FILM CH 10 QUIZ ALREADY GRADED A

FILM CH 10 QUIZ ALREADY GRADED A A box or room where light enters on one side and projects an image from the outside onto the opposite side or wall is called a camera obscura Besides being one of the first Westerns, what is significant about Edwin S. Porter's 1903 film The Great Train Robbery? It was one of the first films that pioneered the idea of continuity editing. Films of the Italian neorealist movement are characterized by _____________ locations, ____________ actors, and a ____________ visual style. real; nonprofessional; documentary German expressionist films are characterized by _____________ settings, ____________ camera angles, and themes such as _____________. exaggerated; oblique; alienation Historians who chart the history of cinema technology examine might pose all of the following questions, EXCEPT: Who saw the films, how, and why? How would you characterize the Hollywood studio system during the classical period? a top-down organization in which management controlled everything Orson Welles was considered one of cinema's greatest directors because he had the vision to do something differently and the talent to inspire collaborators to experiment and help him realize that vision. The Dogme 95 movement in Denmark drafted a manifesto that includes which of the following rules? The director must not be credited. This early innovator of film was a Frenchman considered cinema's first narrative artist, famous for innovating many technical and narrative devices. A magician by trade, he took naturally to the illusion of motion pictures, where he could make things vanish and reappear on screen, and is known for his use of special effects in landmark films such as A Trip to the Moon (1902). Georges Méliès What are the four traditional approaches to film history? aesthetic, technological, economic, social Which Latin American country, adhering to Lenin's familiar remark, "cinema, for us, is the most important of the arts," established this country's Institute for Cinematographic Art and Industry to encourage, improve, and support filmmaking at all levels? Cuba Which Soviet filmmaker considered film editing to be a creative process that functioned according to the dialectics of Karl Marx? Eisenstein Which approach to film history is concerned with the artistic significance and influence of individual films or directors? aesthetic approach Which approach to film history would address the formation of the studio system, the distribution and exhibition of movies, and the rise of an independent system of film production? economic approach Which of the following statements about Middle Eastern and North African cinema is TRUE? A large number of the serious movies created in these countries today are directed by women. Which three devices are examples of series photography? revolver phatographique, magic lantern, fusil photographique