Get in the Picture
It's all Theoretical
State Your Terms
Mix It Up
Who's Who?
100
Who directed "Nanook of the North"?
Who is Robert Flaherty?
100
This theory asserts that media consumers do not question or challenge the messages they receive.
What is The Hypodermic Needle Model?
100
To cover a specific genre of journalism.
What is a beat?
100
Communication in which the medium is technology
What is mass media?
100
The director of "The Greatest Movie Ever Sold"
Who is Morgan Spurlock?
200
A movie directed by Morgan Spurlock which explored the concept of product placement.
What is "The Greatest Movie Ever Sold"?
200
This theory states that a media text does not have a meaning until it is read, viewed, or experienced.
What is audience theory?
200
The way in which a story or sequence of events is put together within a text.
What is narrative?
200
A meaning based on associations or feelings.
What is connotation?
200
A form of criticism which focuses on the role of social class was first founded by this critic and writer.
Who is Karl Marx?
300
An early example of stop-motion animation, which was released in 1933.
What is "King Kong"?
300
This theory claims that opinion leaders are the first to receive media messages, which they then transmit to followers.
What is Two-Step Flow Theory?
300
A society which accepts numerous belief systems and ideas.
What is plural culture?
300
An advertiser attracts the attention of a consumer with a low-priced item but then encourages them to buy a higher-priced one.
What is bait and switch?
300
This man directed "Fahrenheit 9/11" and many other participatory docs.
Who is Michael Moore?
400
This man's sneeze is the first recorded American short film.
Who is Fred Ott?
400
This media theorist created both the model of mass communication as well as a famous model of communication.
Who is Schramm?
400
The belief that machines and their development drive social change.
What is technological determinism?
400
The following convention belongs to which film movement: no sit-down interviews?
What is Direct Cinema?
400
This man invented the Kinetoscope while working for Thomas Edison.
Who is William Dickson?
500
A short film produced in 1910 which was approximately ten minutes long and utilized early special effects.
What is "The Great Train Robbery"?
500
Define the third person effect.
What is the theory that others are affected by media messages, but we are not.
500
A set of beliefs which are held to be acceptable by the creators of a media text.
What is ideology?
500
Name two modes of documentary film.
What are: expository, observational, participatory, reflexive, performative, and poetic?
500
This director of "Birth of a Nation" was a pioneer of the film industry, but his controversial works caused him to be exiled from Hollywood.
Who is D.W. Griffith?
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