Monday, June 6, 2016

Film Exam Review

Exam review

Our final exam covers a lot here. Please study and use your notes you took in class (there was a reason you should have taken notes) to study from. Look back at the blog posts and read or view the clips/articles that were linked. You will be responsible for anything that is posted there--including:
The Movies Learn to Speak (article)
The Jazz Singer (1927) & Don Juan (1926), Al Jolson, Vitaphone, etc.
The Benefits and Problems concerning SOUND IN FILM
1930's Golden Age of Film: (blog post)
Hal Roach, Laurel & Hardy, "The Music Box" (1931), The Little Rascals
Universal Horror films and stars
Screwball comedies & style
Frank Capra films
Genre films: Gangster, War, Westerns, Musicals, Animation, Adventure
Famous actors/personalities in 1930's & 1940's films
RKO, King Kong (1933), Fay Wray--the scream queen, Max Steiner, Ray Harryhausen
The Marx Brothers: Duck Soup (1933)
Influence of the Great Depression on film, Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn, Jimmy Stewart
Narratology, style of film, narrative techniques, avant garde films
Technicolor (Walt Disney article) and color in film
Walt Disney, Snow White (1937) (article & blog posts)
Warner Brothers Looney Tunes (animation in 1930-1970)
How to write a treatment, 3-act structure; how to write a script
John Huston, dir.; Humphrey Bogart: The Maltese Falcon
Film Noir (article "Murder, Greed, & Betrayal: The Dark Streets of Film Noir")
The characteristics of Film Noir, how German Expressionism influenced Film Noir, etc.
The Wizard of Oz & Gone With the Wind (1939, color in film)
Citizen Kane (1941) & Orson Welles and his influence on film (Orson Welles Comes to Town article)
Mise-en-scene & deep focus shots, auteur, diegetic & non diegetic sound, styles of film, mise-en-shot, montage, continuity editing, editing, producing, etc. (various posts)
Angles, shot types, 180 degree rule, how to direct, produce, and write a film, etc.
World War II and its affect on film
Alfred Hitchcock, Rope (1947), Psycho (1960); the MacGuffin
The Emergence of Television (article)
Samuel Goldwyn (MGM), influence of television on the film industry ("The Emergence of Television" article)
HUAC and the Communist Witch Hunt, McCarthy Era, Fatty Arbuckle scandal, Ring Lardner, blacklisting (HUAC article)
Drive-in Theaters
AIP & Samuel Z. Arkoff (American International Pictures: A Blueprint for Success" article)
Ed Wood & Roger Corman
William Castle
1950's Science Fiction films, The Cold War & its influence on film
MPPA relaxing its restrictions (article)
Jack Valenti, Mike Nichols, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" (1966) ("Relaxing Restrictions: MPAA Ratings System article)
Ratings system: G, M, R, X and what the letter stands for--later G, PG, R, NC17
How to direct, how to edit, how to write a film script
1960's film trends
The New Hollywood: America's New Wave (article)
Dennis Hopper, Easy Rider (American New Wave)
Steven Spielberg & George Lucas; Star Wars (1977): blockbusters & their influence in film
Blaxploitation (article)
CGI, Toy Story (1995) (article)
Producers, directors, writers, foley artist, grip, cinematographers, and film occupations
1970's-1980's film trends
Francis Ford Coppola
Roman Polanski
Martin Scorsese
Ridley Scott
Spike Lee
1990's-2000's film trends
Quentin Tarantino films
Will Smith (actor)
Hayao Miyazaki
Peter Jackson


Blog posts from April 1 through June 6.

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