Final For Crtv 121 The American Cinema

Front 1

The battlefield is a world in which the laws, beliefs, behavior, and morality of civilization are ________?

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suspended

Front 2

In war films, the needs of the individual frequently give way to those of the _______?

Back 2

group

Front 3

War films are a crucial weapon in the shaping of public opinion about war in general? T/F

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true

Front 4

War films depicted groups consisting of various ethnic types coming together to succeed in their goals to demonstrate that the idea of America really ______.

Back 4

Works

Front 5

Films about the Iraqi War deal with the toll the war has taken on American combat troops and their families, instead of the justification for going to war or the merits of the war itself? T/F

Back 5

True

Front 6

Film noir means:

Back 6

Black film

Front 7

Which one of these is not a characteristic of the film noir genre?

a. Proletarian, tough-guy antiheroes

b. Treacherous femmes fatales

c. Happy clear ending

d. Murder plots

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c. happy clear ending

Front 8

In Noir films, subjects deemed taboo were regularly taking place ________?

Back 8

Off screen

Front 9

In Noir the family exists chiefly as a _________ phenomenon.

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Negative

Front 10

Which war brought back the scar on the American psyche that film noir represents?

Back 10

Vietnam War

Front 11

For over forty years, from __________, Hollywood produced more Westerns than any other kind of film.

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1926 to 1967

Front 12

Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show was to turn the real old West into a spectacle for the entertainment of the new West. T/F

Back 12

True

Front 13

Although, some historians of the West might contend that it _________ exist(ed).

Back 13

Never

Front 14

Which opposed thematic concepts of the Western to Civilization is not correct?

Western--Freedom, Self-interest, or Corruption

Civilization--Restriction, Social Responsibility, or Purity

Back 14

For Western: Corruption

For Civilization: Purity

Front 15

Women represented the forces of ________?

Back 15

Civilization

Front 16

In Westerns the continual struggle of the West was against the ________?

Back 16

East or Civilization

Front 17

The biggest subgenre of Westerns concerns conflicts not between culture and nature but between which two distinct cultures?

Back 17

Whites and Native American

Front 18

More civilized versus old and less civilized cultures underlies the genre as a whole? T/F

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True

Front 19

A handful of Westerns, made in the 1960s and 1970s and set in the period after the closing of the frontier, look back __________ to the old West.

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Nostalgically

Front 20

In Unforgiven (1992) the main character Munny is identified as a ___________ figure.

Back 20

Feminized

Front 21

According to the book which film is more of a horror - Alien or Aliens?

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Alien

Front 22

The horror film is, like the melodrama, a __________ genre?

Back 22

Modal

Front 23

The two genres fall under Human versus Animal and Human versus Machine; which genre falls under each??

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H vs A= Horror

H vs M= Sci-Fi

Front 24

Robert Wood suggests, horror films are "our collective nightmares" and the monster is the embodiment of all that the social order represses. T/F

Back 24

True

Front 25

Which genre has a subgenre that deals with the takeover of the human body?

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SciFi

Front 26

Human interaction with artificially intelligent machines is believed to lead to the:

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Posthuman

Front 27

Movies like Armageddon and Deep Impact are rooted in the realm of the possible; putting them in the ________ strand of science fiction.

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Extrapolative

Front 28

The book defines the word -- Dystopian:

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Bad place

Front 29

Which studio from 1930 to 1936 provides excellent examples of classic horror?

Back 29

Universal

Front 30

How did Spielberg and Lucas change science fiction?

Back 30

They made aliens benevolent and nonthreatening.

Front 31

Films like Chaplin's City Lights (1931) and Frank Capra's You Can't Take It With You (1938) were inspired by the spirit of populism, which seeks reform, than by the radical spirit of communism, which preaches revolution? T/F

Back 31

True

Front 32

During the Spanish Civil War, Hollywood's anticommunism was tempered somewhat by its _________?

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Antifascism

Front 33

By the late 1930s, the government had begun to take greater and greater interest in Hollywood's antifascism, which was considered to be __________-inspired?

