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For how long were motion pictures popular before they were considered worthy of serious study?

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50 years

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The term "Movie" is short for Motion Picture. The term "Film: refers to the original celluloid strip containing the images and sound, and the term "Cinema,"

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Originates from the Greek term Kenesis, (movement).

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Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of noncommercial alternative films on the fringes of popular culture?

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They are funded by major Hollywood studios.

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A shot is best defined as:

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an unbroken span of action captured by an uninterrupted run of a motion-picture camera.

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The joining together of discrete shots is called:

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editing

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Analysis is essentially:

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the act of taking something apart to figure out what it is made of and how it fits together.

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The "invisibility" of meaning in movies is largely due to:

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their rapidly and constantly changing images not giving the viewer time to contemplate them.

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What does a low-angle shot usually convey when used in a narrative film?

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The dominance or empowered position of a character.

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Implicit meaning is best defined as _____, while explicit meaning is best defined as _____.

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a deep-level association, connection, or inference. Meaning available on the surface of the movie.

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One way of thinking about implicit meaning is understanding it as a movie's:

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overall message or "point."

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Screenwriters often organize narrative structure around the viewer's:

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desire to learn the answers to important questions and solve conflicts.

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If a character in a movie scene were to drop out of the frame, a viewer would most likely interpret this to mean that the character was:

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moving to another part of the established space.

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What is the definition of "verisimilitude"?

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A convincing appearance of truth.

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Mise-en-scène involves:

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lighting, setting, props, costumes, makeup.

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The French filmmaker(s) who established the realistic direction of cinema was (were) __________ , while the French filmmaker(s) who established the antirealistic direction of cinema was (were) __________.

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the Lumière brothers; George Méliès

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What is meant by "Cinematic Language"?

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The accepted systems, methods, or conventions by which the movies communicate with the viewer.

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Which of the following would be considered a film's use of form?

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The use of dramatic lighting to convey a madman's tortured psyche in a Horror film.

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In the abortion clinic scene from Juno, the content is _____, while the form is _____.

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Juno in the waiting room; décor, patterns, implied proximity, point of view, moving camera, sound

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Rather than being separate entities that come together to produce art, form and content are instead:

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two interrelated aspects of the entire formal system of a work of art.

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Audiences' expectations in regard to "reality":

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change across time and cultures.

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Why can categorizing movies into strict classifications and genres be problematic?

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Because many movies defy exact classification by any standard.

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The Oscar-nominated film The Missing Picture, directed by Rithy Panh is:

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an animated, historical documentary film

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Which of the following best describes the characteristics of experimental film?

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They are often personal, nonconformist critiques of culture.

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The Gangster, Film Noir, Science Fiction, Horror, The Western, and the Musical are examples of six major:

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Genres in film

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The term avant-garde comes from a French phrase used to describe scouts of pathfinders who explored ahead of an advancing army, implying that avant garde artists, whether in film or another medium are innovators who lead, rather than follow the pack. Do experimental films fall along these same lines?

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Yes

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TRUE OR FALSE? If a film is documentary, it based on fact, even though it often employs a narrative.

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True

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What distinguishes narrative films from documentary and experimental films?

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Narrative films are directed toward fiction.

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The film Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog) is often categorized as:

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experimental and/or avant garde

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The film The Missing Picture covers what subject matter?

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Cambodia's Khmer Rouge (between 1975 and 1979)

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TRUE OR FALSE? Movies today never borrow or blend elements from multiple genres.

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False

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A negative stereotype of a woman, prevalent throughout Film Noir is called a:

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Femme Fatale

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World War II expanded opportunities for women on the home front, who took over the factory jobs and other responsibilities from the men who left to fight in Europe and the Pacific. Perhaps as a reflection of men's fear or resentment, these newly empowered women were often stereotyped as femme fatales, indicative of which Genre?

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Film Noir

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According to the text, which of the following genres have a distinctive visual style dependent upon low-key lighting effects?

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Film noir, Horror

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Like the protagonist in gangster movies, the protagonist in Film Noir is often depicted as:

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an anti-hero

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What is the definition of genre?

