Visual Culture
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Course Introduction
This course explores the ways in which visual images and media shape our understanding of the world, drawing from a range of disciplines including art history, film studies, media studies, and cultural theory. Students will examine the roles that visuality, representation, and technology play in producing meaning within society, critically analyzing artworks, film, photography, digital media, advertisements, and popular culture. Through a combination of theoretical readings and case studies, the course encourages students to develop visual literacy skills and an awareness of the social, political, and historical contexts that inform contemporary visual experiences.
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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) Vitascope ___
A)a machine that passed a continuous loop of film of a series of rollers and in front of a prefocused lens
B)uses images on cardboard which are mounted consecutively on a wheel: a flip-card device
C)shot and edited him movies as he did because it seemed the best way to tell a story
D)kept movies alive and evolving,but enslaved and cheapened them: movies were then called "chasers"
E)developed a machine that worked visually with Edison's phonograph
F)used fade outs,dissolves,double exposures,etc.in his tableaux fantastiques
G)solved the problem of film breaking by leaving slack in the film at the top and bottom of the film gate
H)a surreal production from the Edison studio using hand-held shots and double exposures,etc.
I)Armat's and Raff's prototype for the modern movie projector
J)desired a painting to be a living thing
Answer: I
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Chapter 2: Griffith and His Contemporaries: 19081920
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Q1) Griffith's strengths included all of the following except
A)creating clinical documentation.
B)creating emotional reactions.
C)creating lost worlds.
D)creating poetry and drama.
Answer: A
Q2) Unlike Sennett,Charlie Chaplin realized
A)nothing transcended character.
B)nothing transcended goof looks.
C)nothing transcended crude,physical humor.
D)nothing transcended editing style.
Answer: A
Q3) A director whom Griffith did not "train" was
A)Henry King
B)John Ford
C)Tod Browning
D)Raoul Walsh
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: American Cinema in the 1920s
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Q1) Harold Lloyd's films like Safety Last were on "the myth of the Good American," and in such films,viewers find
A)Home.
B)Hearth.
C)One True Love.
D)all the above
Answer: D
Q2) Who of the following is considered a carefree flapper?
A)Clara Bow
B)Greta Garbo
C)Lillian Gish
D)Mary Pickford
Answer: A
Q3) 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
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Chapter 4: European Cinema in the 1920s
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Q1) Modern Times was so like Under the Roofs of Paris that René Clair's producers sued Charlie Chaplin.___
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Russians used tracking,panning,tilting,and the like to full effect.___
A)True
B)False
Q3) Dadaism is the art movement that
A)despised realism.
B)emphasized the illogical or absurd.
C)used buffoonery and provocative behavior to shock.
D)all of the above
Q4) Explain Abel Gance's "Polyvision" as an example of his extravagant filmmaking.
Q5) Un Chien Andalou is a surrealist film made by
A)Louis Buñuel
B)Salvador Dali
C)Both
D)Neither
Q6) What is/ are the difference(s)between expressionism and naturalism?
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Q7) What does the term "plastic" mean as it applies to Soviet/ Russian movie making?
Chapter 5: The Hollywood Studio System: 1925-1955
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Q1) Major studios often viewed their stars as valuable investments,"properties." ___
A)True
B)False
Q2) All the following were responsible for the practice of "vertical integration" except A)Thomas Ince.
B)William Fox.
C)Adolph Zukor.
D)Marcus Loew.
Q3) What was a particularly taboo subject in American cinema in the Hollywood system?
A)optimism
B)romance
C)honest failure
D)none of the above
Q4) 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
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Chapter 6: American Cinema in the 1930s
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Q1) Ernst Lubitsch was the screen's resident master of the grotesque through the early 1930s.___
A)True
B)False
Q2) The actor that worked successfully in westerns with both Howard Hawks and John Ford was
A)Humphrey Bogart
B)James Cagney
C)Clark Gable
D)John Wayne
Q3) What quality of speech most characterized how actors spoke in early "talkies"?
A)poetic
B)colloquial
C)proper
D)accented
Q4) What characterizes the film style of William Wyler?
A)lengthy takes
B)deep-focus photography
C)few close-ups
D)all of the above
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Chapter 7: European Cinema in the 1930s
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Q1) 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
Q2) Marcel Ophüls often examined what he considered the transitory nature of love in movies like La Ronde.___
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Blue Angel is characterized by which of the following:
A)woman as devourer
B)man as avenger
C)love as redemption
D)all of the above
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Chapter 8: American Cinema in the 1940s
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Q1) The Why We Fight war propaganda films are characterized by which of the following:
A)stock footage
B)animation
C)stentorian narration
D)all of the above
Q2) The movie that made Humphrey Bogart a star was
A)High Sierra
B)African Queen
C)The Caine Mutiny
D)Moby Dick
Q3) Billy Wilder was a A)director
B)reporter
C)scriptwriter
D)all of the above
Q4) In what ways did American cinema show that innovation could come through adaptation,as in borrowing techniques from the Italian neorealists?
Q5) In what ways did Hollywood do "itself proud during World War II"?
Q6) What makes film noir run counter to the American tradition of optimism?
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Chapter 9: European Cinema in the 1940s
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Q1) What happened to Germany's film industry before,during,and after (until the 1960s)World War II?
Q2) 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
Q3) 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
Q4) French postwar movie making suffered from A)lack of capital.
B)outmoded equipment.
