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Part I Form and Narrative Unit 1 Film Form I.

1.Which of the following is NOT a major set of film techniques leading to formal representations in films? () Performance
2.Which of the following does NOT belong to mise-en-scène? () Editing
3.Which of the following is true in terms of setting? () Setting refers to the historical and geographical locations where the events take place.
4.In the film Gone with the Wind, the lighting that highlights Scarlett’s nose, forehead and most importantly eyes is ______, which helps us to infer her happiness and excitement seeing her home not been destroyed. . top lighting.
5.Which of the following is false about highlights and shadows? () In the shot from the film Gone with the Wind, the two women stand by a candle with patches of their faces and bodies fall into darkness—this is called cast shadow.
6.In the film Gone with the Wind, Scarlett wears her off-shoulder dress as she decides to tell Ashely that she loves him. What is the use of costumes in here? () To show characters’ motives.
7.When we say he’s a good actor, we mean ______. his acts are real.
8.The director manipulates the behaviors of a figure mainly through ______. facial expressions and movements.
9.In film, composition refers to ______. how mise-en-scene is arranged
10.Which of the following statements is true about composition? () The director can use color contrast to shape our sense of screen space.

Unit 2 Film Form II

1.Cinematography basically deals with the issues of how the camera is used in shooting a film. Which of the following is NOT one of these issues? () Camera level
2.The effect created by the high angle is that the character being filmed often seems __ isolated and helpless.
3.Which angle is the most commonly used one among all camera angles? () The straight-on angle.
4.Among the types of camera distance, which one enables us to see the surroundings and to infer how the story world is affecting the character? () The long shot.
5.If a filmmaker wants to show the spatial relations between the characters who are framed, he or she would probably use _ The medium shot
6.Close-ups are used when __ the filmmaker wants to show details, such as characters’ emotions
7.Mobile framing refers to the framing of the object changes while the __ moves. camera
8.Among different types of camera movements, __ is the one that moves alongside the object. tracking shot
9.Which of the following types of camera movement is similar to someone raising or lowering their heads to look up or down? () Tilting.
10.Which of the following statements is NOT true about hand-held shots? () Hand-held shots became commonly used in documentaries which were popular in the late 1950s.

Unit 3 Film Narrative I

1.Which of the following is NOT the difference between ‘story’ and ‘the story being told’? () The nature of the story world.
2.In terms of Russian Formalism, sjuzhetmeans the __ arranged and edited by a story-teller. plot
3.In terms of the sequence of storytelling, the first quarter of a film can be referred to as the _____. set-up
4.The term in media res in Latin means _____. telling from the middle of a story
5.Some of the actions that took place before the plot started will be suggested so that we can understand what’s coming later. This is referred to as ______. backstory
6.Which of the following is NOT considered a pattern of plot development? An omniscient narration.
7.Which of the following statements is true about climax? () Emotionally, the climax aims to lift the viewers to a high degree of tension.
8.Which of the following plot development is a goal-orientation plot? () In the film The Matrix, Neo the protagonist aims to fight against the
9.Which of the following is the characteristic of unrestricted narration? () We have a narrator with more knowledge than any of the characters.
10.Restricted narration means the story-telling is restricted to a particular ______. character

Unit 4 Film Narrative II

1.Film editing belongs to the __ process of filmmaking. post-production
2.Which of the following is the most common way of joining two shots? () A cut
3.A cut is commonly used in editing since it provides a() _ change from one shot to another. instantaneous
4.Rhythm is created by the __ of each shot. duration
5.In the film The Birds, a fast rhythm is created by the director by __ of each shot. reducing the length
6.Elliptical editing presents an action in such a way that it consumes_____ time on the screen than it does in the story. less
7.Which of the following is NOT true about continuity editing? () Continuity editing offers various choices about presenting story time, from aspects like order, frequency, speed and duration.
8.In films, flashback refers to telling the story __ its actual happening. after
9.Which of the following are NOT common cues viewers use to re-establish the chronology? () Changes in camera angles.
10.In the film The Constant Gardener, the function of the flashback is _ to back up what Tim has called “corporate murder”, and visually fill up the story information.

