Multiple Choice Questions

Question 7.1

1. A documentary film is defined as _______.

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Question 7.2

2. Films that use documentary style to present and stage fictional, often humorous realities are usually called__________________.

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Question 7.3

3. Topicals were an early genre of film that strove to ___________.

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Question 7.4

4. Directed by ___________, the documentary film Nanook of the North (1922) blends a romantic fascination with nature with an anthropological desire to document other cultures.

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Question 7.5

5. In ____________, real objects, people, and events are filmed in a confrontational way, exposing objective and subjective truths of the subjects and acknowledging the filmmaker’s involvement as interlocutor.

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Question 7.6

6. Early nonfiction films that presented snapshots of real people and events were called _________.

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Question 7.7

7. Introduced in 1968, Portapak was what kind of technology that helped advance documentary filmmaking?

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Question 7.8

8. Documentary films that explore different global cultures and peoples, both living and extinct are called________________.

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Question 7.9

9. The technique of recreating or theatrically staging a presumably true event is known as ____________.

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Question 7.10

10. The type of documentary organization that presents a catalog of images or sounds throughout the course of a film is called ___________.

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Question 7.11

11. Documentaries have aimed to ___________.

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Question 7.12

12. ___________ present places, objects, individuals, or experiences through a pattern that has a non-narrative logic.

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Question 7.13

13. _____________ operate under the assumption that the facts and realities of past histories can be recovered and accurately represented.

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Question 7.14

14. Which of the following is NOT a rhetorical position of documentary films?

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Question 7.15

15. Beginning in the 1980s, the distribution and availability of documentaries increased due to __________.

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Question 7.16

16. Leni Riefenstahl’s infamous documentary about the Nazi Party, Triumph of the Will (1933), is an example of which rhetorical position?

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Question 7.17

17. Night Mail (1936), a film that follows the progression of a mail train from London to Scotland, is an example of which kind of documentary organization?

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Question 7.18

18. Super Size Me (2004), a film that documents the personal health consequences of filmmaker Morgan Spurlock’s diet of McDonald’s fast food for a month, is an example of ___________.

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Question 7.19

19. Which of the following is NOT an example of a political documentary?

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Question 7.20

20. A rhetorical position organized in a question-and-answer format is best described as _____________.

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