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

2. Whose film was "Our Hospitality"?

3. What does a sensory-motor link use?

4. When did the crisis of action-image begin in Italy?

5. Which film is used as an example by the filmmaker Snow?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is naturalism?

2. What is sensory-motor link?

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

4. What is the law of index?

5. What are milieus?

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

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

8. What is fragmentation?

9. What are second and final domain?

10. What is pathetisation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is your favorite genre of film? Describe the elements this genre incorporates.

Essay Topic 2

Choose a genre of film that you are familiar with. Then follow Deleuze's reasoning and describe how one might go about creating a film belonging to this genre using different techniques and traits.

Essay Topic 3

What does the term "any-space-whatevers" mean? How are any-space-whatevers constructed? How do they work with both shadow and Expressionism?

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