Europe
Asia
Australia
Latin America
Africa
100

This Italian horror style is characterized by low budgets, exploitation, eroticism, madness, and alienation, as well as a vivid color palette

Giallo

100

Nicholas Holm American remake of this Japanese film says more about contemporary Western attitudes vis-a-vis Japan than any other film that attempts to represent Japan head-on

Ringu

100

In 1849, all of Western Australia became this kind of colony

A penal colony

100

This is the defining feature of Latin America as a cultural region

Language

100

This is the nickname for the African film industry based in Lagos

Nollywood

200

This artistic movement emphasized the artist's inner emotions and used cinema to replicate subjective psychological states

German expressionism

200

Early Japanese films like those by Shirō Asano established this as a defining genre of the nation's cinema

The ghost film

200

This is a Western-esque style of Australian cinema set in the outback

The bushranger film

200

Argentina, Brazil, and this country historically had the largest film industries in Latin America

Mexico

200

This former French colony developed the earliest film industry in sub-Saharan Africa

Senegal
300

The Wicker Man, Blood on Satan's Claw, and Witchfinder General are the Unholy Trinity of this subgenre, which has existed since at least the 1970s but wasn't given a name until 2003

Folk horror

300

Han,or a sense of agonizing grief at unfair suffering, is a defining feature of which tradition of Asian horror?

K-Horror

300

Crocodile Dundee and Mad Max are films that deal with this myth, which explores hypermasculinity in Australia

The bush myth

300

Latin American horror relies heavily on this literary device, in which characters, events, places, etc. can be interpreted as meaning something else or standing in for larger forces

Allegory

300

This dialect was adopted as the "natural" language for Arab films

Egyptian Arabic

400

Marcia Landry describes this filmmaker's work as "a meditation on the aesthetics of filmmaking itself"

Dario Argento

400

J-Horror is one phase of horror in Japanese cinema. What was the name of the phase that predated it?

New Wave horror

400

This is Australia's most significant cinematic export

Stars

400

This is a magical realism-adjacent style of Latin American cinema that self-consciously critiques Western depictions of the region as exotic and foreign

Tropicalism

400

Nollywood cinema falls under this style of filmmaking, in which filmmakers rely on easily accessible technologies and natural or found environments

Guerrilla filmmaking

500
British folk horror films typically take place in rural, isolated landscapes like moors and islands. What is the American equivalent of this rural landscape?

The frontier

500

This film premiered in Japan in 1954 and has gone on to become the longest-running film franchise of all time

Godzilla

500

This doctrine states that any territory that does not already belong to another state, "whether it is uninhabited or inhabited by persons whose community is not considered to be a state" is available for occupation

Terra nullius ("nobody's land")

500

These were tent shows in which films were exhibited to working-class audiences

Carpas

500

Othello, directed by this famed American filmmaker, was filmed in Morocco and won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1953

Orson Welles

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