Film 200 Exam 1

____ is considered the first woman to direct films

Alice Guy Blache

The ____, founded in Omaha, Nebraska, was the first Black-owned film production company in the world.

Lincoln Motion Picture Company

While Louis Le Prince is credited with making the first true “films,” it was the American inventor _____, who patented the first movie camera in 1889.

Thomas Edison

The ____ brothers produced films such as Baby’s Lunch that aimed to show aesthetically pleasing representations of everyday life.

Lumiere

____ wrote, directed, and produced films that dealt with themes of racism and disenfranchisement and, according to bell hooks, made “counter-hegemonic” movies that challenged prevailing Hollywood style and social norms.

Oscar Micheaux

A key figure in ____, Sergei Eisenstein used montage editing to convey intensity and explosive emotion

Russian cinema

____ is marked by its particular use mise-en-scene, with elaborately stylized sets, distorted shapes and angles, and the actors’ use of heavy makeup of jerky movements

German Expressionism

Often compared with the German Expressionist film ____, Teinosuke Kinusaga’s A Page of Madness, makes use of other more sophisticated techniques of shot composition, camera angles, and superimposition to convey theme and mood.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

One of the earliest experimental filmmakers was the French writer ____, whose Ames de fous and The Smiling Madame Beudet use film form (rather than narrative content) to convey the characters’ psychology.

Germaine Dulac

For his film Un Chien Andalou, _____ was heavily inspired by Surrealism’s emphasis on dreaming and the importance of dreams as a mode of realigning the waking world.

Luis Bunuel

Classical Hollywood Cinema is marked by techniques of editing, mise-en-scène, and cinematography meant to reinforce a sense of _________, with actions unfolding chronologically and maintaining logical spatial relations. 

reality

The ________ Code, which went into effect in 1934, censored depictions or suggestions of (among other things) drugs, kissing, interracial relationships, "profane" language, and homosexuality. 

Hays

________ was the only woman director in Hollywood, from the beginning of the sound era to the early 1940s. 

Dorothy Arzner

The ___________ is a genre that often features a straight, white, female protagonist facing social constraints and uses a musical score to augment moments of heightened emotions.

melodrama

Many talented directors, such as Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder, and Douglas Sirk, fled __________ and came to Hollywood due to Nazi bans on Jewish directors. 

Germany

Charlie Chaplin studied newsreels as well as ______________'s propaganda film Triumph of the Will to learn (and mock) Hitler's mannerisms. 

Leni Riefenstahl

A pioneer in nature documentaries and films for children, ___________ popularized the use of nature film techniques such as the use of slow motion and telephoto lenses.

Mary Field

A conscious rejection of Hollywood style, the films of the ________________ movement use natural lighting and nonprofessional actors in real locations.

Italian Neorealist

Mexican director _______________'s film María Candelaria (1943) won the Grand Prix at Cannes in 1946. 

Emilio Fernandez

_____________ is considered the foremost figure of American avant garde cinema.

Maya Deren

Fireworks (1947) by director ______________ is considered a classic of both underground and queer cinema. 

Kenneth Anger

With its use of non-professional extras, real shooting locations, and natural lighting, Roberto Rossellini's _____________ is one of the most heralded works of Italian Neorealism. 

Rome, Open City

So called "____________ ___________" films of the 1940s dealt with issues such as alcoholism, mental health struggles, and anti-semitism and strayed from the neat endings associated with Classical Hollywood Cinema. 

Social Problem

______________ is a term coined in France in late ’40s to describe crime dramas that are dark, both literally and figuratively, with the marked use of high contrast lighting and themes dealing with the dark side of human nature

Film noir

The ___________________, organized in 1938 with the stated claim of stemming the tide of Soviet-backed Communism, quickly became a witch hunt led by Senator Joseph McCarthy who capitalized on fears of Soviet Russia to increase his own popularity and to get rid of those deemed undesirable –- including pro-union workers and gays and lesbians -- in the government as well as in the film industry.

House Un-American Activities Committee

Japanese director ___________'s films about modern day domestic life often feature “pillow shots” -- images of landscapes, interiors, or objects that do nothing for the plot but instead are used to build atmosphere. 

Yasujiro Ozu

The biggest emerging voice in Italian cinema in the 1950s was _________________, whose La Strada (1954) and Nights of Cabiria (1957) both won Academy Awards.

Federico Fellini

______________ made the first British full-length feature cartoon, Animal Farm (1954). 

Joy Batchelor

French director ______________ used nonprofessional actors as “models” and directed them in such a way as to rid emotion from their acting in order to get at the truth, in films such as Pickpocket (1959).

Robert Bresson

The first film of what came to be called "the Apu Trilogy," Satyajit Ray's ______________ shows the influence of Italian Neorealism as well as artistic elements that presage more contemporary realist films. 

Pather Panchali