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 premiered in one city, Paris, then toured Europe
B.   none of these options
C.   all of these options
D.   projected skeletons, ghosts, and other macabre scenes on a translucent screen
E.   was a technical advance that anticipated movies
Question #2
During the Great Depression, the average American saw two films a week based upon:
A.   comedy
B.   high society romances
C.   all of these options
D.   heroism
E.   musicals
Question #3
Among the filmmakers who employ Postmodern fractured filmic narrative (as opposed to the seamless narrative of traditional films) is/are:
A.   Chantal Ackerman with “Toute Une Nuit”
B.   Quentin Tarrantino with “Pulp Fiction”
C.   Alain Renais and Alain Robbe-Grillet with “Last Year at Marienbad”
D.   none of these options
E.   all of these options
Question #4
Introduced by Edwin S. Porter, “editing,” involved:
A.   none of these options
B.   the cutting and rearranging of sections of film into narrative form
C.   the painting of large scale images into panoramas to make the viewer feel like they were “there”
D.   the use of a magic lantern to cause dramatic effects
E.   the replacement of “film” with photographs
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.   Edwin S. Porter
D.   Auguste Lumiere
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.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #7
The “birth of cinema” usually dates to:
A.   1878 when Eadweard Muybridge created what became the first photographs of moving animals
B.   1890 when Thomas Alva Edison developed the Kinetograph camera
C.   1895 when August and Louis Lumiere projected films in the basement of the Grande Café in Paris
D.   1792 when Robert Barker advertised his panorama of the city of London
E.   1902 when George Melies created his masterpiece “A Trip to the Moon”
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.   Alfred Hitchcock
B.   D. W. Griffith
C.   Michael Curtiz
D.   Fritz Murnau
E.   Walt Disney
Question #10
For American painter Thomas Eakins, realism meant:
A.   all of these options
B.   painting as veneer or camouflage
C.   none of these options
D.   painting that focused on only light and color
E.   painting the objective visual truth

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