Deck 11: International Cinema in the 1950s

Question 1

What is not true regarding Kenji Mizoguchi's depiction of women in his Japanese women's pictures?

A)portrayed lives of prostitutes
B)portrayed lives of the middle class
C)portrayed lives of the aristocracy
D)portrayed lives of professional women

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The American comedic film director to whom Jaques Tati may be compared is

A)Harold Lloyd
B)Charlie Chaplin
C)Buster Keaton
D)none of the above

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Akira Kurosawa often used Shakespeare and other Western sources for inspiration in his movies.___

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The most commercial French director of the period probably was

A)Francois Truffaut
B)Rene Clement
C)Jean Luc Goddard
D)Eric Rohmer

Question 5

Which of the following is largest movie-producing countries in the world?

A)America
B)Japan
C)Mexico
D)India

Question 6

Early Frederico Fellini movies are characterized by

A)violence.
B)surrealism.
C)neorealism.
D)autobiography.

Question 7

Which of the following is not a Bergman film centering on women?

A)Wild Strawberries
B)Persona
C)Autumn Sonata
D)The Silence

Question 8

What film trait did Yasujiro Ozu detest?

A)special effects
B)music
C)plot
D)color
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Question 9

Until the New Wave movement at the end of the 50s,the French film industry was

A)mediocre.
B)innovative.
C)nonexistent.
D)derivative.
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Question 10

All of the following are true of Akira Kurosawa's techniques except

A)made cameo appearances in his movies
B)worked on the scripts of his movies
C)used multiple cameras to shoot his movies
D)painstakingly used sound in his movies

Question 11

Robert Bresson is compared to all of the following directors except

A)Howard Hawks
B)Yasujiro Ozu
C)Kenji Mizoguchi
D)Carl Dreyer

Question 12

Ingmar Bergman made movies which

A)were always realistic.
B)were sometimes realistic,and sometimes allegorical.
C)were comedic views of Swedish life.
D)only b and c

Question 13

American authorities practiced censorship of Japanese movies during their occupation and democratization of Japan after World War II.___

Question 14

Ingmar Bergman's first American Academy Award was for

A)Star and Tinsel.
B)The Seventh Seal.
C)Cries and Whispers.
D)The Virgin Spring.

Question 15

The English produced some fine films in which one of the following genres during the 50s?

A)comedies
B)mysteries
C)war movies
D)none of the above

Question 16

A Robert Bresson film usually exemplifies which of the following film characteristics?

A)stylistically austere with non-professional actors
B)themes of spiritual transcendence
C)shot on location
D)all of the above

Question 17

The West "discovered" Japanese cinema when Pather Panchali won the Jury Prize at Cannes.___

Question 18

Despite his Western sources of inspiration,Kurosawa remained totally traditional in his values.___

Question 19

Who of the following is considered the most Western of Japanese filmmakers?

A)Akira Kurosawa
B)Kenji Mizoguchi
C)Yasuiru Ozu
D)none of the above

Question 20

Most of Federico Fellini's work focuses on scenes of

A)revelations of private anguish and regret.
B)boisterous public revels.
C)neither of the above
D)both of the above

Question 21

Matching
a.Kenji Mizoguchi film about the middle class
b.Robert Bresson movie set almost entirely in a jail
c.Bergman's only successful comedy
d.creates a hauntingly diaphanous dream world
e.Yasujiro Ozu film of a widower's sacrifice
f.basis for The Magnificent Seven
g.Fellini movie about decadence of the privileged
h.means "song of the road," won Cannes Jury Prize
i.Ingmar Bergman's allegory set in medieval times
j.established Toshiro Mifune as a star
La Dolce Vita ___

Question 22

Jaques Tati worked austerely as did Bresson,but was a more cheerful artist as can be seen in Jour d' Fête.___

Question 23

Matching
a.Kenji Mizoguchi film about the middle class
b.Robert Bresson movie set almost entirely in a jail
c.Bergman's only successful comedy
d.creates a hauntingly diaphanous dream world
e.Yasujiro Ozu film of a widower's sacrifice
f.basis for The Magnificent Seven
g.Fellini movie about decadence of the privileged
h.means "song of the road," won Cannes Jury Prize
i.Ingmar Bergman's allegory set in medieval times
j.established Toshiro Mifune as a star
Smiles of a Summer Night ___

Question 24

Matching
a.Kenji Mizoguchi film about the middle class
b.Robert Bresson movie set almost entirely in a jail
c.Bergman's only successful comedy
d.creates a hauntingly diaphanous dream world
e.Yasujiro Ozu film of a widower's sacrifice
f.basis for The Magnificent Seven
g.Fellini movie about decadence of the privileged
h.means "song of the road," won Cannes Jury Prize
i.Ingmar Bergman's allegory set in medieval times
j.established Toshiro Mifune as a star
Pather Panchali ___

Question 25

Ingmar Bergman rejected religious and psychological themes in his films,preferring light-hearted comedy instead.___

Question 26

What kinds of characters was Federico Fellini basically drawn to in his films during this period?

