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Q: Which classic dramatist did Welles increasingly turn to for inspiration as he aged? a. Anton Chekov b. Ben Johnson c. William Shakespeare d. Arthur Miller
Q: Which of the following early machines is basically the prototype of modern theatre projectors? a. the Vitascope b. the Mutoscopethe c. Kinetoscope d. none of the above
Q: Monty Python's Life of Brian is a faithful adaptation of the life of Brian Brown, an important, but unheralded political cartoonist.
Q: All of the following are true about Orson Welles' Citizen Kane except a. it combines a number of films techniques for the first time. b. it uses flashbacks for its narrative. c. it was budgeted for $650,000. d. it was shot in flat focus.
Q: Thomas Armat realized that a. color was the key to successful movies. b. music needed to be added to movies. c. what the camera did to hold the film stationary while shooting images could be repeated when projecting the images. d. cardboard could be used to record images instead of film.
Q: The films of the Third World in the 70s were characterized by being a. Marxist. b. realistic. c. powerful and grim. d. all of the above
Q: Many consider which of the following to be Billy Wilder's masterpiece? a. Sunset Boulevard b. Double Indemnity c. The Lost Weekend d. Ace in the Hole
Q: The great realization of Norman Raff was that a. Edison was shortsighted. b. a machine that threw pictures on a wall was a logical step. c. California would be the land of movie. d. he should charge at least 50 cents to patrons who wanted to enter his Kinetoscope parlor.
Q: Third World cinema made its appeal to the audience's sense of a. balance. b. justice. c. economics. d. adventure.
Q: Billy Wilder was a a. director b. reporter c. scriptwriter d. all of the above
Q: Edison decided to make a projection machine called a "kinetoscope" which a. allowed only one person at a time to watch a brief loop of film. b. he copyrighted for an additional $15. c. William Dickson actually invented. d. became his primary engineering focus over such things as the electric storage battery and talking doll.
Q: George Miller's Mad Max movies incorporated bits from which of the following genres? a. biker films b. comic strips c. leather S & M d. all of the above
Q: Which of the following is true of female characters in Preston Sturges's movies? a. They are shy and retiring. b. They are "eye candy." c. They are wily and manipulative. d. none of the above
Q: Who set about converting the Muybridge sequence of photographs into a series of silhouettes for a projecting Zoetrope? a. Thomas Edison b. Alfred Lord Tennyson c. Jean Louis Mesissonier d. Edwin Porter
Q: Australian directors invariably moved on to make movies in America where they a. continued telling Australian-oriented stories. b. met with mixed results. c. had no success. d. broke new ground because of better resources.
Q: What quality(ies) make Walt Disney's animated movies such as Pinocchio work as well as they do? a. emotional directness b. wonderful film music c. mischievous humor d. all of the above
Q: Who wrote an entry in his/ her 1666 diary concerning "a lantern with pictures in glass to make strange things to appear on a wall"? a. Samuel Johnson b. Queen Elizabeth c. Walter Raleigh d. Samuel Pepys
Q: Unlike many national cinemas, Australian cinema in the 1970s was? a. unpopular in Australia b. unprofitable c. government supported d. very nationalistic
Q: Which of the following is true of a Disney-produced animated feature film? a. sentimental b. sugary c. supported stability and family d. all of the above
Q: The Russian/Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky, an avant-garde artist, could make his movies and get them seen gave some indication that the Soviet Union in the 70s was developing a. interest in profitable movies. b. more tolerance. c. sensitivity to foreign film criticism. d. none of the above
Q: The movie that made Humphrey Bogart a star was a. High Sierra b. African Queen c. The Caine Mutiny d. Moby Dick
Q: Which actor of great comedic skill appears in many of Lena Wertmuller's films? a. Giancarlo Giannini b. Gerard Depardieu c. Klaus Kinski d. Bruno S.
Q: Which of the following is an example of film noir by John Huston? a. The African Queen b. The Maltese Falcon c. The Battle of San Pietro d. none of the above
Q: Paolo and Vittorio Taviani tended to be directors in the neorealist tradition except that in one of their films, one might find that a. music might swell from nowhere. b. imagination might recast characters. c. the thoughts of characters might be heard. d. all of the above
Q: The Why We Fight war propaganda films are characterized by which of the following: a. stock footage b. animation c. stentorian narration d. all of the above
Q: What political philosophy characterizes the films of Bernardo Bertolucci and Lena Wertmuller? a. Republicism b. Marxism c. Anarchism d. Communism
Q: Which of the following is true of John Huston's The Battle of San Pietro? a. he used a hand-held camera b. he filmed body bags c. both a and b d. neither a nor b
Q: What film/title might serve as the overarching theme of the movies of Rainer Werner Fassbinder? a. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant b. All That Heaven Allows c. Love is Colder Than Death d. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Q: Which of the following did not contribute to Hollywood's loss of profitability after World War II? a. anti-trust action against the majors b. bad movies c. television d. HUAC investigations
Q: Which of the following was Rainer Werner Fassbinder's favorite kind of movie to make? a. film noir b. women's pictures c. science fiction d. all of the above
Q: All of the following are true about the state of the American film industry during World War II except a. American's love affair with movies continued through most of the 40s b. the value of studios leaped by almost $150,000,000 in one year alone c. many studios lost money because of the war d. the admission price to movies was less than 50 cents
Q: Werner Herzog's films are characterized by which of the following? a. mythic quest b. exaggerated and conceptual rather than realistic c. poetic imagery and black humor d. all of the above
Q: Did Marcel Carn make "film noir" movies?
Q: The German director most obsessed with American movies was a. Klaus Kinski b. Wim Wenders c. Volker Schlndorff d. Werner Herzog
Q: Was the fabulist/surrealist French film director Jean Cocteau simply ahead of his time in his technique and story development?
