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

T or F: Stan Brakhage's abstract film Black Ice consists of nothing but extreme close-ups of ice,steam and water,creating a poetic evocation of the three states of H20.

How do the motivations behind commercial fiction films,documentaries and avant-garde films differ? How do these differing motivations affect the types of films that are created?

________ combines documentary and experimental approaches to film to celebrate the vibrancy of urban life. Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera is a famous example.

A technique that regularly appears in avant-garde films is ________.

In general,documentaries capture an unmediated (or unbiased)reality.

The sequence of events the woman dreams about in Meshes of the Afternoon are repeated ________ times.

A documentary such as Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North,whose purpose is to present a way of life of a culture or subculture,is called a(n)________ film.

Fiction films that pose as documentaries by using its familiar conventions are ________.

Documentaries that attempt to present events without any evidence of the director's perspective or judgments are called ________.

___________ films engage viewers by showing them some aspect of the real world.

Why do some argue that a filmmaker's decision to film another culture or a group of people always involves questions of ethics?

Un Chien Andalou mocks narrative form by ________.

The three modes of filmmaking are ________.

The increasing popularity of documentary film is evident in the growing number of Academy Award categories developed to honor different aspects of documentary film production in recent years.

Explain why the production process employed by avant-garde filmmakers allows them to experiment with and change the very language of the cinema itself.

A technique commonly used in avant-garde film is super-imposition.

Artist Marcel Duchamp,who transformed "found objects" into works of art,influenced the aesthetic principles behind the ________ film.

________ is a principle concern that dominates among avant-garde filmmakers.

In Meshes of the Afternoon,the key is replaced by a ________.

In making Nanook of the North,Robert Flaherty ________.