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Course Introduction
World Cinema explores the dynamic landscape of global filmmaking, examining significant films, directors, and movements from Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and beyond. The course investigates how different cultures use cinema to express identity, confront social and political issues, and tell unique stories. Through close analysis of international film styles, genres, and aesthetics, students gain insight into both the universality and specificity of cinematic expression around the world, enhancing their appreciation of film as an art form and a vehicle for understanding diverse societies.
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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) Who wrote an entry in his/ her 1666 diary concerning "a lantern with pictures in glass to make strange things to appear on a wall"?
A)Samuel Johnson
B)Queen Elizabeth
C)Walter Raleigh
D)Samuel Pepys
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following is true about the Lumière brothers?
A)They made brief movies of realistic events like three old men playing cards
B)They used light,hand-cranked projectors
C)They made the best equipment of the day
D)all of the above
Answer: D
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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Chapter 2: Griffith and His Contemporaries: 19081920
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Q1) Early on,unwritten rules required movies be made to look like live theatre as viewed from front row center.___
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) freeze frame ___
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: G
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Chapter 3: American Cinema in the 1920s
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Q1) Who of the following is considered a carefree flapper?
A)Clara Bow
B)Greta Garbo
C)Lillian Gish
D)Mary Pickford
Answer: A
Q2) Chaplin was more than a comedian and The Gold Rush is more than a comedy.___
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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) Luis Buñuel ___
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) How did Sergei Eisenstein use reverse angles in his filmmaking?
Q3) The French director who had an anarchist spirit but produced a light tone was
A)René Clair
B)Jean Renoir
C)Marcel Proust
D)Jean Vigo
Q4) What is/ are the difference(s)between expressionism and naturalism?
Q5) What is the definition of the German term kammerspiel? Give an example of a movie embodying this quality.
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Chapter 5: The Hollywood Studio System: 1925-1955
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Q1) What were the benefits of the studio system to the film industry itself as well as movie goers? What were the limitations of the studio system?
Q2) Top stars often had written into their contracts all of the following except A)how much they could weigh.
B)script approval.
C)director.
D)cinematographer.
Q3) Benjamin Hampton claims that Hollywood's greater film success than Europe's is explained by Hollywood's " willingness to give the public what it was willing to pay for ."
A)True
B)False
Q4) The choices of movies which Bette Davis fought for made considerably less money than the ones her Front Office favored for her.___
A)True
B)False
Q5) Why was the development of the classical narrative script form in Hollywood inevitable?
Q6) To what is classical cinema oriented and to whom?
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Chapter 6: American Cinema in the 1930s
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Q1) The Gold Diggers of 1935 ___
A)Busby Berkeley's musical in which pianos move
B)Mae West puts Cary Grant in his place
C)William Wyler films starring Bette Davis
D)Marx Bothers' surrealistic assault on order and reason
E)starred James Cagney,bruised,without illusions
F)George Cukor film starring Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor
G)Frank Capra film starring James Stewart
H)director John Ford's first critical hit
I)gangster film written by Ben Hecht,directed by Howard Hawks
J)starred Fred Astaire,the musical's inventor
Q2) Who worked as a successful independently produced director?
A)Howard Hawks
B)George Cukor
C)Sam Wood
D)Mervyn LeRoy
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Q3) In American movies,which is the more powerful thematic impulse: idealism or pragmatism?
Q4) With what character type was John Ford preoccupied in his movies?
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Chapter 7: European Cinema in the 1930s
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Q1) Charles Laughton,the actor,perhaps gave his fines performance in the movie
A)The Private Life of Henry VIII
B)Spartacus
C)The Hunchback of Norte Dame
D)Night of the Hunter
Q2) Who did not flee Germany with the rise of Adolf Hitler?
A)Billy Wilder
B)Fritz Lang
C)Leni Riefenstahl
D)Fred Zinnemann
Q3) Jean Cocteau made which of the following magical tales?
