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Which of the following is a way to define film in historical context? |
| | A) | Biographical study |
| | B) | Genre study |
| | C) | Film movement study |
| | D) | All of the above |
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Which of the following is not a factor that affects and causes changes in the film industry? |
| | A) | The state of the film industry |
| | B) | Artistic theories held by the filmmakers |
| | C) | Political and government leaders |
| | D) | All of the above affect and cause change in the film industry |
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Which of the following was not an early film projector? |
| | A) | Black Maria |
| | B) | Mutotrope |
| | C) | Lumiere Camera |
| | D) | Kinetoscope |
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In the era of the classical Hollywood cinema, what was the factory system? |
| | A) | Films were independently made, but produced by studios who had nothing to do with the making of the film |
| | B) | Studios where films were mass produced; where several films could be made at the same time by combining the studio resources |
| | C) | Empty factory buildings were transformed into film studios |
| | D) | A slang term for the operations of producing a film, since they are structured like the chain of command at factories |
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Which of the following film movements did not contain elements of avant-garde art style? |
| | A) | Expressionism |
| | B) | Impressionism |
| | C) | Surrealism |
| | D) | Neorealism |
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The expressionist movement was an avant-garde movement that found a niche in several art forms, including film, upon which the movement disappeared. Which of the following represents the correct evolution of the movement between the art forms? |
| | A) | Theater, literature, architecture, painting, film |
| | B) | Architecture, painting, theater, literature, film |
| | C) | Painting, theater, literature, architecture, film |
| | D) | Literature, architecture, painting, theater, film |
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In order to recreate the character's emotions as they were felt, moment by moment, French film impressionists experimented with what type of editing? |
| | A) | Graphic |
| | B) | Rhythmic |
| | C) | Spatial |
| | D) | Temporal |
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Why were the French surrealists so attracted to the cinema from the beginning of their movement? |
| | A) | Because the premise of film itself is the creation of imaginary worlds and spaces |
| | B) | Because film allows dreams to be tangibly presented |
| | C) | Because previously made films encompassed all styles and forms of which there were no rules about what to present or how to present it |
| | D) | Because the surrealist painters such as Man Ray, Salvador Dali, and writers such as Antonin Artaud were looking for new forms to give life to their already existing work |
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What was the purpose of the Soviet montage films? |
| | A) | To provide an easily accessible form of entertainment |
| | B) | To teach small bites of information from many different subjects |
| | C) | To allow aspiring filmmakers to experiment with art form and create a style unique to Russia |
| | D) | To spread communist propaganda |
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What was the initial effect the invention of sound in film had on the film industry? |
| | A) | For a few years, it created a setback in the Hollywood studios |
| | B) | It was immediately popular and almost immediately made silent pictures obsolete |
| | C) | It slowly gained in popularity, but eventually took off |
| | D) | There was no change in the popularity of film. The studios found the same success with sound that they had with silent pictures |
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How did the Italian neorealism movement come about? |
| | A) | Italian Dictator Mussolini demanded film that would spread his political agenda |
| | B) | Young rebels wanted to break free from the already existing film conventions and create their own |
| | C) | Neorealism was an art and literary movement that evolved into film |
| | D) | There is no definitive source of the movement |
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The most revolutionary quality of French New Wave films was which of the following? |
| | A) | Their casual look |
| | B) | Their experimentation with plot construction |
| | C) | Their lack of goal-oriented protagonists |
| | D) | Their ambiguous endings |
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What specific characteristics embody the new Hollywood film movement? |
| | A) | Rapid, choppy editing |
| | B) | Nonnarrative plot structures |
| | C) | Distorted cinematography |
| | D) | No specific identifying characteristics exist; many styles apply |
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How do most independent films, labeled as such because they are produced without the help of the major studios, gain a following and an audience? |
| | A) | By entering film festivals, such as the Sundance Film Festival |
| | B) | By being funded, but not controlled by major studios |
| | C) | By sending the finished product to the major studios to be distributed under a label |
| | D) | All of the above |
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Film in Hong Kong has found a niche with American audiences. Which of the following describe the Chinese films popular in the United States? |
| | A) | Kung-fu violent male melodrama films |
| | B) | Comic kung-fu that mixes martial arts with action-adventure movies |
| | C) | Art cinema that uses swordplay fantasy, supernatural romance, and classic kung-fu |
| | D) | Cop-and-crook films that use slapstick, big action sets, gunmen, swordfighters and kung-fu warriors |
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