Art 305 - Art and Mass Culture » Fall 2022 » Chapter Seven Quiz

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Question #1
The three important developments in mass media in 1905 were
A.   lithography, daguerreotypes, the first nickelodeon
B.   the first nickelodeon, the halftone dot process, French government dropped its sole sponsorship of the annual salon
C.   photography, realistic painting, the first nickelodeon
Question #2
For Thomas Eakins, realism meant
A.   painting as a veneer, a camouflage.
B.   painting with light and color.
C.   painting the objective visual truth.
Question #3
Louis Daguerre's dramatic dioramas were significant because
A.   the extra large canvases were painted in the post impressionist style.
B.   they would show one scene if light was reflected from the canvas and another scene if light was projected through the canvas from behind.
C.   they first used the halftone process to show drama and time passing
Question #4
D. W. Griffith created modern cinema as we know it today by creating and/or developing
A.   the film as visual epic
B.   None of these answers
C.   All of these answers
D.   the first full length film
E.   creative camera movement
Question #5
He successfully consolidated the potential of the Hollywood film to entertain all levels of American society.
A.   Charlie Chaplin
B.   Walt Disney
C.   Frank Capra
Question #6
Russian artist Dziga Vertov's avant-garde film "The Man with a Movie Camera":
A.   Sought to make the viewer aware of the material (film) and the process (inserts, camera angles, etc.) used to create the final work.
B.   Forced viewers to see the movie AS A MOVIE; they could not be swept away in the illusion of real-life experience.
C.   None of these answers
D.   Included scenes of him filming scenes in the film, scenes of the film being edited, and scenes of audiences watching parts of the film.
E.   All of these answers
Question #7
These two photographers captured the first pictures of moving animals and people
A.   Eadweard Muybridge, Etienne-Jules Marey
B.   Etienne Gaspar Robert, Louis Daguerre
C.   Henry Fox Talbot, Nadar
D.   None of these answers
Question #8
D. W. Griffith's film "Intolerance" deals with:
A.   The history of injustice and prejudice.
B.   None of these answers
C.   The American dream.
D.   The American Civil War.
Question #9
The first filmmaker to explore the potential of both the form and the content of movies as a vehicle for effects unique to motion pictures was
A.   George Melies
B.   Thomas Edison
C.   Eadweard Muybridge
Question #10
Vampire films
A.   are psycho-sexual in their content
B.   All of these answers
C.   display women as the “objects of the gaze.”
D.   can be connected to the cultural malaise of the time

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