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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 film did Tarkovsky produce in 1961?

2. Where did Tarkovsky study film-making?

3. Who directed and produced the film, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station?

4. What does Tarkovsky write will still always be a code standing for a logical deduction in the scientist?

5. Tarkovsky states that cinema's unique aspect is this capturing and shaping of what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Tarkovsky's take on the mise-en-scene of film.

2. What is the relationship of the artist to his audience? What is the role of intercommunication?

3. What does Tarkovsky say of the role of screenwriters in Chapter III?

4. When does Tarkovsky say he doubted his calling as an artist, in Chapter IV?

5. What does Tarkovsky define as cinema's unique aspect in Chapter III? What would the ideal film be?

6. What did Tarkovsky learn of subjectivity in the artist making Ivan's Childhood?

7. What is the essential meaning of art to Tarkovsky? What does he write of modern art?

8. What types of imagery did Tarkovsky use in Ivan's Childhood? From where did he draw his ideas?

9. What does Tarkovsky define a "masterpiece" as?

10. What does Tarkovsky claim his reasons were in writing, Sculpting in Time: Reflections on the Cinema in the Introduction?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the film, Ivan's Childhood. When was it produced? How long did the film take to shoot? What is the subject, plot and theme?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Tarkovsky's reasoning of time as the central element of film. What other art forms incorporate time and or memory? How?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the director and filmmaker, Luis Buñuel Portolés. Why does Tarkovsky discuss him in the text?

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