FMA 243 Midterm Test Questions Answered Correctly
Antoine Doinel is
A) the founder of Cahiers du Cinema
B) the founder of the Cinematheque
C) the main character in Truffaut's 400 Blows
D) a major filmmaker of the French New Wave - Answers C) the main character in Truffaut's 400 Blows
Truffaut's essay "A Certain Tendency in the French Cinema,"
A) was a celebrations of the French film industry of the 1950s
B) favored the authorship of screenwriters and producers over directors
C) introduced the idea of the "camera stylo"
D) became the blueprint for the emergence of the French New Wave - Answers D) became the blueprint
for the emergence of the French New Wave
Bresson's cinematic style can best be desccribes as
A) visualy comedic with very little dialog
B) restrained with the actors showing almost no emotion
C) innovative in its extensive use of music and sound effects
D) formally daring with jump cuts and unusual camera angles - Answers B) restrained with the actors
showing almost no emotion
The film that introduced the jump cut to the cinematic vocabulary was
A) Truffaut's The 400 Blows
B) Godard's Breathless
C) Tati's Mon Oncle
D) Chabrol's Le Beau Serge - Answers B) Godard's Breathless
Which of the following is not a characteristic of the French New Wave?
A) directors came up through the industry much as they had done in the 1930's
B) use of handheld cameras
, C) self conscious approach to filmmaking bordering on metacinema
D) it introduced dozens of new filmmakers to the French industry in the space of 3 years - Answers A)
directors came up through the industry much as they had done in the 1930's
Francois Truffaut
A) never again made a film as popular critically or commercially as the 400 Blows
B) had a very brief career, directing only a handful of films in the 1960s
C) continued to make autobiographical films after The 400 Blows
D) was one of the New Wave directors never to have been a film critic - Answers C) continued to make
autobiographical films after The 400 Blows
Jean Luc Godard:
A) was neither prolific nor radical in terms of his filmmaking
B) rejected the political cinema that was characteristic of the New Wave
C) often referenced American genres like the gangster film and science fiction
D) stopped making films altogether after 1968 - Answers C) often referenced American genres like the
gangster film and science fiction
The very first feature film of the French New Wave was directed by:
A) Claude Chabrol
B) Francois Truffaut
C) Jean Luc Goddard
D) Alain Resnais - Answers A) Claude Chabrol
The "Cinema du Look":
A) was a return to the literary costume films rejected by the New Wave
B) featured high production values and a flashy visual style
C) was a concurrent movement to the New Wave but not as popular
D) completely rejected the use of dialog and music in the cinema - Answers B) featured high production
values and a flashy visual style
The ultimate impact of the French New Wave:
Antoine Doinel is
A) the founder of Cahiers du Cinema
B) the founder of the Cinematheque
C) the main character in Truffaut's 400 Blows
D) a major filmmaker of the French New Wave - Answers C) the main character in Truffaut's 400 Blows
Truffaut's essay "A Certain Tendency in the French Cinema,"
A) was a celebrations of the French film industry of the 1950s
B) favored the authorship of screenwriters and producers over directors
C) introduced the idea of the "camera stylo"
D) became the blueprint for the emergence of the French New Wave - Answers D) became the blueprint
for the emergence of the French New Wave
Bresson's cinematic style can best be desccribes as
A) visualy comedic with very little dialog
B) restrained with the actors showing almost no emotion
C) innovative in its extensive use of music and sound effects
D) formally daring with jump cuts and unusual camera angles - Answers B) restrained with the actors
showing almost no emotion
The film that introduced the jump cut to the cinematic vocabulary was
A) Truffaut's The 400 Blows
B) Godard's Breathless
C) Tati's Mon Oncle
D) Chabrol's Le Beau Serge - Answers B) Godard's Breathless
Which of the following is not a characteristic of the French New Wave?
A) directors came up through the industry much as they had done in the 1930's
B) use of handheld cameras
, C) self conscious approach to filmmaking bordering on metacinema
D) it introduced dozens of new filmmakers to the French industry in the space of 3 years - Answers A)
directors came up through the industry much as they had done in the 1930's
Francois Truffaut
A) never again made a film as popular critically or commercially as the 400 Blows
B) had a very brief career, directing only a handful of films in the 1960s
C) continued to make autobiographical films after The 400 Blows
D) was one of the New Wave directors never to have been a film critic - Answers C) continued to make
autobiographical films after The 400 Blows
Jean Luc Godard:
A) was neither prolific nor radical in terms of his filmmaking
B) rejected the political cinema that was characteristic of the New Wave
C) often referenced American genres like the gangster film and science fiction
D) stopped making films altogether after 1968 - Answers C) often referenced American genres like the
gangster film and science fiction
The very first feature film of the French New Wave was directed by:
A) Claude Chabrol
B) Francois Truffaut
C) Jean Luc Goddard
D) Alain Resnais - Answers A) Claude Chabrol
The "Cinema du Look":
A) was a return to the literary costume films rejected by the New Wave
B) featured high production values and a flashy visual style
C) was a concurrent movement to the New Wave but not as popular
D) completely rejected the use of dialog and music in the cinema - Answers B) featured high production
values and a flashy visual style
The ultimate impact of the French New Wave:
