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Question 1

Which composer wrote the music for Captain Fantastic?

Accepted Answer

Alex Somers

Question 2

Who said 'only a director could bring to bear the coherence of vision that gives birth to great art'?

Accepted Answer

Andrew Sarris

Question 3

What techniques does Vertigo use to create a sense of Voyeurism/Scopophilia?

Accepted Answer

POV Shots, Eyeline Matches, Male Gaze (1975, Mulvey), Shot Reverse Shots

Question 4

Which of the following is not a trait of Classical Hollywood Style?

Accepted Answer

Surrealism

Question 5

What is an intellectual montage?

Accepted Answer

Two separate shots that individually have no meaning until edited together

Question 6

Which of these attributes is not associated with The Male Gaze?

Accepted Answer

Gender roles or expectations are a performance.

Question 7

Which painter inspired the set design for Trainspotting?

Accepted Answer

Francis Bacon

Question 8

Classical Hollywood Style was also known as

Accepted Answer

Classical Continuity

Question 9

What does Camera Stylo mean?

Accepted Answer

Cinema as a means of expression and has its own language.

Question 10

Mixing together elements of realism and formalism is known as

Accepted Answer

Classicism

Question 11

Which of the following is not an attribute of an auteur?

Accepted Answer

Independently funded

Question 12

Which theorist coined the term Realism?

Accepted Answer

Andre Bazin

Question 13

Which of the following is not an example of how La La Land tries to illicit a passive response of Nostalgia?

Accepted Answer

Stars actors known for appearing in Golden Age of Hollywood musicals

Question 14

Captain Fantastic attempts to elicit the same passive response from the spectator throughout the film.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 15

Which of the following is not involved in Auteur Theory?

Accepted Answer

Sigfried Kracauer

Question 16

Which of the following is not one of the three types of audience readings according to Stuart Hall? (1980)

Accepted Answer

Climatic Reading

Question 17

What is Cinema Pur? (Henri Chomette)

Accepted Answer

Show don't tell approach

Question 18

Which of the following cannot be applied to La La Land?

Accepted Answer

Critique of American Society

Question 19

What is the fabula?

Accepted Answer

The raw materials of the story

Question 20

What does Verisimilitude mean?

Accepted Answer

A sense of realism/believability

Question 21

Who directed Captain Fantastic?

Accepted Answer

Matt Ross

Question 22

A character voiceover is which type of sound?

Accepted Answer

Internal Diegetic

Question 23

New Cinema used more classicist and formalist approaches to their filmmaking.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 24

Finish the quote from Jean Baudrillard. 'All stories have been told. New narratives...'

Accepted Answer

'Are just variations of pre-existing ones'

Question 25

Which of the following is a trait of New Hollywood films

Accepted Answer

Situates inbetween classical Hollywood and European art-house cinema, Uncertain and discomforting spectator response, More focused on style as well as substance, Uncommon emphasis on narrative irresolution

Question 26

Which of the following is not an example of postmodernism?

Accepted Answer

Continuity Editing

Question 27

La La Land can be read as a feminist film

Accepted Answer

True

Question 28

What theory means to make reference to other media texts/films?

Accepted Answer

Intertextuality

Question 29

Passive Responses are when a spectator responds to a film in the way the director intended.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 30

Which of these is not an example of a Binary Opposite from Shaun of the Dead?

Accepted Answer

Past vs Present

Question 31

Shaun of the Dead is about the emptiness of modern society and culture

Accepted Answer

True

Question 32

Which of the following is not associated with mise-en-scene?

Accepted Answer

Cinematography

Question 33

Which of the following could you NOT apply the idea of damaged masculinity/emasculation/Castration Anxiety to?

Accepted Answer

La La Land

Question 34

What techniques does Vertigo use to create a sense of Voyeurism/Scopophilia?

Accepted Answer

Scottie follows Madeleine, Madeleine framed to resemble a painting

Question 35

Which of these is as example of how La La Land can be read as a feminist film?

Accepted Answer

Passes the Bechdel Test, Mostly shot from Mia's perspective (POV, shot reverse shots, etc), Seb sacrifices his dream in the ending montage not Mia, Mia creates something original with her art

Question 36

Which theorist coined the term Binary Opposites?

Accepted Answer

Claude-Levi Strauss

Question 37

Who was the composer for Vertigo?

Accepted Answer

Bernard Herrman

Question 38

What was the name of Francis-Ford Coppola's production company?

Accepted Answer

Omni Zoetrope

Question 39

A story should have a beginning, middle and end but...(Jean-Luc Godard)

Accepted Answer

Not necessarily in that order

Question 40

Todorov's Narrative Theory (1977) begins with an Inciting Incident

Accepted Answer

True

Question 41

The way a story is organised/told is known as...

Accepted Answer

Syzhut, Plot

Question 42

Apocalypse Now is about the psychological impact of the Vietnam War on soldiers

Accepted Answer

True

Question 43

Who directed La La Land?

Accepted Answer

Damien Chazelle

Question 44

Who coined the Hero's Journey Narrative theory?

Accepted Answer

Joseph Cambell

Question 45

Roland Barthes said 'the birth of the reader must be at cost of...'

Accepted Answer

'The Death of the Author'

Question 46

Objects, which appear similar are used in successive shots, sometimes to imply a link is known as

Accepted Answer

Graphic Match, Match Cut

Question 47

What factors are likely to impact on how a spectator could respond to Captain Fantastic?

Accepted Answer

Political Beliefs, Education, Age, Gender

Question 48

Which of the following is not associated with Vertigo?

Accepted Answer

Critique of Consumerism

Question 49

Your Alignment and Allegiance with characters are different things according to Murray Smith (1995)

Accepted Answer

True

Question 50

Alexander Astuc coined which term in 1948?

Accepted Answer

Camera Stylo

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