Looking at Movies Chapter 10: Film Editing – Review Questions and
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the aesthetic approach - correct answer ✔✔sometimes called the masterpiece approach or
great man approach, the aesthetic approach seeks to evaluate individual movies and/or
directors using criteria that asserts their artistic significance and influence.
historians who use this approach do not necessarily ignore the economic, technological, and
cultural aspects of film history
the technological approach - correct answer ✔✔all art forms have a technological history that
records the advancements in materials and techniques that have affected the nature of the
medium
of all the arts, cinema seems to be the one most reliant on technology
study major developments (the introduction of sound, the moving camera, deep focus
cinematography, color film stock, and digital cinematography, projection)
examine circumstances surrounding the development of each technological advancement
the economic approach - correct answer ✔✔motion-picture industry is a major part of the
global economy
every movie released has an economic history of its own as well as a place in the economic
history of its studio (policies of production, distribution, and exhibition) and the historical
period and country in which it was produced
historians study this to help us to understand how and why the studio system was founded, how
it adapted to changing conditions (economic, technological, social, historical), and how and why
different studios took different approaches to producing different movies, how these movies
have been distributed and exhibited, and what effect this had on film history
they study how and why the independent system of production superseded the studio system
and what effect this has had on production, distribution, and exhibition
They are also concerned with such related issues as management and organization, accounting,
and marketing practices, and censorship and the rating system.
, Finally they try to place significant movies within the output of the industry in general and the
producing studio in particular
the social history approach - correct answer ✔✔because society and culture influence the
movies, and vice versa, the movies serve as primary sources for studying society
writing about movies as social history continues to be a major preoccupation of journalists,
scholars, and students alike
historians study who made the movies and why? Who saw the films, how, and why? What has
seen, how, and why? How were movies evaluated, by whom, and why?
consider factors such as religion, politics, cultural trends, and taboos
to what extent a movie swayed or effects social change
interested in audience composition, marketing, and critical writing, and reviewing in the media,
from gossip magazine to scholarly books
they study the complex interaction between the movies-as a social institution-and other social
institutions including government, religion, and labor
photography - correct answer ✔✔literally means "writing with light"
developed during the first four decades of the nineteenth century by Thomas Wedgwood,
William Henry Fox Talbot, and Sir John Herschel in England; Joseph-Nicephore Niece and Louis-
Jacques-Mande Daguerre in France; and George Eastman in the United States
camera obscura - correct answer ✔✔the concept had its beginnings in Ancient Greece. in the
fourth century BCE, the Greek philosopher Aristotle theorized about a device that would later
be known as this.
in the late fifteenth century Leonardo da Vinci's drawings gave tangible form to the idea. Both
simple and ingenues, this may be. box or it may be a room large enough for a viewer to stand
inside. Light entering the tiny hole (later a lens) on one side of the box or room projects an
image from outside the opposite side or wall. An artist might then trace the image onto a piece
of paper
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the aesthetic approach - correct answer ✔✔sometimes called the masterpiece approach or
great man approach, the aesthetic approach seeks to evaluate individual movies and/or
directors using criteria that asserts their artistic significance and influence.
historians who use this approach do not necessarily ignore the economic, technological, and
cultural aspects of film history
the technological approach - correct answer ✔✔all art forms have a technological history that
records the advancements in materials and techniques that have affected the nature of the
medium
of all the arts, cinema seems to be the one most reliant on technology
study major developments (the introduction of sound, the moving camera, deep focus
cinematography, color film stock, and digital cinematography, projection)
examine circumstances surrounding the development of each technological advancement
the economic approach - correct answer ✔✔motion-picture industry is a major part of the
global economy
every movie released has an economic history of its own as well as a place in the economic
history of its studio (policies of production, distribution, and exhibition) and the historical
period and country in which it was produced
historians study this to help us to understand how and why the studio system was founded, how
it adapted to changing conditions (economic, technological, social, historical), and how and why
different studios took different approaches to producing different movies, how these movies
have been distributed and exhibited, and what effect this had on film history
they study how and why the independent system of production superseded the studio system
and what effect this has had on production, distribution, and exhibition
They are also concerned with such related issues as management and organization, accounting,
and marketing practices, and censorship and the rating system.
, Finally they try to place significant movies within the output of the industry in general and the
producing studio in particular
the social history approach - correct answer ✔✔because society and culture influence the
movies, and vice versa, the movies serve as primary sources for studying society
writing about movies as social history continues to be a major preoccupation of journalists,
scholars, and students alike
historians study who made the movies and why? Who saw the films, how, and why? What has
seen, how, and why? How were movies evaluated, by whom, and why?
consider factors such as religion, politics, cultural trends, and taboos
to what extent a movie swayed or effects social change
interested in audience composition, marketing, and critical writing, and reviewing in the media,
from gossip magazine to scholarly books
they study the complex interaction between the movies-as a social institution-and other social
institutions including government, religion, and labor
photography - correct answer ✔✔literally means "writing with light"
developed during the first four decades of the nineteenth century by Thomas Wedgwood,
William Henry Fox Talbot, and Sir John Herschel in England; Joseph-Nicephore Niece and Louis-
Jacques-Mande Daguerre in France; and George Eastman in the United States
camera obscura - correct answer ✔✔the concept had its beginnings in Ancient Greece. in the
fourth century BCE, the Greek philosopher Aristotle theorized about a device that would later
be known as this.
in the late fifteenth century Leonardo da Vinci's drawings gave tangible form to the idea. Both
simple and ingenues, this may be. box or it may be a room large enough for a viewer to stand
inside. Light entering the tiny hole (later a lens) on one side of the box or room projects an
image from outside the opposite side or wall. An artist might then trace the image onto a piece
of paper
