Reading 4: Maturing Forms & Advent of Sound (EuroCin 1)

Question 1

M was a ____ film

Answer 1

German Expressionist

Question 2

M setting and resulting pathology

Answer 2

dark cityscape, unstable environment, paranoid pathology

Question 3

M based on

Answer 3

Real life child killer

Question 4

M director

Answer 4

Fritz Lang

Question 5

What is left out of M

Answer 5

Killing of victim, left to be imagined. IMPLIED

Question 6

Police & criminals in M

Answer 6

Indistinguishable, both want killer dead

Question 7

Killer in M

Answer 7

Beckert

Question 8

How is Beckert found

Answer 8

criminals trap him in extensive network of spies

Question 9

How does Beckert respond to being found

Answer 9

Breaks down uncontrollably and plays victim

Question 10

M and sound + ex.

Answer 10

innovative use of sound (motif whistle phrase becomes more and more ominous)

Question 11

Whistle phrase in M

Answer 11

Originally used to lure & eventually used to find Beckert out, his downfall

Question 12

Magazine phrase that inspired M

Answer 12

“Murderer amoung us” quoted in film

Question 13

M killer psycho actor

Answer 13

Peter Lorne’s portrayal sets film standard

Question 14

Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Dir.

Answer 14

Wiene

Question 15

Dr. Caligari’s exhibition

Answer 15

Somnabolist @ fair

Question 16

Romance in Dr. C

Answer 16

Love triangle

Question 17

Mysterious stabbing of town clerk ______

Answer 17

incites confusion and action in Dr. C

Question 18

What does Cesare predict?

Answer 18

Alan has “til dawn” to live

Question 19

Who kills Alan

Answer 19

Cesare (unknown to viewer)

Question 20

Who suspects Dr. C of murder?

Answer 20

Francis

Question 21

Sets of Caligari

Answer 21

Contorted scenery & Bauhaus sets

Question 22

Ambiguous ending of Dr. C

Answer 22

Ending w/ asylum & inmate… which is the murderer?

Question 23

Nosferatu Dir.

Answer 23

Marnau

Question 24

importance of nosferatu

Answer 24

earliest screen adaptation of dracula

Question 25

Romance in nosferatu

Answer 25

love triangle between count orlok, ellen, and hutter

Question 26

Nosferatu b&w?

Answer 26

Not fully, tints used

Question 27

Orlok's tastes in movie

Answer 27

primal sexual tastes for ellen (and possibly hutter)

Question 28

Hero in noseferatu

Answer 28

Ellen sacrifices life to save community

Question 29

Metropolis Director

Answer 29

Fritz Lang

Question 30

Metropolis had monumental _______

Answer 30

production/themes addressed

Question 31

Genre of Metropolis

Answer 31

Sci-Fi fantasy

Question 32

What were audiences initially critical of in Metropolis?

Answer 32

socialist/communist aspects

Question 33

Metropolis & time

Answer 33

Film too long for US & short cut made little sense

Question 34

Audience best responded to (Metropolis)

Answer 34

Shocking visuals

Question 35

REAL first sound film

Answer 35

Lights of NY (Not the Jazz Singer)

Question 36

Why is Jazz Singer not first sound film

Answer 36

has several spots of silence

Question 37

Transition to talkies results on careers

Answer 37

Some flourished some tanked

Question 38

Who's set looked like German Expressionist painting

Answer 38

Dr. Caligari

Question 39

Nosferatu rights

Answer 39

Bram Stroker's wife wouldnt give rights to Dracula

Question 40

Special fx in Nosferatu (3)

Answer 40

Fast speed/reversal of shot/negative film

Question 41

One of the last major silent productions

Answer 41

Metropolis

Question 42

Metropolis introduced first image of _____ in cinema

Answer 42

robot

Question 43

Metropolis is about ______ vs ________

Answer 43

Elite versus working class

Question 44

Start of film Noir

Answer 44

M, Fritz Lang

Question 45

Metropolis villian

Answer 45

mad scientist

Question 46

Birth of psychology goes with birth of _______

Answer 46

films that deal with serial killers

Question 47

M utilized

Answer 47

off-screen sound (i.e. children playing in beginning)

Question 48

M debates b/w ____ & _____ of killer

Answer 48

guilt & mental illness

Question 49

Building blocks that contribute to maturing of narrative form

Answer 49

Impact of German Expressionism & Advent of sound synch

Question 50

What was so special about German Expressionism?

Answer 50

Element of psychology, power of atmosphere created (decor)

Question 51

Who used 1st person style

Answer 51

German Expressionists

Question 52

German expressionist's emphasis on (Hint: French)

Answer 52

Mise-en-scene

Question 53

German Expressionist art reflected

Answer 53

Fine Art

Question 54

German Expressionist psych. often seeped in

Answer 54

Freud

Question 55

2 German Expressionist roots

Answer 55

WWI loss & expressionist art

Question 56

German expressionism opposite of

Answer 56

Impressionism (outward), expressionism looks inward

Question 57

Dr. C expresses

Answer 57

social collapse & confusion of Germany

Question 58

Why was German expressionism so accepted/popular?

Answer 58

It deals MOSTLY with human need to understand world around us + dealt with sense of misplacement

Question 59

Why was German expressionism scarier than Universal monsters?

Answer 59

What's INSIDE of us is the scariest thing

Question 60

German expressionist "LOOK"

Answer 60

High contrast, eccentric/angled sets, dream-like haziness

Question 61

German expressionist big hit

Answer 61

Golem: How he came into the world

Question 62

Golem about

Answer 62

Hebrew clay monster

Question 63

Unsuccessful German Expressionist film, why?

Answer 63

Vampyr b/c it was unorthodox

Question 64

Now how is Vampyr seen?

Answer 64

Horror classic

Question 65

Beginning talkies were ______, why?

Answer 65

awkward: dialogue reverted to static stagey convos/presentation due to recording limitations

Question 66

Global talkies first huge in

Answer 66

US & India

Question 67

How did Europe @ first feel about talkies

Answer 67

suspicious

Question 68

How did talkies pick up in Japan

Answer 68

slowly

Question 69

Talkies created ______ & ________

Answer 69

New jobs and new mechanisms on set

Question 70

Major consequence of advent of sound

Answer 70

Industry wide panic, movie czars resising. MASSIVE $$$

Question 71

Who survived transition to talkies?

Answer 71

Those who didn't resist it

Question 72

Early talky technical issue

Answer 72

STATIC & capturing sound

Question 73

3 major struggles to get to SOUND film

Answer 73

sound synch, amplification, and recording fidelity

Question 74

Combo of inventions to make new one

Answer 74

Kinetoscope+Zoopractiscope= Kinetophone

Question 75

What happened to Kinetophone?

Answer 75

Failure due to projections

Question 76

What did Jazz Singer do?

Answer 76

Commercially begin sound era

Question 77

Western's first sound film device

Answer 77

vitaphone

Question 78

Issue w/ recording fidelity

Answer 78

poor sound unless subjects directly in front of camera