USD THEA 201 Chapter 10 Quiz – Flashcards
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Besides being one of the first Westerns, what is significant about Edwin S. Porter's 1903 film The Great Train Robbery?
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It was one of the first films that pioneered the idea of continuity editing.
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German expressionist films are characterized by _____________ settings, ____________ camera angles, and themes such as _____________.
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exaggerated; oblique; alienation
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Historians who chart the history of cinema technology examine might pose all of the following questions, EXCEPT:
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Who saw the films, how, and why?
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How would you characterize the Hollywood studio system during the classical period?
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a top-down organization in which management controlled everything
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Orson Welles was considered one of cinema's greatest directors because
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he had the vision to do something differently and the talent to inspire collaborators to experiment and help him realize that vision.
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The Dogme 95 movement in Denmark drafted a manifesto that includes which of the following rules?
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The director must not be credited.
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What are the four traditional approaches to film history?
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aesthetic, technological, economic, social
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Which Soviet filmmaker considered film editing to be a creative process that functioned according to the dialectics of Karl Marx?
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Eisenstein
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Which approach to film history is concerned with the artistic significance and influence of individual films or directors?
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aesthetic approach
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Which approach to film history would address the formation of the studio system, the distribution and exhibition of movies, and the rise of an independent system of film production?
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economic approach
