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To satisfy viewers’ expectations and, at the same time, keep them interested and entertained, filmmakers must constantly negotiate between viewers’ contradictory desires for [1] and [2].

Michael Snow’s Wavelength (1967) and Hollis Framptom’s Zorns Lemma (1970) are experimental films that have a(n) _____ organization.

Many experimental films are _____, meaning they lack continuity and well-defined characters.

The 1963 documentary Crisis, featuring John and Robert Kennedy in the Oval Office, is an example of the observational tradition of American documentary film called _____.

Whose 1936 essay critiquing the effects of mass production and consumption influenced countless artists and theorists, including experimental filmmakers?

Andy Warhol’s experimental films, such as 1963’s Blow Job and Kiss, and those of Kenneth Anger belong to what film tradition?

Westerns that question the ideologies of traditional westerns – from Sam Peckinpah’s violent The Wild Bunch (1969) to the Coen Brothers’ Oscar-winning No Country for Old Men (2007) – are best classified as _____ westerns.

As a feature of its alternative narrative, the film Memento ultimately reveals that Leonard is a(n) _____narrator.

Near the beginning of Stories We Tell, director Sarah Polley tells her dad, Michael, that her documentary about her mother will have a(n) [one] rhetorical position. However, after Polley learns more about her mother while making the film, it ultimately adopts a(n) [two] position about storytelling itself.

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) _____.