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Most the early "100 percent talkies" were visually __________. Your Answer: metaphoric Correct Answer: dull Eisenstein's metaphoric cutting, with its leaps in time and space, wouldn't make much sense if realistic sound had to be provided with each image.
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Most of the talented directors of the early sound era favored __________ sound. Your Answer: non-synchronous French director Ren Clair, for example, believed that sound should be used selectively, not indiscriminately and that sound can be edited the same way images can.
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The increased __________ brought on by sound inevitably forced acting styles to become more natural. Your Answer: stylization Correct Answer: realism Silent film acting was stylized and visually heightened to compensate for the lack of sound.
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Coming from the world of radio, __________ was an important innovator in the field of sound and perfected the technique of sound montage in which the dialogue of one character overlaps with that of another, or several others. Your Answer: Mae West Correct Answer: Orson Welles Mae West was an expert in conveying sexual innuendos through tone of voice, and her comic style fueled the wrath of the censors, ushering in the puritanical Production Code in 1934.
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Like the freeze __________ frame, in a sound film can be used to symbolize death, because we tend to associate sound with the presence of ongoing life. Your Answer: high-pitch Correct Answer: silence High-pitched sounds are generally strident and produce a sense of tension in the listener.
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Realistic musicals are generally __________ , in which the production numbers are presented as dramatically plausible. Your Answer: backstage stories Realistic musicals usually justify a song or dance with a brief bit of dialogue, and a few realistic musicals are virtually dramas with music.
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In the 1940s and 1950s, the musical was dominated by __________, which had the finest musical directors under contract: Kelly, Donen, and Minnelli. Your Answer: Warner Brothers Correct Answer: MGM Warner Brothers in the 1930s had choreographer-director Busby Berkeley, who delighted audiences with his proletarian show-biz stories and kaleidoscopic effects.
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__________ tends to give a movie a sense of objectivity and often an air of predestination. Your Answer: A regional dialect Correct Answer: Off-screen narration Dialects can be a rich source of meaning in movies, and, because they are usually spoken by people outside the Establishment, they tend to convey a subversive ideology.