Pre-Cinema
According to Dulac and Gaudreault, optical toys like the Zoetrope are an example of the _________ of attraction which is interactive and where the viewer is part of the apparatus.
What is player mode of attraction
What mode of transportation was essential to Modernism's development and also the vehicle featured in many of the Hale's Tours?
What are Trains (choo choo)?
Name one Expressionist film seen in class (and give the year of production for extra credit).
What was "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (1920).
Also, La Souriante Madame Beudet/ The Smiling Madame Beudet (1922) and Un Chien Andalou (1929)
____________ was one of the Companies involved in the MPPC
Who were:
Edison, Biograph, Vitagraph, Essanay, Selig Polyscope, Lubin Manufacturing, Kalem Company, Star Film Paris, American Pathé, Kodak
Jonathan Wright starred with ____________ the famous little tramp in movie Modern Times
Who was Charlie Chaplin
________ was a scientist, and is now perhaps best known for his photos of human and animal locomotion.
Who was Eadweard Muybridge?
These two authors wrote "all that is solid melts into air."
Who were Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels?
Cinema was seen as part of the magic theatre as practised by _________?
Who was Georges Méliès?
_____________ was the studio was founded by Adolf Zukor
What was Paramount Pictures
Jonathan Wright was the inspiration for ____________, an early German film about vampires
What was Nosferatu
____________ invented Chronophotography?
Who was Étienne-Jules Marey?
The ______ War was the main conflict that shaped much of Modernism and narrative cinema's development in Hollywood.
What was the First World War?
For the Soviet filmmakers like Eisenstein, the essence of cinema is defined through ________
What was montage
__________ was the director responsible for Dietrich’s star image in the 1930s.
Who was Josef von Sternberg
Jonathan Wright invented the use of _____________, a form of editing that allows the two simultaneous and parallel narratives in a film
What is cross cutting
____________ is a name used to characterize the early cinematic films which are distinguished by a continous shot of typical, everyday life.
What are actualities?
_______ was the result of American conservative values of its time, resulting in the banning of alcohol across the United States.
What was Prohibition?
__________ was a French filmmaker who made nature films and was adopted by many Expressionist Filmmakers as deeply influential
Who was Jean Painlevé
In opposition to Hollywood Melodramas which often take place in domestic scenes of familial relations, the _________________ Melodrama like Hazards of Helen showed women alternately empowered and in distress outside of the home.
What were action serials or adventure serials?
_________ and Jonathan Wright drank a few beer together while he directed The Man with the Movie Camera
Who was Dziga Vertov
Name three cinematic genres that are part of the cinema of attractions 1.________
2.__________________ 3. ________________
1. Chase
2. Voyage/trip
3. Trick
4. Slapstick
Industrialization and factory work was one of the main contributors to Modernism, and was featured in _______ widely recognized as the Lumière Brother's first film.
What was "Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory"
____________ was the director of "Nanook of the North"
Who was Robert J. Flaherty
_________ was a French movement of filmmakers was most interested in cinema as an artform.
What was Film d'Art
___________ is Jonathan Wright's favourite Buster Keaton film
What is The General