This camera technique, common in film noir, shows that the world is not right.
What are oblique angles?
100
This is the type of characteristic that is common to the main female character in women's films.
What is strong willed/independent?
100
This is the type of lighting of musicals.
What is high key lighting.
100
A common theme of Westerns is the juxtaposition between the wilderness and this.
What is civilization?
100
Quick pictures that tell a story in a movie and sometimes appear as newspaper clippings.
What is montage?
200
This is the setting of many noir movies.
What is urban cities?
200
In women's films, the woman usually has a witty female friend known as this.
What is a sidekick?
200
This is a key part of the plot in musicals and can be integrated or non-integrated.
What is singing/dancing?
200
This is a huge part of the plot in Westerns and usually takes place outside in the street.
What is a gun fight?
200
When each character has their own theme song.
What is Leit Motif?
300
The presence of a ceiling in noir is used to show this feeling.
What is entrapment?
300
Women get these and compete with males.
What is a career/job?
300
These types of shots are used to show many people dancing at once.
What is long and wide shots?
300
Saloons, children, churches, and marshals symbolize this.
What is civilization?
300
When the director is the author of the movie.
What is auteur?
400
This is the term for a woman who is the downfall for a man in film noir.
Who is the Femme Fatale?
400
She was the femme fatale in "Mildred Pierce".
Who is Veda?
400
She was the antagonist in the movie "Singin' in the Rain."
Who is Lina?
400
Film noir and the Western "Shane" are similar in the fact that both the protagonists are considered one of these.
What is a loner?
400
This is more of a documentary style found in films such as "The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat" and "Roshamon".
What is realism?
500
This is used to show deception, disorientation, and multiple sides of a person in noir.
What is a mirror?
500
This is the type of lighting found in most women's films.
What is high key lighting?
500
This type of musical focuses specifically on singing.
What is an operetta?
500
This Western is controversial of its time because it shows just how uncivilized a town can be and because a female minority in the film is a successful business woman.
What is "High Noon"?
500
Where the focus of the scene is, dominant, deep focus shots.