What are the main 3 periods in the history of Japanese cinema and what is characteristic of each of them?
Film 3200
This test is take-home and open book. Please choose 20 from the following 25 questions. Each question is worth 5 points.
- What are the main 3 periods in the history of Japanese cinema and what is characteristic of each of them?
- What, according to David Hanley, distinguishes the Nikkatsu films of the 1960s from earlier films?
- How does Suzuki’s Branded to Kill challenge or play with conventions of established genres, e.g. the yakuza film?
- Identify and briefly explain at least 5 features of the Japanese New Wave.
- Compare the dinner scene from Ozu’s Late Spring (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyY02NdkINw) with a scene of your choice from Suzuki’s Branded to Kill.
- What do Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino mean by ‘Third Cinema’ and how does it differ from ‘First Cinema’ and ‘Second Cinema’?
- Identify and briefly explain at least 3 problems with the categorization of cinema as ‘first,’ ‘second’ and ‘third’.
- Why did Cinema Novo filmmakers criticize films made by the Vera Cruz film studio?
- What makes How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman representative of Cinema Novo, specifically of the Tropicalist phase of Cinema Novo?
- According to Michael Wintroub, how does Nelson Pereira dos Santos use the trope of cannibalism and a faux-newsreel style to criticize European colonialism and imperialism?
- What was the most dominant genre in German cinema after WW2 and why?
- What are the 6 main ways in which New German Cinema challenged the notion of an essential, internally unified German national identity?
- Why are psychoanalytical concepts like ‘projection’, ‘identification’, ‘transference’ and ‘counter transference’ important for understanding Fassbinder’s films? Specifically, how does he represent ‘victims’ and ‘oppressors’ in his films?
- Why is the act of looking, and the Look as such, important to understanding Fassbinder’s films? Give examples from Ali: Fear Eats the Soul.
- How does Rosenbaum compare Fassbinder’s film to Douglas Sirk’s films, specifically All That Heaven Allows (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP6QRDMPAbo)?
- Identify and briefly explain at least 2 challenges in studying African cinemas.
- What do scholars mean by the phrase ‘the exoticized Other’?
- What were some of the challenges that African filmmakers faced in the period after decolonization?
- What are the three categories of culture in the postcolonial state?
- What is ‘neo-colonialism’? How is neo-colonialism explored in Sembene’s film Xala?
- Identify at least 3 points Sanyu Mulira makes in her discussion of Xala.
- Identify and briefly explain at least 3 differences between European modern art films (e.g. films by Antonioni, Godard, Resnais) and Bollywood films?
- What are the main sources of Indian popular cinema? How does Sholay reflect the influence of these sources?
- According to Madhuja Mukherjee, what is the significance of the curry western within the framework of post-colonial narratives?
- Identify and briefly explain at least 2 ways in which Sholay plays with the conventions of the spaghetti western.
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