Scandinavian Film Studies: Final Exam Study Guide - Prof. Andrew Nestingen, Study notes of Linguistics

Download Scandinavian Film Studies: Final Exam Study Guide - Prof. Andrew Nestingen and more Study notes Linguistics in PDF only on Docsity! 1 Scand 360 A/ Comp Lit 315 B Final Exam Study Guide FINAL EXAM: The final exam will be comprehensive for the entire course. It will be structured in three parts. The first section will be a text-recognition and discussion section. I will provide you a list of all the films viewed in the class, and the name of each film’s director. You will be asked to identify three of five film excerpts, and identify the film and director. You will also be asked to explain in a sentence or two the film’s significant. The second part of the exam will feature a list of twenty keywords from the course readings and handout of film terms posted on the website. You will be asked to define fifteen terms in two or three sentences. In the third part of the exam, you will answer four of seven short-answer questions about the films in the course. This will require knowing the films, readings, and lectures. The exam will be graded on the accuracy, thoroughness, and thoughtfulness of your responses. The final will be held in our usual meeting room from 2:30-4:20 p.m. Monday, Mar. 17, 2008. STUDENTS WILL NEED AN EXAM BOOK (BLUE BOOK). A. Terms, Figures, and Films: The twenty terms on the final will come from the list below. close up medium shot long shot tracking shot shot-reverse-shot continuity editing pan point-of-view cut dissolve non-diegetic sound Point of View Reaction shot Cinema of attractions Danish erotic melodrama Swedish Golden Age Victor Sjöström Mauritz Stiller Carl Th. Dreyer Studio film Scandinavian Studio Period Studio film Teuvo Tulio Art film Ingmar Bergman self-reflexive (Sontag) Mikko Niskanen Swedish Film Institute National Film Institutes Heritage film Flexible accumulation (Harvey) Natural co-production (Hjort) Self-defeating co-production (Hjort) Regionalization of Swedish Cinema Trollhättan Film i väst Aki Kaurismäki Lars von Trier Zentropa Entertainment Dogma 95 “Dogma Manifesto” “Dogma ‘Vow of Chastity’” The Lion Hunt (DK, 1907) Sir Arne’s Treasure (S, 1919) The Passion of Joan of Arc (F/DK, 1928) Song of the Scarlet Flower (SF, 1937) Persona (S, 1966) Eight Deadly Shots (SF, 1972) Skin, Skin (SF, 1968) Hamsun (N/DK/S, 1996) The Celebration (DK, 1998) The Idiots (DK, 1998) The Man Without a Past (SF, 2002) Slim Susie (S, 2003)