Chapter 3 film Quiz

Which of the following persuasive documentaries chronicles the history of the U.S. prison and justice system as a systemized form of slavery?

13th (2016)

The story formula for this type of movie usually involves the origin of the protagonist's powers and/or high-stakes struggle to defeat a villainous attempt to destroy a city, country, or universe.

superhero movies

Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) was the work of which director, considered to be the first major American experimental filmmaker

Maya Deren

Which of the following distinguishes narrative films from other kinds of movies?

Narrative films are directed toward fiction.

Genre refers to the categorization of narrative films by the stories they tell and the ways they tell them. Which of the following statements is NOT true of genre?

The conventions of genre films are stable and do not evolve.

Documentary filmmaking, which uses actual people, places, and events as source material, is described by John Grierson as _____________.

a creative treatment of actuality

Nanook of the North (1922), which presents people and places in a straightforward manner, is an example of _____________.

a factual documentary

The founding purpose of the persuasive documentary was to _____________.

address social injustice

Storytelling is storytelling no matter what your medium is. And the language of film is also the same. You're still using close ups and medium shots and long shots. You're still trying to introduce the audience to a character and get them to care." What is director Brad Bird referring to in this quote?

animation

Which of the following describes the distinct visual style of film noir?

deep shadows; nighttime exterior scenes; elements composed diagonally in the frame

Gangster films are characterized by _____________ and _____________.

exploring the American dream; an antihero

What are the three basic types of animation?

hand-drawn, stop-motion, and digital

Experimental films frequently reflect the creative vision of a single artist. These films _____________.

invite individual interpretation

An observational documentary generally does which of the following?

limits the use of voice-over narration; eliminates as many signs of mediation as possible

The three major types of movies are _____________.

narrative, experimental, and documentary.

The Lego Movie (2014) is an example of this, a term applied to a work of art that imitates or appropriates recognizable stylistic elements from a previous work or works.

pastiche

Documentaries that explore - and sometimes critique - the documentary form itself are known as _____________ documentaries.

reflexive

Horror films are often characterized by a protagonist who _____________.

saves a community that rejects her

Hybrid films illustrate

the flexibility of film form by blurring boundaries of film categorization.

Which of the following genres was not born out of any specific political or cultural moment or preexisting literary genre?

the musical