Foundations of Film Exam Questions
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Foundations of Film explores the fundamental concepts, practices, and history of cinema as an art form and cultural phenomenon. Students examine the evolution of film language, narrative structures, genres, and key movements, from early cinema to the present day. The course introduces essential elements such as cinematography, editing, mise-en-scène, and sound, while fostering critical analysis of film texts and their social, political, and aesthetic contexts. Through screenings, readings, and discussions, students develop a nuanced understanding of films impact on society and its role in shaping global perspectives.
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Flashback A Brief Film History 6th Edition by Louis Giannetti
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Chapter 1: Beginnings
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Q1) Thomas Edison's favorite invention was the film projector and not the phonograph.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The evidence is clear that movies were invented by A)Thomas Edison.
B)Georges Méliès.
C)many people .
D)unknown.
Answer: C
Q3) All of the following is true Edwin Porter's The Great Train Robbery except A)it uses pans.
B)it has hand tinted color.
C)it uses a matte shot.
D)none of the above.
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Griffith and His Contemporaries: 19081920
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Q1) What were some of the ways D.W.Griffith used editing,camera work,and acting to bring emotions to the stories of movies like Birth of a Nation and Broken Blossom?
Answer: D.W. Griffith was a pioneer in the use of editing, camera work, and acting to bring emotions to the stories of his movies such as Birth of a Nation and Broken Blossom. In Birth of a Nation, Griffith used innovative editing techniques such as cross-cutting to build tension and create emotional impact during the climactic scenes. He also utilized close-ups and different camera angles to capture the raw emotions of the characters, effectively conveying their inner turmoil to the audience. Additionally, Griffith's use of naturalistic acting and expressive performances from his actors helped to bring authenticity and emotional depth to the stories. In Broken Blossom, Griffith further pushed the boundaries of storytelling through his use of lighting and framing to evoke a sense of melancholy and empathy for the characters. Overall, Griffith's mastery of editing, camera work, and acting techniques played a crucial role in shaping the emotional impact of his films, leaving a lasting influence on the art of cinema.
Q2) Early movies,before Griffith,were considered coarse and distasteful.___
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: American Cinema in the 1920s
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Q1) von Sternberg ___
A)first European woman director
B)satirized sex,fidelity,and bad faith in intimate relations
C)a star who also teamed with Fairbanks and Chaplin to form United Artists
D)The Navigator
E)stellar career basically ended as a film comedian after two years
F)City Lights
G)Underworld and The Last Command two of his best works
H)made The Last Laugh,stylized mise en scene helped to wean audiences from rural romances
I)made The Crowd which deals with something approaching real life
J)produced The Jazz Singer which included sound
Answer: G
Q2) The female director whose work was so admired that Universal built a studio for her that was hers alone was
A)Lois Weber
B)Alice Guy-Blache
C)Francis Marion
D)Mrs.Wallace Reid
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: European Cinema in the 1920s
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Q1) Alfred Hitchcock ___
A)The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari
B)Le Million
C)The Last Laugh
D)editing is the essence of cinema
E)L'Age d'Or
F)The Lodger
G)Lulu in Hollywood
H)Storm over Asia
I)Spies
J)Napoleon
Q2) Dadaism is the art movement that
A)despised realism.
B)emphasized the illogical or absurd.
C)used buffoonery and provocative behavior to shock.
D)all of the above
Q3) In what ways did filmmakers react to the disillusioning bloodiness of World War I? What film movement/ style was the ultimate reaction to "the war to end all wars"?
Q4) What is/ are the difference(s)between expressionism and naturalism?
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Chapter 5: The Hollywood Studio System: 1925-1955
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Q1) Narrative structure in classical movies is linear and often takes the form of a journey,chase,or search.___
A)True
B)False
Q2) Above all,what kind of stories did American audiences want to see after World War I?
Q3) The temper of each major studio was determined in part by the personality of the person who ran each studio.___
A)True
B)False
Q4) Top stars often had written into their contracts all of the following except A)how much they could weigh.
B)script approval.
C)director.
D)cinematographer.
