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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 Soviet filmmaker and film theorist is arguably the very first film theorist, as he was a leader in Soviet montage theory?
2. What is the title of Chapter VI?
3. In Chapter VII, Tarkovsky writes that "the director's power is such that it can create the illusion for him of being a kind of" what?
4. Tarkovsky writes in Chapter VII that he classifies music and cinema as what type of art form?
5. What film did Tarkovsky produce in 1979?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Tarkovsky mean by "immediate" art forms in Chapter VII?
2. What does Tarkovsky write of the director's "vision" in Chapter V?
3. Describe Tarkovsky's film, Nostalgia. Where and when was it filmed?
4. What regrets and successes did Tarkovsky have for the film, Mirrror?
5. What conclusion does Tarkovsky find at the end of Chapter IX regarding mankind's condition?
6. What does Tarkovsky claim the link is between the artist and audience in Chapter VI?
7. How is the artist "at odds with society," as Tarkovsky states in Chapter VII?
8. What percentage of an audience is there for entertainment, according to Tarkovsky? Who must the director play to?
9. Tarkovsky describes the filmmaker's responsibility to share his story in Chapter VII. What does he say?
10. What is Tarkovsky's response to "how can the artist even begin to make films to please others"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Tarkovsky's reasoning of time as the central element of film. What other art forms incorporate time and or memory? How?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the common themes and stylistic elements for which Tarkovsky is known. What themes recurred in the films discussed in class and in the text?
Essay Topic 3
Describe Sergei Eisenstein and his cinematic theories. How do Tarkovsky's theories on art and the cinema differ?
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