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Theory, Criticism, History
Potpourri
100
What movie is this from?
"Spellbound"
100
Who illustrated this image? What is its significance?
According to Erish, it instantly identifies him for audiences as more than just a filmmaker: he’s a celebrity, too.
100
Who said this? "After years of tortured revaluation, I am now prepared to stake my critical reputation, such as it is, on the proposition that Alfred Hitchcock is artistically superior to Robert Bresson by every criterion of excellence, and further that, film for film, the American cinema has been consistently superior to that of the rest of the world from 1915 through 1962."
Sarris
100
What are the three premises or "circles" of Sarris's auteur theory? What do they mean?
the outer circle: technique the middle circle: personal style the inner circle: interior meaning
100
In "The 39 Steps," what saved Hannay from Professor Jordan's bullet?
THE BIBLE
200
Listen carefully to this clip... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvlyQaJbJgs
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200
What movie is this from? How does it relate to Hitch as an auteur?
"Marnie"
200
Name the movie that this quotation is from, and relate it to a Hitchcockian theme: "I’ll probably get married one of these days. When I do, it’s going to be to someone who thinks of life not just as a new dress and a lobster dinner and the latest scandal. I need a woman who’s willing to go anywhere and do anything and love it. So the honest thing for me to do is just to call the whole thing off, let her find somebody else."
Rear Window
200
What did Sarris contribute to the discussion of the Auteur, according to Buscombe? A method of _______ Worked toward producing a _____ of cinema
A method of classification Helped produce a map of cinema, ordering film history
200
Name one film that Hitchcock made "twice"
"The Man Who Knew Too Much" "Blackmail"
300
What is this song? Place it in context with Hitch's work
Gounod's Funeral March of a Marionette from "Alfred Hitchcock Presents"
300
What is this series of images an example of? How?
Kuleshov effect
300
Finish this quotation, and name who penned it: "The smell of a skunk is more distinguishable than..." How does it relate to your understanding of auteur theory?
Pauline Kael "the perfume of a rose. Does it make it better?"
300
According to Buscombe, early version of Auteur Theory assume that if there is meaning in a work, someone put it there deliberately, and that that someone must be an auteur. How did Wollen's structuralist approach shift auteur theory?
Meaning in a film does not need to be part of a coherent world-view of the auteur, but can be a part of an network of unconscious meanings. There are unintended meanings that a critic can decode through analysis.
300
How did Hitchcock innovate in "Dial M For Murder"
3-D technology
400
What movie features this music?
"Rear Window"
400
What is the relationship between these two images? DAILY DOUBLE!
Vera Miles as Elsa Spann Janet Leigh as Marion Crane
400
What is the significance of the following quotation? "Goethe? Shakespeare? Everything they put their name to is supposed to be good, and people rack their brains to find beauty in the silliest little thing they bungled. All great talents, like Geothe, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Michelangelo, created not only beautiful works, but things that were less than mediocre, quite simply awful."
Tolstoy via Bazin
400
Bazin named Renoir, Bresson, Cocteau, Jacques Becker, Abel Gance, Ophuls, Tati and Roger Leenhardt as auteurs that coincidentally contributed what to their films?
they often write dialogue and invent the stories they direct
400
Who is James Allerdice?
Wrote the "lead-ins" for "Alfred Hitchcock Presents"
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