Q5) To what is classical cinema oriented and to whom?
Q6) Gangster films are often vehicles for exploring rebellion myths.___
A)True
B)False
Q7) What happened to new actors/actresses ("neophytes")who entered the star system?
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Chapter 6: American Cinema in the 1930s
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Q1) Angels with Dirty Faces ___
A)Busby Berkeley's musical in which pianos move
B)Mae West puts Cary Grant in his place
C)William Wyler films starring Bette Davis
D)Marx Bothers' surrealistic assault on order and reason
E)starred James Cagney,bruised,without illusions
F)George Cukor film starring Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor
G)Frank Capra film starring James Stewart
H)director John Ford's first critical hit
I)gangster film written by Ben Hecht,directed by Howard Hawks
J)starred Fred Astaire,the musical's inventor
Q2) The gangster movie cycle began with which film?
A)Scarface
B)Underworld
C)Little Cesar
D)Public Enemy
Q3) What would be the delights and problems with director William Wyler's excessive attention to detail in making his movies?
Q4) What was the appeal of the American musical,both in technique and story,to American audiences?
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Chapter 7: European Cinema in the 1930s
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Q1) What French film director called for movies which "dealt with life as it was lived in the streets of Paris"?
A)Francois Truffaut
B)Danielle Darrieux
C)Jacques Prévert
D)Marcel Carné
Q2) Was the fabulist/surrealist French film director Jean Cocteau simply ahead of his time in his technique and story development?
Q3) The New Wave film movement of France most admired which French film director?
A)Jean Cocteau
B)Jean Renoir
C)Marcel Carné
D)Jacques Prévert
Q4) Who of the following often built movies around an "innocent man on the run" theme?
A)Michael Powell
B)Alexander Korda
C)John Grierson
D)Alfred Hitchcock
Q5) What sense of fate did Max Ophüls achieve in his use of circular narratives?
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Chapter 8: American Cinema in the 1940s
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Q1) Which classic dramatist did Welles increasingly turn to for inspiration as he aged?
A)Anton Chekov
B)Ben Johnson
C)William Shakespeare
D)Arthur Miller
Q2) All of the following are true about the state of the American film industry during World War II except
A)American's love affair with movies continued through most of the 40s
B)the value of studios leaped by almost $150,000,000 in one year alone
C)many studios lost money because of the war
D)the admission price to movies was less than 50 cents
Q3) In a Disney film up through the 40s,the overriding sensibility is basically the star,usually Mickey Mouse.___
A)True
B)False
Q4) John Huston early in his directing career showed a gift for multi-layered filmmaking.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: European Cinema in the 1940s
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Q1) David Lean's filmmaking style includes which one of the following?
A)no class consciousness
B)a single dominant acting star
C)well written scripts
D)low-quality production
Q2) Why did neorealism emerge in Italy after World War II?
Q3) What common political philosophy did the Italian neorealists like RobertoRossellini and Michelangelo Antonioni share in the 1940s after World War II?
Q4) Vittorio De Sica's idol was Charlie Chaplin,traces of which can be seen in De Sica's The Bicycle Thief.___
A)True
B)False
Q5) The favorite American movies of Josef Stalin were gangster movies.___
A)True
B)False
Q6) The few French directors who remained in France during the war concentrated on making period and fantasy films.___
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: American Cinema in the 1950s
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Q1) All of the following contributed to Hollywood's "waning" in the 50s except?
