was a logical step.
C)California would be the land of movie.
D)he should charge at least 50 cents to patrons who wanted to enter his Kinetoscope parlor.
Answer: B
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2: Griffith and His Contemporaries: 19081920
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Q1) The movies first important comedienne was
A)Marie Dressler.
B)Lucille Ball.
C)Mabel Normand .
D)Mary Pickford.
Answer: C
Q2) In Intolerance,Griffith used which of the following:
A)near-subliminal,stream-of-consciousness flow.
B)cross cutting,including shots lasting 8 frames.
C)a sort of "crane" shot.
D)all of the above
Answer: D
Q3) The serial was a staple of second- and third-run theaters for forty years.___
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) Early movies,before Griffith,were considered coarse and distasteful.___
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: American Cinema in the 1920s
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Q1) F.W.Murnau ___
A)first European woman director
B)satirized sex,fidelity,and bad faith in intimate relations
C)a star who also teamed with Fairbanks and Chaplin to form United Artists
D)The Navigator
E)stellar career basically ended as a film comedian after two years
F)City Lights
G)Underworld and The Last Command two of his best works
H)made The Last Laugh,stylized mise en scene helped to wean audiences from rural romances
I)made The Crowd which deals with something approaching real life
J)produced The Jazz Singer which included sound
Answer: H
Q2) Chaplin's comic work probably owes its great appeal to the fact that it has a great sense of
A)the physical.
B)the political.
C)the psychological.
D)the philosophical.
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: European Cinema in the 1920s
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Q1) Louise Brooks ___
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
Q2) Do Fritz Lang's symbols in his films keep his films from being realistic?
Q3) What does the term "plastic" mean as it applies to Soviet/ Russian movie making?
Q4) Alfred Hitchcock's early films resemble the German movies exemplified by F.W. Murnau in all of the following ways except
A)plot.
B)character.
C)art direction.
D)suggestive camera.
Q5) 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) Good looks and sex appeal have seldom been conspicuous features of most film stars. ___
A)True
B)False
Q2) Frank Capra ___
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
Q3) What happened to new actors/actresses ("neophytes")who entered the star system?
Q4) Why was the development of the classical narrative script form in Hollywood inevitable?
Q5) What was the model for the Hollywood studio system and who was the inventor of that model?
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Chapter 6: American Cinema in the 1930s
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Q1) Who worked as a successful independently produced director?
A)Howard Hawks
B)George Cukor
C)Sam Wood
D)Mervyn LeRoy
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Q2) 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
Q3) What characterizes the film style of William Wyler?
A)lengthy takes
B)deep-focus photography
C)few close-ups
D)all of the above
Q4) Bette Davis made her mark as a shy,retiring woman who would surrender her will to stronger characters,especially men.___
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: European Cinema in the 1930s
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Q1) Britain's cinema was stunted for many years by which of the following:
A)country's lack of a strong economy
B)dreary conservatism
C)snobbish,theater-oriented tradition
D)all of the above
Q2) Alfred Hitchcock regretted that sound entered movies as is clear in Blackmail.___
A)True
B)False
Q3) Jean Cocteau ___
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
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Chapter 8: American Cinema in the 1940s
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Q1) Which classic dramatist did Welles increasingly turn to for inspiration as he aged?
A)Anton Chekov
B)Ben Johnson
C)William Shakespeare
D)Arthur Miller
Q2) Billy Wilder was a
A)director
B)reporter
C)scriptwriter
D)all of the above
Q3) The movie that made Humphrey Bogart a star was
A)High Sierra
B)African Queen
C)The Caine Mutiny
D)Moby Dick
Q4) Were Warner Brothers cartoons or Disney cartoons more in keeping with the feelings of the times?
Q5) Why did a darker,more pessimistic kind of story (noir)come to popularity after the war?
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Chapter 9: European Cinema in the 1940s
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Q1) Who led Great Britain's documentary-film effort to bolster that nation's morale during World War II?
A)Carol Reed
B)Laurence Olivier
C)John Grierson
D)Michael Powell
Q2) The vast majority of Soviet film technicians and artists managed to escape and survive the horrors visited upon their country in World War II.___
A)True
B)False
Q3) What happened to Germany's film industry before,during,and after (until the 1960s)World War II?
Q4) What film is considered the precursor of neorealism in Italy after World War II?
A)Ossessione
B)La Terra Trema
C)A Day in the Country
D)The Stranger
Q5) 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) Which of the following did Alfred Hitchcock believe to be "the kiss of death at the box office"?
A)analyzing the audience for a film
B)too little action in a film
C)symbolic interpretations of a film
D)all of above
Q2) Singin' in the Rain ___
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
Q3) How did Alfred Hitchcock shock audiences out of their safety zones and complacency and further guarantee his success?
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) The Seventh Seal ___
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) What film trait did Yasujiro Ozu detest?
A)special effects
B)music
C)plot
D)color
Q3) What condition do Robert Bresson's characters find themselves in;and how or when are they able to change,if not improve their condition?
Q4) How were women portrayed in international films of the 50s?
Q5) What theme did Ingmar Bergman return to again and again in his films in the 50s?
