PN2002 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026
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PN2002 Film Studies Final Exam Study Guide
Part 1: Early Cinema & Silent Era
1. What is generally considered the first public, commercial exhibition of motion pictures?
A) The Great Train Robbery (1903)
B) A Trip to the Moon (1902)
C) The Lumière Brothers' screenings in Paris (1895) ✓
D) The Kinetoscope Parlors (1894)
Rationale: While the Kinetoscope was earlier, it was a peep-show device for individual viewing.
The Lumière Brothers' Cinématographe was the first to project films onto a screen for a paying
audience in December 1895.
2. Georges Méliès is most famous for his pioneering work in what filmic technique?
A) Continuity Editing
B) Method Acting
C) Special Effects and Narrative Illusionism ✓
D) Synchronized Sound
Rationale: Méliès, a magician, used stop-motion, double exposure, and other in-camera tricks
to create fantastical stories like A Trip to the the Moon, establishing early special effects.
3. The development of "Continuity Editing" or "Classical Hollywood Style" is largely attributed
to which filmmaker?
A) D.W. Griffith ✓
B) Charlie Chaplin
C) F.W. Murnau
D) Sergei Eisenstein
Rationale: In films like The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916), Griffith systematized
techniques like shot-reverse-shot, match-on-action, and cross-cutting to create clear, fluid
narrative storytelling.
, 4. Which Soviet filmmaker developed the theory of "Montage" based on the idea that
juxtaposing two unrelated shots creates a new, abstract concept?
A) Vsevolod Pudovkin
B) Dziga Vertov
C) Sergei Eisenstein ✓
D) Andrei Tarkovsky
Rationale: Eisenstein's "intellectual montage" argued that the collision of two independent
images (e.g., a worker's strike followed by slaughterhouse footage) generates a conceptual idea
(brutality) in the viewer's mind.
5. German Expressionist film, like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, is characterized by:
A) Realistic sets and natural lighting.
B) Psychological distortion, chiaroscuro lighting, and jagged sets. ✓
C) Fast-paced editing and slapstick comedy.
D) Location shooting and improvised dialogue.
Rationale: German Expressionism used visual style—extreme angles, shadows, and twisted
architecture—to externalize the inner, tormented states of its characters.
Part 2: Hollywood Systems & Genres
6. The "Studio System" era in Hollywood was defined by:
A) Independent, director-driven productions.
B) Major studios controlling production, distribution, and exhibition. ✓
C) The dominance of television networks.
D) Government-funded filmmaking.
Rationale: From the 1920s to the late 1940s, the "Big Five" studios (MGM, Paramount, etc.)
operated on a vertical integration model, owning the means of production and the theater
chains that showed their films.
7. What 1948 Supreme Court case effectively ended the Studio System?
A) Roe v. Wade
B) United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. ✓
C) Brown v. Board of Education
D) The Pentagon Papers Case
Rationale: The Paramount Decree ruled that the major studios' practice of block booking and
owning theater chains was an illegal monopoly, forcing them to divest their exhibition arms.
8. A "Film Noir" is most easily identified by its:
A) Bright, colorful musical numbers.
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PN2002 Film Studies Final Exam Study Guide
Part 1: Early Cinema & Silent Era
1. What is generally considered the first public, commercial exhibition of motion pictures?
A) The Great Train Robbery (1903)
B) A Trip to the Moon (1902)
C) The Lumière Brothers' screenings in Paris (1895) ✓
D) The Kinetoscope Parlors (1894)
Rationale: While the Kinetoscope was earlier, it was a peep-show device for individual viewing.
The Lumière Brothers' Cinématographe was the first to project films onto a screen for a paying
audience in December 1895.
2. Georges Méliès is most famous for his pioneering work in what filmic technique?
A) Continuity Editing
B) Method Acting
C) Special Effects and Narrative Illusionism ✓
D) Synchronized Sound
Rationale: Méliès, a magician, used stop-motion, double exposure, and other in-camera tricks
to create fantastical stories like A Trip to the the Moon, establishing early special effects.
3. The development of "Continuity Editing" or "Classical Hollywood Style" is largely attributed
to which filmmaker?
A) D.W. Griffith ✓
B) Charlie Chaplin
C) F.W. Murnau
D) Sergei Eisenstein
Rationale: In films like The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916), Griffith systematized
techniques like shot-reverse-shot, match-on-action, and cross-cutting to create clear, fluid
narrative storytelling.
, 4. Which Soviet filmmaker developed the theory of "Montage" based on the idea that
juxtaposing two unrelated shots creates a new, abstract concept?
A) Vsevolod Pudovkin
B) Dziga Vertov
C) Sergei Eisenstein ✓
D) Andrei Tarkovsky
Rationale: Eisenstein's "intellectual montage" argued that the collision of two independent
images (e.g., a worker's strike followed by slaughterhouse footage) generates a conceptual idea
(brutality) in the viewer's mind.
5. German Expressionist film, like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, is characterized by:
A) Realistic sets and natural lighting.
B) Psychological distortion, chiaroscuro lighting, and jagged sets. ✓
C) Fast-paced editing and slapstick comedy.
D) Location shooting and improvised dialogue.
Rationale: German Expressionism used visual style—extreme angles, shadows, and twisted
architecture—to externalize the inner, tormented states of its characters.
Part 2: Hollywood Systems & Genres
6. The "Studio System" era in Hollywood was defined by:
A) Independent, director-driven productions.
B) Major studios controlling production, distribution, and exhibition. ✓
C) The dominance of television networks.
D) Government-funded filmmaking.
Rationale: From the 1920s to the late 1940s, the "Big Five" studios (MGM, Paramount, etc.)
operated on a vertical integration model, owning the means of production and the theater
chains that showed their films.
7. What 1948 Supreme Court case effectively ended the Studio System?
A) Roe v. Wade
B) United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. ✓
C) Brown v. Board of Education
D) The Pentagon Papers Case
Rationale: The Paramount Decree ruled that the major studios' practice of block booking and
owning theater chains was an illegal monopoly, forcing them to divest their exhibition arms.
8. A "Film Noir" is most easily identified by its:
A) Bright, colorful musical numbers.
