Deck 7: European Cinema in the 1930s

Question 1

Who financed his early movies himself using art works?

A)Marcel Carné
B)Jean Renoir
C)Jean Cocteau
D)Carl Theodore Dreyer

Answer 1

B

Question 2

In Grand Illusion,Jean Renoir made good use of the talents of

A)Charlie Chaplin
B)G.W.Pabst
C)Erich von Stroheim
D)Alfred Hitchcock

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Hitchcock in part achieved his films' effect and success through the influence and use of

A)editing based on the theory of Kuleshov and Pudovkin
B)German Expressionism
C)innovations in sound
D)all of the above

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Hitler targeted two areas to condemn and promote his policies: Americans and movies.___

Question 5

Alexander Korda's problem with making his movies - those he produced and directed - was that

A)he was not a very creative director
B)he moved from country to country too often
C)he let too many different people direct his movies
D)he had tastes which were much too rarefied

Question 6

What film did Alfred Hitchcock make in Britain which proved the precursor of later films like North by Northwest?

A)Vertigo
B)The 39 Steps
C)Lifeboat
D)Number 17

Question 7

Who did not flee Germany with the rise of Adolf Hitler?

A)Billy Wilder
B)Fritz Lang
C)Leni Riefenstahl
D)Fred Zinnemann

Question 8

The Blue Angel is characterized by which of the following:

A)woman as devourer
B)man as avenger
C)love as redemption
D)all of the above

Question 9

Britain's cinema was stunted for many years by which of the following:

A)country's lack of a strong economy
B)dreary conservatism
C)snobbish,theater-oriented tradition
D)all of the above

Question 10

British drama was not hampered at all departures of artists like Charlie Chaplin.___

Question 11

The French admired and paid homage in their surrealist films to

A)American slapstick comedy as seen in Buster Keaton and Laurel and Hardy
B)Russian masters Pudovkin and Eisenstein
C)Alfred Hitchcock and Alexander Korda
D)all of the above

Question 12

Marcel Ophüls often examined what he considered the transitory nature of love in movies like La Ronde.___

Question 13

Charles Laughton,the actor,perhaps gave his fines performance in the movie

A)The Private Life of Henry VIII
B)Spartacus
C)The Hunchback of Norte Dame
D)Night of the Hunter

Question 14

William Faulkner wrote the script for which of these films which Renoir made in America?

A)The Southerner
B)The Sound and the Fury
C)Absalom,Absalom
D)Light in August

Question 15

Fritz Lang's first talkie in German was

A)The Blue Angel
B)M
C)Liebelei
D)Triumph of the Will

Question 16

If French civilization were destroyed today,what film,according to Richard Roud, could be used to reconstruct that civilization?

A)Rules of the Game
B)Beauty and the Beast
C)Children of Paradise
D)none of the above

Question 17

What French film director called for movies which "dealt with life as it was lived in the streets of Paris"?

A)Francois Truffaut
B)Danielle Darrieux
C)Jacques Prévert
D)Marcel Carné

Question 18

Who of the following often built movies around an "innocent man on the run" theme?

A)Michael Powell
B)Alexander Korda
C)John Grierson
D)Alfred Hitchcock
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Question 19

Jean Cocteau made which of the following magical tales?

A)Beauty and the Beast
B)The Blood of the Poet
C)both a and b
D)neither a and b

Question 20

The New Wave film movement of France most admired which French film director?

A)Jean Cocteau
B)Jean Renoir
C)Marcel Carné
D)Jacques Prévert
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Question 21

What sense of fate did Max Ophüls achieve in his use of circular narratives?

Question 22

Matching
a.Jean Renoir classic of study of French classes
b.angels wore black leather Orpheus
c.German actress turned director
d.star of Port of Shadows
e.The Blue Angel star
f.Liebelei
g.Fritz Lang's first talkie
h.Marcel Carné masterpiece
i.The Lady Vanishes
j.Alexander Korda
Rembrandt ___

Question 23

Matching
a.Jean Renoir classic of study of French classes
b.angels wore black leather Orpheus
c.German actress turned director
d.star of Port of Shadows
e.The Blue Angel star
f.Liebelei
g.Fritz Lang's first talkie
h.Marcel Carné masterpiece
i.The Lady Vanishes
j.Alexander Korda
Rules of the Game ___

