Multiple Choice Questions

Question 9.1

1. What is a film genre?

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Question 9.2

2. Which of the following is NOT an assumption characteristic of a descriptive approach to film genre?

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Question 9.3

3. ____________ consider a film as a product of changing historical and cultural contexts that modify genre conventions and formulas.

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Question 9.4

4. A film, like Young Frankenstein (1974), that is self-conscious about its generic identity and clearly comments on common conventions demonstrates ____________.

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Question 9.5

5. A visual style marked by darkness and shadowy lighting, convoluted plots, and morally ambiguous characters such as the femme fatale are characteristics of what type of crime film?

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Question 9.6

6. Which of the following is an accurate statement about generic conventions?

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Question 9.7

7. A western in which the hero is troubled by his changing social status and his self-doubts is best described as a(n) _________ western.

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Question 9.8

8. According to the textbook, which of the following are comedy film subgenres?

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Question 9.9

9. Early cinema ___________.

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Question 9.10

10. A movie like The Conjuring would generally be described as ___________horror.

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Question 9.11

11. The term that best describes images or image patterns with specific connotations or meanings is _________.

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Question 9.12

12. Spiritual and cultural stories that describe a defining action or event for a group of people or an entire community are called ________.

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Question 9.13

13. What is the difference between a subgenre and a hybrid genre?

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Question 9.14

14. Disney animated films like The Little Mermaid (1989) and Frozen (2014) are most prominently a part of the _________ genre.

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Question 9.15

15. Film genres produced by the interaction of two or more different genres are ________.

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Question 9.16

16. Japanese jidai-geki films are __________.

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Question 9.17

17. A ___________ paradigm presumes that a genre evolves to a point of perfection and that one or more films at that point describe the generic ideal.

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Question 9.18

18. The outsider characters in crime films represent ____________.

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Question 9.19

19. According to the textbook, which of the following is NOT a type of melodrama?

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Question 9.20

20. Slasher films such as The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) are best described as ___________ horror films.

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