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Who cofounded the journal Cahiers du cinema and is considered the father of the French New Wave? |
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André Bazin |
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Which of the following occurred in the new Hollywood? |
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The studio system collapsed. |
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Films of the Italian neorealist movement are characterized by
_____________ locations, ____________ actors, and a ____________ visual
style. |
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real; nonprofessional; documentary
These are three defining aesthetic characteristics of Italian neorealism (pages 438–441).
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Literally, "dark chamber." A box (or room in which a viewer stands); light entering (originally from a tiny hole, later through a lens) on one side of the box ( or room) projects an image from the outside onto the opposite side or wall. |
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camera obscura
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How would you characterize the Hollywood studio system during the classical period? |
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a top-down organization in which management controlled
everything |
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The Motion Picture Production code began in the silent era of Hollywood and was not abandoned until 1968. (True or False) |
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False
The Motion Picture Production Code was instituted in 1930. There was no code in the silent period (page 436).
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The Dogme 95 movement in Denmark drafted a manifesto that includes WHICH of the following rules: |
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The director must not be credited. |
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French New Wave director ______________ directed The 400 Blows and wrote the influential essay “A Certain Tendency in French Cinema.” |
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François Truffaut |
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negative or negative photographic image
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A negative photographic image on transparent material that makes possible the reproduction of the image. |
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The first movie studio-a crude, hot cramped shack in which Thomas Edison and his staff began making movies. |
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black maria
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Besides being one of the first “Westerns,” what is significant about Edwin S. Porter’s 1903 film The Great Train Robbery? |
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It is one of the first films to pioneer the idea of
continuity editing.
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What political leader nationalized the Soviet film industry and
established schools that trained filmmakers to make propaganda films? |
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Lenin
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Which approach to film history is concerned with the artistic significance and influence of individual films or directors? |
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aesthetic approach
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Filmmakers of the New American Cinema such as Robert Drew, Don Alan
Pennebaker, and brothers Albert and David Maysles are associated with
the ___________ movement, which draws inspiration from cinéma vérité. |
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Direct Cinema
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What are the four traditional approaches to film history? |
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aesthetic, technological,economic, social
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The various “new cinemas” or New Wave movements in Europe and Asia are in many respects a reaction to what historical event? |
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World War II
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Approach to film history that addresses the formation of the studio system, the distribution and exhibition of movies, and the rise of an independent system of film production. |
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economic approach
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film director working in the silent period is often credited with creating classical Hollywood film style |
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D. W. Griffith |
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German expressionist films are characterized by _____________ settings, ____________ camera angles, and themes such as _____________.
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exaggerated; oblique; alienation
These are common characteristics of German expressionist films (page 427–430). See also Disc 1, Chapter 5: Mise-en-Scène, Setting and Expressionism |
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The New German cinema (das neue Kino) was founded by a group of filmmakers who believed that German cinema must deal with what two issues? |
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the Nazi period; the reemergence of postwar Germany as a divided country |
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The short-lived Nubero Bagu movement in Japan was influenced by _____________ and is marked by ___________ and _____________. |
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the French New Wave; brutality; nihilism |
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Which Soviet filmmaker considered film
editing to be a creative process that functioned according to the
dialectics of Karl Marx? |
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Eisenstein
(page 433). See also Disc 1, Chapter 8: Editing, The Evolution of Editing: Montage
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Which three devices are examples of series photography? |
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revolver photographique; magic lantern; fusil photographique
A camera obscura is NOT a device capable of series photography (pages 419–421)
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What are the three distinct political entities in which postwar Chinese films are produced? |
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the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong |
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Among the many significant aspects of Citizen Kane’s style is the visual style of Gregg Toland’s cinematography. Which characteristics describe the visual style of Citizen Kane? |
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deep-focus, long takes |
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Dada and surrealism are most associated with which movement in film history? |
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the avant-garde |
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What movement in England in the 1950s helped inspire the British New Cinema movement of the 1960s? |
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Free Cinema
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photography |
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Literally, "writing with light"; technically, the recording of static images though a chemical interaction caused by light rays striking a sensitized surface. |
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series photography |
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The use of a series of still photographs to record the phases of an action, although the actions within the images do not move. |
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revolver photographique |
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Also known as chronophotoraphic gun. A cylinder-shaped camera that creates exposures automatically, at short intervals, on different segments of a revolving plate. |
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magic lantern |
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magic lantern |
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zoopraxiscope |
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An early device for exhibiting moving pictures-a revolving disk with photographs arranged around the center. |
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Kinetograph |
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The first motion picture camera. |
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Kinetoscope |
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A peephole viewer, an early motion-picture device. |
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fusil photographique |
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A form of the chronophotgrahic gun (see Revolver photographique)-a single, portable camera capable of taking twelve continuous images. |
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stop-motion cinematography |
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A technique that allows the camera operator to stop and start the camera in order to facilitate changing the subject while the camera is not shooting. |
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