Exam 5: Mise-En-Scène

The colors and textures of interiors, furniture, draperies, and curtains are aspects of

The contrast of light and dark was used in The Night of the Hunter (1955) to reinforce

The intersection (or, in some cases, collision) between fantasy and reality often occur in the work of which director(s)?

For the costuming in the 1963 historical epic Cleopatra, the Hollywood studio 20th Century Fox was more concerned with ________ than historical accuracy.

To create a balanced composition, characters whose lateral screen movement is tracked by a moving camera are almost invariably given

How do filmmakers manipulate the proximity of characters to suggest different meanings?

Which of the following falls under the supervision of a movie's production designer?

Using examples from the text, compare the different directorial approaches to mise-en-scène by Wes Anderson, Alfonso Cuarón, and Robert Wiene.

The visual style of Sleepy Hollow (1999) features many characteristics of what two genres?

Describe the evolution of movie sets during the first two decades of moviemaking. How do filmmakers utilize sets to create the illusion of a complete location when seen on-screen?

The first great German expressionist film was

In The Scarlet Empress (1934), director Josef von Sternberg photographs Marlene Dietrich to accentuate her

________ is a lighting technique that uses deep gradations and subtle variations of lights and darks.

________ is the process by which the look of settings, props, lighting, and actors is determined.

What is the rule of thirds, and why is it often preferred to create the illusion of depth over a combination of deep-space composition and deep-focus cinematography?

How did films of the Italian neorealism movement of the 1940s differ from Hollywood films of the same period?

How does director Ava DuVernay use mise-en-scène in a courthouse scene to achieve authenticity in Selma (2014)?

Which of the following is not an aspect of shot composition?

What did movie studios hope to gain by building soundstages after the first two decades of filmmaking?

Studios of the classical Hollywood period had no qualms about ordering male actors with star potential to undergo cosmetic surgery and change hair color in order to