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film history exam 1

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In many Italian films of the early 1950s, directors used slowly paced tracking shots to: Explore characters' relations within a concrete environment
The Bicycle Thief, perhaps the most influential film of the neorealist trend, was directed by: Vittorio De Sica
The death of Pina in Rome, Open City was unsettling for many viewers in 1945 for all of the following reasons except: Up to that point the film appeared to be a documentary
The term 'rosy Neorealism' refers to films that melded working class characters with: The populist comedy
Italian neorealist films were edited in a manner based on: The norms of the Classical Hollywood style
Since the Italian film industry had long mastered postsynchronization for dubbing foreign movies, crews on Neo-realist films could shoot on location and dub in dialogue later True
Postwar European modernist films favored open-ended narratives, in which central plot lines were left unresolved True
The 'Franco aesthetic' in Spanish film of the 1950s referred to a sardonic or an ironic treatment of apparently safe subjects True
In editing an eyeline match is two shots that link a character looking offscreen with a shot that reveals what the character is looking at, but not necessarily from exactly the same point of view True
Most scenes in Italian neorealist films, even those set in interiors, were shot on location False
As economic recovery moved Italy to greater prosperity in the late 1940s, Italian audiences became more receptive to Neo-realism's focus on poverty and suffering False
By 1952, Europe's most industrially advanced countries were dominated by leftist and middle-of-the-road parties False
In France, one year after the Blum-Byrnes accord of 1946 that eliminated France's prewar quotas on American films: The number of American imports increased and number of French productions decreased
Jean Renoir's French reputation rose thanks in part to a reevaluation of his work published in a 1952 issue of: Cahiers du cinema
Max Ophuls' French films make extensive use of which technique associated with German cinema of the 1920s? Elaborate camera movements
The increased production of short films by new French filmmakers during the early 1950s was motivated by: A provision in a French aid law that encouraged short filmmaking
Which of the following qualities was NOT typical of the 'Tradition of Quality' films? An explicit critique of French society
Which of the following elements is NOT characteristic of the French films of director Max Ophuls? Location shooting
One of André Bazin's major contributions to postwar French film theory was a close examination of the cinematic potential of: Long Takes and Deep Focus
Female characters in "Tradition of Quality" films were often Treated as mysterious an unobtainable
Which of the following is NOT an Ealing comedy? Carry On England
The British government decided against forcing the major British film companies to sell off their theaters in the late 1940s because: American Companies would buy them
The humor of the Ealing Studio comedies was typically built on: Injecting a fantastic premise into an ordinary situation
Powell and Pressburger's The Red Shoes was based on A fairytale
Which British director made his reputation with two popular Dickens' adaptations, Great Expectations (1946) and Oliver Twist (1948)? David Lean
In the middle 1950s, 60% of the world's feature films were made: Outside the Western world and the Soviet bloc
The films that circulated most widely in the Middle East after World War II were produced in Egypt
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