Film and Culture (5th Ed) Quiz 3
What kind of lighting is typically used to distort facial features and cast shadows in horror movies?
Bright lighting.
What is a character type?
A familiar character with a few essential traits that recurs throughout a genre.
What distinguishes narrative films from documentary and experimental films?
Narrative films are directed toward fiction. (p. 68)
Which of the following distinguishes narrative films from other kinds of movies?
Narrative films are directed toward fiction. (p. 68)
Horror films are often characterized by
Protagonist who saves a community that rejects her (pp. (99-100.)
The story formula for this type of movie usually involve the origin of the protagonist's powers and/or high stakes struggle to defeat a villainous attempt to destroy a city, country, or universe; the mission is compromised by the hero's love for a vulnerable mortal.
Superhero movies (p. 110)
What is the definition of genre?
The categorization of narrative films by the stories they tell and the ways they tell them.
Documentary filmmaking, which uses actual people, places, and events as source material, is described by John Grierson as
a creative treatment of actuality. ( p. 73.)
The founding purpose of the persuasive documentary was to.
address social injustice (p. 74.)
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?
exploring the American dream; an antihero (p. 85).
Gangster films are characterized by _____________ and _____________.
exploring the American dream; an antihero (p. 91)
Direct cinema _______________ and _____________.
limits the use of narrators; allows the audience to observe events as they occur (p. 75)
The three major types of movies are
narrative, experimental, and documentary. (p. 68)
The Lego Movie 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 (p. 115.)
Hybrid films illustrate
the flexibility of film form by blurring boundaries of film categorization (pp. 83-85)