Chapter 9

This type of documentary film's observational style is intentionally unobtrusive and was made possible in the 50s and 60s by the introduction of 16mm handheld cameras.

• Cinema Verite

• Video Essay

• Talking Heads

• Voice of Authority

• Self Reflexive

For which director "the camera is fixed in a mystical contemplation of a portion of space"?

• Hans Richter

• Max Ray

• Ralph Steiner

• Robert Flaherty

• Michael Snow

This type of documentary relies primarily on voice-over narration. Ken Burns' documentaries tend to use this style.

• Voice of Authority

• Direct Cinema

• Talking Heads

• Self Reflexive

• Cinema Verite

Which avant-garde filmmaker describes cinema as "a magical weapon?"

• Max Ray

• Rene Clair

• Luis Brunel

• Kenneth Anger

• Salvador Dali

Whose ethnographic films came under scrutiny when it was discovered he'd staged certain tribal activities, put subjects in culturally inaccurate costumes, and manipulated cultural representations?

• Robert Flaherty

• Hans Richter

• Max Ray

• Ralph Steiner

• Michael Snow

Which Abstract Film creator called himself "the most thorough documentary filmmaker in the world because I document the act of seeing as well as everything the light brings me."

• Walter Ruttmann

• Hans Richter

• Max Ray

• Michael Snow

• Stan Brakhage

This type of documentary film uses interviews and verbal testimony from people involved or knowledgeable about the subject matter.

• Talking Heads

• none of these

• Cinema Verite

• Voice of Authority

• Self Reflexive

This style of documentary film "refers to the process of making films and expose the way the medium constructs reality." Robert Greene's Kate Plays Christine is an example.

• Voice of Authority

• Direct Cinema

• Talking Heads

• Self Reflexive

• Cinema Verite

Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera is a key example of a genre of cinema that combines experimental film and documentary called:

• City Symphony

• Surrealist Cinema

• Abstract Film

• Compilation Film

• Structuralist Film

A variation on the compilation film, which isolates instances of a word or action repeated over the course of a film, series or episode into a single manically paced video:

• City Symphony

• Surrealist Cinema

• Abstract Film

• Supercut

• Structuralist Film