Which of the following directors was not a major figure of german expressionist cinema?

The term in film theory that describes how filmmakers artfully fill a shot with the use of sets, lighting, composition, costumes, and acting is called:

A)Auteur Theory

B)Poetic Realism

C)German Expressionism

D)Mise-en-scene

Camera movements and high or low angles were relatively rare in German Expressionist film, because:

A)Most German studios were not technically equipped to handle these demands

B)Many Directors had started their careers in German Expressionist theater, and they were accustomed to arranging the action in a single location

C)During the war German filmmakers had access only to Swedish and Danish movies, and they were influenced by the static compositions that dominated the style of those films.

D)Many expressionist sets used false perspective to form an ideal composition when seen from a specific vantage point

D)Many expressionist sets used false perspective to form an ideal composition when seen from  a specific vantage point.

During the 1920's, Hollywood cinematographers and designers visited German studios in order to pick up tips on the use of:

A)color processes

B)zoom lenses

C)models

D)Artificial lighting

The "Kuleshov Effect" is based on the use of editing to:

A)lead the spectator to infer spatial or temporal continuity from the shots of separate elements

B)Create a new idea or argumentative position out of the juxtaposition of two completely dissimilar shots

C)Smooth over the potential rupture for the spectator caused by a shift in time or location

D)replicate or suggest the mental activity of characters

B) Create a new idea or argumenatative position out of the juxtaposition of two completely dissimilar shots

The source of causes and effects in a Montage film narrative was often:

A)A natural disaster or catastrophe

B)the hero's quest for self-actualization

C)Social forces

D)Supernatural elements

Of the four leading American slapstick comics of the 1920s, which one is today thought to be one of the most interested in stories that exploited the cinematic medium?

A)Charlie Chaplin

B)Buster Keaton

C)Harry Langdon

D)Harold Lloyd

The largest number of emigre filmmakers in 1920s Hollywood came from:

A)Hungary

B)Sweden

C)Germany

D)England

Universal became known during the 1920s as the most important producer of horror movies.

True or false?

Georges Melies was an early master of sophisticated stop-motion effects.

True or False?

________ is a type of German film that offers an intimate, cinematic portrait of lower middle class life.

A)Expressionism

B)Kammerspielfilm

C)New objectivity

D)Neo-Realism

B)Kammerspielfilm

(Duh! It's the only German word up there!)

Which of the following directors was not a major figure of German Expressionist cinema?

A)F.W. Murnau

B)Fritz Lang

C)E.A. Dupont

D)Robert Wiene

C)E.A. Dupont

(Only name up there that is not German)

In German Expressionist films, the narrative often pauses or slows briefly while:

A)Sets are torn down assembled in "real time," as in the theater

B)Elements of mise-en-scene align into eye-catching compositions

C)Quickly edited scenes make social commentary

D)An "unfastened" moving camera replicates the perceptual subjectivity of characters

B)Elements of mise-en-scene align into eye-catching compositions

One of the significant factors in the decline of German Expressionist cinema was:

A)The onset of WWII

B)The departure of Expressionist filmmakers to Hollywood

C)An unofficial ban on German imports by exhibitors in England and France

D)The failure to keep pace with the increased budgets of mainstream German cinema

B)The departure of Expressionist filmmakers to Hollywood

In the plate-smashing scene from Potemkin, director Sergei Eisenstein creates a contradictory space by:

A)Mismatching a character's position from shot to shot

B)cutting in footage from an early, "classic" Russian film

C)Originally shooting the scene in continuity style, then assembling the scene's shots in purely random order

D)Using temporal ellipsis to elongate the primary action was used for lyrical sequences

A)Mismatching a character's position from shot to shot

Techniques specific to French Impressionism and German Expressionism would go on to influence the personal style of which world-renowned director?

A)Frank Capra

B)Charles Chaplin

C)Alfred Hitchcock

D)Robert Flaherty

Many of the earliest experimental films were made by modernist artists already established in other media.

True or False?

D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915) was extremely controversial because:

A)It was rented to exhibitors at exorbitant rates, ensuring a loss for theaters that didn't book it for a run of several months

B)It was released without a National Board of Review seal of approval

C)Its multiple stories were intercut in a manner all but incomprehensible to contemporary audiences

D)Its racist account of the role of African Americans in the post-Civil War South

D)Its racist account of the role of African American in the post-Civil War South

Following WWI, film industries in other countries found that it was usually cheaper to buy an American film than to finance a local production.

True or False?

Groups of films that exhibit significant formal traits and that are made by several different filmmakers, working for a limited period and (usually) in a single country, are said to belong to a unified:

A)Cycle

B)Genre

C)Series

D)Movement

Which avant-garde movement of early cinema was not one of the main influential film movements that we studied?

A)French Surrealism

B)Soviet Montage

C)French Poetic Realism

D)German Expressionism

German Expressionism is characterized by a focus on:

A)extreme inner emotions

B)quick paced editing

C)social commentary

D)Heroic archetypes

Staging in widely separated planes with deep focus became common practice in 1940s Hollywood cinema due to the influence of the films of which up-and-coming director?

A)Billy Wilder

B)Orson Welles

C)George Cukor

D)John Huston

The Italian Neorealist filmmakers often used non-actors in central roles, in the manner of:

A)German Expressionism

B)Classical Hollywood filmmaking

C)French Poetic Realism

D)Soviet Montage

The Bicycle Thief, perhaps the most influential film of the Neorealist trend, was directed by:

A)Luchino Visconti

B)Roberto Rossellini

C)Cesare Zavattini

D)Vittorio De Sica

Poetic Realism films often centered on:

A)Characters living on the margins of French society

B)The strained relationships between children and parents or parent figures

C)Notable events in the history of French democracy

D)Escapist fantasy that allegorized political events in contemporary Europe 

A)Characters living on the margins of French society

Jean Renoir's Grand Illusion, a drama of French prisoners in WWI, suggests that in Europe national allegiances are more important than  class ties.

