Final

Question 1

Details about the film about eskimos

Answer 1

Nanook of the North (1922)

Dir. Robert J. Flaherty

Question 2

Details about the film about bears

Answer 2

Grizzly Man (2005)
Dir. Werner Herzog
Perf. Timothy Treadwell

Question 3

Details of film about musical instrument

Answer 3

Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey (1993)
Dir. Steven M. Martin
Perf. Leon Theremin

Question 4

Details about the film about an murder investigation

Answer 4

The Thin Blue Line (1988)
Dir. Errol Morris
Perf. Randall Adams, David Harris

Question 5

What are four key elements/characteristics that make up documentary films?

Answer 5

Indexicality (realness)
Poetic Expression (artistic)
Narrative Storytelling (story)
Rhetorical Address (argument)

Question 6

Name several elements of ‘voice’

Answer 6

Editing (cuts, juxtapositions, etc)
Sound (or not)
Shot Composition
Arrangement of footage, selection of footage
Mode of representation

Question 7

What are the six modes of documentary filmmaking?

Answer 7

Expository 
Poetic
Observational
Participatory
Reflexive 
Performative

Question 8

Details about the Film about a German city

Answer 8

Berlin, Symphony if a great city (1927)

Dir. Walter Rutman

Question 9

Propaganda film

Answer 9

Listen to Britain (1942)

Dir. Humphrey Jennings

Question 10

Film about font

Answer 10

Helvetica (2007)

Question 11

Film about two disturbed ppl living in a house

Answer 11

Grey Gardens (1975)
Dir. Albert and David Maysles

Question 12

Film about backup singers

Answer 12

20 ft from stardom (2013)

Dir. Morgan Neville

Question 13

Film about an American city

Answer 13

L.A Plays Itself (2003)

Dir. Thomas Andersen

Question 14

Before Flaherty, there was ______. What was his role in the development of the documentary?

Answer 14

Curtis.

DRAMA - Romantisize the present through depictions of the past

Question 15

What did Flaherty contribute, adding to Curtis’ work? (What’s was Curtis’ doc?)

Answer 15

Drama had to arise from within the situation, not from without.
The Land of the Head Hunters (1914)

Question 16

What is the ‘presence of absense’ refer to (Johnson about grizzly man)?

Answer 16

The medium always ‘returns to us’; a film is simultaneously very close and definitively inaccessible

Question 17

In much of Grizzly man, what does our experience of the film rest on?

Answer 17

The knowledge of Treadwell’s death.

Question 18

What is the link between Herzog’s film and Bazin’s theory?

Answer 18

Death - a strong connection between Treadwell’s camera and the spontaneous, uncontrollable reality before it. (Reality)

Question 19

In Johnson’s writing about Grizzly Man, what is Synchresis?

Answer 19

The irresistible weld produced between an auditory phenomenon and a visual phenomenon when they occur together.

Question 20

What, according to Johnson, is the primary reason for anxiety felt in the videotape scene in Herzog’s film?

Answer 20

Rooted in the knowledge that the footage is sound without image. (and the sound interpreted by Herzog’s physical reactions to hearing it).

Question 21

What are the ‘gazes’ listed by Nichols!

Answer 21

Accidental
Helpless
Endangered
Interventionist 
Humane 
Clinical

Question 22

Film about tight rope walker

Answer 22

Man on Wire (2008)
James Marsh
Philippe Petit