Film Exam 3

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What is not a common genre of documentary films?

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Instructional

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What is the TRUEST statement about rhetorical documentary form?

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addresses the viewer openly

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What term describes a film that follows several kinds of documentary filmmaking at once?

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Archival

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What documentary technique is NOT used in American Movie?

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Reenactment

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Reoccurring symbolic images that carry meanings from film to film

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iconography

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According to Bordwell and Thompson, which of the following is "central to the genre film"?

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interplay of convention and innovation

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NOT a convewntion or theme of horror films as defined by Bordwell and Thompson

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ambiguous heroes

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In a horror film: conventions or themes

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a monster's attack on normal life, the limits of human knowledge, fears about the environment

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According to Wood, in twentieth-century art, what is "always closely linked to total despair"?

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the absurd

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Which of the following is a characteristic of what Wood calls "reactionary" horror films?

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monster as totally non-human

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What is the BEST example of what Feuer calls "winking" at the audience?

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Don describes "The Broadway Ballet"

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Acording to Feuer, what is "the most outrageous claim made in the plot of "Singin' in the Rain"?

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Kathy gets credit for dubbing Lina's voice

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Dominant style for westerns

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continuity editing

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creat smooth flow from shot to shot

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continuity purpose

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Documentaries are defined by

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content, style, and synthetic

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Defined by content

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nature, portrait, instructional

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defined by style

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compilation, interview, direct-cinema

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"groupings that individuals or societies create to organize their knowledge of the world"

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categorical

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"ersuade the audience to adopt an opinion

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Rehetorical

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4 basic attributes to documentaries

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direct address, debatable subject matter, appeal to emtion, attempt to persuade

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Most successful genres

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western and gangster

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Westerners are

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refinement, virtue and civilation

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3 Arguements

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source, subject centered, viewer centered

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Western cinematic elements:

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the wide expanses of LAND, the free movement of men on HORSES

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Reoccurring symbolic images that carry meaning from film to film

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iconography

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2 ways film change

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conventions and iconography

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Western's conflict is between what and what

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civilized order and lawless frontier

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Westerns are defined by

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subject, theme, and iconography

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Horror defined by

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emotional effect

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2 types of musicals

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backstage, straight

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3 common categories of film

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documentary, experimental, animated

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Genres are grouped by...

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subject matter, style, intended emotional effect

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"The interplay of covention and innovation, familiarity and novelty are........."

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central to the genre

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Examples of iconography

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covered wagon/railroad vs. horse/canoe

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Warshow, "true of a western..."

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limitation, its material bareness, the pressures of obligation

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HORROR: __________ group takes it very seriously

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surrealists

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that in a society built on monogamy and family there will be an enormous surplus of sexual energy that will have to be repressed; and that what is repressed must always strive to return

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Treudian theis

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5 reoccuring motifs in horror

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monster, revenge of nature, satanism, the terrible child, canibalism

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HORROR: Unifyed by master figure:

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the family; repressed sexuality

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Central to the film (centered on its monstrous family)

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sense of grotesque comedy, which in no way disminishes its nightmare horror

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HORROR: Reactionary wing:

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simply evil, the presence of chritianity, the presentation of the monster as non-human, repressed sexuality

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Horror is a genre that...

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is suited to suggest the limits of human knowledge

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HORROR: Uses of distorition

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makeup, lighting, also logic- bending it so odd things can happen.

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Built on intentions about society and pulling it apart

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horror films

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Major West,,,stage of normality

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people killing people

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causes the audience to think eitehr about the nature of those earlier films or about film's own status as a cinematic production

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self-reflexive

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Is "singin'" integrated or not

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NOT integrated

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Is "Singin'" modular or organic

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modular

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Film that used demystification and remysticfication

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Singin' in the Rain

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Musical means

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defined by presentation

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Usually light-hearted, romance and comedy

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musical

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Uses a mobile camera

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musicals

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Performance as performance

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Singin in the Rain

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Typles of Musicals
Set or numbers with little or no narrative

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revue

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Types of Musicals:narrative centered on people performing for others

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backstage

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Typles of Musicals:
people can alway sexpress themselves through song and ance

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straight

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Typles of Musicals:
Number's advance to plot. plot continues happening through the numbers

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Integrated

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What kind of musical is Singin'in the Rain?

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backstage

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What type of film is Singin' in the Rain?

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artifice

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Reenactment isn't used in

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American Movie

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produced by assembling images from archival sources...combining

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compilation films

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records ongoing events as it happens minimal interference by filmmaker. Also known as cinema-verite

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direct-cinema documentary

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_______ is a common documentary for television journalism

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synthetic

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fake documentaries

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mockumentaries

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intended to convery information

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categorical form

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What argument presents film as a reliable source

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arguments for source

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What type of argument is about subject matter

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subject-centered argument

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What type of argument makes an argumetn that appeals to emotions of the viewere

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viewer-centered

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non conformist do what

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challenge orthodox notions of what a movie

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Form organizing an entire film around color, shpaes, sizes and movemnet in the images

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abstract form

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Standard shooting speed for live-action filmaking is

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24 frames per second

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AMERICAN MOVIE:
Who were the brothers of Mark?

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Alex and Chris

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28 Days later:
Who said, "only been around a few blinks of an eyes...return to hormality"

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Segeant Farrell

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28 Days Later:
New age sergent:

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Segeant Farrell

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28 Days Later:
"I promised them women"

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Corporal Mitchell

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Singin' in the Rain:
Director in the film

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Roscoe Dexter

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Singin' in the Rain:
"lina! We're missing every other world! You've got to talk intot he mike!"

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Roscoe Dexter

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Singin' in th Rain:
Owner of studio

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R.F Simpson