Back 33

Communist

Front 34

In 1938 the government created a committee to look into communist activity with the acronym:

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HUAC

Front 35

During WWII Russia was an ally of America in its fight against Germany, putting a hold on its inquiries into communism in Hollywood? T/F

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True

Front 36

In 1947 during the public hearings ten "unfriendly" witnesses were subsequently known as __________.

Back 36

The Hollywood Ten

Front 37

Studio executives met secretly at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to adopt a policy of self-regulation that included blacklisting; issuing what would be know as _________?

Back 37

The Waldorf Statement

Front 38

What big comedian was not allowed to return to the US because of his relationship with communist sympathizers; going into exile in Europe for over 20 years?

Back 38

Charlie Chaplin

Front 39

In what film did Sylvester Stallone successfully manipulate anticommunist sentiment in his favor in 1985?

Back 39

Rocky IV

Front 40

Films of the 1960s depicted women as sexually liberated or aggressive. T/F

Back 40

True

Front 41

Hollywood tended to _________ the women's movement.

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Ignore

Front 42

Youth activism films tended to reduce college kids, to being confused and having halfbaked ideas, who were only drawn to political activism and protests in search of __________?

Back 42

Sex and cheap thrills

Front 43

The major studios ignored the ________ of racism in films dealing with it.

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Politics

Front 44

The violence and glorification of criminals would have violated ________?

Back 44

The old Production Code

Front 45

What year did the ratings system take effect?

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1968

Front 46

What did the rating "X" mean?

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16 years and younger restricted, later changed to 17 and under.

Front 47

In what Anti-Authoritarian film did Jack Nicholson win an Academy Award?

Back 47

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Front 48

Made between 1970-1973, Blaxploitation films were?

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Black action pictures

Front 49

Why did the NAACP complain about Blaxploitation films?

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Blacks were being portrayed in a negative way.

Front 50

What was the group of teenage actors in The Outsiders know as?

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The Brat Pack

Front 51

Why was Roger Coreman important?

Back 51

He mentored and gave a start to many young film directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese and James Cameron. He helped launch the careers of actors Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson.

Front 52

What are 3 grad film schools the book mentions?

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UCLA, USC, NYU

Front 53

Which filmmaker went to UCLA? USC? NYU?

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Francis Ford Coppola (UCLA)

George Lucas (USC)

Martin Scorsese (NYU)

Front 54

In which country did film critics first start making their own movies and what was this movement called?

Back 54

France (The New Wave)

Front 55

Name at least one of The New Wave directors.

Back 55

Chabrol

Truffaut

Godard

Rohmer

Rivette

Front 56

What was the name of the magazine that some of The New Wave directors worked for?

Back 56

Cahiers du cinema

Front 57

What is "the auteur theory" as termed by Andrew Sarris?

Back 57

The concept that directors are the true artists or auteur (french for author) of their films. Not the actors.

Front 58

In Kill Bill Vol. 1 what is the significance of "Revenge is a dish best served cold. -Old Klingon Proverb"

Back 58

Klingons are fictional so it tells us this movie is fantasy.

Klingons are brutal so it tells us that the film will be gruesome.

Front 59

In Kill Bill Vol. 1 what is the significance of the scene where the 2 women have just stopped fighting because of the arrival of the little girl and the one woman goes to close the door but the main character finishes closing it?

Back 59

It shows that the main character will finish the job that the other woman and her associates started.

Front 60

In Kill Bill Vol. 1 explain the mis-en-scene of the scene where the two women are in the kitchen?

Back 60

They are always divided by the wall shown from aerial view. Even when the camera angle switches to horizontal the two women never cross the wall.

Front 61

In Kill Bill Vol. 1 explain the nickname "California Mountain snake" of the woman who tries to kill the bride in her sleep?

Back 61

The California Mountain Kingsnake is a non-venomous mimic of the coral snake which is venomous. This tells us that the character with this nickname is not deadly. At least not enough to kill the bride.

Front 62

In Kill Bill Vol. 1 explain mis-en-scene of the scene where the bride is circled around by a bunch of Japanese enemies?

Back 62

She is standing in the middle of a Zen garden (below the glass) which says that she is at peace and focused, she is at her best, even though she is surrounded by a huge amount of enemies.

Front 63

What are characteristics of Postmodernization?

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Non-linear

Irony

Contradictions to the genre

Lots of different genres in one