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| Why is sound the hardest cinematic technique to study? |
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| Audiences are inclined to think of sound simply as accompaniment to the moving images. |
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| Sound gives a new value to what? |
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| Which of the following enable(s) the audience to recognize different characters' voices? |
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| Which of the following are the types of sound in the cinema? |
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| an ongoing stream of auditory information |
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| Sound relates to visual events that take place in a specific time. This relationship gives sound what? |
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| What is fidelity in sound? |
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| the extent to which the sound is faithful to the source as conceived by the audience |
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| In film, which is more difficult for the audience to notice, diegetic or nondiegetic sound? |
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| What is simultaneous sound? |
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| the matching of sound with the image in terms of story events |
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| either nonsimultaneous sound from earlier in the story than the images |
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| Why is sound a powerful film technique? |
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| If a sound is coming from off-screen, this means that |
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| None of the answers are correct. |
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| how film techniques interact to create another formal system of the film |
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| No single film uses all the technical possibilities available. Which of the following accounts for this? |
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| What is the first step of analyzing a film? |
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| to understand how the film is put together as a whole |
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| In analyzing a film according to the salient techniques used, what must initially be noticed? |
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| the things, such as cutting and framing, that most viewers do not consciously notice |
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| Does stylistic patterning have to follow the structures of narrative and nonnarrative films? |
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| No, it does not have to follow the structures of either type. |
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| Style may enhance which of the following in a film? |
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| What is one way the audience may sharpen their sense of the function of specific film techniques? |
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| to imagine alternatives and reflect on what differences that would make |
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| Citizen Kane offers a good example of how a director does what? |
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| chooses between alternatives |
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| The River creates parallels by means of rhythms within what two elements? |
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| the editing and cinematography |
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| The purpose of the film Ballet Mecanique is what? |
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| The most noticeable characteristic of mise-en-scene in A Movie is what? |
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| What rules need to be followed in order to understand films? |
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| Which of the following is not a film genre? |
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| The most popular way of defining genre is by a film's what? |
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| What is iconography of a genre? |
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| recurring symbolic images that carry meaning from film to film |
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| Which of the following is not considered a conventional plot element? |
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| A batch of genre films that enjoys intense popularity and influence over a distinct period is what? |
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| Although cinema became commercially successful in 1895, when was the first film genre (Western) defined? |
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| Analyzing genre in terms of providing social commentary is called what? |
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| What was the basic theme for Western films early in the genre? |
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| the conflict between civilized order and the lawless frontier |
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| The horror film can be categorized by what? |
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| All the answers are correct. |
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| What is a family horror film? |
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| a film that reflects social concerns about the breakup of American families |
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| The first movie musicals followed what structure? |
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| Musicals typically celebrate which of the following? |
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