Deck 1: Introduction

Question 1

Maxim Gorky referred to the world that film transported the viewer to as the "kingdom of ________."

A) dreams
B) thought
C) art
D) shadows
E) imagination

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Discuss why Maxim Gorky called the cinema a "kingdom of shadows."

Answer 2

Because audiences immerse themselves in the lives of fictional characters and story worlds that are created by the artistic combination of color,light and sound.

Question 3

Discuss how Eadweard Muybridge's work in motion photography led to the development of filmmaking.

Answer 3

Muybridge's experiments in serial photography had as much to do with scientific discovery as they did with film as an art form.Muybridge's famous photographs of horses in motion (1878)were inspired by a question that Leland Stanford (later Governor of California)hired Muybridge to answer: do horses lift all four feet off the ground when running (The answer was yes.)Muybridge set up a bank of still cameras,each of which captured a shot of the horse as it moved by.These sequences of still shots offered insight into the details of human and animal movement.

Question 4

The contemporary history of cinema is,in part,a history of attempts to stave off the competition from newer entertainment technologies such as:

A) television
B) records
C) radio
D) CDs

Question 5

The film industry has emphasized exciting new technological develop?ments in part because it becomes more and more difficult with each passing year to lure customers into movie theaters.Why?

Question 6

In general,what do the study notes accompanying end of chapter essays emphasize?

Question 7

During the late nineteenth century,technological advances in photography established the basis for recording moving images on film.

Question 8

Essential tools for developing a critical approach to the film medium should be based on ________.

A) knowledge about the way films are made
B) knowledge about how films are interpreted in aesthetic contexts
C) knowledge about how films are interpreted in cultural contexts
D) all of these

Question 9

Digital technologies have had an enormous impact on both the economics and aesthetics of cinema.

Question 10

The Kinetograph,a camera that recorded motion pictures on rolls of film,was invented by ________.

A) Eadweard Muybridge and Leland Stanford
B) Thomas Edison and William Dickson
C) Louis Lumiere and August Lumiere
D) Maxim Gorky

Question 11

Alternative modes of filmmaking and spectatorship,including independent art cinema,experimental films and documentaries,have only come into existence in the last 10-20 years of film history.

Question 12

One of the goals of the textbook is to teach students that their emotional response to a film isn't as important as their intellectual engagement with the text.

Question 13

Explain the Kinetograph and the Kinetoscope.

Question 14

During the 1910s and the 1920s,the actualité film began to eclipse other types of movies.

Question 15

The studio system established in Hollywood in the 1930s has been often referred to as a(n)_________model of industrial produc?tion.

A) artisinal
B) cooperative
C) "assembly line"
D) antiquated