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.   the first nickelodeon, the halftone dot process, French government dropped its sole sponsorship of the annual salon
B.   photography, realistic painting, the first nickelodeon
C.   lithography, daguerreotypes, 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 first used the halftone process to show drama and time passing
C.   they would show one scene if light was reflected from the canvas and another scene if light was projected through the canvas from behind.
Question #4
D. W. Griffith created modern cinema as we know it today by creating and/or developing
A.   None of these answers
B.   the film as visual epic
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.   Included scenes of him filming scenes in the film, scenes of the film being edited, and scenes of audiences watching parts of the film.
B.   Forced viewers to see the movie AS A MOVIE; they could not be swept away in the illusion of real-life experience.
C.   Sought to make the viewer aware of the material (film) and the process (inserts, camera angles, etc.) used to create the final work.
D.   None of these answers
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.   None of these answers
C.   Etienne Gaspar Robert, Louis Daguerre
D.   Henry Fox Talbot, Nadar
Question #8
D. W. Griffith's film "Intolerance" deals with:
A.   The American Civil War.
B.   The history of injustice and prejudice.
C.   The American dream.
D.   None of these answers
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.   Eadweard Muybridge
B.   George Melies
C.   Thomas Edison
Question #10
Vampire films
A.   are psycho-sexual in their content
B.   display women as the “objects of the gaze.”
C.   All of these answers
D.   can be connected to the cultural malaise of the time

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