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Test 2 Flashcards

0
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What was the purpose of Moscow Film School?

A

To train actors and technicians in agitki

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What was the world’s first film school?

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Moscow Film School

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What is agitki?

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Political propaganda

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Lenin

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Aims for balance of entertainment and education of illiterate population; chairman of Bolshevik party

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What films were Eisenstein famous for?

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Battleship Potemkin, Strike, Ten Days That Shook The World

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What film was Pudovkin famous for?

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Mother

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How did Lenin spread propoganda?

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With agit-trains and Kino-Pravda

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What is Kino-Pravda?

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A monthly newsreel series in Russia

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Who made agit-trains and Kino-Pravda?

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Dziga Vertov

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What is constructivism?

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Advancing film through biomechanics

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Meyerhold

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Used power of new technologies to advance the revolutionary cause

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What was Eisenstein? What was Pudovkin?

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Engineer; chemist

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12
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What did Pudovkin believe the foundation of film art was?

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Editing

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What was the film style of Russia?

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Soviet realism

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Whose ideology was used by Soviet filmmakers?

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Karl Marx, who outlined tension between owners, capitalists, and workers, proletariats

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What is the most famous scene in Potemkin?

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Odessa steps massacre

16
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What kind of editing is used in the Odessa stair sequence?

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Soviet montage; alternation between the two groups and how closely they are depicted

17
Q

Who made the film Greed?

A

Stroheim

18
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What book was Greed based on?

A

McTeague

19
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What version of McTeague came out before Greed?

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Life’s Whirlpool

20
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Whose films did Stroheim act in?

A

Griffith’s

21
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What films did Stroheim appear in?

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Birth of a Nation, Hearts of the World

22
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What was Stroheim’s first film? What film followed?

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Blind Husbands; Foolish Wives

23
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What company did Stroheim later sign a contract with?

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Goldwyn Company

24
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Who took control of Greed?

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Mayer and Thalberg

25
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What was Stroheim fired for?

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Insubordination and disloyalty

26
Q

Who made the film The Merry Widow?

A

Stroheim

27
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Who made the film Earth?

A

Alexander Dovzhenko

28
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Lev Kuleshov

A

Helped create Moscow Film School and taught there; filmmaker

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