Rather than relying on a camera’s subjective POV for an entire film, most narrative films which tell stories from a single character’s perspective use _____ instead.

With regard to evaluating genre films, viewers who, for example, judge all westerns based on how they compare to Stagecoach (1939), or all comedies based on how they compare to Some Like it Hot (1959), are following a(n) approach and applying a(n) paradigm.

Genre-wise, the films The Wizard of Oz (1939), Les Misérables (2012), and La La Land (2016) are all best categorized as _____.

A figurative type of character that is so exaggerated or flat that it no longer feels realistic, such as a child that represents innocence, is called a(n) _____.

In the opening minutes of the PBS Frontline documentary about the protests and subsequent violent conflict in Charlottesville, Virginia, the narrator states that the film seeks to investigate hate groups in the U.S. This indicates that the film has a(n) _____ rhetorical position.

As discussed in class, the factory with the monstrous machine in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) is an example of a(n) _____ narrative space.

With regard to character development, by the end of Raging Bull, Jake has undergone change, and has done so in a(n) way.

In The Graduate, the scenes in which Mrs. Robinson seduces Benjamin at her home and they first meet at the hotel include every action and line of dialogue. However, their subsequent affair is condensed to convey how routine it becomes. This is an example of how _____ helps to tell a film’s story.

The Big Lebowski (1998) begins with a voiceover as we see images of tumbleweeds rolling through Los Angeles, followed by The Dude shuffling through a grocery store in his bathrobe. As discussed in class, what kind of narration is this?

Short answer: Describe how early tetrapod ancestors, such as Tiktaalik, showed characteristics that proved they were transitional forms between water and land.