Survey of Film Test Preparation
Course Introduction
Survey of Film offers an introductory exploration into the history, aesthetics, and cultural significance of cinema. Students will examine major film movements, genres, and influential directors from the early days of silent film to contemporary global cinema. Through the analysis of key films, critical readings, and discussions, the course provides foundational tools for understanding narrative strategies, visual style, and the evolution of film as both an art form and a means of storytelling.
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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) Many of George Méliès' special effect techniques were the result of careful study and design,not fortunate accidents.___
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) George Méliès,who understudied Robert Houdini,made movies which he
A)Wrote
B)Directed
C)Designed scenery
D)All 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) The serial was a staple of second- and third-run theaters for forty years.___
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Mae Marsh ___
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: E
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Chapter 3: American Cinema in the 1920s
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Q1) 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
Q2) Adding a microphone to a set to record the actors talking did which of the following to acting?
A)Stopped the actors dead in their tracks
B)Made them say their words very,very precisely
C)Made the loud camera relocate to a sound-proof booth
D)all the above
Answer: D
Q3) Erich von Stroheim,who increased the latitude for serious filmmakers,was responsible for shifting power from the creative to the business end of filmmaking.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: European Cinema in the 1920s
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Q1) What is the definition of the German term kammerspiel? Give an example of a movie embodying this quality.
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) Modern Times was so like Under the Roofs of Paris that René Clair's producers sued Charlie Chaplin.___
A)True
B)False
Q4) How did Sergei Eisenstein use reverse angles in his filmmaking?
Q5) Explain Abel Gance's "Polyvision" as an example of his extravagant filmmaking.
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Q6) What is/ are the difference(s)between expressionism and naturalism?
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Chapter 5: The Hollywood Studio System: 1925-1955
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Q1) Which of the following traits was not true of B-movies?
A)style,boldness,and originality
B)lurid and infantile titles
C)inclusion of a great deal of stock footage
D)testing ground of raw talent
Q2) John Wayne ___
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 was the model for the Hollywood studio system and who was the inventor of that model?
Q4) To what is classical cinema oriented and to whom?
Q5) What happened to new actors/actresses ("neophytes")who entered the star system?
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Chapter 6: American Cinema in the 1930s
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Q1) With what character type was John Ford preoccupied in his movies?
Q2) Greta Garbo laughed for the first time on film in which movie?
A)The Little Foxes
B)It's a Wonderful Life
C)Front Page
D)Ninotchka
Q3) Which of the following is true of the gangster in gangster movies?
A)He is poorly educated.
B)He is incapable of love.
C)He is a man of the city.
D)He is incapable of humor.
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
Q5) Who was "a musical Eisenstein"?
A)Howard Hawks
B)Ernst Lubitsch
C)Fred Astaire
D)Busby Berkeley
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Chapter 7: European Cinema in the 1930s
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Q1) How is Marlene Dietrich's Lola in Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel prototypically a femme fatale?
Q2) Jean Renoir was interested in preserving and extending his famous father's reputation as an Impressionistic painter.___
A)True
B)False
Q3) William Faulkner wrote the script for which of these films which Renoir made in America?
A)The Southerner
B)The Sound and the Fury
C)Absalom,Absalom
D)Light in August
Q4) The French admired and paid homage in their surrealist films to
A)American slapstick comedy as seen in Buster Keaton and Laurel and Hardy
B)Russian masters Pudovkin and Eisenstein
C)Alfred Hitchcock and Alexander Korda
D)all of the above
Q5) Is Leni Riefenstahl's The Triumph of the Will a documentary or a work of fiction?
Q6) Did Marcel Carné make "film noir" movies?
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Chapter 8: American Cinema in the 1940s
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Q1) John Huston early in his directing career showed a gift for multi-layered filmmaking.
A)True
B)False
Q2) 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
Q3) What makes film noir run counter to the American tradition of optimism?
Q4) What quality(ies)make Walt Disney's animated movies such as Pinocchio work as well as they do?
A)emotional directness
B)wonderful film music
C)mischievous humor
D)all of the above
Q5) In what ways did Hollywood do "itself proud during World War II"?
Q6) What could,like Ben Hecht,Billy Wilder do almost instinctively and why?
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Chapter 9: European Cinema in the 1940s
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Q1) By what means did British filmmakers finally and successfully crash the American film market during the war?
Q2) Why did neorealism emerge in Italy after World War II?
Q3) What happened to the movies in oppressive political regimes like in Germany and/or the Soviet Union/Russia?
Q4) America ___
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
Q5) Nazi propaganda films were efforts to depict conditions in Germany truthfully.___
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: American Cinema in the 1950s
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Q1) Bwana Devil ___
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
Q2) Elia Kazan,and not Fred Zinneman,introduced the most famous method actors like Julie Harris and Marlon Brando.___
A)True
B)False
Q3) Why did many genres like the mystery and the western experience "revisionism" at the hands of directors like Fred Zinneman,and what was the effect of such revisionism?
Q4) Why was Otto Preminger's challenge to the Production Code important to Hollywood movies?
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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) What kinds of characters was Federico Fellini basically drawn to in his films during this period?
