Exam 1: Introduction

One of the goals of the textbook is to teach students that their emotional response to a film isn't as important as their intellectual engagement with the text.

The Kinetograph,a camera that recorded motion pictures on rolls of film,was invented by ________.

Alternative modes of filmmaking and spectatorship,including independent art cinema,experimental films and documentaries,have only come into existence in the last 10-20 years of film history.

The film industry has emphasized exciting new technological develop?ments in part because it becomes more and more difficult with each passing year to lure customers into movie theaters.Why?

Explain the Kinetograph and the Kinetoscope.

Maxim Gorky referred to the world that film transported the viewer to as the "kingdom of ________."

During the late nineteenth century,technological advances in photography established the basis for recording moving images on film.

Discuss how Eadweard Muybridge's work in motion photography led to the development of filmmaking.

The contemporary history of cinema is,in part,a history of attempts to stave off the competition from newer entertainment technologies such as:

During the 1910s and the 1920s,the actualité film began to eclipse other types of movies.

The studio system established in Hollywood in the 1930s has been often referred to as a(n)_________model of industrial produc?tion.

Discuss why Maxim Gorky called the cinema a "kingdom of shadows."

Digital technologies have had an enormous impact on both the economics and aesthetics of cinema.

Essential tools for developing a critical approach to the film medium should be based on ________.

In general,what do the study notes accompanying end of chapter essays emphasize?