Part II Film Critique Unit 5 Film Semiotics

1.What is the best definition of semiotics? () The investigation of signs
2.Which of the following statements is correct, according to the study of semiotics? () The word TABLE is the signifier and the mental concept of a table is the signified.
3.Which one is NOT one of Metz’s grande syntagmatique? () Setting
4.How does Metz encourage us to analyze a film? () Studying the ways a filmmaker creates visual signs
5.According to Metz, what makes a film a much different experience than a novel, theatrical play or a painting? A film gives the viewer a sensation that the story on the screen is real and believable.
6.What does Roland Barthes see in the semiotics of a film and other images? () A connection to ideology
7.Which of the following beliefs is NOT typically held by Roland Barthes? () Film should not be confused with the recreation of real life.
8.According to Barthes, what is the function of myth regarding the cover of Paris Match? () It presents the French empire as a fact that does not have to be
9.What do the signifiers of the tundra, apes, tapir, etc. suggest in Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey? () the fundamental characteristics of humanity
10.What is the signification of the space ship in Kubrick’s film? () It signifies both adventure and death.

Unit 6 Film Ideology

1.What is NOT true about ideology? () It is generally thought of in a positive way.
2.Which of the following is NOT true about the Frankfurt School? () They were interested in how film technology imparts an ideological response in its viewers.
3.What is the meaning of Benjamin’s memorable statement that reality has become “an orchid(兰花) in a land of technology”? () Reality is merely a representation.
4.Which of the following statements is NOT consistent with Benjamin’s major beliefs? () Film is received by the audience in a state of distraction, and the audience is consumed by it. .
5.Which of the following is true regarding McLuhan’s statement “the medium is the message”? () The medium imparts a message to the viewer that is separate from the content.
6.Which of the following is NOT evidence for Charles R. Acland to prove that the experience of going to a film is in itself an ideological experience? In studying the multiplex, critics have examined the ideology of images long enough.
7.The notion of cultural hegemony is often associated with ( )()( ). Antonio Gramsci
8.Which of the following is believed or encouraged by Gramsci? () To create a space of cultural resistance, it’s necessary to inspire a counterhegemonic force by bringing together traditions and practices that are artificially sanctioned.
9.Cultural resistance may refer to all of the following examples except ____. Formal uniforms
10.Why do Star Trek fans disagree that the images of freedom we see in the film are affective freedom? () Because they find actionable freedom in their discussions and the way they can form their own fan communities.

Unit 7 Film and Gender

1.How to understand the words “born” and “become()” in Simone de Beauvoir’s quote “One is not born a woman, one becomes one”? () nature& nurture
2.Since the beginning of the film industry, it was rare for women to work intechnical areas like _ . () directors
3.It was not until __ that women were still excluded from key positions in filmmaking. () 1960s
4.Feminist film theory focuses on the study of the following EXCEPT ____________. () mise en scène
5.Which one of the following is NOT true about woman directors? () They have fundamentally changed the landscape of filmmaking industry.
6.It has been argued that ( ) and ( ) have theoretically inspired feminist filmmaking since 1990s. () Deconstruction; feminist counterculture
7.In gender studies, the term “gender” should be used to refer to ( ). () the social and cultural constructions of masculinity and femininity
8.Which of the following statement best describes the female wrath in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri?() It challenges the patriarchal power which ignores female pain.
9.In which of the following films did Jude Davies link American cultural and historical crisis with a crisis of masculinity according to? () Groundhog Day
10.New Queer Cinema was a term to describe ( ).() the renaissance in gay and lesbian filmmaking

Unit 8 Film and Race

1.The term “race”has been primarily used, according to E. Ellis Cashmore, to refer to ____________. physical features
2.In what way can films “significantly influence and absorb discourses of race and racism”? () Films can generate and disseminate the ideological aspect of racial conflicts.
3.What is the result of emphasizing difference in skin colors? () These differences are to justify social and political inequalities.
4.Read the following paragraph. Which of the statements can best summarize Edward Long’s idea? () I think there are extremely potent reasons for believing, that the White and the Negroes aretwo distinct species. When we reflect on their dissimilarity to the rest of mankind, must we not conclude, that they are a different species of the same genus. Edward Long, History of Jamaica (1774) There is an absolute racial division between black and white people.
5.Native American iconography includes the following EXCEPT___________. () Red, green and gold
6.Which of the following is NOT among the key stereotypes of African Americans discussed by Etherington-wright and Doughty? () The Moodoo
7.Why, according to Storey, are the White the dominant color in terms of power and privilege, despite that they do not make up a significant number in population? () All of the above.
8.According to Richard Dyer,the term “white” is predominantly to signify ethnicity based on cultural origins from the following EXCEPT ____________. () Latin American
9.Thesymbolic meanings associated with whitenessinclude the following EXCEPT ____________. () unenlightened/savage
10.Rabbit-Proof Fence mainly discusses the topic of ­( ). () the Stolen Generations in Australia

