In this abstraction technique, internal emotional states are conveyed through external means--including costumes and makeup.
What is Expressionism?
100
One of these two devices, practiced frequently by Hollywood cinema, are generally not found in "art films."
What are cause-and-effect narratives; goal-oriented, psychologically-defined protagonists.
100
These two famous silent film comedians greatly influenced Yasujiro Ozu's "I Was Born, But..."
Who are Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton?
100
This censorship body restricted what controversial content could be shown on screen, and was especially concerned about the romantic relationship in "It Happened One Night."
What is the Production Code Administration?
100
More than plot, this is the emphasis for detective thrillers in the mid-1940s.
What is character psychology?
200
In this mode of abstraction, works of art tend to avoid narrative causality and function with the logic of a dream.
What is Surrealism?
200
David Bordwell argues that these are the first instances of the international postwar cinema.
What are neorealist films?
200
These two techniques are meant to make film watching more democratic, because they supposedly don't try to guide the spectator's eye.
What are deep focus cinematography and long takes?
200
These legally binding documents restricted the movements of actors in Hollywood. They allowed studios the option to renew contracts, and allowed them to loan out actors to other studios.
What is the Option Contract?
200
One of these is the largest Japanese film studios in the 1920s.
What are Toho, Shochiku, and Nikkatusu?
300
Directors like Sergei Eisenstein attempted to elevate class consciousness through collision montage, and in so doing aligned themselves with this prominent Russian system of government
What is Communism?
300
This film critic could be considered the first major critic of the art cinema because he praised loose narrative structures and the deep-focus long-take aesthetic. He was also praised by Jean Renoir at the opening of "The Rules of the Game."
Who is Andre Bazin?
300
This act by the British Government required distributors to handle a certain percentage of British films every year, in order to preserve the British film industry in the late 1920s
What is the Quota Act (of 1927)?
300
In order to sell more merchandise, Disney did what this to his famous character, Mickey Mouse.
What is humanize him? (I.e., what is make him look less like a rat?)
300
This means cinema-truth, was advocated by Dziga Vertov, and could be seen in his newsreels.
What is Kino-Pravda?
400
The Popular Front was formed in the mid-1930s in order to combat this dictatorial ideology.
What is Fascism?
400
This narrative approach to art cinema narrative is very much opposed to classical cinema's cause-and-effect closure.
What is ambiguity?
400
This film is a mixture of lyricism and realism; "The Rules of the Game is a prime example.
What is French Poetic Realism?
400
With its Looney Tunes cartoons, this studio tended to produce more controversial, more topical animation.
What is Warner Bros?
400
This agreement, involving Paramount, Ufa, and MGM, guaranteed American exhibition of films in Germany during the 1920s, and also allowed for German films to be shown in the United States.
What is the Parufamet agreement?
500
Dziga Vertov's "Man With the Movie Camera" is a prime example of what Soviet -ism?
What is Soviet Constructivism?
500
A belief of cinema that art film both seeks to explore, as well as question.
What is reality/realism? (p57)
500
These performers would narrate silent films for audiences in Japan.
What is a Benshi?
500
Walt Disney pioneered this animation technique, in which transparent plastic displaying characters were successively overlaid on top of the background.
What is cel animation?
500
Known as "jidai-geki" and "gendai-geki", these were the two major types of genres popular in Japanese film during the 1920s.
What are Historical Films and Films of Contemporary Life?