Chapter 12: Cinema

Question 1

Serge Eisenstein directed

Answer 1

A. Battleship Potemkin

Question 2

During the silent film years, films usually were shown

Answer 2

b. to the accompaniment of carefully coordinated music

Question 3

Who puts the shots in order after filming of a movie is finished?

Answer 3

c. the editor

Question 4

Which of the following moves abruptly from one shot to the next, with no preparation and often with a shock?

Answer 4

b. jump cut

Question 5

Which of the following is a sequence of images dramatically connected but physically disconnected?

Answer 5

b. montage

Question 6

Which of the following films introduced sound?

Answer 6

a. Jazz Singer

Question 7

According to the text, escapism in viewing film is a kind of

Answer 7

d. self-indulgence

Question 8

According to the text, the best participation with a film

Answer 8

d. reveals or informs the viewer about himself or herself

Question 9

Federico Fellini’s 8 ½ is notable for its

Answer 9

b. use of episodic streams of consciousness in the sequences

Question 10

As David Cook explains in A History of Narrative Film, there is a complexity of subject matter in film that is rivaled only by

Answer 10

d. literature

Question 11

Which of the following provides a model for Cimino’s The Deer Hunter?

Answer 11

b. Dante’s Divine Comedy

Question 12

Which is a shot in which the camera moves forward, backward, or sidewise?

Answer 12

d. tracking shot

Question 13

Which of the following is a signature of Citizen Kane?

Answer 13

a. long shots

Question 14

According to the text, what makes The Godfather an impressive achievement?

Answer 14

d. its ambiguity

Question 15

Which of the following is preeminent in film?

Answer 15

a. the moving image