Exam 7: Movies and the Impact of Images

The six major studios were able to dominate movie exhibition in the United States by acquiring all of the country's drive-in theaters.

Name three major stylistic or formal elements that defined the film style known as "Hollywood style."

Cinema verité is a style of documentary filmmaking that closely resembles a big-budget, high-gloss Hollywood feature.

Grouping films by genre allows the movie industry to achieve both product standardization and differentiation.

Use the following to answer questions: Matching Match the film directors with their contributions. -Alfred Hitchcock

Adolph Zukor formed the Famous Players Company in 1912 to ______.

With television capturing suburban audiences by the mid-1950s, movie producers made only family-friendly films to lure that audience back to theaters.

In an effort to compete with television in the 1950s, the movie studios began making ______.

Georges Méliès opened the first public movie theater in France in 1896.

In scriptwriting terminology, the discourse is how the story is told.

Hollywood produces the most movies of any film industry in the world.

Under the studio system ______.

Use the following to answer questions: Matching Match the film directors with their contributions. -D.W.Griffith

The first public showing of Edison's kinetoscope projector system was in a Paris café in December 1895.

Most U.S.films provide shared cultural experiences that operate across different times and cultures.

Thomas Edison's first attempt to create talking pictures in the late 1800s was an immediate commercial success.

Documentaries generally avoid controversial or unpopular subject matter.

In 1902, Edwin S.Porter made the film The Life of an American Fireman and revolutionized narrative film by introducing the technique of ______________________.

Movie studios in the United States still practice block booking and require that theaters accept lesser films in order to get blockbuster movies.

In an early attempt to monopolize the film industry, inventor Thomas Edison formed ______.