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The plot of Apocalypse Now is loosely based on which novel (name and author)?
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1899)
Name the author and the title of the reading (half points for identifying one):
"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?"
Madhava Prasad, “This thing called Bollywood”
This is the name of the generation of filmmakers in China that emerged after the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989.
6th Generation
Name the term and give an example (Full points must name both).
This is when the picture/screen brightens until it is completely white.
Fade to white
Scene from Dil Se
Name three types of possession in Atlantics (must name three for full points).
Possession of property, possession in marriage, possession of blame, possession in parenthood, possession of wealth, possession in the supernatural realm in ghosts, possession of nations, possession of people via slavery/slave trade, possession of bodies in labor practices (construction workers on the tower)
How many months were the construction workers denied pay in Atlantics?
3-4 months
Name the author and the title of the reading (half points for identifying one):
"I was invited to Senegal with my father, and that was the moment when I realized everything, like how important his legacy and his films were to me and to the world. People come and go, but films remain, which is a fact that we know, but suddenly I really had a much deeper sense of what it means."
Carlos Aguilar, “A Language Possessed and Reconquered: Mati Diop on Atlantics”
This island lies off the coast of Senegal (opposite Dakar) and was the largest slave-trading center on the African coast.
Island of Gorée
Name the term and give an example (Full points must name both).
This is a type of sound that is from the mind of a character, where only that character can hear the sound.
Internal sound (diegetic)
Scene from Wings of Desire
Why might cinema be an ideal form to unpack the child’s experience?
Cinema has access to visual and aural perception, so it comes closer to child’s perception.
Who is the American actor that plays himself in Wings of Desire?
Peter Falk
Name the author and the title of the reading (half points for identifying one):
"Some critics have claimed that far from declining in creativity during the 1970s, Hollywood actually experienced a creative renaissance during that decade, as a result of the many young directors then working in the industry who were professionally trained in American film schools."
David A. Cook, A History of Narrative Film
("New Filmmakers in the Seventies and Eighties")
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
Name the piece of technology and a filmmaker/film that used it (Full points must name both).
This is a device with multiple cameras that can rephotograph frames. A filmmaker can add more and layer the frames on top of each other.
Optical printer
Norman McLaren, Pas de Deux
What is a simulacrum? What is an example from a film we watched?
A simulation or copy that replaces original.
The theme park landmarks in The World
What is the name of the village in which Mohammad Reza lives in Where is the Friend's House?
Poshteh
Name the author and the title of the reading (half points for identifying one):
"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."
Phillip Lopate, “Kiarostami Close-Up”
This is a film movement in India that focuses on artistic cinema instead of commercial cinema.
Parallel Cinema
Name the term and give an example (Full points must name both).
This is a transition where the first image is replaced by second image. The transition conveys the impression of missed or a gap in time.
Wipe
Scene from Taboo
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 is the name of the song in Dil Se that depicts the different stages of love in Arabic literature?
Satrangi Re
Name the author and the title of the reading (half points for identifying one):
"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
This is an American 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.
Structural films
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 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
What is the approximate date range and the name of the period in which the film Taboo takes place?
The Edo Period, 1603 - 1867
Name the author and the title of the reading (half points for identifying one):
"The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they are perceived and not as they are known. The technique of art is to make objects ‘unfamiliar’, to make forms difficult, to increase the difficulty and length of perception because the process of perception is an aesthetic end in itself and must be prolonged. Art is a way of experiencing the artfulness of an object; the object is not important."
Viktor Shklovsky, “Art as Technique”
Which group, originally formed in the 1960s, eventually became part of the New German Cinema movement in the 1970s and 80s?
The Oberhausen group (also acceptable answer: the Young Gemran Cinema movement)
Name the term and give an example (Full points must name both).
This is lighting that has high contrast of light and shadows.
Chiaroscuro Lighting
Scene from Wings of Desire
Which painter was Derek Jarman influenced by?
Yves Klein