Be able to identify or define:
Vertical integration
Roscoe Arbuckle
William Desmond Taylor
Wallace Reid
Will Hays
MPPDA
Motion Picture Production Code
Charlie Chaplin
Buster Keaton
Harold Lloyd
Harry Langdon
Mack Sennett
Hal Roach
slapstick
John Seitz
King Vidor
UFA
F.W. Murnau
Robert Wiene
Paul Wegener
Expressionism
Romanticism
Montage (as defined by Russian film theorists of the 1920s)
V. I. Pudovkin
Sergei Eisenstein
Lev Kuleshov
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Siegfried
The Golem
Faust
Battleship Potemkin
Films to be prepared to discuss in more detail:
(Refer to the individual online study guides on the films for indications of potential essay question topics)
Regeneration
The Mark of Zorro
Sherlock, Jr.
The Crowd
Nosferatu
Mother
Topics to be prepared to discuss in detail:
The evolution of the phenomenon of the “movie star,” and the importance of movie stars to the economy of the American motion picture industry.
The attributes of the style of film comedy developed by Mack Sennett, how that style influenced other film comedies, and how such comic masters as Chaplin, Lloyd, and Keaton integrated the elements of that style into their own, more aesthetically refined styles.
The reasons for the formation of the MPPDA and why the Production Code was necessary.
The influences on German filmmakers of the 1920s and how their works continue to influence filmmakers today.
The theories of Lev Kuleshov, V. I. Pudovkin, and Sergei Eisenstein, and how their theories and films continue to influence filmmakers today.
