Multiple Choice Questions

Question 11.1

1. Formalism is a method of analysis ___________.

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Incorrect. The answer can be found on pages 402-403.

Question 11.2

2. __________ understands our response to film in terms of rational evaluation of visual and narrative cues.

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Question 11.3

3. In the arts, the term “mimesis” refers to___________.

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Question 11.4

4. Formalist studies of narrative structure have contributed the distinction between_______.

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Question 11.5

5. The political and economic discourse that looks at history and society in relation to class inequalities is called__________.

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Question 11.6

6. Psychoanalytic models of film theory place primary emphasis on________.

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Question 11.7

7. ___________ is a critical approach originating in the fields of linguistics and anthropology that looks for common patterns rather than originality.

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Question 11.8

8. ________ considers words and images as different kinds of signs or ways of making meaning.

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Question 11.9

9. Which of the following statements about the French critics writing in the 1950s for the film magazine Cahiers du cinéma is correct?

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Question 11.10

10. Considering film’s interdisciplinary nature means ____________.

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Question 11.11

11. _________ explores the values built into film technology through the particular context of its historical development.

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Question 11.12

12. Early theories of film tended to explore which of the following questions?

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Question 11.13

13. __________ is a set of approaches drawn from the humanities and social sciences that looks at the role of cinema in the everyday lives of people at specific historical points or in particular social contexts.

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Question 11.14

14. In feminist film theory, the concept of "male gaze" includes the idea that ________.

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Question 11.15

15. Montage, the creating of meaning from a juxtaposition or chain of shots, was most significantly elaborated on by________.

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Question 11.16

16. Film theorists André Bazin and Siegfried Kracauer were best known for their theories of film ________.

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Question 11.17

17. According to your textbook, two methods of film criticism that rely heavily on cinephilia are __________.

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Question 11.18

18. According to the text, _________ is a position of critique, asking us to reconsider the truths and hierarchies we take for granted.

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Question 11.19

19. ___________ asserts that a film bears the creative imprint of one individual (typically the director).

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Question 11.20

20. The postmodern concept of a copy without an original is known as _________.

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