Art 305 - Art and Mass Culture » Summer 2020 » Film Quiz No. 7

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Question #1
Etienne Gaspar Robert’s “Phantasmagorie” was a magic lantern that:
A.   was a technical advance that anticipated movies
B.   was premiered in one city, Paris, then toured Europe
C.   projected skeletons, ghosts, and other macabre scenes on a translucent screen
D.   none of these options
E.   all of these options
Question #2
During the Great Depression, the average American saw two films a week based upon:
A.   musicals
B.   all of these options
C.   high society romances
D.   comedy
E.   heroism
Question #3
Among the filmmakers who employ Postmodern fractured filmic narrative (as opposed to the seamless narrative of traditional films) is/are:
A.   Quentin Tarrantino with “Pulp Fiction”
B.   none of these options
C.   all of these options
D.   Chantal Ackerman with “Toute Une Nuit”
E.   Alain Renais and Alain Robbe-Grillet with “Last Year at Marienbad”
Question #4
Introduced by Edwin S. Porter, “editing,” involved:
A.   the use of a magic lantern to cause dramatic effects
B.   the cutting and rearranging of sections of film into narrative form
C.   the replacement of “film” with photographs
D.   none of these options
E.   the painting of large scale images into panoramas to make the viewer feel like they were “there”
Question #5
His film, “The Great Train Robbery,” included the first classic chase scene, the first illusion of riding a train, and the shock of seeing someone being shot:
A.   Alfred Hitchcock
B.   D. W. Griffith
C.   Auguste Lumiere
D.   Edwin S. Porter
E.   Frank Capra
Question #6
Despite the overt racism evident in D. W. Griffith’s “Birth of a Nation,” it is highly acclaimed due to the technical skill evident in its filmmaking:
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #7
The “birth of cinema” usually dates to:
A.   1902 when George Melies created his masterpiece “A Trip to the Moon”
B.   1890 when Thomas Alva Edison developed the Kinetograph camera
C.   1878 when Eadweard Muybridge created what became the first photographs of moving animals
D.   1792 when Robert Barker advertised his panorama of the city of London
E.   1895 when August and Louis Lumiere projected films in the basement of the Grande Café in Paris
Question #8
Despite the importance of photography as a mass medium, it was primarily the movies that displaced Academic painting as the new standard of visual imagery:
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #9
This American filmmaker successfully consolidated the potential of the Hollywood film to entertain all levels of U.S. society including children:
A.   Fritz Murnau
B.   Alfred Hitchcock
C.   D. W. Griffith
D.   Walt Disney
E.   Michael Curtiz
Question #10
For American painter Thomas Eakins, realism meant:
A.   none of these options
B.   painting the objective visual truth
C.   all of these options
D.   painting that focused on only light and color
E.   painting as veneer or camouflage

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