Q: Which film movement did the West German Das Neue Kino closely resemble initially? a. Angry Young Man b. Surrealist c. Neorealist d. New Wave
Q: How is Marlene Dietrich's Lola in Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel prototypically a femme fatale?
Q: Which of the following is a true about Dian Kurys? a. not rigidly feminist b. worked in America c. made Get Out Your Handkerchiefs d. all of the above
Q: Is Leni Riefenstahl's The Triumph of the Will a documentary or a work of fiction?
Q: In a film by French director Bertrand Blier, a woman is usually a a. femme fatale. b. catalyst of action. c. mother figure. d. intruder/outsider .
Q: What view of life and love do Marcel Carn 's films like Children of Paradise have? What do his film anticipate?
Q: Which of the following national film movements waned in the 1970s? a. Kitchen Sink b. New Wave c. both a and b d. neither a nor b
Q: What quality do Alfred Hitchcock's American films possess that is lacking in his earlier British films?
Q: What was the character of the newly invented "blockbuster" movie as championed by Steven Spielberg?
Q: What film movement brought Great Britain its first distinctive form of filmmaking and what was its goal?
Q: Where did the new directors come from and what advantages or strengths did they bring with them?
Q: What sense of fate did Max Ophls achieve in his use of circular narratives?
Q: What was the status fictional and real of women in Hollywood in the 70s?
Q: Matching1) M ___2) Marlene Dietrich ___3) Rules of the Game ___4) Jean Cocteau ___5) Children of Paradise ___6) Leni Riefenstahl ___7) Rembrandt ___8) Alfred Hitchcock ___9) Jean Gabin ___10) Max Ophls ___a. Jean Renoir classic of study of French classesb. angels wore black leather Orpheusc. German actress turned directord. star of Port of Shadowse. The Blue Angel starf. Liebeleig. Fritz Lang's first talkieh. Marcel Carn masterpiecei. The Lady Vanishesj. Alexander Korda
Q: How does the revisionist label apply to genre films of the 70s, especially the early 70s?
Q: Silence was better suited to Renoir's films than sound because of the films' contemplative and realistic perspectives.
Q: Why is the journey motif an effective story-telling device in movies?
Q: Why were young audiences taken with George Lucas' Star Wars trilogy?
Q: Jean Renoir was interested in preserving and extending his famous father's reputation as an Impressionistic painter.
Q: Has filmmaking been an aid or a hindrance to women internationally in the 2000s?
Q: Were foreign directors working in America successful at portraying American life? Explain briefly.
Q: Marcel Carn prefigures film noir.
Q: What has enabled movie making to tear down barriers to become an inter-cultural, international art form and business?
Q: How was sex portrayed in movies of the 70s?
Q: A film like Leo McCarey's Wrong Again is an example of a film much adored by French surrealists.
Q: Why does neorealism continue to show up in the films of very different cultures like Romania and Iran?
Q: What happened to the conventions of classical cinema in the early 70s?
Q: Jean Cocteau was pedestrian in his invention of imagery and humor.
Q: To what tradition is Guillermo del Toro's Pan Labyrinth indebted?
Q: Matching1) Spielberg's first theatrical feature ___2) Alvidsen's optimistic blockbuster ___3) Francis Ford Coppola's war movie ___4) May's wry, witty movie ___5) Friedkin's buddy cop movie ___6) Altman's view of country music ___7) Scorsese boxing movie ___8) Mazursky's movie of loving relationship ___9) Forman's adaptation of a novel ___10) Allen's contemporary comedy of manners ___a. Nashvilleb. The Heartbreak Kidc. Blume in Loved. Raging Bulle. Apocalypse Nowf. Manhattang. Sugarland Expressh. Rockyi. The French Connectionj. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Q: Hitchcock's movies tended to follow a "structure of the Sennett chase, accelerating rush towards a climactic resolution."
Q: How does Yuen Wo Ping, choreographer of The Matrix Trilogy, achieve his "action as dance" effect?
Q: Steven Spielberg is like European filmmakers in that his films are filled with homages and allusions to other movies, genres, and filmmakers.
Q: Alfred Hitchcock regretted that sound entered movies as is clear in Blackmail.
Q: What has been Islamic filmmakers' response to their harassment for making movies sympathetic to women?
Q: Francis Ford Coppola believed in the 1970s that exercising caution is the key to making good art and good show business.
Q: British drama was not hampered at all departures of artists like Charlie Chaplin.
Q: What do ethnic comedies in the 2000s usually deal with?
Q: Robert Altman eschews planning his movies tightly in favor of capturing the movie.
Q: Marcel Ophls often examined what he considered the transitory nature of love in movies like La Ronde.
Q: Matching:1) No Man's Land ___2) The Queen ___3) The Lives of Others ___4) Osama ___5) Children of Men ___6) Paradise Now ___7) Maria Full of Grace ___8) Kandahar ___9) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ___10) Letters froma. won the Golden Globe as Best Foreign filmb. a pregnant teen decides to become a drug mulec. action as danced. two friends from childhood become suicide bomberse. Helen Mirren won the Academy Award for her performancef. portrayal of "the devastated, hopeless, soul of a nation"g. political black comedy from Bosniah. raising the American flag is but a dot in the distancei. political thriller about "big brother" surveillancej. in a childless dystopian world, a single female Iwo Jima miraculously becomes pregnant
Q: The new directors of the 1970s, like William Friedkin, were called "whiz kids" because they knew the studio system inside and out.
Q: Hitler targeted two areas to condemn and promote his policies: Americans and movies.
Q: Policies of democratically elected governments in Latin American countries helped the film industry to erupt there.
Q: Most of Mel Brooks' movies, like Young Frankenstein, parody popular American genres like the horror film.
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