Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Film Test: 1930-1940

Please review for your exam:
Film trends in the 1930's
Sound in film
Laurel & Hardy: The Music Box
Hal Roach, The Little Rascals
Positive/Negative effects of Sound in Film
The Jazz Singer
Joseph P. Maxfield
The Vitaphone
Technicolor
Narratology: Realist, Classical, Formalistic film styles, narrative techniques
Cross-cutting, montage, multiple perspective
RKO studios
Walt Disney Studios: Flowers & Trees, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The 3 Little Pigs, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck films from the 1930's, other Disney animation
The Wizard of Oz & Judy Garland
Gone With the Wind & Clark Gable
It Happened One Night (Screwball Comedy)
Cary Grant
Jimmy Stewart
Becky Sharp, The Black Pirate (2-strip technicolor)
The 1930's Star System 
The Marx Brothers

Alfred Hitchcock: Rope (1947) 
Television: and its effect on film
Drive-In Movie Theaters 
HUAC: and its effect on film
The Maltese Falcon (1941) 
Citizen Kane (1941) 
Orson Welles: and his influence on film/cinematography
Film Noir: characteristics and style of the genre
 HOMEWORK: Study for the exam, April 29.
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