Exam 3: American Cinema in the 1920s

What woman,at age 24,wrote a script for D.W.Griffith and later worked on the subtitles for his Intolerance?

Matching -von Sternberg ___

Matching -King Vidor ___

The qualities which prohibit Erich Von Stroheim from being the Marquis de Sade of cinema are

Which of the following films is not one of Douglas Fairbanks' swashbuckling spectaculars?

Matching -Charley Chaplin ___ rural romances

Matching -Alice Guy-Blache ___

Studios like Universal hired "prestige" directors to please the critics and justify the wealth and influence standard Hollywood fodder generated.___

Matching -Warner Brothers ___

Says Alexander Walker,"The silent stars were less mythic figures,but not quite human because they didn't speak yet,giving emotions human shape." ___

Erich von Stroheim,who increased the latitude for serious filmmakers,was responsible for shifting power from the creative to the business end of filmmaking.

In a Charlie Chaplin comedy,which element is dominant: slapstick comedy or the psychological study of character?

Buster Keaton's analytically abstract humor is more in tune with modern sensibilities than Chaplin's open vulnerability.___

Chaplin was more than a comedian and The Gold Rush is more than a comedy.___

The film that opened Hollywood to sound in movies is

Tom Mix and Clara Bow best personified the early Hollywood era,its ascent from primitivism into aesthetic accomplishment.___

What were some of the filmmaking techniques or qualities that made Buster Keaton's early film comedies the antithesis of Max Sennett's comedies?

The female actor whose own career paralleled the development of movies themselves was

Harold Lloyd's films like Safety Last were on "the myth of the Good American," and in such films,viewers find

Buster Keaton's characters exhibited all of the following traits except