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The categorization of narrative films by the stories they tell and the ways they tell them.

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What is a Character Type?

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A familiar character with a few essential traits that recurs throughout a genre.

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The film Double Indemnity, directed by Billy Wilder in 1944, is a good example of what genre?

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Film Noir

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The use of Voice Over is a formal device used in what film?

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Annie Hall, Juno, Double Indemnity

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The narrative of the film "Double Indemnity" ends with:

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Neff talking into his dictaphone.

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What we see and hear on the screen that comes from outside the world of the story: titles, credits, music (not originating from the world of the story) and voice-over or third-person narratives is referred to as:

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Nondiegetic Elements

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What we see and hear on the screen that comes from inside the world of the story: characters, objects, settings, and sounds from the world of the story is referred to as:

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Diegetic Elements

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The director of Stagecoach (and many other Westerns) was:

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John Ford

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One of the main protagonists in the film Stagecoach is:

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Ringo

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A first person narrator is typically a voice-over, but may also address the audience directly. This type of narrator may refer to themselves using variations of:

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"I" (the first-person singular pronoun) and/or "we" (the first-person plural pronoun).

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TRUE OR FALSE? The film Stagecoach ends with the character, Dallas, returning to her mother.

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False

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A narration that provides a view of all aspects of a movie's action or characters is called:

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Omniscient Narration

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Two essential elements of virtually every film narrative are a character pursuing a goal. Furthermore, characters can be described as flat characters and round characters. A flat character is defined as:

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few distinct traits and do not change significantly as the story progresses.

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The characters in the film Stagecoach, Dallas, Ringo, Peacock, Gatewood, Dr. Boone, and Lucy are all multi-dimensional characters inside the stagecoach and can be classified as:

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round characters

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The Film The Best Years of our Lives was directed by:

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William Wyler

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When a character in a movie handles a tennis racket, a glass of beer, or a shovel, the object is known as a _____.

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Prop

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In film analysis, the term mise-en-scène refers to:

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Everything the audience sees, hears, and experiences while viewing a movie.

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What we see and hear on the screen that comes from inside the world of the story: characters, objects, settings, and sounds from the world of the story are referred to as:

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Diegetic elements

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Can the mise-en-scène in a film reinforce a character's state of mind?

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Yes

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Our eyes seek equilibrium, and the is a useful method for composing the shot.

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The Rule of Thirds

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Sets are often built on a _____, which is a windowless, soundproofed, interior shooting environment.

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soundstage

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The number of times a particular shot is taken is referred to as:

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Takes

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TRUE OR FALSE? A setup is one particular camera position.

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True

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TRUE OR FALSE? Gauges - 8 mm, Super 8mm is the predominant medium used in commercial cinema today.

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False

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This cinematographic technique (used often in the film "The Social Network," guides our attention to a new, clearly focused point of interest while blurring the previous subject in the frame.

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Rack Focus (pull focus)

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This design convention that takes the form of a grid pattern that, when superimposed on an image, divides it into horizontal thirds representing the foreground, middle ground, and background planes and into vertical thirds that break up those planes into further elements. It directs our eyes to obvious areas of interest within a cinematic composition.

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Rules of Thirds

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The film Gravity, was directed by:

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Alfonso Cuarón

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This type of acting was introduced by Konstantin Stanislavsky, founder of the Moscow Art Theater, and later developed by Lee Strasberg and others.

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Method Acting

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In 2014, Actor, Chiwetel Ejiofor won Best Actor at the British Academy Awards for the film 12 Years A Slave, directed by:

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Steve McQueen

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Actors during the Classical Studio Era (around 1930s to 1950s)

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signed seven year option contracts, were the product of the studio, and often changed their names to appeal to the public

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Sound was introduced to cinema in:

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1927

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To suppress the distracting sounds made by early sound cameras, filmmakers used what device?

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blimp

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The people appearing in the earliest films were

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real people playing (and often directing) themselves.

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At the resolution of the film 12 Years A Slave, Solomon Northrup...

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Returns home to find a grandson.

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TRUE OR FALSE? Early cinema acting relied on the close-up.

