Art History

Q: Barry Levinson's respect for his characters as evidenced in Rain Man is exemplified by his use of a. telephoto lens b. long takes c. close ups d. all of the above

Q: Which of the following is true about movie production in Europe in the 1940s? a. European filmmakers made only documentaries. b. Fiction movies declined sharply in the war years. c. Warring countries were careful to allow film production to escape destruction. d. none of the above

Q: What were some of the ways that Edwin Porter contributed to the development of film "grammar" ?

Q: The movie that became one of the hallmarks of feminist cinema in the 80s was a. Body Heat b. Tootsie c. Annie Hall d. Romancing the Stone

Q: What idea did Denmark's Carl Dreyer like to explore in his films a. how a person's soul can rise above the constraints of the physical world b. how foreign occupation creates tyranny in a country c. how a controlled national economy affects the working class adversely d. all of the above

Q: Why is George Mlis considered the father of special effects?

Q: A principal source for many of the emerging stars of movies in the 1980s was a. stage b. foreign movies c. university d. television

Q: In what ways did American cinema show that innovation could come through adaptation, as in borrowing techniques from the Italian neorealists?

Q: What were the two problems Norman Raff and others had to solve to project films "on a wall" successfully?

Q: Unlike their predecessors, young director emerging in the 1980s often a. knew more about movies than life b. worked off cultural grants c. starred/acted in their movies d. all of the above

Q: Were Warner Brothers cartoons or Disney cartoons more in keeping with the feelings of the times?

Q: What is the definition of "persistence of vision" ?

Q: Which actor in the 1980s continued to direct movies which where in direct opposition to the iconic figure he struck on the screen? a. John Huston b. Kirk Douglas c. John Wayne d. Clint Eastwood

Q: Why did a darker, more pessimistic kind of story (noir) come to popularity after the war?

Q: Matching:1) Da Vinci ___ 2) William Dickson ___ 3) Kinetoscope ___ 4) The Lathams ___ 5) Mutoscope ___ 6) Vitascope ___ 7) Vaudeville ___ 8) George Mlis ___ 9) Edwin S. Porter ___ 10) The Dream of a Rarebit Fiend ___a. a machine that passed a continuous loop of film of a series of rollers and in front of a prefocused lensb. uses images on cardboard which are mounted consecutively on a wheel: a flip-card devicec. shot and edited him movies as he did because it seemed the best way to tell a storyd. kept movies alive and evolving, but enslaved and cheapened them: movies were then called "chasers"e. developed a machine that worked visually with Edison's phonographf. Used fade outs, dissolves, double exposures, etc. in his tableaux fantastiquesg. solved the problem of film breaking by leaving slack in the film at the top and bottom of the film gateh. a surreal production from the Edison studio using hand-held shots and double exposures, etc.i. Armat's and Raff's prototype for the modern movie projectorj. desired a painting to be a living thing

Q: One of the characteristics of the Reagan Era was an emphasis on a. science. b. exploration. c. urban renewal. d. traditional values.

Q: In what ways did Hollywood do "itself proud during World War II"?

Q: Nickelodeons failed to provide a good place for the classically democratic phenomenon that was (and still is) the movies.

Q: One form of movie which gained renewed popularity with audiences in the 1980s was which of the following? a. race car movies b. military movies c. spy movies d. none of the above

Q: What makes film noir run counter to the American tradition of optimism?

Q: Edwin Porter's The Great Train Robbery (1903) took more steps in the developing grammar of film.

Q: Which of the following is true about the resurgence of studios in the 1980s? a. practiced vertical integration b. established a genre of story c. refused to make movies with older directors d. all of the above

Q: What could, like Ben Hecht, Billy Wilder do almost instinctively and why?

Q: Around 1910, films were becoming more dramatically complicated, and films like Mlis' fantasies seemed increasingly pass.

Q: The device which profoundly altered how people watched movies in the 1980s was which of the following? a. the 8-track player b. the color television c. the 3-D glasses d. the VCR

Q: What essentially was John Huston's interest in characters found in movies like The Maltese Falcon and The Treasure of Sierra Madre,? Was Huston pessimistic or optimistic overall in his view of life?

Q: Many of George Mlis' special effect techniques were the result of careful study and design, not fortunate accidents.

Q: What Marxist qualities can be seen in the Italian films of the 70s?

Q: Whom in Hollywood did the investigations of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) affect?

Q: The Vitascope, in all essential respects, proved to be the prototype for the modern movie projector.

Q: Were Australian movies of the 70s generally optimistic and success driven as in classical cinema, or where they generally pessimistic and bleak? Use examples.

Q: Matching1) Memphis Belle ___2) Bambi ___3) Preston Sturges ___4) social realism ___5) John Huston ___6) the existential loner ___7) The Stranger ___8) proud and combative ___9) Billy Wilder ___10) Mad Wednesday ___a. Orson Welles' filmb. Katharine Hepburnc. Disney classic animated featured. Humphrey Bogarte. Double Indemnity showed his expressionistic leaningsf. like neorealism in techniqueg. The Asphalt Jungle, a world of shadowsh. The Palm Beach Storyi. Sturges' film badly recut by Howard Hughesj. William Wyler WWII documentary

Q: Albert Smith argued persuasively that early movie spectators were intrigued principally by movie-making technology.

Q: Were German movies of the 70s generally optimistic and success driven as in classical cinema, or were they generally pessimistic and bleak? Use examples.

