Exam 9: Alternatives to Narrative Fiction Film:Documentary and Avant-garde Films 

The _____________ film reuses existing film footage in an entirely new context to generate innovative ideas.

Grizzly Man could best be categorized as a ________ documentary because it calls attention to the process of filmmaking in order to expose the ways the medium constructs reality.

Maya Deren's film Meshes of the Afternoon can be interpreted as a meditation on ________.

Films like Michael Snow's Wavelength,which is primarily interested in the material properties of the medium,are called ________ films.

Man With a Movie Camera uses editing to equate the fluttering motion of blinking eyes with the aperture of a camera.

Films made with the sole intent of persuading viewers of the rightness of a single view are referred to as _______________.

Unlike commercial films,documentaries abandon narrative in favor of capturing lived experience.

Ethnographic documentaries,like Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North,were ground-breaking for their unsentimentalized portrayal ethnic cultures and subcultures.

Man with a Movie Camera reflects fears about the dangers of the mechanical age.

Abstract films ________.

Most films shot before 1907 were short documentaries called ________.

Documentary filmmakers are just as motivated by profitability as their commercial fiction film counterparts.

All documentaries present an argument of some kind.

John Grierson described the documentary mode of filmmaking as ________.

Editing in Meshes of the Afternoon equates a husband's kiss with a knife entering a woman's mouth.

All documentaries present ________.

Phenomenologist film critics like Vivian Sobchack has studied how some moments in fiction films might evoke audience responses similar to what people experience when they watch documentaries.

________ filmmakers such as Luis Bunuel and René Clair explored the irrational,unconscious mind "beneath the surface of reality."

Most documentary filmmakers do not conduct their own research,instead relying on highly-trained research teams put together for the production,usually by a major studio.

Documentaries that promote a single position without allowance for competing perspectives are called ________.