Deck 15: International Cinema in the 1970s

Question 1

Unlike many national cinemas,Australian cinema in the 1970s was?

A)unpopular in Australia
B)unprofitable
C)government supported
D)very nationalistic

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Rainer Werner Fassbinder's favorite characters were lonely hearts of the middle class.
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Answer 2

False

Question 3

Paolo and Vittorio Taviani tended to be directors in the neorealist tradition except that in one of their films,one might find that

A)music might swell from nowhere.
B)imagination might recast characters.
C)the thoughts of characters might be heard.
D)all of the above

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Werner Herzog's films are characterized by which of the following?

A)mythic quest
B)exaggerated and conceptual rather than realistic
C)poetic imagery and black humor
D)all of the above
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Question 5

Third World cinema made its appeal to the audience's sense of

A)balance.
B)justice.
C)economics.
D)adventure.

Question 6

German cinema of the 1970s was obsessed with all things German.___

Question 7

Which actor of great comedic skill appears in many of Lena Wertmuller's films?

A)Giancarlo Giannini
B)Gerard Depardieu
C)Klaus Kinski
D)Bruno S.

Question 8

In a film by French director Bertrand Blier,a woman is usually a

A)femme fatale.
B)catalyst of action.
C)mother figure.
D)intruder/outsider .

Question 9

What film/title might serve as the overarching theme of the movies of Rainer Werner Fassbinder?

A)The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
B)All That Heaven Allows
C)Love is Colder Than Death
D)Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Question 10

Monty Python's Life of Brian is a faithful adaptation of the life of Brian Brown,an important,but unheralded political cartoonist.___

Question 11

George Miller's Mad Max movies incorporated bits from which of the following genres?

A)biker films
B)comic strips
C)leather S & M
D)all of the above

Question 12

Which of the following was Rainer Werner Fassbinder's favorite kind of movie to make?

A)film noir
B)women's pictures
C)science fiction
D)all of the above

Question 13

Australian directors invariably moved on to make movies in America where they

A)continued telling Australian-oriented stories.
B)met with mixed results.
C)had no success.
D)broke new ground because of better resources.

Question 14

Wim Wender's protagonists are usually men who are weirded out and drifting purposelessly.___

Question 15

Which film movement did the West German Das Neue Kino closely resemble initially?

A)Angry Young Man
B)Surrealist
C)Neorealist
D)New Wave

Question 16

What political philosophy characterizes the films of Bernardo Bertolucci and Lena Wertmuller?

A)Republicism
B)Marxism
C)Anarchism
D)Communism

Question 17

The Russian/Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky,an avant-garde artist,could make his movies and get them seen gave some indication that the Soviet Union in the 70s was
Developing

A)interest in profitable movies.
B)more tolerance.
C)sensitivity to foreign film criticism.
D)none of the above
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Question 18

Which of the following is a true about Dian Kurys?

A)not rigidly feminist
B)worked in America
C)made Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
D)all of the above

Question 19

Which of the following national film movements waned in the 1970s?

A)Kitchen Sink
B)New Wave
C)both a and b
D)neither a nor b

Question 20

The German director most obsessed with American movies was

A)Klaus Kinski
B)Wim Wenders
C)Volker Schlöndorff
D)Werner Herzog

Question 21

How would French director Diane Kurys' female characters best be described?

Question 22

Matching
a.The Tin Drum
b.Every Man for Himself and God Against All
c.Peppermint Soda
d.Swept Away
e.My Brilliant Career
f.Xala
g.Solaris
h.Tommy
i.The Marriage of Maria Braun
j.The Man Who Fell to Earth
Diane Kurys ___

Question 23

To what extent does a focus on sex rule European films of the 70s?

Question 24

Nikita Mikhalkov was Soviet cinema's bad boy director because his films failed to conform to the Party's line.___

Question 25

Matching
a.The Tin Drum
b.Every Man for Himself and God Against All
c.Peppermint Soda
d.Swept Away
e.My Brilliant Career
f.Xala
g.Solaris
h.Tommy
i.The Marriage of Maria Braun
j.The Man Who Fell to Earth
Ousmane Sembene ___

Question 26

Matching
a.The Tin Drum
b.Every Man for Himself and God Against All
c.Peppermint Soda
d.Swept Away
e.My Brilliant Career
f.Xala
g.Solaris
h.Tommy
i.The Marriage of Maria Braun
j.The Man Who Fell to Earth
Werner Herzog ___

Question 27

The abiding trademark in a Bernardo Bertolucci film is a traveling shot in a dance scene.___

Question 28

What thematic traits did Italian directors Bernardo Bertolucci and Lena Wertmuller
share?

Question 29

With what other medium was German cinema of the 70s linked and in what ways?

Question 30

Third World cinema rejected the conventions of both American and European cinema in favor of what was often blended Marxism and nationalism.___

Question 31

Matching
a.The Tin Drum
b.Every Man for Himself and God Against All
c.Peppermint Soda
d.Swept Away
e.My Brilliant Career
f.Xala
g.Solaris
h.Tommy
i.The Marriage of Maria Braun
j.The Man Who Fell to Earth
Andrei Tarkovsky ___

Question 32

Matching
a.The Tin Drum
b.Every Man for Himself and God Against All
c.Peppermint Soda
d.Swept Away
e.My Brilliant Career
f.Xala
g.Solaris
h.Tommy
i.The Marriage of Maria Braun
j.The Man Who Fell to Earth
Lena Wertmuller ___

Question 33

Matching
a.The Tin Drum
b.Every Man for Himself and God Against All
c.Peppermint Soda
d.Swept Away
e.My Brilliant Career
f.Xala
g.Solaris
h.Tommy
i.The Marriage of Maria Braun
j.The Man Who Fell to Earth
Ken Russell ___

Question 34

Matching
a.The Tin Drum
b.Every Man for Himself and God Against All
c.Peppermint Soda
d.Swept Away
e.My Brilliant Career
f.Xala
g.Solaris
h.Tommy
i.The Marriage of Maria Braun
j.The Man Who Fell to Earth
Gillian Armstrong ___

Question 35

Australian cinema has been cited for its manliness: male bonding and virile friendships.___

Question 36

What traits did many of the state-sponsored 70s films of Australia share?
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Question 37

Matching
a.The Tin Drum
b.Every Man for Himself and God Against All
c.Peppermint Soda
d.Swept Away
e.My Brilliant Career
f.Xala
g.Solaris
h.Tommy
i.The Marriage of Maria Braun
j.The Man Who Fell to Earth
Nicholas Roeg ___

Question 38

Matching
a.The Tin Drum
b.Every Man for Himself and God Against All
c.Peppermint Soda
d.Swept Away
e.My Brilliant Career
f.Xala
g.Solaris
h.Tommy
i.The Marriage of Maria Braun
j.The Man Who Fell to Earth
Rainer Werner Fassbinder ___

Question 39

Matching
a.The Tin Drum
b.Every Man for Himself and God Against All
c.Peppermint Soda
d.Swept Away
e.My Brilliant Career
f.Xala
g.Solaris
h.Tommy
i.The Marriage of Maria Braun
j.The Man Who Fell to Earth
Volker Schlöndorff ___

Question 40

True equality in a Lena Wertmuller films is usually associated with true love between equal partners.___

Question 41

What Marxist qualities can be seen in the Italian films of the 70s?

Question 42

Were Australian movies of the 70s generally optimistic and success driven as in
classical cinema,or where they generally pessimistic and bleak? Use examples.

Question 43

Were German movies of the 70s generally optimistic and success driven as in
classical cinema,or were they generally pessimistic and bleak? Use examples.