Early Cinema
Classical Hollywood 1
Classical Hollywood 2
Screened Films
US History
100
A type of film characterised by a static shot, immobile camera and a focus on everyday life.
What is an actuality?
100
This person brought to fruition the use of the shooting script, turning movie making into an assembly line like production.
Who is Thomas Ince?
100
A film we watched in class and its director and year that is representative of the Western genre.
What is Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939).
100
This is the first film, exhibited in Paris in 1895.
What is Workers Leaving a Factory (Lumière Bros., 1895)?
100
Teddy Roosevelt implemented this policy in 1933 which dealt with US / Latin American relations.
What is the Good Neighbour Policy?
200
Brothers credited with the invention of movies.
Who are Auguste and Louis Lumière?
200
According to Richard Dyer, these are the four media texts that create stars.
What are promotion, publicity, films, criticism & commentary?
200
The definition of a genre film.
What are films that are tied together by certain shared conventions, settings, a types of characters and how they interact?
200
Scarface deals explicitly with this 'progressive' US government ban.
What is Prohibition (the banning of alcohol in the US)?
200
Stagecoach deals with, implicitly and explicitly, these historical events/contexts.
What is the American Civil War, the colonialisation of the West, and the Great Depression.
300
A trust that attempted to monopolize the American film industry as it was emerging.
What is the Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC)?
300
Formed in 1922, this association run by Will Hays dealt with public relations, censorship, and labour relations in the movie industry.
What is the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Association (MPPDA)?
300
Vertically integrated companies that controlled the film industry by entering into agreements with each other to show each others' films and to set the terms for independent movie theatre owners.
What are the "Big Eight": MGM, Warner Bros., Paramount, RKO, 20th Century Fox, United Artists, Columbia, and Universal.
300
This early news actuality whose topic is the Spanish-American war, is actually a re-enactment.
What is Cuban Ambush?
300
This war, often considered the first media war, began with America's intervention into the Cuban Independence movement.
What is the Spanish-American War (1898).
400
Examples of films that we saw in class that deal with changes and developments in modern life in the early twentieth century.
What are The Immigrant, A Corner in Wheat, Sunrise.
400
The order, frequency, and duration of events in a narrative film.
What is the plot?
400
This type of censorship was enforced by this administrative body formed in 1934.
What is self regulation and the Production Code Administration.
400
The three main 'transitions' that the film Sunrise deals with, leading to its label as a "transition film".
What is: the moment when synchronized sound replaced silent film, the effects of modernity (people transitioning to big city life), and developments in gender relations - first wave feminism (suffrage movement).
400
This doctrine declared America's rights to intervene in the affairs of the Americas.
What is the Monroe Doctrine (1823)?
500
Conditions that made the development of cinema possible and popular.
What is rise of entertainment as commodity, wave of immigration, mass migration to the city, more leisure time, and developments in science and technology?
500
According to Bordwell, these are the main characteristics of Classical Hollywood Cinema narrative.
What are character focused stories, cause and effect as prime unifying principle, highly communicative, omniscience, minimally self conscious, two plot lines: one romance, the other goal oriented, ends with resolution of two plot lines.
500
American manifest destiny and the American dream are allegories predominant in these two film genres.
What is the Western and the Gangster film?
500
The contexts surrounding the making of Saludos Amigos.
What is OCIAA organisation of a "good-will" trip to Latin America to improve US / Latin American relations; closing of European film markets meant Disney had to look elsewhere.
500
The Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (OCIAA).
What is the body whose goal was to promote cooperation and friendship between the US and its neighbours by supporting the export of press and radio propaganda programs, and in particular, the export of Hollywood feature films and newsreels?
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