Question 24

Silence was better suited to Renoir's films than sound because of the films' contemplative and realistic perspectives.___
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Question 25

Matching
a.Jean Renoir classic of study of French classes
b.angels wore black leather Orpheus
c.German actress turned director
d.star of Port of Shadows
e.The Blue Angel star
f.Liebelei
g.Fritz Lang's first talkie
h.Marcel Carné masterpiece
i.The Lady Vanishes
j.Alexander Korda
Children of Paradise ___

Question 26

Jean Renoir was interested in preserving and extending his famous father's reputation as an Impressionistic painter.___

Question 27

Matching
a.Jean Renoir classic of study of French classes
b.angels wore black leather Orpheus
c.German actress turned director
d.star of Port of Shadows
e.The Blue Angel star
f.Liebelei
g.Fritz Lang's first talkie
h.Marcel Carné masterpiece
i.The Lady Vanishes
j.Alexander Korda
Alfred Hitchcock ___

Question 28

Matching
a.Jean Renoir classic of study of French classes
b.angels wore black leather Orpheus
c.German actress turned director
d.star of Port of Shadows
e.The Blue Angel star
f.Liebelei
g.Fritz Lang's first talkie
h.Marcel Carné masterpiece
i.The Lady Vanishes
j.Alexander Korda
Jean Cocteau ___

Question 29

Alfred Hitchcock regretted that sound entered movies as is clear in Blackmail.___

Question 30

Hitchcock's movies tended to follow a "structure of the Sennett chase,accelerating rush towards a climactic resolution." ___

Question 31

Matching
a.Jean Renoir classic of study of French classes
b.angels wore black leather Orpheus
c.German actress turned director
d.star of Port of Shadows
e.The Blue Angel star
f.Liebelei
g.Fritz Lang's first talkie
h.Marcel Carné masterpiece
i.The Lady Vanishes
j.Alexander Korda
Max Ophüls ___

Question 32

What film movement brought Great Britain its first distinctive form of filmmaking and what was its goal?

Question 33

Matching
a.Jean Renoir classic of study of French classes
b.angels wore black leather Orpheus
c.German actress turned director
d.star of Port of Shadows
e.The Blue Angel star
f.Liebelei
g.Fritz Lang's first talkie
h.Marcel Carné masterpiece
i.The Lady Vanishes
j.Alexander Korda
Leni Riefenstahl ___

Question 34

Matching
a.Jean Renoir classic of study of French classes
b.angels wore black leather Orpheus
c.German actress turned director
d.star of Port of Shadows
e.The Blue Angel star
f.Liebelei
g.Fritz Lang's first talkie
h.Marcel Carné masterpiece
i.The Lady Vanishes
j.Alexander Korda
Marlene Dietrich ___

Question 35

Matching
a.Jean Renoir classic of study of French classes
b.angels wore black leather Orpheus
c.German actress turned director
d.star of Port of Shadows
e.The Blue Angel star
f.Liebelei
g.Fritz Lang's first talkie
h.Marcel Carné masterpiece
i.The Lady Vanishes
j.Alexander Korda
M ___

Question 36

What quality do Alfred Hitchcock's American films possess that is lacking in his earlier British films?

Question 37

Matching
a.Jean Renoir classic of study of French classes
b.angels wore black leather Orpheus
c.German actress turned director
d.star of Port of Shadows
e.The Blue Angel star
f.Liebelei
g.Fritz Lang's first talkie
h.Marcel Carné masterpiece
i.The Lady Vanishes
j.Alexander Korda
Jean Gabin ___

Question 38

Jean Cocteau was pedestrian in his invention of imagery and humor.___
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Question 39

Marcel Carné prefigures film noir.___

Question 40

A film like Leo McCarey's Wrong Again is an example of a film much adored by French surrealists.___

Question 41

Is Leni Riefenstahl's The Triumph of the Will a documentary or a work of fiction?

Question 42

Did Marcel Carné make "film noir" movies?

Question 43

Was the fabulist/surrealist French film director Jean Cocteau simply ahead of his time in his technique and story development?

Question 44

How is Marlene Dietrich's Lola in Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel prototypically a femme fatale?

Question 45

What view of life and love do Marcel Carné 's films like Children of Paradise have? What do his film anticipate?