ENG 225 week 4 Quiz

This document of ENG 225 Week 4 Quiz includes answers to the next questions:

1. What is a term for cheap, quick westerns that were churned out in large numbers?

2. Which of the following films is an example of the classic “screwball comedy”?

3. Which of the following is true of movie genres?

4. Beyond setting up shots and other technical work, what is perhaps the director’s most important job?

5. Which of the following is the best way to describe a director’s style?

6. Which of the following gangster films was forced to add a title at the end to satisfy public watchdog groups?

7. From what country did auteur theory first emerge?

8. Why do many theorists doubt that genres exist at all?

9. Which of the following is the “outer circle,” or minimal requirement, of Andrew Sarris’s model of the auteur theory?

10. Which stylistic movement in film involved purposely distorted sets and images to convey a psychological feeling or attitude?