Deck 4: European Cinema in the 1920s

Question 1

Alfred Hitchcock was not at all interested and did not use the Soviet's emerging technique of manipulative cutting when it suited his purposes.___

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Who of these had little or no interest in expressing the workings of the subconscious?

A)Fritz Lang
B)Sergei Eisenstein
C)King Vidor
D)Alfred Hitchcock

Answer 2

C

Question 3

The German director who served as the inspiration for other German directors such as F.W.Murnau and Robert Wiene was

A)G.W.Pabst
B)Carl Mayer
C)Ernst Lubitsch
D)Max Reinhardt

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Alfred Hitchcock's early films resemble the German movies exemplified by F.W. Murnau in all of the following ways except

A)plot.
B)character.
C)art direction.
D)suggestive camera.

Question 5

Sergei Eisenstein's overriding principle was kineticism which meant which of these?

A)movement outside the frame
B)movement inside the frame
C)careful attention to movement of the camera
D)all of the above

Question 6

The "Griffith of Europe" was the German director

A)Ernst Lubitsch
B)Fritz Lang
C)Emil Jennings
D)Walter Ruttman

Question 7

Which of these is true about F.W.Murnau's Nosferatu?

A)Dracula is very good looking.
B)Dracula lives in Paris.
C)Dracula is a kind of man-rat.
D)Dracula drinks blood in his bath.

Question 8

Which of the following is a renowned Fritz Lang film?

A)Wings
B)Mother
C)The Eyes of the Mummy Man
D)Metropolis

Question 9

According to V.I.Pudovkin,the operating principle of Russian (i.e.Soviet) filmmaking was

A)editing.
B)plot.
C)acting.
D)none of the above.
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Question 10

Abel Gance's films are characterized by all of the following except

A)avant-garde techniques.
B)romantic sensibility.
C)restraint.
D)extreme length.

Question 11

Un Chien Andalou is a surrealist film made by

A)Louis Buñuel
B)Salvador Dali
C)Both
D)Neither

Question 12

G.W.Pabst's Pandora's Box

A)faithfully recreates the myth.
B)is a relentless parable of a sensually insatiable woman's destruction.
C)concerns street-wise profiteers and destitute middle-class.
D)portrays capitalism's connection to war.

Question 13

Kuleshov's editing experiment on the importance of the order of shots involved which sequence?

A)closeup of an actor with a plate of soup;a dead woman in a coffin;a little girl playing with a doll
B)closeup of a little girl playing with a doll;a dead woman in a coffin;an actor with a plate of soup
C)a dead woman in a coffin;a little girl playing with a doll;an actor with a plate of soup
D)none of the above

Question 14

Luis Buńuel,in film after film,took as his theme

A)various ways people are cruel to animals.
B)some attack on conventional morality.
C)support for capitalist-based society.
D)examination and application of the ideas of Carl Jung.

Question 15

Dadaism is the art movement that

A)despised realism.
B)emphasized the illogical or absurd.
C)used buffoonery and provocative behavior to shock.
D)all of the above
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Question 16

The French director who had an anarchist spirit but produced a light tone was

A)René Clair
B)Jean Renoir
C)Marcel Proust
D)Jean Vigo

Question 17

Potemkin's Odessa steps sequence is a powerful recreation of what it's like to be caught in an explosion of random violence.___

Question 18

Sjöström and Stiller explored the suffering brought on by the conflict between severe Protestantism and its constricting effect on the human instinct for pleasure.___

Question 19

Which of these is the director whose free flow of images took the place of conventional narrative?