Unit 9 Film and Ethnicity

1.Which of the following statement best describes “the other”? () It refers to people or cultures that queerly differ from “us”, the white mainstream mass culture.
2.Hollywood presents the Male Chinese characters in queer and stereotyped including .
a. Yellow Peril
b. The tracker
c. Kungfu stereotype
d. mysogynists
e. The gold-digger
f. Model minority
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3.What does “Orientalism” originally mean? () A. A way of imagining and distorting non-Western people and cultures. way of studying the Eastern people and cultures.
4.Which of the following statement best describe “Orientalism”? () It rationalized the colonization of "the savage East".
5.The “Othering” of the East is realized in the following ways EXCEPT ( ). () Imagination
6.Which of the following does NOT demonstrate the imagined landscape of the East? () The Star War film series
7.The contemporary form of imperialism is mostly found in ( ) sphere. () cultural
8.Which of the following can be regarded as example of Self-Orientalization? () Raise the Red Lantern
9.Which representation() in Mulan is/are the result of the orientalist tradition? (You may choose more than one answer.) () Dragon-lizard “Mushu” Slant eyes of the major characters Mulan’s looking for her identity The scenario of “love saves”
10.In M Butterfly, René killed himself in the prison after his monologue—“There’s a vision of the Orient that I have…It is a vision that has become my life.” What does “vision” mean here? () René’s own Oriental fantasy toward “Butterfly”.

Unit 10 Film and Psychoanalysis

1.How does Freud describe the human personality? () Id, ego, and superego.
2.( ) is the ideal self who the person strives to become, and it is developed partly through culture. () Superego
3.Oedipal complex is basically used to describe ( ). () An imaginary conflict between a child and its father
4.To Freud, ( ) is a way for the childlike id to stay in control of the mind. () a dream
5.Which is a concept from Jacques Lacan that can be used to understand cinema? () The mirror stage.
6.For Lacan, the self is an interaction between the order and the order. imaginary; symbolic
7.The visual pleasure of film, according to Mulvey, is traced back to ( ). () Freud
8.How does Laura Mulvey describe the phallocentric bias of mainstream cinema? () A rational investigator probes a consistent world.
9.In Shutter Island, Teddy is psychologically damaged because .all of the above
10.Which aspect of Shutter Island can be understood best with psychoanalytic theory? () The questions of the investigator’s trustworthiness.

Part III Synthesis Unit 11 The English Patient: Form and Narrative

1.The English Patient is adapted from the novel written by Canadian writer ( ). () Michael Ondaatje
2.The genre of The English Patient is ( ). () Romance
3.The patient is actually a() ( ) count who loves expenditures in the desert of North Africa. () Hungarian
4.How many stories are actually mentioned in The English Patient? () 3
5.Almasy claims “A thing is still a thing, not matter what you place in front of it” and uses ( ) as example; whereas Katharine shows her disagreement by giving an example of ( ). () car; love
6.The conflict in the film results from ( ). () Almasy’s betrayal to his own belief
7.What is right about the desert setting in the film? （) All of the above
8.What is the function of “The Story of Candaules”? () It forms a parallel in narrative structure and has added layers of narrative depth.
9.Which of the following quotes best describe music in the film? () “No one should own music!”
10.Why did Katharine mistook the Hungarian song into Arabic? () It sounds alike, under the circumstances that they are in North Africa.

Unit 12 The English Patient: Critical Analysis

1.The contrast of colors in the desert and the monastery is used to ( ). () create a time and space difference
2.Which of the following scenes can be regarded as the first scene shift from present to the past memories of the patient? () The patient eating plums
3.Which of the following is NOT an example of “metaphorical sound”? () The piano sound played by Hanna
4.Hanna thinks Kip is “Indian”, because ( ). () Kip wears a turban.
5.How do people exclude others from their own “imagined communities” in the film? () All of the above
6.Choose the one that nations CANNOT offer people in terms of territorial boundaries. () sense of time.
7.In Katharine’s last words, she wrote “We are the countries”, which means ( ). () It is the people who have created boundaries.
8.The bathroom scene in which Almasy sits in the bathtub sewing is a representation of( ). () a reverse power relationship between male and female
9.In what ways is Almasy a misogynist? () He feels threatened by Katharine’s woman power.
10.What is the significance of Kip talking Kipling’s writing with Almasy? () To present an orientalist view of English writers on India