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Narrative Cinema
Where does it draw strength from? |
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The Cinema of StoryTelling
Relationship to the imaginative world |
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Documentary Cinema
Where does it gain its strength from? |
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Cinema of Factuality
Relationship to the factual world |
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Experimental Cinema
Where does it gain it's strength from? |
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The Cinema of Novelty
Relationship to an unconventional world of
imagination or facts |
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| 4-Dimensional view of movies |
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| Artistry, Industry, Technology, and Culture |
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According to Hagopian, the term “classical” in this course means...
A. movies critics recognize as the best movies
B. movies that adhere to shared ways of creation and reception
C. films made before 1960
D. foreign films
E. unpopular films
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| B. movies that adhere to shared ways of creation and reception |
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the scale of production, distribution, and exhibition required to meet the film’s aesthetic and technical needs
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the series of choices the filmmakers make to create a unique and affecting version of the tale being told.
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the digital, electromechanical, and even primitive devices required to realize the film’s aesthetic needs
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| Visual contents of the shot |
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| The Frame and Texture of the shot |
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| The relationship between shots |
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| A mass mediated, atomized society in collision with traditional institutions and poised like it's characters -- between worlds |
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Which of the following is true of the questions on
Who Wants to be a Millionaire in Slumdog Millionaire?
A. Each has to do with sports.
B. They include material from both Indian culture and Western culture.
C. Jamal shows himself to be an expert in literature.
D. Jamal refuses to answer the last question, disappointing the studio audience, and starting a riot.
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| B. They include material from both Indian culture and Western culture. |
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What is the traditional site of truth vs fiction?
A) Documentary cinemas
B) Experimental Cinemas
C) Narrative Cinemas |
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A culturally-sanctioned representation of social iconography, offered in a form meaningful to that culture
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Witnessing in a documentary refers to...
The capacity of the image to offer "____" a unique testament to the meaning of an event |
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| The capacity of the image to offer proof a unique testament to the meaning of an event |
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Presence in a documentary refers to...
The capacity of the image to mysteriously preserve and evoke human phenomenal existence. Also know as _________ |
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Rhetorical Documentary is:
________ in nature
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Poetic Documentary is:
________ in nature |
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The documentary is also known as:
The creative treatment of _____ |
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| The creative treatment of actuality |
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John Grierson is most associated with:
Experiemental films
Documentary Films
Narratiev films |
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Moral grandeur is most associated with which type of film?
Documentary
Experiemental
Narrative |
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Scopophilia refers to a pathological love of ______
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What does Hagopian mean by “complicating” the documentary?
◦A. Making documentaries that are harder for ordinary people to understand.
◦B. Making documentaries which use visual effects, rather than verbal narration, to provide information.
◦C. Making films which embody Grierson’s mission of documentary
◦D. Understanding that documentary blurs the lines between objectivity and subjectivity.
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◦D. Understanding that documentary blurs the lines between objectivity and subjectivity.
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In class, Hagopian used which one of the following as an example to discuss the concept of presence?
}A. An anecdote about aboriginal peoples’ spiritual relationship to the filmed image.
}B. An anecdote about a hypothetical photo of a high school graduating class.
C. A clip from a documentary about different cultures’ views on reincarnation
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| B. An anecdote about a hypothetical photo of a high school graduating class. |
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Ethical dilemmas are inevitable in which of the following cinemas?
Narrative
Experiemental
Documentary |
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| documentarist on and off screen |
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}According to Hagopian, the Griersonian model of the documentarist as a politically disengaged analyst of society
}A. is continued in the work of Michael Moore
}B. was always illusory.
}C. is no longer possible because documentary films cost so much to make.
}D. Used to be true, but is no longer, because audiences are now media-savvy
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| Used to be true, but is no longer, because audiences are now media-savvy |
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| Individual artist with a recognizable style |
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experiments in film medium itself
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experiments in representing time and space
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"teaches” audience how to respond to it – and it alone
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acknowledgement of the presence of a camera or filmmaker
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}Which one of the following best expresses the relationship of film to reality in surrealist film?
}A. accuracy
}B. entertainment
}C. comedy
}D. morphing
}E. denial
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According to lecture, the film Scorpio Rising was most influential on which one of the following?
A. documentary cinema
B. Tarnation
C. World of Warcraft
D. music video
E. blogging
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| Why were small theaters called nickelodeons? |
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| Becuase they only cost a nickel to see |
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The documentary impulse
A) Accurate description
B) Imaginative Reconstruction
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The fantastic impulse
A) Imaginative reconstruction
B) Accurate description
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}imaginative reconstruction
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Lumiere is most identified with:
Realism (Inventing)
Fantasy (Witnessing)
Lumiere
KLLumiere
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Melies is most identified with:
Fantasy (Inventing)
Realism (Witnessing) |
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By the year ____, movies were a big business
1990
2013
1915
1900 |
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The first nickelodeon theatre was created in:
1900
2000
1950
1905 |
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Where was the first nickelodeon?
Atlanta
Tampa
Pittsburgh
Cleveland |
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identification refers to:
Realism
Character-driven stories
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The nickelodeon era is most important in this course because it saw
A. The first technological experiments which led to the invention of film
B. The establishment of norms for film as both art and industry in the US
C. The establishment of film schools in the US
D. The development of digital video technologies
E. The birth of Hagopian
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| B. The establishment of norms for film as both art and industry in the US |
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