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Introduction
Global Cinema explores the diverse landscape of film production, distribution, and reception around the world. This course examines the artistic, cultural, social, and political influences that shape cinematic expression across different regions, including but not limited to Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East. Students analyze a wide range of films, directors, and movements, considering issues such as national identity, globalization, transnational collaborations, and the impact of technology on cinematic storytelling. Through screenings, readings, and discussions, the course fosters critical understanding of how cinema both reflects and shapes global cultures and perspectives.
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Film A Critical Introduction 3rd Edition by Maria
T. Pramaggiore
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Q1) During the 1910s and the 1920s,the <i>actualité </i>film began to eclipse other types of movies.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) One of the goals of the textbook is to teach students that their emotional response to a film isn't as important as their intellectual engagement with the text.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Maxim Gorky referred to the world that film transported the viewer to as the "kingdom of ________."
A) dreams
B) thought
C) art
D) shadows
E) imagination
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: An Approach to Film Analysis
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Q1) In the film <i>Notorious</i>,Alfred Hitchcock uses a ________ motif to suggest the change and development of a "party girl" character.
A) dress
B) dancing
C) drinking
D) musical
Answer: C
Q2) Motifs can encourage viewers to compare and contrast ________.
A) characters
B) plot events
C) objects
D) all of these
Answer: D
Q3) Which of the following would be an example of an "interpretive claim"?
A) A casual viewer discusses his or her enjoyment of a particular actor's performance.
B) A film critic discusses whether or not a film is "good" or "bad."
C) A film scholar discusses a recurring theme present throughout the film.
D) All of these are interpretive claims.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Writing About Film
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Q1) When writing about a film,film scholars should usually __________________ to manage verb tense.
A) employ present tense throughout
B) alternate between past and present tense for variety
C) rely solely on past tense throughtout
D) because film studies is a relatively new field, there are no established conventions for managing verb tense
Answer: A
Q2) T or F: Unlike Twilight and other contemporary vampire films,<i>Let the Right One In</i> In clearly portrays the monster as an unsympathetic creature.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) In the past decade,less written material has become available to people interested in learning about film.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Narrative Form
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Q1) A character's formative experiences before the beginning of the <i>syuzhet</i> but included in the <i>fabula</i> are known as ________.
A) memories
B) flashback
C) backstory
D) exposition
Q2) The organizing storytelling framework of a film is known as its ________.
A) narrative form
B) plot
C) foundation
D) theme
Q3) In unconventional narratives,turning points can still signal important shifts,even though if they do not form the basis for a three (or four)act structure.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A narrative is an account of a string of events connected by the logic of cause and effect.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Mise en Scène
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Q1) Explain the differences between Susan's and Charles's personalities. Then illustrate how the use of setting in this shot illustrates these differences.
Q2) ________ eliminates virtually all shadows and provides an even illumination of the subject.
A) High-key lighting
B) Low-key lighting
C) Natural-key lighting
D) Back-key lighting
Q3) Location shooting is often less expensive than shooting on a constructed set.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A filmmaker inspired by Bertolt Brecht's approach to theater would encourage her actors to immerse themselves in their roles,creating performances designed to provoke audience identification with the characters.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Moveable objects owned or used by characters are ________.
Q6) The places in which a film's action unfolds are known as the ________.
Q7) Identify two advantages of repeatedly casting an actor in similar roles.
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Chapter 6: Cinematography
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Q1) Filters can affect both the sharpness of the image and its color.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In ________ objects,remain in focus from points very close to the camera to positions at some distance from it.
Q3) ________ increase color saturation and contrast in outdoor shots.
A) Fog filters
B) Diffusion filters
C) Neutral-density filters
D) Polarizing filters
Q4) To combine an actor and a background filmed separately,filmmakers obscure part of the frame during shooting,creating complementary ________ that prevent exposure in one area of the film stock.
A) maskings
B) mattes
C) superimpositions
D) cut outs
Q5) The standard technique for animated films until the 1990s involved using transparent overlays,known as ________,to separate moving figures from static backgrounds.
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Q1) ________ is the attribute of editing that invites audiences to compare the visual qualities of two or more joined shots.
Q2) One way narrative sequencing helps develop themes is by inviting comparisons between two distinct points in time.
A)True
B)False
Q3) An abrupt shift in the time and space of an action that is not signaled by an appropriate shot transition is a ________.
A) jump cut
B) split cut
C) flop cut
D) bump cut
Q4) A shot taken from opposite the angle of the preceding shot is known as a ________.
Q5) The end of the "Odessa Steps Sequence" in <i>Battleship Potemkin</i> fuses shots of three different statues to create a metaphor for the slumbering people waking up to fight tyranny.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Sound
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Q1) The soundtrack in <i>No Country for Old Men</i> suggests that the violent drug wars of the 1980s are simply part of a long tradition of violence in the American West.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A sound's ________ refers to its frequency,or its position on a musical scale.
Q3) The title for <i>No Country for Old Men</i> is an intertextual reference to
A) <i>The Birth of a Nation</i>
B) <i>Taxi Driver</i>
C) a poem by W.B. Yeats
D) a famous speech by President Ronald Reagan
Q4) The voice-over in <i>No Country for Old Men</i> is unusual because it is non-diegetic,delivered by a character looking back in time at events onscreen instead of narrating from the present tense.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Briefly (in 1-2 sentences)describe the two themes associated with Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver.
