Thursday, May 31, 2018

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 and crash course video)
  • Hal Roach, Laurel & Hardy, "The Music Box" (1931), The Little Rascals
  • Universal Horror films and stars
  • Screwball comedies & style
  • Frank Capra films, in particular, It's a Wonderful Life (article/blog)
  • Genre films of the 1930's/1940's: 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)
  • 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) (article/blog)
  • World War II and its effect on film
  • Alfred Hitchcock, Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Rope (1947), Psycho (1960); the MacGuffin
  • The Emergence of Television (article)
  • Samuel Goldwyn (MGM), the 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)
  • 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)
  • Producers, directors, writers, foley artist, grip, cinematographers, and film occupations
  • 1970's-1990'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)

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