Films and Television
Vocab and Shot Techniques
History and Important Figures
Texts
Genres
100
This film features a wheelchair bound journalist who proves a murder.
What is Rear Window?
100
The way in which a shot is composed and framed, often used to convey a message.
What is Mise-En-Scene?
100
Many teenagers of the 1950s watched movies from their cars at these locations.
What are drive-in theaters?
100
The name of the text we read in class which Hitchcock then made into a film
What is "It Had to Be Murder"?
100
This genre explores the American frontier, and features themes of anti-conformity.
What are westerns?
200
Released in 1954, the inconspicuous title of this movie led to many parents accidentally bringing their children to the screening of a nudist colony
What is Garden of Eden?
200
A film technique blending live action and pre filmed backgrounds to create an illusion.
What is process shot?
200
This investigative group of the House of Representatives was meant to investigate alleged communist ties, which heavily influenced the type of content film studios were allowed to make.
What was the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)?
200
One reason why Jeff thinks that Mr Thorwald killed his wife (Multiple Answers)
- Thorwald disappearing at random times
- Mysterious suitcase
- The Thorwalds arguing
- Mrs. Throwald disappearing out of nowhere
200
This genre boomed with the fear of invasion and rapidly improving technology during the Cold War.
What is sci-fi?
300
In this movie, Frank Sinatra plays a recovering drug addict and card dealer who tries to straighten out his life after being released from prison.
What is The Man with the Golden Arm?
300
The angle this is shot at.
What is a low angle?
300
The Supreme Court ruled that film is protected speech under the 1st Amendmant after this trial.
What is Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v Wilson?
300
Year that Rear Window was released
What is 1954?
300
This genre features rebellious kids with excess leisure time.
What is the teenager movie?
400
In this sci-fi TV show, each episode presents a standalone story, in which the characters undergo strange and often disturbing events.
What is The Twilight Zone?
400
The character proxemics shown in this shot.
What is intimate?
400
Alongside CinemaScope, this was one of two techniques created in the 1950s, used to project film onto a large curved widescreen.
What is Cinerama?
400
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400
Sometimes referred to as Kaijus, films of this genre are often characterized by large creatures terrorizing a city or group of characters. (There are two acceptable names for this genre!)
What are Creature Features OR Monster movies?
500
This claymated television series follows an amorphous, green character and his sidekick, Pokey, as they go on various adventures.
What is The Gumby Show?
500
Many actors, screenwriters, directors, and musicians were barred from employment because of this series of bannings.
What was the Hollywood blacklist?
500
Heads or Tails
Heads
500
Also known as Peplum, this subgenre of often Italian-made films consists of biblical, historical, and mythological epics that attempted to replicate the style of big budget Hollywood historical epics at the time.
What is Sword-and-sandal?