Q3) Seven Samurai ___
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
Q4) Why would Akira Kurosawa be considered a most untraditional Japanese filmmaker?
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Chapter 12: American Cinema in the 1960s
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Q1) The Wild Bunch ___
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) New movie directors in the 1960s often got their training in television.___
A)True
B)False
Q3) The genre of movie that knew the most success in the early 1960s was which of the following?
A)political thriller
B)screwball comedy
C)western
D)spectacle
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Chapter 13: International Cinema in the 1960s
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Q1) What were the effects of the de-Stalinization of films in Eastern Europe?
Q2) British cinema in the 1960s did not emphasize which of the following?
A)the virtues of characters
B)the sex lives of characters
C)the violence of characters
D)the working class
Q3) Jean-Luc Godard made movies that seemed to "throw the rough draft at the public.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Acting in Kitchen School realistic movies was characterized by being A)physical. B)psychological. C)sexy.
D)all of the above
Q5) New Wave directors believed in the purity of film genres and did not mix genres in their movies.___
A)True
B)False
Q6) What characterized the films of the Prague Spring movement in Czechoslovakia?
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Chapter 14: American Cinema in the 1970s
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Q1) 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
Q2) Films like The Parallax View and Three Days of the Condor reflect what kind of atmosphere?
A)love and tolerance
B)anger and rage
C)paranoia and disillusionment
D)all of the above
Q3) How was sex portrayed in movies of the 70s?
Q4) What was the status - fictional and real - of women in Hollywood in the 70s?
Q5) Woody Allen's sensibility is defined by his being
A)Jewish.
B)New Yorker.
C)both a and b
D)neither a nor b
Q6) What was the character of the newly invented "blockbuster" movie as championed by Steven Spielberg?
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Chapter 15: International Cinema in the 1970s
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Q1) Were German movies of the 70s generally optimistic and success driven as in classical cinema,or were they generally pessimistic and bleak? Use examples.
Q2) Volker Schlöndorff ___
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) Rainer Werner Fassbinder's favorite characters were lonely hearts of the middle class. ___
A)True
B)False
Q4) With what other medium was German cinema of the 70s linked and in what ways?
Q5) To what extent does a focus on sex rule European films of the 70s?
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Chapter 16: American Cinema in the 1980s
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Q1) In the early 80s,Hollywood wisely decided to back the nascent movie-rental business using video-tape technology.___
A)True
B)False
Q2) A principal source for many of the emerging stars of movies in the 1980s was
A)stage
B)foreign movies
C)university
D)television
Q3) How would you describe the vision of the maverick directors of the 80s?
Q4) How effective was the revived studio system in producing high-quality movies?
Q5) Which actor in the 1980s continued to direct movies which where in direct opposition to the iconic figure he struck on the screen?
A)John Huston
B)Kirk Douglas
C)John Wayne
D)Clint Eastwood
Q6) What generally became of women actors and women's pictures in the 80s?
Q7) Why was the Disney studio successful in the 80s?
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Chapter 17: International Cinema in the 1980s
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Q1) Pedro Almodóvar ___
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) The courageous Polish film that defied the Official Lie of government was
A)Man of Iron
B)Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
C)Mephisto
D)Pelle the Conqueror
Q3) Why did the movies of Poland and Hungary become intense examinations of various kinds of morality?
Q4) 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) Which of the following Woody Allen movies was very popular in Europe in the 90s?
A)Mighty Aphrodite
B)Husbands and Wives
C)Celebrity
D)Manhattan Murder Mystery
Q2) Don Roos ___
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
Q3) Because fewer tickets were being sold than ever before,the movies that Hollywood produced grew worse and worse qualitatively.___
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 19: International Cinema in the 1990s
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Q1) In filmmaking,which is the more ruinous to the enterprise: political oppression/ censorship or economic impoverishment/ lack of resources?
Q2) 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
Q3) What qualities did British filmmakers possess which helped make British movie making diverse and resurgent in the 90s?
Q4) What contributed to the basic health of French cinema in the 90s?
Q5) What led the Communist Chinese government to relax its grip somewhat on Chinese filmmakers?
Q6) How did America come to dominate the European film landscape in the 90s?
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Chapter 20: American Cinema Since 2000
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Q1) What has happened to the rules for genre storytelling in movies in the 2000s?
Q2) All of the following genres are sources for movies intended for a younger audience except
A)war
B)science fiction
C)comic books
D)fantasy
Q3) What has helped independent films find an audience?
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) 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
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) Because of Islamic codes concerning conduct and dress between men and women, Iranian filmmakers often make stories concerning
A)animals
B)war
C)children
D)clerics
Q2) How does Yuen Wo Ping,choreographer of The Matrix Trilogy,achieve his "action as dance" effect?
Q3) French filmmaker Jean Pierre Jeunet directed all of the following films except A)Alien
B)Delicatessen
C)City of Lost Children
D)Amélie
Q4) Romanian filmmakers and Islamic filmmakers share many filmmaking techniques with Italian neorealists.___
A)True
B)False
Q5) What has enabled movie making to tear down barriers to become an inter-cultural,international art form and business?
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