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FIL 2552 Film Studies Final Exam Study Guide, 2026/2027 – 100-Question Cinema Studies Examination with Detailed Rationales

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This document covers the FIL 2552 Film Studies Final Examination for the 2026/2027 academic cycle. It includes 100 questions with verified correct answers and detailed rationales focused on foundational and advanced concepts in film and cinema studies. The material supports exam preparation by reinforcing film history, narrative structure, mise-en-scène analysis, cinematography, editing theory, sound design, genre studies, representation, ideology, and critical approaches to film interpretation.

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Which of these techniques is George Melies NOT said to have introduced into cinema: -
ANSWER-Cut ins
In Stop Thief, the original screen direction creates a problem in the geography of the
space.
What two statements are true regarding why this is? - ANSWER-The viewer has to
create a corner for the subjects to round between Shots 1 and 2.

The viewer has to assume a jump in time in Shots 2 and 3
Complete the statement with the most accurate terms: - ANSWER-If a scene starts wide
in the... Master

And then goes closer to a(n)... Insert

This breakdown of scene space would be an example of: Analytical Editing
An abrupt and purposefully jarring cut from one image to another with no transition,
typically used to startle the audience. - ANSWER-Smash Cut
The interruption of a continuous sequence by cutting in a view of something else, then
typically cutting back to the original sequence. - ANSWER-Flash Cut
The gradual fading transition from one image to another. - ANSWER-Dissolve
A dissolve transition to or from a black image. - ANSWER-Fade in/out
Intentional use of shots of the same subject in discontinuous motion - ANSWER-Jump
Cut
Which of these claims from D.W. Griffith is not accurate: - ANSWER-Producer of all great
Biograph successes

Founded the modern technique of the art

Introduced include the large or close-up figures

Introduced the switchback (cross-cutting)

, Introduced sustained suspense

Introduced the fade out
Check all that apply to Montage Theory: - ANSWER-Agitprop

Based on communication to the masses

One Shot + One Shot = New Idea

Developed in Russia
A mental phenomenon caused by the juxtaposition of two shots: - ANSWER-The
Kuleshov Effect
What are Sergei Eisenstein's Five Methods of Montage? (Select five) - ANSWER-Metric
Tonal
Rhythmic
Intellectual
Overtonal
This Method of Montage is based on a conflict between the length of a shot and
movement within the frame. - ANSWER-Rhythmic
The Odessa Steps sequence from Battleship Potemkin is a dramatization of a real
historical massacre that has been emotionally amplified by the experimental editing
techniques. - ANSWER-False
In the Avengers: Infinity War clip, there is a ________________ continuity error. -
ANSWER-Temporal
What editorial techniques are present in Maya Deren's Meshes of the Afternoon (Check
3) - ANSWER-False eye-line matches

Experimental spatial and temporal continuity

Split screen photography
In the video Breaking the Rules, they state that the French New Wave use of the jump
cut is - ANSWER-Both
Match the correct names to complete this quote:
"There is the cinema before Godard and the cinema after..."
- This is a quote from Truffaut - ANSWER-Answer 1:Godard
Answer 2:Truffaut
In the Don't Look Now clip screened in class, Donald Sutherland spills his drink and we
see his daughter elsewhere submerged in water. His face reads that he recognizes and
reacts to this image...
That recognition makes this an example of: - ANSWER-Flash Cutting
The process or means of obtaining and storing external data - ANSWER-Capture
Process of copying selected takes or reels from the negative onto different stock for the
purposes of dailies, handling, and editing. - ANSWER-Printing
The chemical means of producing opaque objects on photographic film to generate a
negative or positive image on a filmstrip - ANSWER-Processing

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