Quiz #5 (Ch 20)

A 1959 French law created the avance sur recettes ("advance on receipts") system, which:

Financed first features on the basis of a script.

Which of the following was not a technological advance of the late 1950s and 1960s taken advantage of by "young cinema" directors?

Greater depth of field [The following were technological advances taken advantage of by "young cinema" directors: - Direct sound recording - Film stocks that needed less light to create acceptable exposures - Portable camera]

Which French New Wave filmmaker is credited with innovating the design of shots that seem astonishingly flat?

Jean-Luc Godard

Alain Resnais's use of flashbacks in Hiroshima mon amour was particularly jarring to spectators of the time because:

The shifts between objective and subjective realities were sudden and fragmentary.

French New Wave filmmaker Eric Rohmer was best known for:

Wry studies of men and women struggling to balance intelligence with emotional impulses.