Be able to identify, define, or briefly explain the significance of:
John Seitz
Roscoe Arbuckle
William Desmond Taylor
Wallace Reid
Will Hays
Mutual Film Corp. v. Ohio Industrial Commission (Supreme Court ruling)
MPPDA
Motion Picture Production Code
Mack Sennett
Hal Roach
slapstick comedy
Charles Chaplin
Buster Keaton
Harold Lloyd
F.W. Murnau
Robert Wiene
Paul Wegener
Romanticism
Expressionism
V. I. Pudovkin
Relational montage
Sergei Eisenstein
Dialectical montage
Lev Kuleshov (and the “Kuleshov effect”)
Lee De Forest
Phonofilm
Theodore Case
Movietone
Vitaphone
“iceboxes” (for muffling camera sounds)
Production Code Administration
Joseph Breen
The Kid
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Siegfried
The Golem
Battleship Potemkin
Don Juan
The Jazz Singer
Films to be prepared to discuss in 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
Gold Diggers of 1933
Topics to be prepared to discuss in detail:
The reasons for the formation of the MPPDA and why the Production Code was necessary, as well as the circumstances that gave rise to the Production Code Administration (the “Breen Office”).
The attributes of slapstick comedy and how the later work of Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd enhanced and improved on those attributes to create aesthetically superior works.
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.
Why studios resisted introducing synch sound technology and the problems it created after it became an established reality in the industry.
