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.   photography, realistic painting, the first nickelodeon
B.   lithography, daguerreotypes, the first nickelodeon
C.   the first nickelodeon, the halftone dot process, French government dropped its sole sponsorship of the annual salon
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.   they would show one scene if light was reflected from the canvas and another scene if light was projected through the canvas from behind.
B.   they first used the halftone process to show drama and time passing
C.   the extra large canvases were painted in the post impressionist style.
Question #4
D. W. Griffith created modern cinema as we know it today by creating and/or developing
A.   All of these answers
B.   None of these answers
C.   creative camera movement
D.   the film as visual epic
E.   the first full length film
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.   All of these answers
C.   None of these answers
D.   Forced viewers to see the movie AS A MOVIE; they could not be swept away in the illusion of real-life experience.
E.   Included scenes of him filming scenes in the film, scenes of the film being edited, and scenes of audiences watching parts of the film.
Question #7
These two photographers captured the first pictures of moving animals and people
A.   None of these answers
B.   Etienne Gaspar Robert, Louis Daguerre
C.   Eadweard Muybridge, Etienne-Jules Marey
D.   Henry Fox Talbot, Nadar
Question #8
D. W. Griffith's film "Intolerance" deals with:
A.   The American Civil War.
B.   None of these answers
C.   The history of injustice and prejudice.
D.   The American dream.
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.   can be connected to the cultural malaise of the time
D.   display women as the “objects of the gaze.”

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