During the Classical Studio System, Independent theaters were forced to do this, which meant they had to order an entire year's worth of films, sight unseen.
What is Block Booking?
100
In 1938 the federal government filed this type of lawsuit against the major studios.
What is Antitrust?
100
This type of theater appealed to an older, more educated audience and typically showed foreign, documentary, or independent films.
What is Art House?
100
These new wave directors passionately watched and discussed films, and were the first to be called this.
What is cinephile?
100
This type of documentary challenges the traditional documentary by attempting to stay as truthful, unbiased, and objective as possible. It utilizes long takes and limited editing to achieve this end.
What is Direct Cinema, or Cinéma Vérité?
200
A few businesses controlling an entire industry is known as this.
What is Oligopoly?
200
In 1948 the Supreme Court ruled against the "Big Five" studios forcing them to sell their theaters in a decision known as this
What is the Paramount Decision?
200
Tight hollywood narratives have this, which each scene causes the next one to happen, leading to a lean and efficient story line, a technique that Art Cinema does not employ.
What is a "causal chain"?
200
Many french new wave directors wrote for this magazine, which heavily pushed the auteur theory.
What is Cahiers du cinema?
200
This was the first film made by Drew and Associates and focused on Humphrey and JFK, the two democratic candidates for president on the campaign trail in Wisconsin in 1960.
What is Primary?
300
Paramount, MGM, Warner Bros, Twentieth Century Fox, and RKO, all vertically integrated in the Classical Studio System, were known as this.
What is The "Big Five"?
300
This type of film distribution was popular in the 1950s and 1960s, attempting to make filmgoing a very special event with programs and assigned seating.
What is Roadshow distribution?
300
Showing events from a character's perspective (subjectivity) allows the audience to learn about the protagonist in a way we couldn't with just an objective depiction of the outside world.
This is depicted in the dream sequence from this 1963 Fellini Film, shown in lecture.
What is 8 1/2?
300
Hiroshima, Mon Amour, by this famous Left Bank filmmaker, mixes past with present, the personal and global, fantasy, memory, and reality.
Who is Alain Resnais?
300
During the industry recession from 1969-1972, Kinney National bought this major studio in 1969.
What is Warner Bros.?
400
These studios were known as the "little three", because they weren't vertically integrated.
What is Universal, Columbia, and United Artists?
400
These were ways that film competed with TV in the 1950s and 1960s.
What are color, widescreen, gimmicks like 3D, and location shooting?
400
This famous art cinema director directed The Seventh Seal in 1957.
Who is Ingmar Bergman?
400
This debut Jean-Luc Godard film features rebellious, sexually liberated characters, jump cuts, and celebration/deconstruction of Hollywood tropes.
What is Breathless?
400
This film was Antonioni's first American film and was aimed at the youth counterculture. It was a Huge flop, earning less that $1million in the box office.
What is Zabriski Point?
500
Many films during the classical studio period were shot here, making it very efficient to produce many high quality films in a short period of time.
What are sound stages or studio backlots?
500
This powerful talent agent convinced Alfred Hitchcock to start his own TV show.
Who is Lew Wasserman?
500
This type of style, used in art cinema, calls attention to itself, in ways that the "invisible" style of classical hollywood does not.
What is Overt Style?
500
This film by Jean-Luc Godard represents his shift to more political, anti-pleasurable films.
What is Week End?
500
This is the Japanese term for swordplay films, for which Akira Kurosawa was best known.