A)Beauty and the Beast
B)The Blood of the Poet
C)both a and b
D)neither a and b
Q4) A film like Leo McCarey's Wrong Again is an example of a film much adored by French surrealists.___
A)True
B)False
Q5) What sense of fate did Max Ophüls achieve in his use of circular narratives?
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Chapter 8: American Cinema in the 1940s
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Q1) Huston's noir films charts the down side of humanity,the men and women who try and fail,either through flaws in themselves or because they attempt to circumvent the natural order of a hostile universe.___
A)True
B)False
Q2) 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
Q3) John Huston early in his directing career showed a gift for multi-layered filmmaking.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Why did a darker,more pessimistic kind of story (noir)come to popularity after the war?
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?
Q7) 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) 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
Q2) Vittorio De Sica teamed with Cesare Zavattini to create which of the following films:
A)The Bicycle Thief
B)Umberto D
C)Miracle in Milan
D)all of the above
Q3) Why did neorealism emerge in Italy after World War II?
Q4) What was the condition of the French movie making culture in the years following World War II?
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Chapter 10: American Cinema in the 1950s
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Q1) Alfred Hitchcock ___
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) To what studio owner did director Elia Kazan say "He was always a man of the people.If something was being felt,he felt it"?
A)Louis B.Mayer
B)Warner
C)Samuel Goldwyn
D)Darryl Zanuck
Q3) Why was Otto Preminger's challenge to the Production Code important to Hollywood movies?
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) Despite his Western sources of inspiration,Kurosawa remained totally traditional in his values.___
A)True
B)False
Q2) Ugetsu ___
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) What kinds of characters was Federico Fellini basically drawn to in his films during this period?
Q4) What is the conflict that is characteristic of nearly all Japanese movies in the 50s?
Q5) How were women portrayed in international films of the 50s?
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Chapter 12: American Cinema in the 1960s
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Q1) Each of the following is true about John Frankenheimer's films except A)worked in several genres
B)used the motif of imprisonment often C)vision tends to be optimistic D)had no single theme
Q2) What was the problem with realism in films at least during the early years of the 60s?
Q3) 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
Q4) Cleopatra represents the excess and failure,in general,of the American spectacular. ___
A)True B)False
Q5) What characteristics of Sam Peckinpah's westerns made them revisionist?
Q6) Why is Bonnie and Clyde,directed by Arthur Penn,considered the turning point from the old filmmaking sensibility to the new?
Q7) What happened to the Production Code in 1968 and what was the result?
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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) The new British directors of the 1960s Free Cinema movement revolted consciously against the Italian neorealist movement in their films.___
A)True
B)False
Q3) Louis Malle ___
A)Hiroshima,Mon Amour
B)Le Voleur (The Thief)
C)The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
D)Shoot the Piano Player
E)A Hard Day's Night
F)Cleo from 5 to 7
G)Ashes and Diamonds
H)L'Avventura
I)Breathless
J)If
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Chapter 14: American Cinema in the 1970s
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Q1) Which of the following is a true Blaxploitation film?
A)Sounder
B)Shaft
C)Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
D)all of the above
Q2) What was the status - fictional and real - of women in Hollywood in the 70s?
Q3) Were foreign directors working in America successful at portraying American life? Explain briefly.
Q4) George Lucas stuck to classical narrative conventions in American Graffiti,which ensured the movies impressive success for a young director.___
A)True
B)False
Q5) Why were young audiences taken with George Lucas' Star Wars trilogy?
Q6) How does the revisionist label apply to genre films of the 70s,especially the early 70s?
Q7) Studios began to produce off-beat movies,entirely avoiding big-budget movies.___
A)True
B)False
Q8) What happened to the conventions of classical cinema in the early 70s?
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Chapter 15: International Cinema in the 1970s
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Q1) Diane Kurys ___
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
Q2) Which actor of great comedic skill appears in many of Lena Wertmuller's films?
