EUROPEAN CINEMA
A postmodern European filmmaker who is critical towards totalizing ideologies that usually derive from the West
Lars von Trier
The title of the story/short film that opens Wild Tales (Szifron, 2015)
"Pasternak"
Which Singaporean films usually succeed overseas?
The fims that show “the dark side to Singapore’s road to economic modernization, the failed processes of an Asianized modernity“
Type of allegory, story within the story. It usually conveys some “moral thesis” or exemplifies some “principle of human behavior”
Parable
Which topic comes after Asian cinema in your course syllabus?
Australian cinema
An European film director whose films and filming techniques are inspired by paintings
Roy Andersson
A character from Babenco's film that is “neither monster nor victim" but "an urban survivor denied the luxury of conventional morality.”
Pixote
Name at least three characteristics of Bhutanese oral storytelling
Ghost, spirits, demons
Indefinite time-frame
Place plays central role
Buddhist influences
Interactive filmwatching
Define slang images in film
Slang images portray the socially marginalized as the legitimate representation
Mila Kunis' country of origin
Ukraine
The main theme of Bergman’s Academy Award film, Virgin Spring
Vengeance
Name one of the underlying themes of Wild Tales (Szifron, 2015)
Clash between Argentinian rich and poor
Class struggle
Revenge
Violence
Which message was hidden in the parable presented in Travellers & Magicians?
Desire is the root of our suffering.
A framework/theoretical approach that allows us to analyze film as a product of many varied economies (international financing and personnel, cross-cultural influences, etc.)
Transnational cinema
Titles of the two required textbooks for class
Storytelling in World Cinemas (Lina Khatlib, ed.)
World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives (Nataša Durovicová and Kathleen E. Newman, eds.).
What is portrayed in the opening scene of The World of Glory (Andersson, 1991)?
“Ethnic cleansing” aka “final solution”
The film that challenges the concept of “change” as the articulation of capitalist social economy, of inclusion and exclusion?
Chronically Unfeasible (Bianchi, 2000)
Which principle of Buddhism does the film, 6 Boys present?
Compassion towards nature
Phenomenon that provides some measure of comfort to American audiences who can understand alienation and dispossession because they are experiencing their own version of this
"International fraternity of the lost"
The origin country of original Godzilla film
Japan (Gojira, 1954)
The first Estonian film that was nominated for Academy Awards
Tangerines (Urushadze, 2014)
In what context do Pixote (Babenco, 1981) and Chronically Unfeasible (Bianchi, 2000) discuss life in Brazil?
Economic and social class
How does the mode of film production & distribution in Bhutan differ from that of the Hollywood production?
Films are toured around cinema halls (producer–exhibitor) and not released in DVDs to protect against piracy.
Name at least 3 characteristics of postmodernism
Destruction
Rejection of master narratives
Hyper-reality
De-centered self, multiple identities
Irony
Fragmentation
Loss of control
Which is the highest grossing movie of all time?
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