A)a lack of stars
B)a maturing of tastes
C)a vast increase in production costs
D)none of the above
Q2) The Band Wagon ___
A)starred that muscular dancer,Gene Kelly
B)early 3D movie
C)filmmakers assume reformist perspective on story
D)revisionist western
E)made the Production Code blue
F)made for television movie won Oscars
G)director who relied heavily on storyboarding
H)Marilyn Monroe stars,Billy Wilder directs
I)writer blacklisted as a result of refusing HUAC
J)musical spoof on "hard boiled" fiction
Q3) The Production Code's censorship standards slowly gave way to new ideas and language before the onslaught of such directors as Otto Preminger.___
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: International Cinema in the 1950s
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Q1) An Autumn Afternoon ___
A)Kenji Mizoguchi film about the middle class
B)Robert Bresson movie set almost entirely in a jail
C)Bergman's only successful comedy
D)creates a hauntingly diaphanous dream world
E)Yasujiro Ozu film of a widower's sacrifice
F)basis for The Magnificent Seven
G)Fellini movie about decadence of the privileged
H)means "song of the road," won Cannes Jury Prize
I)Ingmar Bergman's allegory set in medieval times
J)established Toshiro Mifune as a star
Q2) Robert Bresson is compared to all of the following directors except
A)Howard Hawks
B)Yasujiro Ozu
C)Kenji Mizoguchi
D)Carl Dreyer
Q3) Jaques Tati worked austerely as did Bresson,but was a more cheerful artist as can be seen in Jour d' Fête.___
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: American Cinema in the 1960s
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Q1) What is true about movies by 1969?
A)Movie attendance rose rather than declined.
B)Movies returned to classical genre movies.
C)Movies restored the Production Code to protect audiences.
D)none of the above
Q2) The Graduate ___ class materialism
A)George Roy Hill western
B)music and lyrics by Rogers and Hammerstein
C)Lumet NY City drama using radical editing
D)Mike Nichols film of sterile,middle-class materialism
E)won Best Picture Oscar with an x rating
F)more than a biker film by Dennis Hopper
G)John Cassevetes,urban horror movie
H)in the final shootout,virtually a whole Mexican village is destroyed
I)English film financed with American money
J)John Frankenheimer imprisonment movie
Q3) Why is the cliché "all that glitters is not gold" appropriate for the films,whether realistic or spectacle,of the early 60s?
Q4) What happened to the Production Code in 1968 and what was the result?
Q5) What characteristics of Sam Peckinpah's westerns made them revisionist?
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Chapter 13: International Cinema in the 1960s
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Q1) Jean -Luc Godard ___
A)Hiroshima,Mon Amour
B)Le Voleur (The Thief)
C)The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
D)Shoot the Piano Player
E)A Hard Day's Night
F)Cleo from 5 to 7
G)Ashes and Diamonds
H)L'Avventura
I)Breathless
J)If
Q2) Eastern European filmmakers finally were able to make personal films that
A)embodied boy-loves-tractor based themes.
B)explored the Heroic Resistance idea.
C)both a and b
D)neither a nor b
Q3) The 1960s gave rise to the "spaghetti western" popularized by Sergio Leone.___
A)True
B)False
Q4) What were the effects of the de-Stalinization of films in Eastern Europe?
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Chapter 14: American Cinema in the 1970s
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Q1) Francis Ford Coppola believed in the 1970s that exercising caution is the key to making good art and good show business.___
A)True
B)False
Q2) How was sex portrayed in movies of the 70s?
Q3) Forman's adaptation of a novel ___
A)Nashville
B)The Heartbreak Kid
C)Blume in Love
D)Raging Bull
E)Apocalypse Now
F)Manhattan
G)Sugarland Express
H)Rocky
I)The French Connection
J)One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Q4) Blaxploitation films of the 1970s invariably featured anti-heroes as their main characters.___
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: International Cinema in the 1970s
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Q1) The abiding trademark in a Bernardo Bertolucci film is a traveling shot in a dance scene.___
A)True
B)False
Q2) Volker Schlöndorff ___
A)The Tin Drum
B)Every Man for Himself and God Against All
C)Peppermint Soda
D)Swept Away
E)My Brilliant Career
F)Xala
G)Solaris
H)Tommy
I)The Marriage of Maria Braun
J)The Man Who Fell to Earth
Q3) To what extent does a focus on sex rule European films of the 70s?
Q4) Were Australian movies of the 70s generally optimistic and success driven as in classical cinema,or where they generally pessimistic and bleak? Use examples.
Q5) How would French director Diane Kurys' female characters best be described?
