theater class
The cinema was frequently the target of scrutiny by religious groups because it was initially regarded as a "low" form of entertainment like burlesque and contained explicit sexual and violent content.
True
The film industry integrated blackface roles into films based on literary sources in an attempt to make blackface performances more realistic to white audiences.
True
The star system provided audiences with predictability, while the roles that the star plays in different movies offer some degree of novelty.
True
Prior to motion pictures, the star system was well-established in theater, vaudeville, the music hall, and the opera.
true
a shot in which the entire body of a character or an object appears in its entirety
long shot
Which of the following is not an element of melodramatic performance in theatre?
Ssignificant uses of editing, camera movement, and shifts in shot proximity, angle, and height
Hollywood studio's division of labor with different people/departments in charge of scripting, props, scenery, costuming, make-up, advertising editing and distribution.
Standardization of film production
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the Hollywood star system?
Stars had to maintain their star persona and could not reveal their real selves to the public.
Which one of the following is not one of the problems/challenges studios faced due to the arrival of sound?
The studios could not afford the elocution lessons necessary to train talent for performing in sound films.
The star system provided the studios with something stable in an otherwise unpredictable market, because people will go see a movie because a certain star is in it.
true
For which medium is space relatively fixed?
theatre
Which of the following roles that stars play in the industry corresponds to the following description? Stars provide studios with a way to publicize and promote films.
Capital Value
This star's persona combined aristocratic values of Victorian society, the egalitarianism of the impoverished immigrant, and the defiant opponent of all arbitrary authority.
Charlie Chaplin
Which of the following roles that stars play in the film industry corresponds to the following description? The first star acquired marketability by way of the trade press.
Construct
The organization of individual shots into sequences that operate according to the spatial and temporal logic
Continuity editing
Which of the following roles that stars play in the film industry corresponds to the following description? Stars can stand for moral, social and ideological values.
Cultural value
Which of the following is not an aspect of film performance?
Depends solely on speech and dialogue to convey meaning.
Which of the following roles that starts play in the industry corresponds to the following description? Stars are often promoted as living their "real lives" outside of the normal rules of behavior.
Deviant
This star's onscreen persona of the frustrated yet hardworking male trying to cope in emerging corporate America and his off-screen persona as the man of pleasure, relaxation, and leisure combined traditional values of rural culture (Protestant work ethic, etc.) with the consumerist values of modern mass culture.
Douglas Fairbanks
A shot/reverse-shot pattern in whcih film cuts from a character looking off-screen to what the character is looking at, which can be an object, another character, place, space, etc., OR, vice-versa.
Eyeline Match
Which of the following performers had the extra task of "passing" for a black women who is trying to pass as a man?
Ethel Lloyd
In the 1930s, Hollywood appealed to audiences suffering from the Great Depression with fantasies of wealth and luxury.
False
The Production Code was developed by the federal government to police the content of Hollywood films.
False
Warner Brothers or Fox: Developed a similar yet advanced Movietone system, which was the first commercially successful sound-on-film process.
Fox
Warner Brothers or Fox: Produced Sunrise (F.W. Murnau, 1927), which was the first to use the Movietone system.
Fox
Who embodies the new star of sound cinema?
Kathy Seldon
Which of the following is not an element of melodramatic staging?
Key plot points are implied through dialogue.
Who symbolizes the silent cinema star unable to transition to sound?
Lina Lamont
This stars on screen persona of "America's Sweetheart" and her off-screen persona of the modern working woman combined the traditional Victorian ideal of womanhood with the profound social changes taking place for women in US society.
Mary Pickford
Which of the following stars did not make the transition to sound successfully?
Mary Pickford
Silent or Sound Film: The film industry appropriated film stars and directors from Broadway.
Sound
A shot that follows a prior shot logically in a sequence
Shot/reverse-shot
Silent or Sound Film: Directors could coach actors while they acted.
Silent
Silent or Sound Film: Performers projected emotion using their only their bodies.
Silent
Cut cost drastically because, instead of each film having to have its own crew of various specialists, the different departments-props and scenery, costumes and make-up, advertisement and distribution, scripting and editing-worked on several films at the same time.
Studio system mode of factory filmmaking
Which of the following is not one of the story types of staged melodrama?
Talking dog melodramas
Was passed in 1920 and guaranteed women the right to vote.
The 19th Amendment to the Constitution
The "new woman" of the 20's who appeared in mass culture (films, radio broadcasts, magazines, newspapers, etc.) with bobbed hair and short skirts, who drank, smoked and said what might have been considered "unladylike" things, in addition to being more sexually liberated than her prior generations
The Flapper
Made up of resident stock companies with actors on long-term contracts who performed a large number of plays each season.
