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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 3
03/22/2015

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Who was forced to write under Alias
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Dalton Trumbo    

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stylistic tension

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campy moments, followed seamlessly by truly sad moments    

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Tennessee Williams    

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of the greatest American playwrights of the 20th Century. Was gay and often used themes that repressed sexuality.   

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What did Billy wilder write on his grave
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"I'm a writer but then nobody's perfect."

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How much was Rick Sylvester paid
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30000
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Laura Mulvey
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A british academic who wrote an article in 1975 about how men made women seem more passive. and men were more powerful.
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Modernity
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A societal phase that grew out of the industrial revolution and many technological advancements
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Post-modernity

 

 

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A very dark time involving The holocaust, nagasaki and hiroshima, Cold war, Nuclear weapons, MAD.
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William Holden
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Actor in sunset boulevard, the writer who never seemed to get a break.
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Jean-Luc Godard
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Challenged conventional narrative formula when he said all films should have a beggining middle and end, but not in that exact order.
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Marlon Brando
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Changed what acting itsself meant, by practicing method acting.
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what was utopia replaced with
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Dystopia
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Georges Melies
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Famous French Filmaker/magician, played with camera techniques to edit them adding effects
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Jodie Foster
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Hero of Silence of the lambs, she kills the serial killer while in the dark as he stares at her with infrared goggles.
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James Cameron
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His breakout movie was Terminator.
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Silence of the Lambs argued whos article?
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Laura Mulvey
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POV as problem-solver
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May cut expenses, make filming easier.
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Arthur Miller
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Never forgave Elia Kuzan for backstabbing him.
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Main Female character in Sunset Blvd.
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Norma Desmond
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Charlie Chaplin    

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One of many who were forced to exile
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Jimmy Stewart 
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One of the first actors that could freelance because of how loved and famous he was.
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Clint Eastwood
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One of the people who were good actors and directors, rose to fame when the system was collapsing.
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McCarthyism    

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One of the worst issues of censorship ocured after WW2
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How did studios control actors
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Putting them under long term contracts
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Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland
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Refused to go with the contracts, they felt opressed.
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Who was the highest paid stuntmant
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Rick Sylvester
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Sunset Blvd
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Showed hollywood itsself and what it does to people.
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What Movies did Billy Wilder write.
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Some Like It Hot (1959),Witness for the Prosecution (1957),The Lost Weekend (1945) 

 

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Who is cameron compared to
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Steven Speilberg.
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Silence of the Lambs
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Suspensful film where the hero was a female.
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What movies did James cameron make
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Terminator, Avatar, Titanic, Aliens.
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auteur theory
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The Director is the creator of the film, it faced problems because it gave no credit to the writer and other people that are core of the film production.
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How is Sunset Boulevard told
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The dead narrator floating in the pool's perpective
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Douglas Sirk

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The greatest director of Melodramas, started as a painter in the theatre.
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Which movie is the Imitation of life?
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The movie with the white and black single mothers taking care of their children.
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Planet of the Apes
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The rocket ship was too expensive to make, and wouldnt be realistic, They filmed it as a pov as it crashed.
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The Terminator
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Used extreme cases of CGI. first movie had a lot of stop motion, the third one was all done via computer.
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The Point-of-View
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Using camera shots as first person point of view
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Carol Clover
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Wrote a groundbreaking book, points out POV is not to identify withthe character the POV is from, but is meant for the person we are looking at using pov.
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Gloria Swanson
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actress in Sunset boulevard whos days of acting were over.
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Elia Kazan

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backstabbed most of hollywood, naming names of comunists, including marlon brando and arthur miller.
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Why is it rare for silence of the lambs to win Best picture
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because it is a horror movie.
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What are Spielberg and Cameron compared by.
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been noted for his enthusiasm for special effects and criticized for focussing too much on the effects, creating shallow films.

 

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Mystic River
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by eastwood, cautionary tale about vigilante justice that serves as an allegory about why the invasion of Iraq was such a flawed response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America.

 

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Marlon Brando   

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did not win the best actor oscar, which is surprising because his acting changed the entire world of acting.
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What were the contract rules?
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forbade them of working for other studios, looked like the studio wanted them to.
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Laura Mulvey Singled out Hitchcock because.
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his treatment of women, but many pointed out that Hitchock was trying to make a twisted male character. just as vertigo
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Spaghetti Westerns
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italians that were low budget actors that worked with western movies.
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What movie involved the highest paid Stunt
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james bond the spy who loved me.
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Woody Allen and Warren Beatty
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one of the only people that could multi task in hollywood.
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Sarah Polley
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revieved accolades for being a successful crossover act. 
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Andrew Sarris

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said that Sirk was making fun of melodramas by mocking both genres and its target audience.
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Constantin Stanislavski    

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said that actors should make a type of realistic acting where the actor would think of memories fo make his acting more realistic.
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Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas
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started their own production companies so they could sidestep the studio's overbearing control
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Dirty Harry
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story of a hardened, cynical cop who despised the limitations placed on police by an overbearing, liberal-activist court system
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Ronald Reagan    

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swore an oath of loyalty
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Steven Spielberg's Jaws
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used the sharks first point of view because the shark kepy malfunctioning and it was expensive to remake.
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Utopia.
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women would have the vote, animals would no longer be killed for food (he was a vegetarian) and peace would prevail
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