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The plot of Apocalypse Now is loosely based on which novel (name and author)?
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1899)
Which film industry is Madhava Prasad referring to in this quote:
"But stranger still is the wide acceptance that the term has gained over the last few years in a country where the dominant prevailing view is that Indian popular cinema is an entirely indigenous product. Today, not only the English language media which is probably the term’s original habitat, but also the Indian language press, not only journalists but also film scholars employ this term to talk about Indian popular cinema. Is this a name that incorporates a criticism?"
Bollywood, article: “This thing called Bollywood”
What is the name of the generation of filmmakers in China that emerged after the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989?
Sixth Generation
When Ratnam uses a fade-to-white screen in Dil Se, what is this meant to symbolize or foreshadow?
Death
What are the names of the five characters that ride the river patrol boat in Apocalypse Now (100 points for each character)?
Chief Phillips, Lance, Chef, Clean, Willard
Who is the American actor that plays himself in Wings of Desire?
Peter Falk
Which famous Senegalese filmmaker is Mati Diop's uncle?
Djibril Diop Mambéty
This island lies off the coast of Senegal (opposite Dakar) and was the largest slave-trading center on the African coast.
Island of Gorée
What was Kore-Eda’s process for coming up with the memory interviews in After Life?
Kore-Eda interviewed people when making a film about a woman whose husband dies by suicide. Kore-Eda asked interviewees about one memory they would choose to live in forever. He took a selection of these interviews for the film After Life.
What do you call the style in which magical elements occur within a realist genre or setting? Often a way to explore or celebrate local or indigenous cultural history that has been eroded or suppressed by colonialism.
Magical Realism
How many months were the construction workers denied pay in Atlantics?
3-4 months
Name a German filmmaker associated with New German Cinema from your textbook, other than Wenders.
Fassbinder
Kluge
Werner Herzog
von Trotta
This event (name and date) resulted in a strict theocratic regime in Iran. Many new wave filmmakers left due to harsh censorship. The censorship laws eventually fluctuated, and many filmmakers returned or found creative ways to overcome restrictions.
The Iranian Revolution of 1979
Define internal diegetic sound.
Bonus: give an example.
Sound that occurs within the story in a character's head.
Ex. Willard's monologue in Apocalypse Now, human thoughts which angels can hear in Wings of Desire
What is a simulacrum? What is an example from a film we watched?
A simulation or copy that stands in for the original.
The theme park landmarks in The World
What is the name of the village in which Ahmed lives in Where is the Friend's House?
Koker
Which filmmaker is Phillip Lopate interviewing in this exchange:
"This is probably too broad of a question, but what has been the effect of the Iranian Revolution on your films?"
"Actually, in many ways my films were the same before and after the political change…I normally choose subject matters that jump over the censors. But the censors aren’t very clever. Sometimes the cut stupid things."
Kiarostami
Article: Phillip Lopate, “Kiarostami Close-Up”
This is a film movement in India that focuses on artistic cinema instead of commercial cinema.
Parallel Cinema
Dil Se is Mani Ratnam's first _________ language film?
Bonus: what language were Ratnam's previous films made in?
Hindi
Bonus: Tamil
Why might cinema may be an ideal form to unpack the child’s experience?
Cinema is uniquely tied to the perceptual, and can access the visual and aural, so it can bring us closer to a child’s experience than words can.
Ex. repetitive dialogue between Ahmed and adults in Where is the Friend's Home?
What is the name of the song in Dil Se that depicts the different stages of love in Arabic literature?
"Satrangi Re"
Name a New American filmmaker mentioned in your textbook, other than Francis Ford Coppola .
Brian De Palma
Peter Bogdanovich
Martin Scorcese
Robert Altman
Stephen Spielberg
George Lucas
This is an avant-garde film movement that began in the 1960s. These films draw attention to the material basis of the film apparatus and they attempt to strip away the “illusions” of cinema, like the perception of movement.
Bonus: Mothlight is an example of a ______ film.
Structural films
Bonus: Flicker film
Name the term and give an example (Full points must name both).
This is a lightweight mounting for a camera that keeps the camera stable for filming when handheld or moving.
Steadicam
The opening sequence of After Life
What event does the director's son Pouya hope to watch in And Life Goes On?
1990 World Cup
What is the approximate date range and the name of the period in which the film Taboo takes place?
The Edo Period, 1603 - 1867
Which avant-garde filmmaker's manifesto includes the following quote?
"Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'? How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye? How aware of variations in heat waves can that eye be?"
Stan Brakhage, excerpt from Metaphors on Vision
What slogan did AIDS activists use to call attention to the phobic effect created by images of sick bodies?
Bonus: what was another phrase used in pamphlets criticizing voyeurism?
Silence=Death
Bonus: "Stop looking at us, start listening to us."
This is lighting that has high contrast of light and shadows. Used in Wings of Desire.
Bonus: how did the cinematographer in Wings of Desire create a textured visual effect?
Chiaroscuro Lighting
Bonus: used a silk stocking over the camera lens
What shift has contributed to the rapidly growing market for African films, such as Atlantics?
Globalized film circulation through streaming services.