The Repertory (Star) System
A monopoly that dominated American theatrical production from 1896 to 1915, which placed commercial over artistic motives.
The Theatrical Syndicate
Singin' in the Rain reinforces the inability of silent film stars to transition to sound, despite the fact that many stars made the transition successfully.
True
The first world war, which caused the destruction of the existing cinemas of Europe.
The event that led to Hollywood being the world capital of the film industry
Which one of the following is not a reason that the Hollywood star emerged in the 1910s?
The failures of Vaudeville, the music hall and the opera.
Which of the following is not one of the four essential elements of the star, according to Richard Dyer?
The mask
As a result of the transition to sound and the economic hardship of the Great Depression, Hollywood appealed to audiences with more "realistic" star personas.
True
Hollywood implemented the Production Code in order to avoid exposure to the federal government of its monopolistic practices.
True
In her performances, Bette Davis drew techniques from her training in dance.
True
Instead of emphasizing her beauty and glamour, Davis marketed herself as a serious actress invested in realism.
True
Media coverage of stars subverting social norms and taboos increasingly threatened the public image of the motion-picture industry.
True
Which of the following is not a plot convention of staged melodrama?
Use of editing to establish relations between characters.
Launched sound and talking pictures by developing a synchronized sound system called Vitaphone, a process which allowed sound to be recorded on a phonograph record that was electronically linked and synchronized with the film projector.
Warner Brothers
Warner Brothers or Fox: Invested over $3 million in outfitting its picture palaces to show Vitaphone films, and, as a result, went into debt.
Warner Brothers
Warner Brothers or Fox: Partnered with Western Electric to develop a sound system.
Warner Brothers
This style of performance is an attempt to appear not to be acting but behaving.
representational
Which of the following is not an element of melodramatic performance?
acting out emotions through dancing
a shot in which only the head of a character or a small object occupies the entire frame
close up
a high angle, mobile shot that is shot from a mechanical device that holds the camera and camera operator
crane shot
A device of editing that is used to join separate shots together
cut
a shot taken from a platform on a set of wheels in which the camera moves toward or away from the elements within the frame
dolly/tracking shot
a shot in which a detail of a character, a tiny object, or portion of an object occupies the entire frame
extreme close up
a broad view of an exterior structure, landscape, a bird's eye view of a location, etc., in order to establish the setting of a sequence or the entire film, which is called an establishing shot
extreme-long shot
Most silent films utilize the shot/reverse-shot editing pattern to establish relationships between characters and/or characters and objects.
false
Singin' in the Rain accurately depicts the transition to sound
false
Singin' in the Rain was produced during the transition from silent to sound film.
false
For which medium is space flexible and dynamic?
film
In which medium is time flexible and able to be manipulated?
film time
Which one of the following is not a basic element of drama?
meant to be read as a written work
a shot that is in between a medium shot and a close up, in which the character appears from the chest up in the frame
medium close up
a shot in which a character appears from the waist up or a shot in which the majority of a 3-4 foot object fills the frame
medium shot
a shot in which a character appears from the knees/calves up in the frame, or an object that is 3-4 feet fills the frame
medium-long shot
Which is not a medium to which drama can be applied?
painting
camera rotates along the horizontal axis
pan
This style of performance foregrounds the performer as a performer.
presentational
A series of shots edited together that functions as a link in the cause-effect chain that structures the narrative
sequence
The basic cinematic unit of narrative film
shot
a later innovation that achieves the same movement as the dolly/tracking shot without mounting the camera on a wheeled platform
steadicam shot
Which medium depends on speech/dialog to convey meaning?
theatre
In which medium is time dictated by duration of the performance?
theatre time
camera rotates along the vertical axis
tilt
Birth of a Nation was similar to A Florida Enchantment as it was an adaptation of a staged melodrama based on a novel.
true
Black face performance was a way to maintain all-white acting companies while still portraying black characters on film.
true
During the 1910s, the US film industry began to realign itself with theater, in order to appeal to a white middle-class audience.
true
Even though the film is difficult to watch due to its openly racist content, Birth of a Nation is important because it shows us how the move toward a greater degree of 'realism' in dramatic performance is linked to broader concerns about race within the film industry and society in general.
true
While Birth of a Nation is known for its significant contribution to the development of feature-length fiction films due to its innovation and refinement of specific cinematic devices, the film also makes clear how the development of the feature-length fiction film is rooted in the broader history of American racism and racial oppression.
true
While elements of melodrama can be traced back to antiquity, melodrama emerged as a theatrical performance style in the 1700s.
true
a shot taken with a variable focal-length lens, which makes it possible to move visually toward or away from the elements within the frame without moving the camera
zoom shot
