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Download Contemporary Cinema Final Questions And Answers and more Exams Contemporary Architecture in PDF only on Docsity! CINE 1610: Contemporary Cinema Final Questions And Answers In The Mood for Love (2000) - correct answer Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong Cinema Two neighbors, a woman and a man, form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. However, they agree to keep their bond platonic so as not to commit similar wrongs. In The Mood for Love Character List - correct answer Su Li-zhen, Chow Mo-wan, Ah Ping, Mr. Koo, Ms. Suen Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001) - correct answer Alfonso Cuaron, Latin American Cinema In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other. •Nominated for, among other accolades, Best Foreign Language Film (Golden Globes) and Best Original Screenplay (Academy Awards) Y Tu Mama Tambien Cast - correct answer Ana, Tenoch, Julio CINE 1610: Contemporary Cinema Final Questions And Answers 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) - correct answer Cristian Mungiu, Eastern European Cinema A woman assists her friend in arranging an illegal abortion in 1980s Romania. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days Cast - correct answer Otilia, Gabita, Viorel, Adi Radu A Separation (2011) - correct answer Asghar Farhadi, New Iranian Cinema A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease. A Separation Cast - correct answer Nader, Simin, Razieh, Hojjat, Termeh A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) - correct answer Ana Lily Amirpour, Transnational Cinema CINE 1610: Contemporary Cinema Final Questions And Answers •Dominance of kung-fu films Modern Period of Hong Kong Cinema - correct answer •New generation in front of and behind the camera •Film production freed from studio sound stages •Production qualities and marketing strategies improve to allow Hong Kong cinema to compete internationally What was the most significant phenomenon in HK cinema? - correct answer the immigration of film workers from Shanghai and the rise of a new Mandarin film industry Between ____ and ______, how many Cantonese films were produced in Hong Kong? - correct answer (1946-1969), 3,500 titles, 3 times more than Mandarin Union Film Enterprises Ltd. - correct answer Founded in 1952 •Response to shoddily-made "seven-day wonders" CINE 1610: Contemporary Cinema Final Questions And Answers •Produces a new respect for Cantonese films both domestically and abroad What were the two influential Mandarin film cooperations in Hong Kong? - correct answer Motion Picture & General Investment Company and Shaw Brothers When did Kung-fu films become popular in Hong Kong Cinema - correct answer During the Transnational cinema period (1970's), Mandarin What made Kung-fu films popular? - correct answer •Action was valued over drama •Male stars replaced female stars as the main box-office appeal •Locally produced films continually proved more popular than Hollywood product •Held 50%-70% of domestic market share into the 1990s CINE 1610: Contemporary Cinema Final Questions And Answers What was the Hong Kong new wave? - correct answer - spectrum of film, TV and music - filmmakers are generally marked by realism and technical -competence born and educated in Hong Kong - films displayed in television before they entered the film industry Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano - correct answer A term coined at a festival of 8 and 16mm filmmakers in Viña del Mar, Chile in 1967 Latin American Cinema - correct answer Most postwar cinema movements were committed to the indictment of systemic poverty (of ethnic minorities, of peasants, of landless laborers) and the legitimization of sociopolitical protest through film Three LA Film Schools - correct answer •Documentary Film School (Argentina) CINE 1610: Contemporary Cinema Final Questions And Answers -Double theater attendance and raise production to 60-80 films per year • goes bankrupt in 1988 and closes in 1990 Hollywood Strategy (2003) - correct answer •Seven Brazilian films sell over 1.5 million tickets each •Domestic films rise to a 21% market share •Nine of the top ten Brazilian films were distributed by American firms Cuban Institute of Film Art and Industry (ICAIC) (1959) - correct answer - produced up to half a dozen feature films, a regular newsreel, and as many as 48 documentaries per year in late 80's -10 million dollar budget, staffed 1,000 people Julio Garcia Espinosa (1926-2016) - correct answer "For an Imperfect Cinema" 1969 CINE 1610: Contemporary Cinema Final Questions And Answers technical and artistic perfection are false objectives for filmmakers in underdeveloped countries goal of cinema should be direct audience engagement technical and artistic perfection are false objectives EU Nations - correct answer •Bulgaria •Croatia •Czech Republic •Estonia •Hungary •Latvia •Lithuania •Poland •Romania •Slovakia •Slovenia The Criterion Collection - correct answer •Total countries 48 CINE 1610: Contemporary Cinema Final Questions And Answers •Total titles 1291 •E.E. countries 8 •E.E. titles 31 Eastern European Cinema - correct answer films were dark and revolved devastating impact of Soviet