Movies and Modern Media
Special Effects
Films and Popular Music
Race, Stereotypes, and Racism
Film and Fashion
100
"Tube" is another way to say...
television
100
Because it was cheaper and easier to remove from film, directors switched from using a blue screen to using a ______ screen.
green
100
This singer was forced to make many films because of a trick in his contract.
Elvis
100
Give one example of a social construct.
race, gender
100
The "speed limit" skirt was also known as the _____.
hobble skirt
200
The invention of the ____ in the late 1970s allowed people to watch movies at home.
VCR
200
When filmmakers need to a big expensive set like a castle or mountain, they will usually make a ______ instead.
miniature
200
Due to the popularity of musicals in the early 20th century, actors should not only be good at acting, but also needed what two skills?
singing and dancing
200
This 1915 film, showing the KKK as heroes as the blacks as scary and threatening, is actually considered to be less racist than some other old films, because at least the blacks in the movie are intelligent.
Birth of a Nation
200
This war inspired military fashion in the 1940s.
World War II.
300
Unlike downloading, when you ____ a movie, you watch it online, but you do NOT save it to your computer.
stream
300
If a director wants to make it look like an object magically disappears from a film, he should use the __________.
stop trick
300
Musicals in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s were aimed at what audience?
children
300
This is when you changing the percieved race of a character in a new adaptation; for example, taking a character that people assumed was white in a book and choosing a black actor to portray him on screen.
racebending
300
This problem in the 1930s made Americans long to see luxurious clothes and lifestyles in the movies, to help the fantasize about better times.
The Great Depression
400
This company tried to give people a convenient but legal way to watch movies by delivering the movies that people requested online straight to their houses.
Netflix
400
By using ______, a director can layer many images on one piece of film.
multiple exposures
400
This 1961 musical, based on Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", broke with tradition by having a sad ending.
West Side Story
400
This is when is films include one or two non-white actors in a movie just to try and seem diverse.
tokenism
400
This process, through which nations of the world have become increasingly interconnected, allows for some countries to purchase clothes very cheaply, because people in other countries create those clothes under horrid conditions and for very low pay.
Globalization
500
Video depicting the civil war in ______ been taken from YouTube and shown on regular television news programs.
Syria
500
By mixing makeup with ____, modern film has been able to transform people's faces (example" actor Ralph Feins to Lord Voldemort in Harry Potter).
computer effects
500
This recent musical depicting a Parisian rebellion from 1832 broke radically from tradition by having the actors sing live.
Les Miserables
500
Give two reasons Hollywoord in the early 20th century was considered a "white man's world."
1. The leading roles went to whites. 2. The movies were written about whites and white life. 3. The directors and producers were all white.
500
During this movement, people wore ripped, messy clothes to try to look like they didn't care about fashion, and "heroin chic" was trendy.
grunge
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