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Chapter 16: American Cinema in the 1980s
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Q1) A principal source for many of the emerging stars of movies in the 1980s was
A)stage
B)foreign movies
C)university
D)television
Q2) The movie that became one of the hallmarks of feminist cinema in the 80s was
A)Body Heat
B)Tootsie
C)Annie Hall
D)Romancing the Stone
Q3) All of the following are true of David Lynch movies except A)"a dream of dark and troubling things"
B)"make[s] the irrational seductive and terrifying at the same time"
C)successfully adapted Herbert's classic novel Dune for the screen
D)dredges up images and inchoate concepts from the subconscious
Q4) In the early 80s,Hollywood wisely decided to back the nascent movie-rental business using video-tape technology.___
A)True
B)False
Q5) Why was the Disney studio successful in the 80s?
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Chapter 17: International Cinema in the 1980s
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Q1) Stephen Frears's movie making career was going nowhere until he teamed up with writer
A)Ruth Prawar Jhabvala
B)Hanif Kureshi
C)Neil Jordan
D)Chris Bernard
Q2) Paul Verhoeven has restricted his films to issues concerning life in the Netherlands (i.e.Holland).___
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following styles is the style of choice among most Third World directors?
A)formalism
B)realism
C)classicism
D)none of the above
Q4) Realism is still the style of choice among Third World movie directors because,among other reasons,realism is cheaper.____
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 18: American Cinema in the 1990s
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Q1) Which of the following Woody Allen movies was very popular in Europe in the 90s?
A)Mighty Aphrodite
B)Husbands and Wives
C)Celebrity
D)Manhattan Murder Mystery
Q2) Why were Woody Allen movies in the 90s usually unpopular with American audiences,but popular with European and Japanese audiences?
Q3) Because fewer tickets were being sold than ever before,the movies that Hollywood produced grew worse and worse qualitatively.___
A)True
B)False
Q4) Given the troubles in Hollywood,it is not surprising that screenwriting became increasingly important and better overall in quality.___
A)True
B)False
Q5) Americans have long admired the "bedrock" decency in their greatest film heroes.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 19: International Cinema in the 1990s
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Q1) The country that produces more movies each year than any other country in the world is
A)India.
B)Hong Kong.
C)America.
D)Great Britain.
Q2) Chris Noonan ___
A)Babe
B)Il Postino
C)The Butcher Boy
D)In the Name of the Father
E)Eat Drink Man Woman
F)Jerusalem
G)Strictly Ballroom
H)The Wings of the Dove
I)Some Mother's Son
J)Shallow Grave
Q3) To what extent was American film dominance worldwide a positive and/ or negative force in the 90s?
Q4) How did America come to dominate the European film landscape in the 90s?
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Chapter 20: American Cinema Since 2000
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Q1) Are the directors of the 2000s realists,classicists,or formalists generally?
Q2) All of the following genres are sources for movies intended for a younger audience except A)war
B)science fiction
C)comic books
D)fantasy
Q3) Digital movie making has meant all of the following except A)easier access to the means of production.
B)better image quality.
C)less filming expense.
D)increase in low-budget films.
Q4) Asian martial arts movies have long appealed principally to adult make because of their complex choreography and graphic violence.___
A)True
B)False
Q5) Why have gay movies suddenly come out of the closet and found large,appreciative audiences?
Q6) What has happened to the rules for genre storytelling in movies in the 2000s?
Q7) What medium and in what ways do movies often seem to ape in the 2000s?
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Chapter 21: International Cinema Since 2000
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Q1) Romanian filmmakers and Islamic filmmakers share many filmmaking techniques with Italian neorealists.___
A)True
B)False
Q2) Iraqi filmmakers have cemented their position as world-class movie makers since 2000.___
A)True
B)False
Q3) What has enabled movie making to tear down barriers to become an inter-cultural,international art form and business?
Q4) French filmmaker Jean Pierre Jeunet directed all of the following films except A)Alien
B)Delicatessen
C)City of Lost Children
D)Amélie
Q5) The conflict between the powerful Hollywood and struggling cinemas of smaller countries has ceased in the 2000s.___
A)True
B)False
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