Film Aesthetics
Third Cinema - Solanas & Gettino
Third World Films - Gabriel
Xala
Miscellaneous
100
These are characterized by dramatic realism and the dominant style of Hollywood continuity.
What are "normative aesthetics?" (Sham 258)
100
Man is the consumer, not creator, of _______.
What is ideology? (Solanas & Gettino 272)
100
These are the three components of critical theory for Third World films.
What are text, reception, and production? (303)
100
"Xala" stands for this.
What is sexual impotence?
100
The mask worn by Michael Myers in "Halloween" was actually the painted and altered face of this man.
Who is William Shatner?
200
This is concerned with revolutionizing both film form and social practice.
What is the "political avant-garde?" (Sham 260)
200
Films that fail to mobilize, agitate, or politicize sectors of the people are merely these.
What are "consumer goods?" (S&G, 270)
200
Third World films tend to focus more heavily on changing the individual through this.
What is "the community" (308)
200
"Xala" is based on a novel by the same name, written by this man.
Who is Ousmane Sembène?
200
In "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom," Willie says that she is from this state.
What is Missouri?
300
This man proposed a type of plot in which the narrative structure was interrupted, fractured, and digressive.
Who is Bertolt Brecht? (Stam 261)
300
A filmmaker must fulfill one of these two requirements for his/her film to be considered "third cinema."
What is "making films that the System cannot assimilate and which are foreign to its needs" and "making films that directly and explicitly set out to fight the system." (S&G 273)
300
One of Gabriel's phases of Third World films, this one features film as a site of mass participation. Film is used as public service institution or an ideological tool.
What is "phase 3, the combative phase?" (301)
300
According to Gabriel, "Xala" exists in the grey area between these phases.
What are "Phase II and Phase III?" (Gabriel 302)
300
A world-famous band fronted by one of the stars from the films we've watched.
Who are "The Supremes"?
400
In alternative editing aesthetic, these have to effect the synthesis latent in the audio-visual material.
What are spectators/participants? (Stam 263)
400
These two things are responsible for the polarization between art and politics.
What are "the conception of culture, science, art, and cinema as univocal and universal terms" and "an insufficiently clear idea of the fact that revolution... begins at the moment when the masses sense the need for change."
400
A phase of Third World film, this one features "uncritical acceptance or undue romanticization of ways of the past."
What is "phase 2, the remembrance phase"? (299-300)
400
El Hadji's impotence is symbolic of the failure and corruption of this.
What are African post-independence governments? What are Senegalese post-independence governments?
400
These are the two languages spoken in Xala.
What are Wolof and French?
500
This works to deconstruct both the canon and its generating matrix.
What is "'anti-canonical' carnivalesque art?" (Stam 262)
500
This is the simplest, most concrete definition of Third Cinema that Solanas & Gettino provide.
What is "the cinema that recognizes in the struggle the most gigantic cultural, scientific, and artistic manifestation of our time, the great possibility of a liberated personality with each people as the starting point -- in a word, the decolonization of culture.
500
The main stylistic element that characterizes Phase I of Third World Film.
What is spectacle or technical wizardry? (299)
500
Ousmane Sembène uses "Xala" to attack this kind of colonialism.
What is neocolonialism?
500
A film commonly referred to as "the British 'Psycho'"
What is Peeping Tom?
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