Film Appreciation Chapter Ten (FILM HISTORY)
1. The French avant-garde movement included artists and intellectuals who took their inspiration from previous French filmmakers as well as from _________. (Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud)
2. Film historians Robert C. Allen and Douglas Gomery said that “Film history is predominantly a list of film titles, or an academically respectable trivia contest.” (False)
3. By 1912, there were at least 60 small movie studios operating in Hollywood. (False)
4. Quentin Taratino, who loves unexpected juxtapositions and surprise endings, probably took inspiration from: (French avant-garde)
5. By teaching you how to look at movies in a critically aware way, film history provides you with the _________ and _________ to understand and evaluate both yesterday’s and today’s movies. (perspective; context)
6. Neorealists sought out rather complex working methods to produce the simple, documentary visual styles in their films. (False)
7. Hong Kong is primarily associated with the martial arts genre of movies. (True)
8. Although dadaism actually preceded surrealism, the two coexisted almost interchangeably in 1920s France. (True)
9. Georges Méliès is credited with inventing stop-motion photography. (True)
10. One definition of a classical film is that it continues to have the same truths and mean the same things to people at different times in their lives. (False)
11. The years following World War II gave filmmakers the opportunity to express their nation’s identity in what we call national cinema. (True)
12. Under the influence of such directors as Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas, sound became a much more important element, and the technology behind it flourished (True)
13. Charles Foster Kane, the title character in Citizen Kane (1941), was almost certainly modeled after an actual newspaper tycoon. (True)
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