socialism on people's bodies and minds increasingly decentralized and depoliticized •Less emphasis on an auteur's tortured artistic vision •More emphasis on the political and economic necessities of survival in a globalized media market Hotspot for outsourcing Hollywood production in Eastern Europe - correct answer Budapest, Hungary Main emphasis of E. European cinema - correct answer Globalize regional film industries and lower regulation to seduce foreign investment CINE 1610: Contemporary Cinema Final Questions And Answers •According to some records, 2nd only to the Bible in worldwide sales •Inspired or influenced over 700 films •Never been out of print •Translated into every major language in the world Nosferatu (1922) - correct answer •Directed by F.W. Murnau (1889-1931) •German Expressionist cinema; silent •Earliest surviving vampire film •Murnau drew on popular vampire folklore and Stoker's novel (without permission) •Changed names and setting CINE 1610: Contemporary Cinema Final Questions And Answers •Florence Stoker and the British Incorporated Society of Authors destroyed the original negatives and most of the prints •Max Schreck myth Dracula (1931)& Horror of Dracula (1958) - correct answer (Universal) •Directed by Tod Browning •First authorized film adaptation •Script draws heavily on stage play that starred Bela Lugosi •Dracula becomes a suave, continental lover-handsome and charismatic •Omits the novel's explicit sexuality • (Hammer) CINE 1610: Contemporary Cinema Final Questions And Answers •Directed by Terence Fisher •Significant changes to novel Reza Shah Pahlavi - correct answer Seeks to modernize Iran •Reduces the power of the clergy •Builds a national education system and the University of Tehran •Changes the name of Persia to Iran in 1935 Mohammad Reza Shah - correct answer - influenced by the British, who controlled the vast majority of Iran's oil industry - heaviliy dictorial Outlaws all political parties but his own CINE 1610: Contemporary Cinema Final Questions And Answers Sayyid Ali Khamenei - correct answer Supreme Leader of Iran, spiritual and political highest authority in 1989 Iranian Islamic Revolution - correct answer •Theatres burned down •Chains of production completely disrupted •Many directors, actors, and producers flee the country •Creativity jeopardized àwhat would be allowed/forbidden? Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance - correct answer controls commercial, artistic, and political media and enforces "proper conduct" in public life •Attempts to purge all Iranian popular culture of Pahlavi influence •Halal(authorized) vs. Haram(forbidden) CINE 1610: Contemporary Cinema Final Questions And Answers Farabi Cinema Foundation (FCF) - correct answer •Many pre-revolutionary filmmakers resume their careers •Between 1989-1993, scripts no longer needed approval When was Iranian Cinema become popular? - correct answer 1990's Iranian films do better abroad than domestically Abbas Kiarostami - correct answer Award-winning Iranian director and filmmaker for Taste of Cherry, won Palme d'Or Three elements of Iraniyat - correct answer Iranian national identity •Iranian nationalism/Persian chauvinism •Westernization/top-down modernization •Islamic fundamentalism -failed, tried to push religious, religious and ethnic plurism CINE 1610: Contemporary Cinema Final Questions And Answers •Why does Iranian cinema continue to succeed on the international film scene? - correct answer •Neo- realism/reflexivity •Focus on portrayals of women and children •Shoestring budgets and use of amateur actors Why use "transnational cinema" to describe global film culture today? - correct answer Existing categories are largely outdated and don't accurately illustrate the effects of globalization What is Transnational Cinema? - correct answer Films made by exilic/diasporic filmmakers •Motivations... •Failures of nationalism/socialism/communism •Economic globalization •The rise of militant regimes (e.g., Iran) CINE 1610: Contemporary Cinema Final Questions And Answers •Fantasy spaces •Many viewers gravitate toward films dealing with enduring themes that cut across geographic, cultural, and political borders •e.g., love, loss, grief, honor, revenge, etc. •Audiences are also addressed as members of other communities •e.g., race, gender, sexuality, age, etc. Black studies ⬌Queer studies - correct answer late- 1960s and early-1970s •The Civil Rights and Black Power movements provided the backdrop and energy to challenge the "Ivory Tower" - black heterosexual men took charge ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) - correct answer A grassroots movement that used street-based, direct action civil disobedience to advocate for people living with HIV and AIDS CINE 1610: Contemporary Cinema Final Questions And Answers Queer Studies and Black Studies disrupt dominant - correct answer 1) destabilizing fixed notions of identity 2) deconstructing binaries Pitfall of Black/Queer Studies - correct answer the deconstruction of binaries and the unmarking of difference (e.g., gender, race, class, religion, etc.) have serious implications for those for whom such differences "matter" •Queer people of color can't afford to theorize their lives based upon "single-variable" politics