A)Alexander Pudovkin
B)Alexander Dovzhenko
C)F.W.Murnau
D)G.W.Pabst

Question 20

In Expressionism,which flourished in Germany,theorizes or uses all of the following except

A)the artist's emotional,personal reactions
B)exaggeration and dreamlike atmosphere
C)the faithful reproduction of the natural appearance of an object
D)heavy use of light and dark contrasts

Question 21

Zero for Conduct is a Dada film made famous for its slow-motion,dreamlike,surreal pillow-fight scene.___

Question 22

Matching
a.The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari
b.Le Million
c.The Last Laugh
d.editing is the essence of cinema
e.L'Age d'Or
f.The Lodger
g.Lulu in Hollywood
h.Storm over Asia
i.Spies
j.Napoleon
Abel Gance ___

Question 23

The Russians used tracking,panning,tilting,and the like to full effect.___

Question 24

Matching
a.The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari
b.Le Million
c.The Last Laugh
d.editing is the essence of cinema
e.L'Age d'Or
f.The Lodger
g.Lulu in Hollywood
h.Storm over Asia
i.Spies
j.Napoleon
Robert Wiene ___

Question 25

How did Sergei Eisenstein use reverse angles in his filmmaking?

Question 26

Matching
a.The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari
b.Le Million
c.The Last Laugh
d.editing is the essence of cinema
e.L'Age d'Or
f.The Lodger
g.Lulu in Hollywood
h.Storm over Asia
i.Spies
j.Napoleon
Vsevelod Pudovkin ___

Question 27

Matching
a.The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari
b.Le Million
c.The Last Laugh
d.editing is the essence of cinema
e.L'Age d'Or
f.The Lodger
g.Lulu in Hollywood
h.Storm over Asia
i.Spies
j.Napoleon
Luis Buñuel ___

Question 28

Modern Times was so like Under the Roofs of Paris that René Clair's producers sued Charlie Chaplin.___

Question 29

What is the definition of the German term kammerspiel? Give an example of a movie embodying this quality.

Question 30

The Germans used expressionism to create a form of light-hearted domestic comedy.
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Question 31

Murnau was the first to make camera movement a style sufficient unto itself.___

Question 32

Matching
a.The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari
b.Le Million
c.The Last Laugh
d.editing is the essence of cinema
e.L'Age d'Or
f.The Lodger
g.Lulu in Hollywood
h.Storm over Asia
i.Spies
j.Napoleon
Lev Kuleshov ___

Question 33

Matching
a.The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari
b.Le Million
c.The Last Laugh
d.editing is the essence of cinema
e.L'Age d'Or
f.The Lodger
g.Lulu in Hollywood
h.Storm over Asia
i.Spies
j.Napoleon
Alfred Hitchcock ___

Question 34

Germany's cinema was the only national cinema comparable to America's in the 1920s.___

Question 35

Abel Gance's "polyvision" anticipates Cinerama.___

Question 36

In what ways did filmmakers react to the disillusioning bloodiness of World War I?
What film movement/ style was the ultimate reaction to "the war to end all wars"?

Question 37

Matching
a.The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari
b.Le Million
c.The Last Laugh
d.editing is the essence of cinema
e.L'Age d'Or
f.The Lodger
g.Lulu in Hollywood
h.Storm over Asia
i.Spies
j.Napoleon
René Clair ___

Question 38

Matching
a.The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari
b.Le Million
c.The Last Laugh
d.editing is the essence of cinema
e.L'Age d'Or
f.The Lodger
g.Lulu in Hollywood
h.Storm over Asia
i.Spies
j.Napoleon
F.W.Murnau ___

Question 39

Matching
a.The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari
b.Le Million
c.The Last Laugh
d.editing is the essence of cinema
e.L'Age d'Or
f.The Lodger
g.Lulu in Hollywood
h.Storm over Asia
i.Spies
j.Napoleon
Louise Brooks ___

Question 40

Matching
a.The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari
b.Le Million
c.The Last Laugh
d.editing is the essence of cinema
e.L'Age d'Or
f.The Lodger
g.Lulu in Hollywood
h.Storm over Asia
i.Spies
j.Napoleon
Fritz Lang ___

Question 41

Do Fritz Lang's symbols in his films keep his films from being realistic?

Question 42

What does the term "plastic" mean as it applies to Soviet/ Russian movie making?

Question 43

What is/ are the difference(s)between expressionism and naturalism?

Question 44

Explain Abel Gance's "Polyvision" as an example of his extravagant filmmaking.

Question 45

In what ways were Luis Buñuel's (with Salvador Dali's help early on)"attack" movies in terms of technique,imagery,and theme?