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Documentary and Experimental Film Since the Late 1960s
Multiple Choice
1
What has been the most commercially successful documentary genre since the 1960s?
A)
portrait films
B)
films observing families
C)
rockumentaries
D)
docudramas
2
Which of the following best describes the films of Frederick Wiseman?
A)
films recording concerts or rock stars on tour
B)
films built out of interview footage
C)
compilation films
D)
films investigating social institutions shot in a 'fly-on-the-wall' style
3
Which of these is not a characteristic of the synthetic documentary format?
A)
interview footage
B)
authoritative voice-over narration
C)
archival footage
D)
use of soundtrack music
4
Which of these films is an example of a documentary attempting to demystify certain documentary forms and production practices?
A)
Barbara Kopple's
Harlan County, USA
B)
Errol Morris's
The Thin Blue Line
C)
Marcel Ophüls's
The Sorrow and the Pity
D)
all of the above
5
Which of the following documentary genres had successful theatrical releases in the 1990s?
A)
portrait films
B)
IMAX films
C)
documentaries with sexual or violent content
D)
all of the above
6
Which of the following best describes structural film?
A)
challenging form
B)
shocking subject matter
C)
philosophical voice-over narration discussing film theory
D)
experimental narrative
7
Which of these filmmakers did not make structural films?
A)
Michael Snow
B)
Hollis Frampton
C)
the Fluxus artists
D)
Jan Svankmayer
8
What structural film consists in part of a woman's voice reading an ABC rhyme, one-second shots showing single words, and a dog crossing a snowy field?
A)
Wavelength
B)
Serene Velocity
C)
Zorns Lemma
D)
Print Generation
9
Which "New Narrative" filmmaker takes up issues familiar from Hollywood melodrama but with fragmentary, vague, or inconsistent narrative characteristics?
A)
Yvonne Rainer
B)
James Benning
C)
Ken Jacobs
D)
Peter Greenaway
10
Which of the following is not a trend in avant-garde cinema since the 1970s?
A)
gay and lesbian cinema
B)
punk cinema
C)
collage films
D)
the resurgence of structural film as the dominant mode of avant-garde production in the 1990s
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