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Chapter 12: American Cinema in the 1960s
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Q1) Rosemary's Baby ___ Hammerstein
A)George Roy Hill western
B)music and lyrics by Rogers and Hammerstein
C)Lumet NY City drama using radical editing
D)Mike Nichols film of sterile,middle-class materialism
E)won Best Picture Oscar with an x rating
F)more than a biker film by Dennis Hopper
G)John Cassevetes,urban horror movie
H)in the final shootout,virtually a whole Mexican village is destroyed
I)English film financed with American money
J)John Frankenheimer imprisonment movie
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) Why is the cliché "all that glitters is not gold" appropriate for the films,whether realistic or spectacle,of the early 60s?
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?
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Chapter 13: International Cinema in the 1960s
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Q1) All of the following Italian directors prospered in the 1960s except?
A)Roberto Rossellini
B)Federico Fellini
C)Vittorio De Sica
D)Luchino Visconti
Q2) Unlike most American directors,where did most French New Wave film directors begin their careers?
Q3) Eastern European filmmakers finally were able to make personal films that
A)embodied boy-loves-tractor based themes.
B)explored the Heroic Resistance idea.
C)both a and b
D)neither a nor b
Q4) Which of the following is not true of the French nouvelle vague (new wave)movie making movement?
A)rejected commercial French cinema
B)favored light,non-intellectual entertainments
C)began their careers,often,as critics
D)all of the above
Q5) How was the pessimistic view of the world realized in the films of Britain's Angry Young Man movement?
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Chapter 14: American Cinema in the 1970s
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Q1) Altman's view of country music ___
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
Q2) Robert DeNiro starred in all of the following Martin Scorsese films except
A)Raging Bull
B)Mean Streets
C)Gangs of New York
D)The King of Comedy
Q3) How was sex portrayed in movies of the 70s?
Q4) Where did the new directors come from and what advantages or strengths did they bring with them?
Q5) What was the status - fictional and real - of women in Hollywood in the 70s?
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Chapter 15: International Cinema in the 1970s
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Q1) What political philosophy characterizes the films of Bernardo Bertolucci and Lena Wertmuller?
A)Republicism
B)Marxism
C)Anarchism
D)Communism
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) Nikita Mikhalkov was Soviet cinema's bad boy director because his films failed to conform to the Party's line.___
A)True
B)False
Q4) What traits did many of the state-sponsored 70s films of Australia share?
Q5) Australian cinema has been cited for its manliness: male bonding and virile friendships.___
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: American Cinema in the 1980s
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Q1) Tim Burton likes fable-like narratives,the grotesque and the bizarre,black comedy and campy wit,as well as youth and childhood fears.___
A)True
B)False
Q2) How did home-video tape players (VHS)influence movie making in the 80s?
Q3) One of the characteristics of the Reagan Era was an emphasis on A)science.
B)exploration.
C)urban renewal.
D)traditional values.
Q4) Disney's Touchstone studio is an example of the re-emergence of the studio system (though this new system lacked the power of the old system)in Hollywood.___
A)True
B)False
Q5) The use of widescreen processes increased in the 1980s to accommodate audiences' renewed interest in the big-screen experience.___
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: International Cinema in the 1980s
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Q1) Claude Berri ___
A)My Beautiful Laundrette
B)Manon of the Spring
C)Yol
D)Pixote
E)The Fourth Man
F)Tampopo
G)Mephisto
H)The Gods Must Be Crazy
I)Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
J)Chariots of Fire
Q2) 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
Q3) The cinema of West Germany continued its dynamic growth in theme and technique in the 80s.___
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 18: American Cinema in the 1990s
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Q1) Nora Ephron ___
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) Hollywood responded to losing money on movies in the 1990s by improving the number and quality of the movies being produced there.___
A)True
B)False
Q3) At the century's end,the only free-standing independent studio was
A)Tri-Star
B)American International
C)Universal
D)Disney
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Chapter 19: International Cinema in the 1990s
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Q1) What qualities did British filmmakers possess which helped make British movie making diverse and resurgent in the 90s?
Q2) What was true about the level of success of American movies overseas in the 90s?
A)They were not as successful as British movies were.
B)They generated many new foreign-born movie stars.
C)They captured over 70% of the entertainment dollars that overseas patrons spent.
D)none of the above
Q3) What are the qualities of Irish movies that made them "Irish" in the 90s?
Q4) Terry George ___
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
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Chapter 20: American Cinema Since 2000
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Q1) 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?
Q2) American movies have always been the fastest moving in the world and digital technology-both recording and editing-has enabled them to move even faster.___
A)True
B)False
Q3) What has helped independent films find an audience?
Q4) 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
Q5) Why have most war films of the 2000s like A Mighty Heart and The Kingdom not been successful?
Q6) What medium and in what ways do movies often seem to ape in the 2000s?
Q7) What has happened to the rules for genre storytelling in movies in the 2000s?
Q8) Why have gay movies suddenly come out of the closet and found large,appreciative audiences?
Q9) 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) Letters from Iwo Jima
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 leading director of the Kitchen Sink school in Britain is
A)Stephen Frears
B)Mike Leigh
C)Joe Wright
D)Larry Charles
Q3) To what tradition is Guillermo del Toro's Pan Labyrinth indebted?
Q4) What do ethnic comedies in the 2000s usually deal with?
Q5) Why is the journey motif an effective story-telling device in movies?
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