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False

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TRUE OR FALSE? The first actors adopted the acting style favored in the nineteenth-century theater.

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True

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The process of selecting, arranging, and assembling the essential components of a movie - visual, sound, and special effects - to tell a story in a unique way is:

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editing

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This early Soviet film theorist and filmmaker demonstrated the fundamental power of editing by cutting between an expressionless actor next to a dead woman, a child, and a dish of soup. The audience viewing this film assumed that the actor was reacting to each stimulus by changing his expression appropriately, showing sadness (for the dead woman), tenderness (for the young child), and hunger (for the food) - when in fact, his expression remained the same.

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Lev Kuleshov

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Classical film editing relies on:

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the invisible cut

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TRUE OR FALSE? Continuity editing is the most prevalent style in mainstream filmmaking.

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True

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The film Battleship Potemkin, is an example of:

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Eisensteinian montage

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Breathless (1960), was directed by:

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Jean-Luc Godard

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The film Breathless presented this unconventional form of editing, called:

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the jump cut

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The academy award winning film, Crash, was made in:

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2004

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The Master Scene Technique of editing is based on the principle of coverage, meaning that a scene is photographed with a variety of individual shots, running from the general to the specific. Traditionally this technique begins with a:

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Master shot

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This popular style of editing is a technique in which the camera switches between shots of different characters, usually in a conversation or other interaction.

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shot/reverse shot

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This style of editing involves the cutting together of two or more lines of action that occur simultaneously in different locations

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cross cutting (or parallel editing)

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Director, DW Griffith is recognized in film history as having popularized this style of editing:

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classical continuity

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Soviet filmmaker and theorist Sergei Eisenstein directed this film

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Battleship Potemkin

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In the film, Crash, one of the police officers requests a new partner because:

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he finds that his partner is a racist.

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The purpose of the 180 degree rule is:

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to maintain screen direction.

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TRUE OR FALSE? In the resolution of the film Breathless, the character, Michel (played by Jean-Paul Belmondo), shoots his girlfriend.

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False

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The typical effect of a jump cut is:

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a sudden, disorienting feeling.

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Creating sounds from a variety of props and equipment to simulate everyday sounds is called:

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Foley

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Combining different sound tracks onto one composite sound track synchronous with the picture is:

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Mixing

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Sound that emanates from the ambience of the setting or environment being filmed is referred to as:

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Ambient sound

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What year was sound introduced to cinema?

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1927

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In the film Double Indemnity, the dramatic music track, titles, and credits are examples of:

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Nondiegetic elements

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TRUE OR FALSE? The Hurt Locker won an academy award for Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing.

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True

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A computer process for syncing dialogue re-recorded in postproduction to the moving lips of actors on screen is referred to as:

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Automatic Dialogue Replacement (ADR)

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The film The Hurt Locker was directed by:

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Kathryn Bigelow

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At the resolution of the film The Hurt Locker, James

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accepts another deployment

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TRUE OR FALSE? The Hurt Locker is a documentary film about the war in Iraq.

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False

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This approach of studying film history considers such factors as religion, politics, and cultural trends and taboos, and studies the extent, if any, a particular movie was produced to sway public opinion or effect social change.

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Film as social history

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What are the four traditional approaches to studying film history?

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Aesthetic, technological, economic, social

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This 1948 film was directed by Vittorio DeSica in Italy.

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Bicycle Thieves

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This aesthetic approach to filmmaking and has the following characteristics: Shot on location; used nonprofessional actors; documentary visual style, Long takes, spare dialogue, ambiguous ending, and places a high value on the lives of ordinary working people.

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Italian Neorealism

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In this film, Bruno discovers that his father has committed a crime.

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Bicycle Thieves

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TRUE OR FALSE? The study of film history is an inert body of knowledge.

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False

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This Japanese director is known for mounting his camera on a specially made tripod close to the ground.

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Yasujiro Ozu

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In this film, an aging couple travel from their home in the country to the growing city of Tokyo to visit their grown children.

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Tokyo Story

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TRUE OR FALSE? In Italy, during the time of Italian Neorealism, Italian Neorealist films were highly profitable at the box office, and were often called blockbusters.

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False

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