Q: William Wyler, as demonstrated in The Best Years of Our Lives, thought that the camera , the staging, the externals of a scene were "important only as they help the audience understand what the characters are thinking, feeling or doing."

Q: Initially, commercially available films only lasted about 30 seconds because the fierce jerking movement of the feed mechanism tended to break filmstrips when they were more than fifty to one hundred feet.

Q: To what extent does a focus on sex rule European films of the 70s?

Q: Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard is a realistic meditation on the nature of Hollywood that turns into wonderful screwball comedy.

Q: The Kinetoscope was a simple and foolproof device which projected film on a crude, prefocused glass on which the viewer observed and endless loop of moving images.

Q: What traits did many of the state-sponsored 70s films of Australia share?

Q: Preston Sturges's movies like All About Eve continued to reinforce the notion that success and happiness are the result of talent, clean living, and hard work.

Q: The Arrival of a Train from 1895 wowed views with its changing camera angles and multiple scenes.

Q: What thematic traits did Italian directors Bernardo Bertolucci and Lena Wertmuller share?

Q: Animation at Warners was markedly different from that of Disney: anarchic, astringent, unstable, disinterested in family.

Q: Thomas Edison's favorite invention was the film projector and not the phonograph.

Q: With what other medium was German cinema of the 70s linked and in what ways?

Q: In a Disney film up through the 40s, the overriding sensibility is basically the star, usually Mickey Mouse.

Q: The evidence is clear that movies were invented by a. Thomas Edison. b. Georges Mlis. c. many people . d. unknown.

Q: How would French director Diane Kurys' female characters best be described?

Q: Huston's noir films charts the down side of humanity, the men and women who try and fail, either through flaws in themselves or because they attempt to circumvent the natural order of a hostile universe.

Q: The primary strength of Edwin Porter's The Great Train Robbery is that Porter a. told the story visually. b. told the story in 14 scenes. c. used realist painted backdrops. d. mixed violence and romance.

Q: Matching1) Diane Kurys ___2) Rainer Werner Fassbinder ___3) Andrei Tarkovsky ___4) Nicholas Roeg ___5) Ken Russell ___6) Gillian Armstrong ___7) Volker Schlndorff ___8) Ousmane Sembene ___9) Werner Herzog ___10) Lena Wertmuller ___a. The Tin Drumb. Every Man for Himself and God Against Allc. Peppermint Sodad. Swept Awaye. My Brilliant Careerf. Xalag. Solarish. Tommyi. The Marriage of Maria Braunj. The Man Who Fell to Earth

Q: John Huston early in his directing career showed a gift for multi-layered filmmaking.

Q: Movies like Pipe Dreams and The Dream of a Rarebit Fiend a. show the power of realism in movies. b. introduce surrealism into movies as early as 1903. c. were written by Thomas Edison. d. made stars of the actors.

Q: Third World cinema rejected the conventions of both American and European cinema in favor of what was often blended Marxism and nationalism.

Q: All the documentaries made in Hollywood during World War II were fully patriotic, saber rattlers.

Q: All of the following is true Edwin Porter's The Great Train Robbery except a. it uses pans. b. it has hand tinted color. c. it uses a matte shot. d. none of the above.

Q: Australian cinema has been cited for its manliness: male bonding and virile friendships.

Q: In 1948, the federal government successfully concluded an antitrust action that divested the major companies of their theater chains.

Q: George Mlis, who understudied Robert Houdini, made movies which he a. Wrote b. Directed c. Designed scenery d. All of the above

Q: Nikita Mikhalkov was Soviet cinema's bad boy director because his films failed to conform to the Party's line.

Q: Hollywood exempted itself from participation from World War II and made millions of dollars in the process.

Q: What did films need in addition to "white magic"? a. More money b. Better casts c. Storytelling d. Bigger audiences

Q: True equality in a Lena Wertmuller films is usually associated with true love between equal partners.

Q: The films that Ida Lupino made were concerned with a. unwed mothers b. rape c. working women d. all of the above

Q: Identify the melodramatic movie that used wooden planks as sight lines to keep actors in frame. a. Max Takes Quinine b. The Count of Monte Cristo c. The Great Train Robbery d. Queen Elizabeth

Q: The abiding trademark in a Bernardo Bertolucci film is a traveling shot in a dance scene.

Q: Social realism, developing concurrently with film noir, is, in technique, a great deal like a. classic melodrama b. neorealism c. national epics d. slapstick comedy

Q: In "The Kiss" (1896), what two things startled audiences? a. The closeness of the subjects and the lasciviousness of the kiss b. The film technique and the beauty of the subjects c. The fact that the woman's eyes are open, and she appears to be talking d. none of the above

Q: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's favorite characters were lonely hearts of the middle class.

Q: In film noir, the tone is generally a. optimistic. b. pragmatic. c. pessimistic. d. sarcastic.

Q: What startled viewers of the early film "The Arrival of a Train" was a. the size of the train. b. the train appeared to be coming right at them. c. the single-take action of the train arriving. d. the use of color in the film.

Q: Wim Wender's protagonists are usually men who are weirded out and drifting purposelessly.

Q: Which of the following did not persuade filmmakers and audiences that there was more to life than they previously had thought? a. World War II b. Surrealism c. Freudian psychology d. the Holocaust

Q: Which of the following is true about the Lumire brothers? a. They made brief movies of realistic events like three old men playing cards b. They used light, hand-cranked projectors c. They made the best equipment of the day d. all of the above

Q: German cinema of the 1970s was obsessed with all things German.

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