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%)
180° rule
3-point
lighting
aspect
ratio
auteur
theory
Big
Five
biopic
block-booking
classic
Hollywood narration
clearance
eyeline
matching
Frontier
Thesis
"Garbo
laughs"