The first films recorded by the Lumiere Brothers is also known as.
What is Actualities
100
These are the common comedic approaches in Slapstick
What is physical humor, practical jokes, gags, repetitive joke, pratfalls.
100
A cheap or sensational comic
What is a Penny Dreadful
100
The 19th-century doctrine that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
What is Manifest Destiny
100
Considered a mental diversion by means of entertainment or recreation as a break from life.
What is Escapist
200
Directed Nanook of the North
What is Robert Flaherty
200
Common themes
What are anti-authority, society insider vs. outside, class bias, tragedy, fate physical humiliation
200
This Silent Era influence caused stories to focus vampires, monsters and ghosts
What is Gothic
200
Common Iconography
What is cowboy hats, guns, lassos, horses, boots, stetson.
200
This rejuvenated audience interest after 125 musicals were made in two years
What is the Great Depression
300
Is an Essay style non-fiction approach that uses voice of god narration
What is Expository
300
Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle, Normand, Langdon and Llyod were all almuni of this film company
What is Keystone Film Company or Keystone Kops
300
Films designed to cause horror or dread by recalling our worst fears and anxieties through
What are psychological, monstrosity or supernatural.
300
A movie about the American Old West made cheaply in Europe by an Italian producer or director.
What is spaghetti western
300
Altman's proposed three sub-genres for musicals
What is Fairy Tale, Show and Folk
400
Participatory film uses what approaches.
What is interviews, reenactments, archival footage
400
Slapstick Genre has roots in
What is Italian Commedia dell'Arte or Harlequinade.
400
Influenced by post-WWI Trauma as seen through stylized aesthetics that explored the human psyche.
What is German Expressionism
400
These films question the ideals and style of the traditional Western
What is Revisionist Western
400
The Six Genre Conventions
What is story formula, themes, setting, character types, style and stars
500
The modes of documentary
What is poetic, reflexive, performative, participatory, expository and observational.
500
Successfully transitioned to Sound
Who are Laural and Hardy, Marx Brothers and 3 Stooges
500
Is the female survivor at the end of slasher horror films.
What is Virgin/Last Girl
500
The Magnificent Seven was influenced by this Akira Kurosawa film.
What is Seven Samurai
500
This genre theory considers a group of films as a series of communal stories that reiterate important cultural stories to represent cultural emotions, aspirations, obsessions and anxieties of a time period.