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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. What is the name of the film genre dedicated to small form action-image?

2. Movement from action to situation is an example of which of the following?

3. What does Deleuze say can be achieved by a series of continuity shots?

4. What is the second pole of action-image?

5. Eisenstein uses eyeglasses as an index for which of the following elements?

Short Essay Questions

1. What relationship with the audience does Deleuze say Hitchcock has?

2. What is the law of index?

3. What is eternal return?

4. What are milieus?

5. What is the difference between SAS and ASA?

6. Describe the role Deleuze believes acting plays in a film.

7. What are second and final domain?

8. Why does Deleuze feel that Americans have difficulties with naturalism?

9. What is fragmentation?

10. What words did Pierce associate with the concepts of firstness, secondness, and thirdness?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the differences between SAS and ASA? What are the similarities? Give an example of films that use SAS and ASA.

Essay Topic 2

What qualities does Deleuze use to describe Japanese filmmakers? Are these qualities accurate?

Essay Topic 3

What are qualities of Soviet films? In what ways are Soviet films similar to other trends of film? In what ways are Soviet films different?

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