Quiz 3.1 and 3.2

Question 1

Factual Film

Answer 1

A documentary film that, usually, presents people, places, or processes in a straightforward way meant to entertain and instruct without unduly influencing audiences. Compare instructional film, persuasive film, and propaganda film.

Question 2

Instructional Film

Answer 2

A documentary film that seeks to educate viewers about common interests, rather than persuading them with particular ideas. Compare factual film, persuasive film, and propaganda film.

Question 3

Persuasive film

Answer 3

A documentary film concerned with presenting a particular perspective on social issues, or with corporate and governmental injustice. Compare factual film, instructional film, and propaganda film.

Question 4

Propoganda film

Answer 4

A documentary film that systematically disseminates deceptive or distorted information. Compare factual film, instructional film, and persuasive film.

Question 5

Direct Cinema

Answer 5

An approach to documentary filmmaking that employs an unobtrusive style in an attempt to give viewers as truthful and ‘direct’ an experience of events as possible.

Question 6

Stream of consciousness

Answer 6

A literary style that gained prominence in the 1920s in the hands of such writers as Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and Dorothy Richardson and that attempted to capture the unedited flow of experience through the mind.

Question 7

Genre

Answer 7

The categorization of narrative films by form, content, or both. Examples of genres are musical, comedy, biography, Western, science fiction, horror, and so on.

Question 8

experimental movie

Answer 8

a type of movie that seeks to break boundaries, categorization, and convention and challenge our understanding of what a movie is.

Question 9

documentary movie

Answer 9

a type of movie concerned with recording reality

Question 10

narrative movie

Answer 10

a type of movie directed toward fiction