COMM 150N: Exam 2
naturalistic acting
A style of acting that attempts to create an illusion of reality
The Hook
Arthur Miller's screenplay which was about the corruption on the docks in Brooklyn, but never got off ground because of disagreements between Miller and Kazan
Elia Kazan
By the late 1940s, one of the most important American directors
Hollywood Ten
Group of people in the film industry who were jailed for refusing to answer congressional questions regarding Communist influence in Hollywood
Terry must negotiate opposing sides within himself
How is On The Waterfront seen as dialectical?
one
How many sets did Rear Window have?
pigeons
In On The Waterfront, what is used to symbolize the "good" guys in the film
Edie Doyle and Father Barry
In On The Waterfront, who represents goodness, kindness, and justice to Terry Malloy
Johnny Friendly
In On The Waterfront, who represents jungle law, industrial feudalism, immorality?
during the war, when Tom flew the plane and Jeff took pictures
In Rear Window, how did Jeff and detective Tom Doyle meet?
diegetic or live sound
In Rear Window, how do we know when it is Jeff's POV?
It peaks Jeff's curiosity and causes him to look
In Rear Window, how does Hitchcock use sound outside the window?
from getting too close to a car crash he was taking a photo of
In Rear Window, how does Jeff break his leg
The image of the helicopter spying down on the sunbathers
In Rear Window, what image was added in post-production?
photojournalist
In Rear Window, what is Jeff's job?
crane shot
In Rear Window, what kind of shot opens the scene?
In the musician's apartment winding the clock
In Rear Window, where does Hitchcock make an appearance
David O Selznick
In Rear Window, who is Hitchcock poking fun at with Thorwald's character?
newlyweds
In Rear Window, who represents dark comedy?
Miss Lonelyheart
In Rear Window, who represents melodrama and pathos?
Musician
In Rear Window, who represents music?
the couple with the dog
In Rear Window, who represents ordinary everyday?
Miss Torso
In Rear Window, who represents sex?
Thorwalds
In Rear Window, who represents the familiar and the uncanny crime?
Ms Hearing-Aid
In Rear Window, who represents visual art through her abstract modern piece, "hunger"?
disaffected youth
In The Graduate, from who's perspective is it in
over-protection
In The Graduate, what does Mrs. Robinson's house symbolize?
match-cuts
In The Graduate, what edit is applied to represent the passage of time and repetition
lack of conversation
In The Graduate, what represents the meaninglessness of suburban life?
April comes she will
In The Graduate, what song is used to represent the passage of time in a love affair?
elliptical
In The Graduate, what visual transitions are used to represent the passage of time?
technicolor
In the 1950s, this saturated color was introduced in films like Rear Window to provide a new form of visual pleasure
Post WWII
In what era, did method acting come to be?
NEWTON
Kazan's production company which was one of the first big post studio independent companies
to go for even lower common denominator with films or to go for smart niche-market products
Of the films produced during 1947-53, what were the two basic responses to the downturn in attendance?
Classification and Ratings Administration
Replaced the old Production Code Administration and Hayes Code to restrict more of what cinema could show
Bud Schulberg
Son of the head of Paramount Pictures, writer with similar liberal commitments as Kazan, member of Communist party in 30s
1.37:1
Standard aspect ratio by studio system
Elia Kazan
The american director that went from being a poster-boy for new Hollywood realism, to a scapegoat pariah, hated by the left and mistrusted by the right
melodramatic theatrical acting
The method of acting that depends on stereotyped character development, interaction, and highly emotional themes
Hayes Code
The old Hollywood production code that allowed films to be more edgy and dirty
False
True or False: After testifying before the HUAC committee, Kazan was vilified by the left and embraced by the right because of his stance against the communists
False
True or False: In Rear Window, Hitchcock uses only diegetic sound that comes from the space of the courtyard and the time of the narrative
False
True or False: Terry Malloy knew from the beginning of the film that in order to do the right thing he had to testify before the Crime Commission?
20th Century Fox
What Hollywood studio first hired Elia Kazan?
1.75:1
What aspect ratio did MGM and WB introduce in the 50s?
