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

2. What are the images used from which to deduce a situation?

3. A complex entity can be which of the following?

4. According to Pierce, nothing is beyond which of the following?

5. Eisenstein used a foggy ship silhouette as which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the law of index?

6. What is pathetisation?

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

8. What are the poles of the action-image?

9. What is sensory-motor link?

10. What is colorism?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Hitchcock incorporate the audience into his film, such as "Vertigo" and "Rear Window"? Why is this significant? Why should a filmmaker care about incorporating the audience?

Essay Topic 2

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

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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