Directors
The Language of Film
All About the Gaze
Plot Points
100

This person directed Women Make Film.

Who is Mark Cousins.

100

Shot taken with the camera placed approximately where the character's eyes would be, showing what the character sees

What is point-of-view shot

100

She wrote: "As critical spectators, black women participate in a broad range of looking relations, contest, resist, revision, interrogate and invent on multiple levels." 

Who is bell hooks

100


In Beau Travail, Galoup is jealous of [__________]

Who is Sentain

200

She directed Sambizanga

Who is Sarah Maldoror

200

"The [              ] of a character alone can give you a hint about the period the film was set (in the 50s, 60s, 90s, or 2000s), the profession of the character (lawyer, doctor, clown, gangster), the financial status of the character (rich and exposed or poor and timid)."

What is costume

200

the word means "the pleasure of looking"

What is scopophilia

200

Sambizanga tells the story of.........?

What is Maria's search for her husband Domingos. The film is also a political story about the Angolan independence movement in the face of  Portuguese Colonial power.

300

Her second film was The Bad Batch. You may not know it, but she was the stand-in for skateboarding scenes in her "vampire spaghetti western" film.

Who is Ana Lily Amirpour

300

"All the events, objects, spaces, and characters presumed to exist in the world of the film, including things not explicitly presented but inferred by the audience" make up the[                     ].

What is the diegesis or diegetic world

300

Laura Mulvey used this hyphenated construction or phrase to describe how in classical Hollywood film women "in their appearance [are] coded for strong visual and erotic impact."

What is to-be-looked-at-ness

300

This film is based on real events though for political reasons,  it was filmed in a country other than the one it is set in.

What is Sambizanga.

400

She directed Beau Travail

Who is Claire Denis

400

French theatrical term: literally, "put in the scene." In film analysis, the term refers to everything in front of the camera, including the set design, lighting, and actors. 

What is Mise-en-scène

400

Fill in the blanks: "In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female. The determining [______   ______] projects its fantasy on to the female figure who is styled accordingly." 

AND name the author of this quote!

What is the male gaze and the author is Laura Mulvey

400

Masuka is in this film.

What is A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

500

This director is a fan of boxing and also directed Jennifer's Body.


 

Who is Karyn Kusama.

500

This term refers to what we, the audience can hear, but the characters within the world of the film cannot,

What is extra-diegetic or non-diegetic sound

500

These are the three looks associated with film as defined by Laura Mulvey.

What are: the looks between characters, the look of the camera, the look of the spectators/audience

500

This film was directed by a woman but not someone in the community she made a film about. What is the film title and what is the director's name?

Girl Fight by Karyn Kusama.

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