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Lin

Final Review

1.What is East Asian Cinema? What are the best known genres of East Asian Cinema? How have Asians been stereotyped in Hollywood movies? (Documentary: Slaying the Dragon)

2.What are the roles of the director in movie making? What are the necessary skills and qualifications should have to be a director?

3. Identify the following:

a) montage

b) long takes

c) Hollywood Style

d) Dogme 95

e) Brechtian Style

f) Story Board

g) Pan, Tilt, Tracking

h) CGI

4.Explain:

a) Film Text

b) Formalist Film Theory

c) Structuralist Film Theory

d )Film Authorship Theory and the Auteur theory

5.How would you describe Ang Lee’s directing style?

Describe some of the cinematic techniques (camera angles,

Camera movements, lighting etc.) That Ang Lee repeatedly

Uses in the movies we have covered. What effects does

he create by using these techniques?

6.Which three movies make up the so-called “Wise

Patriarch Trilogy?” What are the characteristics of the Wise Patriarch?

7.What are the key themes of Pushing Hands? The Wedding Banquet? Eat Drink Man Woman? Sense and Sensibility?

8.What are some of the key symbols and what do they

represent in Pushing Hands, The Wedding Banquet, Eat Drink

Man Woman? Sense and Sensibility?

9.Ride With the Devil has been described as anti-romance and

its main character as anti-heroic. What are the characteristics of

the anti-hero? What historically is the background for the

anti-hero in film and literature? In what ways does Jake

fit into the mold of the anti-hero despite his apparent

heroic actions?

10.What is the history of the martial arts/kung fu movie? What are the characteristics or factors in kung fu movies? What are the symbolic meanings of “Crouching Tiger” and “Hidden Dragon.”

What are the “Yin” “Yang” elements of this movie?

11.According to Ang Lee The Hulk is a horror movie mixed in with Greek mythology and pseudo science. Which stories from Greek and other mythologies does Ang Lee use in The Hulk? What are the elements of horror movies? Identify the horror movie elements, the mythology and pseudo science in The Hulk.

12.Define “The Western” as a genre in film and literature. What are the following:

a) the Classical Western

b) Spaghetti westerns

c) Ostern

d) Revisionist westerns

e) Contemporary westerns

13.What parallels can be drawn between the tensions in Broke Back Mountain and The Wedding Banquet? What are the key differences in the handling of homosexuality in Broke Back Mountain as compared to the treatment in The Bird Cage?

14. Define diegetic sound; non-diegetic sound. What are the necessary skills, qualifications and experience required for film composers? What is “Post Modern” scoring?

15. What are the necessary qualifications, skills and responsibilities of film composers?

16. What comparisons can you draw between The Ice Storm

and American Beauty? Why have critics assessed The Ice Storm as the better movie?

17. With which Ang Lee movies would you associate the following:

a) The Patriot

b) My Big fat Greek Wedding

c) Tortilla Soup

d) Bride and Prejudice

e) Dark Knight

f) Enter the Dragon

g) Fools Rush In

h) Black Book

18. What are the distinctions between movies that are commercially oriented and “art” movies? (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_film )

19. What is the title of Ang Lee’s most recent movie? What is it about?

20. What is “Bollywood?” What are the characteristics of Bollywood movies?