Week 4

Question 1

Art movement that arose during the Industrial Revolution in response to new worlds of commerce, industry, urban growth and a rising middle class.

Answer 1

Realism

Question 2

Art movement that favoured urban/working class in representation. Frankness.

Answer 2

Realism

Question 3

Formally, the story is presented in an unobtrusive, almost invisible way so that the characters and actions seem to exist on their own.

Answer 3

Realism

Question 4

Conveys an everyday reality as most people experience. Aligns itself with the rising middle class and its public and private struggles.

Answer 4

Realism

Question 5

What art movement does Precious fall under?

Answer 5

Realism

Question 6

Situations and qualities as if they could be true. They made not be in accurate representation of everyday life or history but they are plausible in any given genre.

Answer 6

Hollywood Realism

Question 7

Coherent space and time, characters with recognizable traits and a linear narrative (actions, reactions, results) are examples of…

Answer 7

Common Sense Tenants

Question 8

Resolution of familiar issues, realistic or fantastical setting and autonomous worlds are examples of…

Answer 8

Common Sense Tenants

Question 9

Mythic view that sees the social world as fixed, permanent reality with undeniable values and beliefs.

Answer 9

Dominant Ideology

Question 10

Values and beliefs that reinforce the status quo.

Answer 10

Dominant Ideology

Question 11

Reinforces common sense belief that the way things appear to be are the way things are.

Answer 11

Dominant Ideology

Question 12

Can naturalize a way of seeing the world or an ideology so that it no longer seems constructed or debatable.

Answer 12

Dominant Ideology

Question 13

Arose as a reaction to the apparent sacrifice of high art traditions to commercialism and the collapse of the social order signaled by the carnage of WW1.

Answer 13

Modernism

Question 14

Art movement that is not realistic nor idealistic.

Answer 14

Modernism

Question 15

Formally, the story making is very noticeable and collage and montage are employed.

Answer 15

Modernism

Question 16

The interior subjective life of the individuals is explored including consciousness, memory and desire in addition to the social reality.

Answer 16

Modernism

Question 17

Art movement that is a critique of modernity.

Answer 17

Modernism

Question 18

Rejected conventions of art in the 1800s.

Answer 18

Modernism

Question 19

Fragmentation, alienation and anonymity.

Answer 19

Modernism

Question 20

Attention to the physical qualities of materials unadorned shapes and structural foundation.

Answer 20

Modernism

Question 21

Draws attention to the act of narration and construction of the story word.

Answer 21

Modernism

Question 22

Combining different types of materials.

Answer 22

Collage

Question 23

Juxtaposition of individual shots.

Answer 23

Montage

Question 24

Shock, strange juxtapositions, political overtone. Attack of the status quo.

Answer 24

Dada

Question 25

Has a self-referential quality that draws attention to the formal processes to engage with the medium. The way that actions, time or space is related is often vague.

Answer 25

Formalism

Question 26

Explores the interior of a characters consciousness without an anchor in reality. Often surreal.

Answer 26

Heightened Subjectivity

Question 27

Art movement that rejected the aura of modernism and celebrates the popular of mass media and tradition is cut free of history.

Answer 27

Postmodernism

Question 28

Art movement that embraces the marketplace, often in an ironic or cynical way.

Answer 28

Postmodernism

Question 29

Implies a blurring of high and low cultural boundaries, the inability to distinguish between the real and the artifice.

Answer 29

The Postmodern Condition, Jean-Francois Lyotard

Question 30

The commodification of everyday life. The sense of the fragmentary, ambiguous and uncertain nature of living.

Answer 30

The Postmodern Condition, Jean-Francois Lyotard

Question 31

Radical transformation of realism. Rejection of modern elitism.

Answer 31

Postmodernism

Question 32

Responds to social issues of globalization. The association of art with national identity diminishes.

Answer 32

Postmodernism

Question 33

Formally, the story draws attention to itself through quotation, homage, copying, borrowing and recycling previous work.

Answer 33

Postmodernism

Question 34

Formally, mixes popular high art tradition and convention to stress the artifice.

Answer 34

Postmodernism

Question 35

Imagined worlds are more like other imagined worlds than reality. Sense of an external social referent decreases as films position with other films with the same formal conventions.

Answer 35

Postmodernism

Question 36

Features a questioning individual- questioning power, autonomy and self-control. Less stress on subjectivity.

Answer 36

Postmodernism

Question 37

Filmmaker builds their work from the fragments of previous work without claiming originality.

Answer 37

Postmodernism

Question 38

The surface of thing. The loss of history. Refusal to hint at hidden depth. Signifiers refer to other signifiers.

Answer 38

Postmodernism

Question 39

Paranoia, conspiracy, political cynicisms (the system).

Answer 39

Postmodernism