ALLEN + GOMERY
RESEARCH GUIDELINES
GUNNING
Birth of a Nation
MISCELLANY
100
Four types approaches to writing film history
What are AESTHETIC, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL and TECHNOLOGICAL?
100
Number of components in the Research Paper Proposal
What is 2?
100
The University with which the author of "The Cinema of Attraction: Early Film, Its Spectator and the Avant-Garde" Prof. Tom Gunning is associated
What is University of Chicago?
100
The families (and their regional associations) around which the narrative revolves in the first part of Birth of a Nation
Who are the STONEMANS (North) and the CAMERONS (South)?
100
The highly regarded Yale film historian who, as a student, upended the assumption that Edwin S. Porter's Life of an American Fireman was the first film to employ cross-cutting by discovering an unedited exhibition copy
Who is Prof. Charles Musser?
200
Two pitfalls of traditional historiography (Hint: concepts discussed in second portion of A+G reading)
What are TECHNOLOGICAL DETERMINISM and GREAT MAN THEORY OF HISTORY
200
Due date for the Research Paper Proposal
What is Tuesday November 4, 2014 at the beginning of class in hard copy?
200
Famous dramaturg and filmmaker, and originator of the term "attractions," who used it to articulate his vision of montage as mobilized in the theatre
Who is SERGEI EISENSTEIN?
200
The number of "facsimile cards" Griffith inserts as intertitles to bolster the supposed historical credibility of certain events in the first part of Birth of a Nation
What is two?
200
The process by which film is colored using dye, marked by a change in the highlights from near-white to the color of choice
What is tinting?
300
The names of two early film historians whose work is discussed in "Case Study: The First American Film Historians"
Who are ROBERT GRAU and TERRY RAMSAYE?
300
Cumulative percentage of final grade composed of Proposal and Paper
What is 40%?
300
The four films (and the names of their directors) mentioned by Prof. Gunning as examples of the cinema of attraction that we have seen in class so far this quarter
What are: -VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE, Georges Melies -THE GAY SHOE CLERK, Edwin S. Porter -HOW A FRENCH NOBLEMAN GOT A WIFE THROUGH THE NEW YORK HERALD PERSONAL COLUMNS, Edwin S. Porter (Exhibitor Percival Waters commissioned) -THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, Edwin S. Porter
300
The "W" in DW Griffith
What is "Wark"?
300
The process by which one may change the color of a film print, which can produce a print with near-white highlights and altered shadows
What is toning?
400
Demonstrating the danger of recording only "successes" in the history of the development of cinematic technology, A+G cite this technology as one of the forgotten attempts at integrating multi-sensory perception into the viewing experience
What is SMELL-O-VISION?
400
The name of the amazing archive associated with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
What is the Margaret Herrick Library?
400
The year in which the version of Prof. Gunning's article "The Cinema of Attraction" we read for class was published
What is 1986?
400
The title and composer of the famous, menacing song in one of the first battle scenes of last night's portion of Birth of a Nation, also used by Fritz Lang in his Weimar classic, M
What is "In the Hall of the Mountain King" from Peer Gynt by Edvard Grieg?
400
The famous Danish silent film actress who achieved a great deal of acclaim starring in Weimar cinema, and who had a partnership until around the mid-1910s with Danish director Urban Gad
Who is Asta Nielsen?
500
Name two of the four characteristics of a competitive market, according to A+G, relevant to A+G's discussion of the MPPC
What are: -INTERCHANGEABLE PRODUCTS -LACK OF CONCENTRATED INFLUENCE IN BUYER/SELLER GROUPS -ABSENCE OF ARTIFICIAL RESTRAINTS -MOBILITY OF RESOURCES
500
An itemized production budget, for example
What is an example of a primary source?
500
The artistic movements, generally classed as "modernist," Gunning finds relevant to his thesis about "cinema of attraction"
What are FUTURISM, DADA and SURREALISM?
500
The famous silent film actress who plays Elsie Stoneman
Who is Lillian Gish?
500
The film (name and studio) that the Edison Company's How a French Nobleman [...] copied
What is Personal, from Biograph?
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