Q6) Identify two common functions of film music.
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Chapter 9: Alternatives to Narrative Fiction
Film:Documentary and Avant-garde Films
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Q1) In general,documentaries capture an unmediated (or unbiased)reality.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The sequence of events the woman dreams about in <i>Meshes of the Afternoon</i> are repeated ________ times.
A) two
B) three
C) four
D) five
Q3) The three modes of filmmaking are ________.
A) commercial fiction, documentary and avant-garde
B) comedy, drama and documentary
C) commercial fiction, avant-garde and experimental
D) commercial fiction, commercial nonfiction and avant-garde
Q4) In <i>Meshes of the Afternoon</i>,the key is replaced by a ________.
A) coin
B) candle
C) flower
D) knife
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Chapter 10: Film and Ideology
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Q1) Films screened late at night for black audiences in white-owned theaters during the era of segregation were known as ________.
A) midnight revivals
B) black-outs
C) white-outs
D) midnight rambles
Q2) Which of the following describes the U.S.Congress's House Committee on Un-American Activities (also known as "HUAC")?
A) It was established in the 1930s to investigate Nazi propaganda.
B) It was concerned with charges that Communist propaganda had infiltrated Hollywood films.
C) It called on many people in the film industry to testify before congress and provide names of acquaintances who may have been involved with the American Communist Party.
D) all of these
Q3) Systems of beliefs,values and opinions based on underlying assumptions about the way the world should be are known as ________.
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Chapter 11: Social Context and Film Style:National,
International, andTransnational Cinema
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Q1) Using a film that has been screened in class,discuss whether or not you believe it fits into the "classical Hollywood" style. What elements of the film signal this? If it does not fit into the "classical Hollywood" style, how might it be seen as a reaction against it?
Q2) Explain how Hollywood dominates international cinema,not just in terms of profitability but in terms of style as well.
Q3) American film production and reception were at their height during what has become known as the Hollywood ________ era.
A) silent
B) international
C) celluloid
D) studio
Q4) Hollywood studios would rely on the Production Code to justify cutting out content that might be controversial overseas.
A)True
B)False
Q5) If "First Cinema" refers to the Hollywood industry and "Second Cinema" refers to the international,author-driven cinema,to what does "Third Cinema" refer?
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Chapter 12: Film Stardom As a Cultural Phenomenon
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Q1) Silent film comedian Buster Keaton was nicknamed "The Great Stoneface" by fans because of his unusually heavy white make-up.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Richard Dyer argues that a star's image is constructed across four different pub?lic arenas.What are those "arenas"?
Q3) Industry economists agree that star culture is central to the economic success of Hollywood.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A star's pay for a film may come in the form of ________.
A) up-front fees
B) percentages of grosses
C) percentages of profits
D) all of these
Q5) Explain how publicity played a part in generating the public's interest in Jennifer Anniston's performance in <i>The Break-Up.</i>
Q6) Describe Indian star Lata Mangeshkar's unusual star persona.
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Chapter 13: Genre
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Q1) To be included within a given genre,a film must exhibit <i>all </i>of the characteristics and conventions associated with that genre.
A)True
B)False
Q2) For critics like Richard Dyer and Robin Wood,who define genre in terms of theme more than visual conventions,the horror film is inevitably interested ________________.
A) the stark difference between good and evil
B) how the monster represents the feelings the protagonist represses
C) the conflict between scientific rationality and the chaos of nature
D) how humans allow themselves to be consumed by fantasies of grandeur
Q3) <i>Alien</i> uses the narrative conventions of the ________ genre but employs the visual iconography of the ________ genre.
A) horror/science-fiction
B) western/horror
C) horror/film noir
D) science-fiction/paranoid conspiracy
Q4) Identify and explain two approaches a film scholar might adopt when studying a genre.
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Chapter 14: Film Authorship
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Q1) When they were marketing <i>United 93</i> (one of the first films to tackle the terrorist attacks on September 11,2001),why did studio heads try to hide the fact that director Paul Greengrass had directed two entries in the extraordinarily popular <i>Bourne trilogy</i>?
Q2) Critic Jonathan Rosenbaum states that Universal Studios agreed to the idea of restoring Welle's <i>Touch of Evil</i> to ________.
A) emphasize the collaboration with his cinematographer
B) show Welle's artistic vision
C) "get more value out of an old chestnut" for financial gain
D) none of the above
Q3) The auteur theory emerged from the cultural milieu of postwar Italy.
A)True
B)False
Q4) ________ would be considered an <i>auteur.</i>
A) John Wayne
B) John Ford
C) Andre Sarris
D) Pauline Kael
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Chapter 15: Cinema As Industry: Economics and Technology
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Q1) Pro-business government policies of the 1980s effectively rendered the Paramount Decree irrelevant.
A)True
B)False
Q2) <i>The Blair Witch Project</i> is notable for the way its internet marketing campaign blurred the distinction between fact and fiction.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Identify one of the institutions that developed in the 1980s and 90s which contributed to the growing profitability of independent film,but which also threatened to water down the movement's ability to take risks.
Q4) When a studio hires an independent firm to handle a portion of production (such as lighting or set construction)rather than using their own employees,this is called
A) outsourcing
B) contracting
C) expansion
D) conglomeration
Q5) Explain how Hollywood's production of ideas has been "creatively centralized."
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