Looking at Movies Chapter 3: Types of Movies – Study Guide, Review Questions, and Answers

Looking at Movies Chapter 3: Types of Movies – Study Guide, Review Questions,
and Answers


Narrative Movie - ANS ✔✔Directed toward fiction, based on plays.



Documentary Movie - ANS ✔✔Recording reality, educating viewers, political/social analyses/
non-fiction



Factual Film - ANS ✔✔Presents people, places, or procedures in straight forward ways



Instructional Films - ANS ✔✔Seek to educate viewers about common interests



Persuasive Films - ANS ✔✔Persuade audience to oppose the practice of something



Propaganda Film - ANS ✔✔Systematically disseminate deceptive or distorted information



Direct Cinema - ANS ✔✔Eschew interviewers/ limit the use of narrators. Small portable cameras



Experimental movies - ANS ✔✔Non traditional



stream of consciousness - ANS ✔✔Captures the unedited flow of experience through the mind



Self-reflexive films - ANS ✔✔Those that represent their own conditions of production



Hybrid movie - ANS ✔✔Blurs borders among experimental, documentary and narrative