Chapter 02
The Significance of Film Form
1. What is the term for the relationships among the parts of a film?
2. Events involving characters that form a film’s story is/are the
3. Surprise generally results from
4. Elements such as traditions, dominant styles, or popular forms that are common to several different types of art are called
5. In the judgment of a film’s quality, a “criterion” is
6. What kinds of emotions are most likely produced by expectations that are fulfilled?
7. What is a “motif”?
8. Which of the following is NOT an example of a manifestation of the formal principle of difference in a film?
9. Similarities between two or more distinct elements of a film are called
10. Which of the following is NOT a stylistic element of a film?
11. A written outline that details the major and minor parts of a film, marking the parts by numbers and letters, is a
12. A delay in the fulfillment of an established expectation creates
13. Comparing the beginning with the ending of a film helps spectators to understand
14. Which of the following describes a stylistic pattern used in The Wizard of Oz?
15. One convention of narrative form is that
16. Which of the following is NOT a type of meaning that spectators might consider in a film?
17. Which of the following conventions, common in current films, would have been considered unusual in the 1940s and 1950s?
18. Which of the following works is NOT structured around a journey?
19. Which of the following criterion for evaluating a film involves an assessment of how emotionally engaging the film is?
20. A film is said to be complex if
21. A film’s “development” is based on repetition as well as
22. A film that is cohesive in its overall form has
23. Emotions experienced by spectators result from spectators’ perceptions of
24. Implicit meanings are sometimes called
25. Symptomatic meanings result from
26. “Meaning” refers to what a film says or suggests.
27. Genres are unaffected by conventions.
28. Emotions represented in a film are usually experienced by the audience as well.
29. Social ideology is a set of values characteristic of a whole society.
30. Curiosity is a feeling of expectation that results when patterns of artistic cues cause spectators to think about events that came
before a certain point in the film.
31. Personal taste and evaluative judgment are virtually the same.
32. Filmmakers generally strive to create artworks that invite a single interpretation—the one that the filmmaker intends.
33. In film evaluation, moral criteria are used to judge certain aspects of a film outside of their film context.
34. A unified film may still leave some questions unanswered or contain some unintegrated elements.
35. Prior experience has little effect on spectators’ expectations as they view a film.
36. Each major character in The Wizard of Oz fulfills a single significant function.
37. Comedy often depends on creating surprise or cheating spectators’ expectations.
38. Variation is a fundamental principle of film form.
39. The Wizard of Oz has a large-scale ABA form.
40. Referential meaning is meaning that is openly asserted in a film.
41. How can film form create new emotional reactions in the audience instead of simply triggering practiced ones? Give an
42. What can we discover about a film’s “architecture” from analyzing its plot segmentation?