C)limited studio space.
D)all of the above.
Q5) What happened to the movies in oppressive political regimes like in Germany and/or the Soviet Union/Russia?
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Chapter 10: American Cinema in the 1950s
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Q1) social realism ___
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) Subtext is
A)a minor story.
B)the meaning interpreted from words.
C)a calendar of intentions and feelings.
D)the true story.
Q3) James Dean was a popular symbol of misunderstood youth,struggling to define his identity.___
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: International Cinema in the 1950s
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Q1) The most commercial French director of the period probably was
A)Francois Truffaut
B)Rene Clement
C)Jean Luc Goddard
D)Eric Rohmer
Q2) 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
Q3) Federico Fellini began his career in Italian movies by helping to write scripts like Open City.___
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: American Cinema in the 1960s
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Q1) The film that was the "box office champion" of the 60s was
A)Seven Days in May
B)Husbands
C)Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
D)The Graduate
Q2) What was the goal of noted African-American actor Sidney Poitier?
Q3) All of the following are true about Sam Peckinpah's movies except A)tended to be personal and loosely structured B)often had to be reedited to improve their lengths for the commercial market
C)was praised for his handling of sex
D)created controversy for his treatment of violence
Q4) Stanley Kubrick's Dr.Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is a lighthearted comedy which makes fun of nuclear physicists during the Cold War.___
A)True
B)False
Q5) The early 1960s,in American cinema,were a time when English movies,financed with American money,were very popular.___
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: International Cinema in the 1960s
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Q1) Young British filmmakers of the 1960s shared which of the following attitudes?
A)were in films to get rich
B)disliked American movies
C)criticized staid British cinema
D)sought to establish a "tradition of quality"
Q2) 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
Q3) All of the following Italian directors prospered in the 1960s except?
A)Roberto Rossellini
B)Federico Fellini
C)Vittorio De Sica
D)Luchino Visconti
Q4) 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
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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) Traditionally women's status in the American film industry was tied to
A)writing scripts.
B)directing.
C)the star system.
D)costume designs.
Q3) Were foreign directors working in America successful at portraying American life? Explain briefly.
Q4) What happened to the conventions of classical cinema in the early 70s?
Q5) Why were young audiences taken with George Lucas' Star Wars trilogy?
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Chapter 15: International Cinema in the 1970s
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Q1) With what other medium was German cinema of the 70s linked and in what ways?
Q2) To what extent does a focus on sex rule European films of the 70s?
Q3) What thematic traits did Italian directors Bernardo Bertolucci and Lena Wertmuller share?
Q4) 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
Q5) Rainer Werner Fassbinder's favorite characters were lonely hearts of the middle class. ___
A)True
B)False
Q6) 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) 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) David Lynch ___
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
Q3) 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
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Chapter 17: International Cinema in the 1980s
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Q1) What is the character of the work of Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar ?
Q2) 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
Q3) In what way(s)was the division/ tension between the Masterpiece Theatre-like filmmakers and the Kitchen Sink-like filmmakers beneficial or problematic?
Q4) Under the Brezhnev regime in the Soviet Union,Soviet filmmakers began to make more accessible and commercial films.___
A)True
B)False
Q5) 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) 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) More women and minorities began directing "mainstream" films in the 1990s.___
A)True
B)False
Q3) Bright spots in American cinema production included
A)animation and CGI use
B)increased numbers from various races,genders,and sexual orientations as directors
C)both a and b
D)neither a nor b
Q4) What caused the cost of movies to increase so drastically in the 90s?
Q5) Arguably the most important development for artistic significance in 90s movie making was the establishment of independent films.___
A)True
B)False
Q6) Did independent filmmakers of the 90s usually stay independent? Explain briefly.
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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) In filmmaking,which is the more ruinous to the enterprise: political oppression/ censorship or economic impoverishment/ lack of resources?
Q3) The country that produces more movies each year than any other country in the world is
A)India.
B)Hong Kong.
C)America.
D)Great Britain.
Q4) Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi complained that control of Polish cinema in the 90s shifted away from the Russians to the A)Poles.
B)Spanish.
C)French.
D)Americans.
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Chapter 20: American Cinema Since 2000
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Q1) What medium and in what ways do movies often seem to ape in the 2000s?
Q2) Why have gay movies suddenly come out of the closet and found large,appreciative audiences?
Q3) Latin American films often closely examine poverty and the desperation it breeds as can be seen in City of God and Maria Full of Grace.___
A)True
B)False
Q4) Movie making in Iran shares many similarities with classic neo-realism in Italy.___
A)True
B)False
Q5) Alexander Payne's film career could best be described with the term A)humane
B)prolific
C)sardonic
D)serious
Q6) What has happened to the rules for genre storytelling in movies in the 2000s?
Q7) 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?
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Chapter 21: International Cinema Since 2000
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Q1) No German movie has won an Oscar in the 2000s.___
A)True
B)False
Q2) 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
Q3) The conflict between the powerful Hollywood and struggling cinemas of smaller countries has ceased in the 2000s.___
A)True
B)False
Q4) Why is the journey motif an effective story-telling device in movies?
Q5) All of the following are true of Zhang Yimou's Curse of the Golden Flower except A)made in the tradition of Hong Kong action movies
B)created voluptuous visual lyricism
C)box office champ in China
D)set in contemporary China
Q6) What has been Islamic filmmakers' response to their harassment for making movies sympathetic to women?
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