Final 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.
• Casablanca (1942)
• World War II and its effect on film
• Alfred Hitchcock, Rear Window (1954), Psycho (1960); the MacGuffin
• The Emergence of Television (article)
• Samuel Goldwyn (MGM), influence of television on the film industry ("The Emergence of Television" article)
• Elia Kazan, Lee Strasberg & the Actor's Studio in New York; influence on actors like Marlon Brando, James Dean, and Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor, etc.
• HUAC and the Communist Witch Hunt, McCarthy Era, Fatty Arbuckle scandal, Ring Lardner, blacklisting (HUAC article)
• Nicolas Ray; Rebel Without a Cause; James Dean; teenage films of the 1950's
• Drive-in Theaters
• AIP & Samuel Z. Arkoff (American International Pictures: A Blueprint for Success" article)
• Ed Wood & Roger Corman & "B" films
• 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)
• Rating 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
• Writing a film treatment
• 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 & blog post)
• CGI, Toy Story (1995) (article & blog post)
• Producers, directors, writers, foley artist, grip, cinematographers, and film occupations
• 1970's-1980's film trends (not on test, but we'll cover this after the exam)
• Francis Ford Coppola (see American New Wave directors)
• Roman Polanski (see American New Wave directors)
• Martin Scorsese (see American New Wave directors)
• Ridley Scott (see American New Wave directors; we'll cover this after the exam)
• Spike Lee (see Blaxploitation & New Wave directors; we'll cover this after the exam)

The exam will be held Friday, June 2.