Survey of Film – Flashcards
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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 positions of a character
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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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Alternative approached to film analysis search beneath a movie's form and content in order to expose:
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Implicit and hidden meanings that inform our understanding of cinema's function within popular culture
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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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Beyond breaking down a movie to identify the tools and techniques that comprise it, film analysis is also primarily concerned with:
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The function and potential effect of its combined tools and techniques
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The essential quality that separates movies from all other two-dimensional pictorial art forms is:
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Movement
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What does a fade-out/fade-in usually convey when used in a narrative film?
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A passage of time in between scenes
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Because most movies seek to engage viewers' emotions and transport them inside the world presented onscreen, the visual vocabulary of film is designed to:
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Play upon those same instincts that we use to navigate and interpret the visual and aural information of our "real life"
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Analysis is defined as:
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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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In the case of the dancing scene from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part I, the filmmakers defy the rules of continuity to:
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defuse tension and trigger a feeling of giddy catharsis
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Which of the following is NOT typical of a finished movie product?
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It is highly experimental and "difficult" for most viewers
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In order to entertain and not provoke its customers, the film industry usually favors stories and themes that:
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Tap into and reinforce their most fundamental desires and beliefs
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Which of the following would NOT be illuminated by a comparative analysis of a movie?
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The repeated use of a color palette in a specific movie
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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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Which of the following would NOT be considered an alternative analysis of Juno?
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A detailed explication of the movie's repeated use of close-ups during its most dramatic moments
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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 Harry Potter movies' relationship to Christianity has been interpreted by many conservative critics as:
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Adversarial
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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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The joining together of discrete shots is called:
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editing
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Unlike photography and painting, films are constructed from individual:
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Shots
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One of the unique properties of movies that distinguishes it from any other visual medium is its capacity to:
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Isolate details and juxtapose images within and between shots
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As opposed to the theater, how is cinema capable of conveying an object's physical properties as well as its narrative significance and emotional meaning?
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Via limited practical options
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Why are movies worthy of serious study, as opposed to being merely an outlet for escape or entertainment?
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Seriously studying movies allows people to understand how movies shape the way we view the world
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Even as Juno seems to call into question some of contemporary America's attitudes about family, it also:
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Appeals to an arguably more fundamental American value of robust individualism
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One of the most common editing techniques designed to hide the instantaneous and potentially jarring shift from one camera viewpoint to another is:
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Cutting on action
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Anti-realism is defined as an interest in or concern for:
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The abstract, speculative, or fantastic
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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 slasher film
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Why would movies be largely incomprehensible if we didn't automatically identify with the camera lens?
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Because the startling movements of the camera through space would appear to have no connection to the way we actually see
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Which of the following can NOT be evoked from the manipulation of light on film?
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Editing
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Why is light the essential ingredient for movies?
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Movie images are made when a camera lens focuses light onto film stock
