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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In second level shots, what is movement determined by?

2. Eisentstein identified privileged instants with what word?

3. In addition to movement, a track shot incorporates which of the following?

4. What are mobile sections of duration also known as?

5. What is the example used in Bergson's third thesis to demonstrate the point?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Bergson's third thesis.

2. Compare land versus sea movement.

3. What is dicisign?

4. How does the active factor differ from the affective factor?

5. What is a perception-image?

6. What is an action-image?

7. What is the second level?

8. What is the third level?

9. What did Gance contribute to film?

10. Why was Eisenstein the leader of Soviet film?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare Soviet and pre-war French films. How does dialectic composition differ from mechanical composition? Which technique do you think is stronger?

Essay Topic 2

Deleuze assigns three roles to the face. Describe these three roles and give an example of how the face is used in cinema for each of these three roles.

Essay Topic 3

Compare Keaton and Chaplin in the types of comedy Deleuze describes each as portraying. Which does Deleuze seem to care more for?

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