A Form of Fainting That Results from Abrupt Emotional Stress

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Multiple Choice

A form of fainting that results from abrupt emotional stress is:

• A) vasovagal attack.
• B) fasciculation.
• C) aura.
• D) athetosis.

Investigate the challenges and changes in film genre conventions during the 1960s and 1970s.

Understand the contribution of tracking shots and camera techniques to storytelling and atmosphere in film.

Recognize the impacts of production problems and auteurism on the end of the Hollywood Renaissance.

Identify influential auteurs of the 1970s and their unique contributions to cinema.

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