English 4950: American Film in the 1930s

Spring 2012

Midterm Exam Study Guide

 

The first three sections of the exam will be multiple choice: matching films and directors, matching actors and characters, and matching screens stills with a list of shot-scale terms. (30%)

 

In the fourth section you will be presented with twenty of the following terms and will be asked to identify fourteen of them in 3-5 example-rich, informative sentences.

(70%)

 

 

 


 


Text Box: roadshow treatment
Rotambulator
SAG
Selznick International Pictures
shot/reverse shot
Technicolor
The Great Train Robbery
unit producer system
vertical integration
Will Hays
woman’s film


Text Box: Joseph Breen
Kuleshov experiment
Little Three 
mise-en-scene
Monument Valley
MPPDA
offcasting
option contract
Paramount case
PCA
Poverty Row
prestige picture
programmer
180° rule

3-point lighting

aspect ratio

auteur theory

Big Five

biopic

block-booking

classic Hollywood narration

clearance

eyeline matching

Frontier Thesis

"Garbo laughs"