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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 notable Russian actor and director developed the most widely used method of acting today?
2. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter II that it is indisputable that all art has the goal to explain what?
3. What term means a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd, but in reality expresses a possible truth?
4. What term is used to describe the design aspects of a theater or film production, both in visually artful ways through storyboarding, cinematography, stage design, and direction?
5. What celebrated Russian soldier and Red Army commander during the Russian Civil War does Tarkovsky describe people flocking to see, in Chapter IV?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Tarkovsky's take on the mise-en-scene of film.
2. Who was Tarkovsky's father? What was his occupation?
3. What admiration does Tarkovsky lend to Bunuel in Chapter II? Why?
4. What did Tarkovsky learn of subjectivity in the artist making Ivan's Childhood?
5. What is music's role in film, according to Tarkovsky?
6. What was the first moving picture to be released? When and where was it released?
7. What is the relationship of the artist to his audience? What is the role of intercommunication?
8. Why and how does Tarkovsky believe cinema arose when it did?
9. What does Tarkovsky say of cinematic "tricks" and special effects in Chapter III?
10. Describe the film Mirror. When was it produced?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe Tarkovsky's position on commercialism and the cinema. How does he suggest the director approach compromise?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the reasons that cinema has evolved as it has though time, examining Tarkovsky's point of view. Why and how does Tarkovsky believe cinema arose when it did? What changes was he unable to witness?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the concept of objectivity and subjectivity in judging art. Is it possible to set standards for art or is art an entirely aesthetic and subjective medium? What is Tarkovsky's belief?
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