Test 2

Question 1

the Japanese film industry was an oligopoly of what 3 vertically-integrated firms?

Answer 1

Nikkatsu and Shochiku, then Toho

Question 2

meiji-mono

Answer 2

1960s genre that explored contrast between traditional and Western culture

Question 3

jidai-geki

Answer 3

historical film

Question 4

gendai-geki

Answer 4

contemporary film

Question 5

cadre system

Answer 5

repeated collaboration of directors and screenwriters. encouraged filmmakers to develop a personal style since both have extreme control over film.

Question 6

who was Kenzi Mizoguchi’s screenwriter?

Answer 6

Yoshikata Yoda

Question 7

Shimpa melodrama

Answer 7

weak men, wronged women

Question 8

Quota Act of 1927

Answer 8

cause for expansion of British film industry. distributors/exhibitors had to sell/show a certain percent of British films. production increased greatly, although many films were quota quickies

Question 9

Quota Quickies

Answer 9

low-budget films produced quickly to meet Quota Act. training ground for directors and source of jobs during Depression

Question 10

main British firms

Answer 10

Gaumont-British, British International Pictures (BIP)

Question 11

Alexander Korda

Answer 11

a prominent Hungarian producer in Britain. started with quota quickies, switched to big-budget to crack American market.
got a contract with UA and made The Private Life of Henry. huge success, UA signed him for 16 more films

Question 12

Japanese film industry in general

Answer 12

• achieved stability of HW
• output was high throughout Depression
• US films didn’t overshadow domestic product

Question 13

shomin-geki

Answer 13

lower class

Question 14

Yasujiro Ozu

Answer 14

opposite of Mizoguchi; comedies, editing, close framing

Question 15

mythological film

Answer 15

Indian genre that takes its plot from legends or epics

Question 16

devotional

Answer 16

Indian genre; religious biographical tale

Question 17

Jean Vigo

Answer 17

the most promising young filmmaker in France in the 1930’s

influenced by Surrealism

Question 18

Jean Renoir

Answer 18

the most significant director of 1930’s French films. made films influenced by Popular Front and directed La Vie est a nous

Question 19

Poetic Realism

Answer 19

a tendency of French films of the 1930’s. centered around outcasts/chars at margin of society who suffer a lifetime of disappointment and find one last chance at true love. ultimately, they are disappointed and the films would often end with the main character’s death.

Question 20

The Popular Front (La Vie est a nous, La Marseillaise)

Answer 20

a short-lived liberal party focusing on the worker’s plight following the Depression.
La Vie est a nous – campaign film
La Marseillaise – historical epic depicting French Revolution

Question 21

COIC

Answer 21

organization created by gov in Vichy France to control film industry. harsh censorship and discrimination of Jews/removal from industry

Question 22

The Blue Angel

Answer 22

• German film directed by Josef von Sternberg in 1930 starring Emil Jannings
• avoided multiple-camera shooting yet had excellent lip synchronization
• used realistically motivated offscreen sound

Question 23

Rene Clair

Answer 23

• widely known French director with an international audience
• used sound in innovative ways (stretches of silence, sonic puns, and “wrong” sounds)

Question 24

National Board of Censorship (year + renaming)

Answer 24

formed 1909, renamed National Board of Review in 1915