Cinema First Exam

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Mis-en-scene

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The staging of a scene

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Segmentation

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The process of dividing works

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Citizen Kane

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A film that broke the rules of classical narration

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Joseph Mankiewics

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fFilm director, screen writer, and producer. combined ironic, sophisticated scripts with a precise, sometimes stylised mise en scène.

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Three-point lighting

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The dominate sources of light

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Dramatic Unities

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Action, time and Space

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Modernism

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a broad 20th century movement in the arts.

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Seamless editing

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Involves a movie advancing through scenes without the audience realizing there are transitions from shot to shot

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Which makes the statement false? The use of a lense:

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A)Enables the camera to actually move from one place to another while always keepiung image in focus. FALSE
B)Combined with a simultaneous tracking movement anabled Alfred Hitchcock to achieve a "vertigo effect" in the film Vertigo. TRUE
C)Provides the impression of movement between wide-angle and telephoto focal lengths. TRUE
DFunctions as a sort of consciousness surveying or studying the dramatic action that takes place in its gaze, shifting perspective while remaining in one place. TRUE

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Short answer
Describe the importance and effects of "matching" shots, noting the three main types of matches

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Matching provides the continuity for the action. Graphic matches, major features in one shot will be duplicated in the next shot, and the graphic brides the edit. Matches on action, carries physical movement to the next shot to conceal and hide cuts. Eye line matches, involves two shots when a character is looking off-screen to another character such as love movies.

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Essay
What is classical Hollywood style? be through and concise

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Classical Hollywood style is largely invisible for spectators to see and is a character-centered cinema. The narrative of classical Hollywood style id delivered effortlessly and efficiently to the audience that it appears to have no source

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Oligopoly

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A group of monopoly

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Vertical Intergration

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When several different levels of production and marketing are tied together

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Story department

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Housed readers, whose jobs was to pore through resent books, magazines and newspapers in search of stories

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Block booking

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The practice of forcing exhibitors to rent fims in groups

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RKO

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radio tower studio

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Blind bidding

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To bid on movies without seeing them

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"Minors"

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Universal, Columbia and United Artists

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Which makes the statement false? 20th Century-Fox:

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A) Was known for sophisticated continental comedies. FALSE
B) Was jokingly called "16th Century-Fox" because it continued to operate using outmoded business practices long after othe studios had abandoned them. FALSE
C) Launched the career of Shirley Temple . TRUE
D) Was headed for many years by Darryl Zanuck, known for developing the market for socially conscious films like "Gentleman's Agreement" and "The Grapes of Wrath." TRUE

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Short Answer
Name the reason why the studio system ended and why?

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One reason of why the studio studio system ended was because of actors going into business for themselves, forming their own production companies, caused by lengthy post-war strikes against the studios by labor unions

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True of False

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A) The studio system drew upon the techniques of mass production despite the fact that their product was a "nondurable" good. FALSE
B) Warner Bros. tended to market its films to an urban, working-class audience who favored gangster films and topical dramas seemingly ripped from newspaper headlines. TRUE
C) Originally, films were sold to exhibitors by foot, like sausage. TRUE
D) Although the "majors" owned only a small percentage of the nations movie theatres, the theaters they did own were so lucrative that they generated most of the nations box-office receipts. FALSE

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Essay
Did thye studio system help of hinder American film art?

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The U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust filed suit against the eight major studios accusing them of monopolistic practices in their use of black booking, bling bidding and runs, zones and clearances. The majors were forced to divest themselves from there theater chains. So therefore, the studio system hindered American film art

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Theda Bara

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had a brief career of luring men to their doom as a femme fatale

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Singin' in the rain

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a 1952 comedy musical

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Alfred Hitchcock example of a perfect star

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Mickey Mouse did not have a salary, did what you wanted and never asked what his motivation was

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Persona

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the mask worn by characters

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One of three films starring James Dean

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Giant

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Elia Kazan

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Director of the movie "East of Eden"

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Which of the following makes this statement false? Female film stars of the 1920's:

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A) Were often victorian types who mainteained an aversion to alcohol, a sense of self-control, and a conservative morality. TRUE
B) Often played rebellious, sexually, liberated types who nevertheless tended to settle down in the end and get married. FALSE
C) Included Theda Bara and Florence Lawrence. FALSE
D) Included Freta Garbo and Bow

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Short answer
Descrine some of the ways in which technology affected the phenomenon of stardom

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True or False

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