EWS375

Lin

Mid-Term Review

1. What is East Asian Cinema? What are the best known genres of East Asian Cinema?

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:

i)montage

ii)long takes

iii)Hollywood Style

iv/Dogme 95

v)Brechtian Style

4. Explain:

i)Film Text

ii)Formalist Film Theory

iii)Structuralist Film Theory

iv)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?