1.85:1
What aspect ratio did Universal introduce in 1953
It Had To Be Murder by Cornell Woolrich
What book and author is Rear Window based on?
The Graduate by Charles Webb
What book and author is The Graduate based on?
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
What committee began in the 1930s to investigate Nazi influence and eventually began investigating the influence of the Communist Party
powerful characters and various dynamics of social structure
What did Bud Schulberg incorporate in his writing?
detail
What does Alfred Hitchcock say is the key to suspense?
coming of age
What genre is The Graduate
suspense thriller
What genre of cinema is Rear Window which Alfred Hitchcock basically invented because of his morbid attraction to the "uncanny"
Benjamin Braddock
What is the name of the main character in The Graduate?
Simon and Garfunkel
What music is found in The Graduate?
Sound of Silence
What song in The Graduate serves as a liet motif?
neo-realism
What style did Elia Kazan start experimenting with after branching out from the Studio Style?
a respect for writer's vision
What was Elia Kazan known for that was very rare in Hollywood?
1.66:1
What was Paramount's aspect ratio that they introduced in 1953
televisions
What was the cause of less Americans going to the movies every week between 1947-53
outside the studio
Where is the set for Rear Window?
Hoboken
Where was On The Waterfront filmed?
Alfred Hitchcock
Which director was famously known to use subjective camera as its own character
Rear Window
Which film is an explicitly self-reflexive film about the kind of visual pleasure that one gets while watching a film and about what visual lures viewers to want to watch
Dr. Strangelove
Which film, directed by Stanley Kubrick, had absurdist satire of the Cold War and a critical iconoclastic tone which paved the way for critical films in the late 60s
Elia Kazan
Who described himself as "I have the soul of an immigrant: I am an outsider..."
Stanley Kubrick
Who directed 2001: A Space Odyssey?
Elia Kazan
Who directed On The Waterfront?
Alfred Hitchcock
Who directed Rear Window?
Mike Nichols
Who directed The Graduate?
Reverend John M Corridan
Who is Father Barry based on in On The Waterfront?
Alfred Hitchcock
Who is known for his expressionistic visual style and gothic character of much of his body of work
Robert Burks
Who is the cinematographer for Rear Window?
Robert Surtees
Who is the cinematographer for The Graduate?
Boris Kaufman
Who is the cinematographer of On The Waterfront
Sam Speigel
Who is the producer of On the Waterfront?
John Michael Hayes
Who is the screenwriter for Rear Window?
Eva Saint
Who played Edie Doyle in On The Waterfront?
Karl Malden
Who played Father Barry in On The Waterfront?
Dustin Hoffman
Who plays Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate?
Katharine Ross
Who plays Elaine in The Graduate?
James Stewart
Who plays Jeff in Rear Window?
Grace Kelly
Who plays Lisa in Rear Window?
Anne Bancroft
Who plays Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate?
Marlon Brando
Who plays Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront?
Stanley Kubrick
Who produced 2001: A Space Odyssey?
Alfred Hitchcock
Who produced Rear Window?
Lawrence Turman
Who produced The Graduate?
Elia Kazan
Who said "you can't get it out of them unless it's in them. It's difficult to get away with anything false before the camera"
Lee Strasberg
Who taught Method Acting in America?
Ronald Reagan
Who was President of the Screen Actor's Guild during McCarthyism who hyped the communist threat in Hollywood
Geoffrey Unsworth
Who was the cinematographer for 2001: A Space Odyssey?
Leonard Bernstein
Who wrote the score for On The Waterfront
Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C Clarke
Who wrote the screenplay for 2001: A Space Odyssey?
Elia Kazan and Bud Schulberg
Who wrote the screenplay for On The Waterfront?
John Michael Hayes
Who wrote the screenplay for Rear Window?
Calder Willingham and Buck Henry
Who wrote the screenplay for The Graduate?
Konstantin Stanislavski
Whose theories was Method Acting derived from?
Method Acting
the idea of tapping into an affective memory that was equivalent to the moment in the drama and using that memory to make the moment more realistic
