Integrative Arts 10

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Answer Key and Breakdown for Pat Trimble's In Art 10

EXAM 2

Grade Breakdown / Raw Scores: A=50-56 B=44-49 C=38-43 D=34-37 F=33 and below.

Grade Breakdown / Percentages: A=77% and above; B=68%-75%; C=58%-66%;

D=52%-57%; F=51% and below.

Exam 2

What you should look at for Exam 1

Illusionism vs. Expressionism

The Difference between Fine Art, Folk Art and the Mass Media

Affective vs. Cognitive Response

Authors and Genre

Ideology of the Dime Novel and the Pulp Novel

Plasticity

Camera placement and motivation

Narrative structure

Burlesque

Vaudeville

Formless Comedy

Developmental Comedy

Acting methods

Sample Questions from Exam 1

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From the Readings

 

1. Entrepreneurs of the l9th century understood that to be successful they had to apply the standards of industrialization to popular entertainment.

 

2. It is almost impossible for an artist working in folk, popular, or fine art to move from one art medium to another.

 

3. It was very uncommon to change the content of a hit New York stage show once it began touring in the hinterlands.

 

4. Popular live theater only became truly successful when businessmen rather than entertainers took over the running of the theaters in America.

 

5. The stage show Negro came out of the dramatic and folklore traditions of European theater and was adapted to the American minstrel show.

 

6. Musical comedy differed from the operetta in that it was less formalized and adhered closer to a more vernacular style in words and music.

 

7. According to Radway, the rising popularity of the woman’s romance in the l980’s was a deliberate backlash to the feminist movement of the l960’s.

 

These example questions were taken from the class material section of last year's exam:

 

A mass popular art form is one that
A. Stresses the need for personal expression over commercial considerations.
B. Uses an artistic language that is recognized by only a limited audience.
C. Always presents the machine as a buffer between the audience and performer.
D. Is usually the work of a singular individual.
E.. Requires a great deal of training on the part of the performer.

 

Which of the following cannot be considered an example of a popular artist?
A. A backup drummer who plays for Hootie and the Blowfish.
B. A talk show host like Oprah Winfrey.
C. A controversial filmmaker like Woody Allen.
D. A stage trained actor like Dustin Hoffman.
E. A sculptor who mass produces his work to be sold in Bloomingdale’s.

Which of the following is the best example of media content attacking the dominant ideology?
A. On THE DREW CAREY SHOW, it is the overweight Mimi that is shown as bitter and
mean-spirited while the likeable females in the cast are all slim and attractive.
B. On THE SIMPSONS, an undereducated, underachieving Homer seems unable to deal
with the emotional or moral development of his children.
C. On FAMILY MATTERS, the young black males are either depicted as nerds or as
simple-minded jocks.
D. On DHARMA & GREG, an eccentric but beautiful dog trainer marries a high-powered,
upper class corporate lawyer.
E. On FRIENDS, all the males have clearly defined careers while the females struggle to
figure out just what it is they want to do in the world.

 

The best example of a cognitive response would be
A. Disliking MEN IN BLACK because it caters to a traditional form of dominant ideology.
B. Enjoying a talk show like LIVE WITH SALLY JESSE RAPHAEL because you happen

to know people just like the ones she always has on her program.
C. Laughing at the stupidity of Jeff Daniels and Jim Carrey’s work in DUMB AND

DUMBER because you feel superior to the characters.
D. Comparing a sitcom like NEWS RADIO to THE DREW CAREY SHOW to gauge

how modern men and women are depicted in the workplace.
E. Lamenting INDEPENDENCE DAY as a science fiction film because it does not contain

any real sense of science in its narrative.

 

Which of the following is the best example of a modern drama?
A. THE X-FILES.

B. BEVERLY HILLS 90210.
C. MURDER SHE WROTE.
D. ER.
E. STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION.

 

A sudden reversal or twist in the narrative at the end of a story is called a(an)
A. Obligatory moment.
B. Tension release.
C. Deus ex machina.
D. Denouement.
E. O. Henry ending.

 

Select the incorrect statement concerning vaudeville.
A. Vaudeville was the first form of popular culture to extensively censor it own content.
B. A large part of vaudeville humor was based on ethnic slurs and stereotyping.
C. Vaudeville had its first successes in the urban areas of the nation and then migrated into
the small towns and rural districts of America.
D. The rigors of vaudeville demanded that young performers have an immediate success or

run the risk of failing to get work in the entertainment business.
E. Because of the shortage of performers, black artists were allowed to appear in

vaudeville.

 

These questions were taken from the perception section of last year's exam:

 

50. Like Griffith’s work in THE GIRL AND HER TRUST, the close-up is used sparingly in this example for dramatic effect.

51. Also like Griffith, this filmmaker makes use of parallel development.

52. Like "The Odessa Steps" sequence from POTEMKIN, this examples contains a very strong sense of plasticity.

53. There is a good use of subjective camera in this sequence to make us identify with the lead character.

54. There is no real sense of camera fluidity seem in this example.

55. The jump cut is used throughout this example to disorient the viewer and created dramatic tension.

56. The appearance of the exploding cargo ship on the horizon is a good example of a deus ex machina.

57. Like "The Odessa Steps" sequence, this example uses extreme camera angles to suggest the chaos and anxiety of the scene.

58. There is no real sense of cross-cutting seen in this example.

Exam 2

Noir as Genre or Style?

Markets for Film

Who Censors Film Content?

Sound Techniques

"A" vs "B" Films

Philosophies of Sennett and Chaplin

Characteristics of the Marx Brothers

Little Rascals

Screwball Comedy

Lighting Techniques and Terminology

Foley Artists

Which mediums require a more active participation of the audience?

Buster Keaton

Classification of Radio Content: Plot or Character?

Filmic Techniques: Montage, Parallel Development etc...

Objective and Subjective Directing

Illusionism vs. Expressionism

Exam 3

Verisimilitude

Closure

Ideology as included in Comic Strips, Comic Books and Graphic Novels

Existentialism

Stereotypes

Genre in all mediums

Anthropomorphism

Zoomorphism

Post-Modernism

Ages of Comic Books

Plasticity

Creative Control

Code of Authority

Dr. Fredrick Wertham

Stan Lee

Monomyth

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