True or False?

Which of the following was not a narrative or stylistic influence on the development of American film noir?

A)German Expressionism

B)Hard-boiled detective fiction

C)Citizen Kane

D)American Nationalism

D)American Nationalism

(Part of the answer is in the question)

The 35mm film gauge pioneered by W.K.L. Dickson in the 1890s remains the standard theatrical gauge today.

True or False?

Around 1917, Paramount was releasing about 100 feature films per year and requiring theaters to show all of them in order to get any, a practice known as:

A)Run-zone-clearance

B)Full slate scheduling

C)Block booking

D)Featherbedding

Most of the films produced under the auspices of the Soviet state in 1919 were:

A)Historical epics and literary adaptations

B)Military training films

C)Short newsreels and propaganda films

D)Topical comedies

C)Short newsreels and propaganda films

The effects of the Depression were frequently addressed within the early films in which genre?

A)Film noir

B)Screwball comedy

C)Horror

D)Operetta

________ is the illusion of continuous movement that allows us to see a sucession of static images as a single unbroken movement.

A)Cinematography

B)Vision Symbolism

C)Auteur Field

D)Follow Focus

The Auteur Theory suggests that:

A)A film's director is the author of the film and directors can be identified by themes and stylistic devices common in their collected works

B)Films that are realistic in nature are "pure Cinema" and show the director to be more serious than studio-bound directors

C)Directors are only one facet of a film's overall production-no less or more important than other members of the production team

D)That French films have a political unity that productions from other countries do not possess 

A)A film's director is the author of the film and directors can be identified by themes and stylistic devices common in their collected works

(Auteur=author)

By the 1930's the British film industry surpassed American cinema in production and creativity.

True or False?

Early British Cinema (before the end of WWII) was mostly known for:

A)Experimental cinematography

B)fantasy pictures

C)Literary adaptation

D)Gritty social realism

British Cinema during the Free Cinema movement was most like two of these other film movements. Choose which two movements:

A)Italian neo-realism

B)French poetic realism

C)German Expressionism

D)French New Wave

A)Italian neo-realism

D)French new wave

Mid-60's British cinema or "kitchen sink" realism concentrated on what type of characters:

A)Symbolic literary characters

B)Heroic archetypes

C)Middle-aged, middle-class citizens

D)Rebellious, working-class youths

D)Rebellious, working-class youths

After the innovative 60's, very few directors from the UK found commercial or artistic success in Hollywood

True or False?

Ingmar Bergman was most interested in which themes:

A)Class Struggles

B)Anti-war statements

C)Religious themes

D)Political protest

Luis Bunuel's Los Olivados was a _______ film set in Mexico. This style was not typical of Bunuel's filmography

A)Neo-realist

B)Expressionist

C)Surrealist

D)Documentary

Germany's New Cinema had three major directors. Which of these is not one of the three:

A)Fassbinder

B)Murnau

C)Wenders

D)Herzog

During the mid-50's to late 60's Hollywood fell behind the rest of the world commercially, artistically, and technologically.

True or False

what innovation did George Melies pioneer?

A)Rotoscoping

B)Stop-motion photography

C)Deep Focus photography

D)Back projection

B)Stop-motion photography

_______ recorded live action continuously for the first time in history with his horse photo series achieved with multiple camera setups

A)Oskar Meester

B)William Dickson

C)Edwin S. Porter

D)Eadweard Muybridge

In 1965, what film proved to be a blockbuster and Hollywood tried to copy the formula, unsuccessfully...

A)The King and I

B)The Sound of Music

C)Star!

D)A Chorus Line

Which of these Japanese filmmakers is not one of the major three I emphasized as being the godfathers of Japanese cinema:

A)Suzuki

B)Kurosawa

C)Ozu

D)Mizoguchi

Yasuhiro Ozu concentrated on historical samurai pictures

True or False

Which of these films was not a rule-breaking landmark of New Hollywood:

A)Bonnie and Clyde

B)Deliverance

C)2001: A Space Odyssey

D)The Wild Bunch

In 1959 film censorship in Hollywood was effectively abolished and the ratings sysetm was established

True or False?

"New Hollywood" directors of the late 60's were indulgent, artsy types that often produced big budget films that went over budget, over schedule, and allowed for little studio input

True or False?

When did Hollywood studios first turn over multiple film projects to many new, largely inexperienced directors:

A)The 1980's

B)The 1950's

C)The 1970's

D)The 1990's

The French New Wave had influence in western Europe but little influence in later Hollywood pictures

True or False?

Ashes and Diamonds was inspired by which early film movement that we studied

A)German Expressionism

B)Soviet Montage

C)French Poetic Realism

D)Italian Neo-realism

Which well-known independent film director is a founding member of the strict Dogme 95 movement?

A)Hal Hartley

B)Lars Von Trier

C)Jim Jarmusch

D)Michael Moore

Revisionist westerns made after the 50's usually de-mythologized western heroes and stories?

True or False?

Because of their deep resentment of the Vietnam war, most Hollywood filmmakers in the 60's and 70's tried to make statements by not including excessive violence in their films

True or False?

Francis Ford Coppola, like Orson Welles, was considered a prodigy with a theater background and like Welles he was given a chance to make his first large scale movie (The Godfather) with little cinematic background

True or False?

Name the two films that started Hollywood's obsession with blockbusters in the 70's and beyond?