Question 27

Matching
a.Kenji Mizoguchi film about the middle class
b.Robert Bresson movie set almost entirely in a jail
c.Bergman's only successful comedy
d.creates a hauntingly diaphanous dream world
e.Yasujiro Ozu film of a widower's sacrifice
f.basis for The Magnificent Seven
g.Fellini movie about decadence of the privileged
h.means "song of the road," won Cannes Jury Prize
i.Ingmar Bergman's allegory set in medieval times
j.established Toshiro Mifune as a star
Seven Samurai ___

Question 28

Matching
a.Kenji Mizoguchi film about the middle class
b.Robert Bresson movie set almost entirely in a jail
c.Bergman's only successful comedy
d.creates a hauntingly diaphanous dream world
e.Yasujiro Ozu film of a widower's sacrifice
f.basis for The Magnificent Seven
g.Fellini movie about decadence of the privileged
h.means "song of the road," won Cannes Jury Prize
i.Ingmar Bergman's allegory set in medieval times
j.established Toshiro Mifune as a star
Rashomon ___

Question 29

Matching
a.Kenji Mizoguchi film about the middle class
b.Robert Bresson movie set almost entirely in a jail
c.Bergman's only successful comedy
d.creates a hauntingly diaphanous dream world
e.Yasujiro Ozu film of a widower's sacrifice
f.basis for The Magnificent Seven
g.Fellini movie about decadence of the privileged
h.means "song of the road," won Cannes Jury Prize
i.Ingmar Bergman's allegory set in medieval times
j.established Toshiro Mifune as a star
An Autumn Afternoon ___

Question 30

What is the conflict that is characteristic of nearly all Japanese movies in the 50s?

Question 31

Kenji Mizoguchi made movies reinforcing the traditional roles of women,no matter their class,in Japanese society.___

Question 32

Matching
a.Kenji Mizoguchi film about the middle class
b.Robert Bresson movie set almost entirely in a jail
c.Bergman's only successful comedy
d.creates a hauntingly diaphanous dream world
e.Yasujiro Ozu film of a widower's sacrifice
f.basis for The Magnificent Seven
g.Fellini movie about decadence of the privileged
h.means "song of the road," won Cannes Jury Prize
i.Ingmar Bergman's allegory set in medieval times
j.established Toshiro Mifune as a star
The Seventh Seal ___

Question 33

Fellini rejected autobiographical themes to concrete on social concernes in movies like 8 ½ .___

Question 34

What kind of images was Robert Bresson drawn to in his films during this period?

Question 35

Federico Fellini began his career in Italian movies by helping to write scripts like Open City.___
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Question 36

Matching
a.Kenji Mizoguchi film about the middle class
b.Robert Bresson movie set almost entirely in a jail
c.Bergman's only successful comedy
d.creates a hauntingly diaphanous dream world
e.Yasujiro Ozu film of a widower's sacrifice
f.basis for The Magnificent Seven
g.Fellini movie about decadence of the privileged
h.means "song of the road," won Cannes Jury Prize
i.Ingmar Bergman's allegory set in medieval times
j.established Toshiro Mifune as a star
A Man Escaped ___

Question 37

Matching
a.Kenji Mizoguchi film about the middle class
b.Robert Bresson movie set almost entirely in a jail
c.Bergman's only successful comedy
d.creates a hauntingly diaphanous dream world
e.Yasujiro Ozu film of a widower's sacrifice
f.basis for The Magnificent Seven
g.Fellini movie about decadence of the privileged
h.means "song of the road," won Cannes Jury Prize
i.Ingmar Bergman's allegory set in medieval times
j.established Toshiro Mifune as a star
The Crucified Lovers ___

Question 38

Robert Bresson was concerned with spiritual transcendence and used only
"necessary" images and non-professional actors who spoke sparingly.___

Question 39

What theme did Ingmar Bergman return to again and again in his films in the 50s?

Question 40

Matching
a.Kenji Mizoguchi film about the middle class
b.Robert Bresson movie set almost entirely in a jail
c.Bergman's only successful comedy
d.creates a hauntingly diaphanous dream world
e.Yasujiro Ozu film of a widower's sacrifice
f.basis for The Magnificent Seven
g.Fellini movie about decadence of the privileged
h.means "song of the road," won Cannes Jury Prize
i.Ingmar Bergman's allegory set in medieval times
j.established Toshiro Mifune as a star
Ugetsu ___

Question 41

What condition do Robert Bresson's characters find themselves in;and how or when are they able to change,if not improve their condition?

Question 42

Was Federico Fellini a realist or formalist/ fabulist in his movies of the 50s?

Question 43

How were women portrayed in international films of the 50s?

Question 44

Why would Akira Kurosawa be considered a most untraditional Japanese filmmaker?