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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 nationality was Kurosawa?

2. Keaton uses a large gap to reflect what kind of action?

3. What word does Pierce associate with "Secondness"?

4. What kind of film does Deleuze say frees any-space-whatevers from human coordinates?

5. Who does Deleuze describe as obsessed with naturalism but unable to use it?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is burlesque film?

2. When did the crisis of action-image begin in three different countries?

3. What is fragmentation?

4. What does the construction of any-space-whatevers allow?

5. How does Eisenstein use an index for transformation?

6. What characteristics does Deleuze assign to Westerns in Hawks's functionalism?

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

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

9. What is a complex entity?

10. What are milieus?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the difference between objectivity and subjectivity? How are both used in film? How do objectivity and subjectivity relate to affective and active factors?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Describe both first and second level involved in film making. Explain how a filmmaker can use both the first and second level in unique ways. What should a good filmmaker do during both first and second level preparation to make a successful film?

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