A)Giancarlo Giannini
B)Gerard Depardieu
C)Klaus Kinski
D)Bruno S.
Q3) What Marxist qualities can be seen in the Italian films of the 70s?
Q4) Were German movies of the 70s generally optimistic and success driven as in classical cinema,or were they generally pessimistic and bleak? Use examples.
Q5) With what other medium was German cinema of the 70s linked and in what ways?
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Chapter 16: American Cinema in the 1980s
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Q1) 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
Q2) What was the influence of President Reagan and the conservative cultural climate he called for?
Q3) A principal source for many of the emerging stars of movies in the 1980s was A)stage
B)foreign movies
C)university
D)television
Q4) The Oliver Stone film considered superior to Platoon is A)Talk Radio
B)Natural Born Killers
C)Born on the Fourth of July
D)Salvador
Q5) Why was the Disney studio successful in the 80s?
Q6) What generally became of women actors and women's pictures in the 80s?
Q7) How did home-video tape players (VHS)influence movie making in the 80s?
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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) Which of the following foreign directors has also found great success in American cinema?
A)Claude Berri
B)Percy Adlon
C)Paul Verhoeven
D)István Szabó
Q3) Why is realism the style preferred among filmmakers in the Third World in the 80s?
Q4) What is the character of the work of Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar ?
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Chapter 18: American Cinema in the 1990s
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Q1) Many movies,anticipating being shown on TV,used more and more of which shot?
A)extreme long
B)full
C)close-up
D)medium
Q2) At the century's end,the only free-standing independent studio was
A)Tri-Star
B)American International
C)Universal
D)Disney
Q3) What was not true about the great success of James Cameron's Titanic as it relates to the economic climate of Hollywood?
A)the industry considered the film a near-death experience
B)the film was a co-production of two studios
C)others rushed to replicate the film's success
D)none of the above
Q4) Why were Woody Allen movies in the 90s usually unpopular with American audiences,but popular with European and Japanese audiences?
Q5) What caused the cost of movies to increase so drastically in the 90s?
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Chapter 19: International Cinema in the 1990s
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Q1) The biggest grossing foreign language movie ever in U.S.history in the 1990s was
A)Farewell My Concubine
B)Il Postino
C)Life Is Beautiful
D)Belle Epoque
Q2) Chris Noonan ___
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) Irish films focus exclusively on "the Troubles" that have long existed between Northern Ireland and the IRA.___
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 20: American Cinema Since 2000
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Q1) In the United States,Hollywood is in the midst of a great rebirth of film-making having learned how to manufacture (rather than create)and franchise movies.___
A)True
B)False
Q2) A David Cronenberg movie typically focuses on
A)sex and violence.
B)sex and money.
C)sex and technology.
D)sex and politics.
Q3) All of the following is true of Paul Thomas Anderson except
A)character is destiny
B)period authenticity is unimportant
C)families have troubles
D)choices can have terrible consequences
Q4) Ridley Scott is an incredible visual stylist,but he often show a disdain for A)actors
B)sound effects
C)scripts
D)all of the above
Q5) What has happened to the rules for genre storytelling in movies in the 2000s?
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Chapter 21: International Cinema Since 2000
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Q1) The country which has produced the most promising films since 2000 in Eastern Europe is
A)Poland
B)Romania
C)Czechoslovakia
D)Bosnia
Q2) The conflict between the powerful Hollywood and struggling cinemas of smaller countries has ceased in the 2000s.___
A)True
B)False
Q3) The prize-winning animated movie,though French,co-directed by Marjane Satrapi, that focuses on the struggles of a young Iranian woman is
A)Moolaadé
B)Persepolis
C)Taste of Cherry
D)Osama
Q4) How does Yuen Wo Ping,choreographer of The Matrix Trilogy,achieve his "action as dance" effect?
Q5) To what tradition is Guillermo del Toro's Pan Labyrinth indebted?
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