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Ch 19: Art Cinema and the Idea of Authorship Comprehension Quiz
By class on Tuesday, complete this quiz about Chapter 19 "Art Cinema and the Idea of Authorship" which you picked up in class Thursday.
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While the idea that the director is most responsible for a film's "form, style, and meanings" had been around awhile, when and where was that idea first REALLY examined?
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Post-war (World War II) Asia
Post-war (World War II) Europe
Post-war (World War II) US
Pre-war (World War II) Europe
Alexander Astruc's essay on "la camera-stylo" claimed that "filmmaker-authors" write with their cameras like writers write with their pens. What is implied by this statement?
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Cinema would be personal and the crew members on a film are just instruments in the auteur's creative process.
Auteurs would become the most popular and well-respected filmmakers.
Auteurs would lead a film revolution around the world.
The films that auteurs would make would be better than anything before.
Francois Truffaut attacked the Cinema of Quality (literary adaptations) in France. How were the directors involved with these films NOT auteurs?
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They did not think of themselves as artists.
They made movies that were boring and unimportant.
They merely added performers and pictures to a script handed to them (they are only metteurs en scene).
They merely wrote the stories and did not think creatively about how to shoot them (they are only metteurs en scene).
Truffaut valued filmmakers such as Jean Renoir, Jean Cocteau, and Jacques Tati in part because...
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They chose their actors deliberately.
They wrote their own stories and dialogue.
They directed their own films.
They thought of themselves as artists.
Cahiers du Cinema and rival magazine Positif both concentrated their praise on...
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Directors who made deep, meaningful films.
Directors who they felt had great control over their camera.
Directors of American origin.
Directors who exercised a great deal of control over the scriptwriting of their movies.
A hard-core, controversial version of auteurism began to take hold of younger critics. What did this version of auteurism propose?
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Great directors of Hollywood are able to express their personal style or worldview even without any control over the screenplay.
Great directors of Hollywood are able to express their personal style or worldview just as much as European directors.
Great directors are also politicians who display their political view through their films.
Great directors have extreme world views.
What did American Andrew Sarris propose as a way of understanding U.S. film history?
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Notes and Queries
Auteur Theory
Politique des auteurs
Auteurism
How does auteurism or auteur theory help us as film critics?
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We can think of the films of an auteur as being designed for the auteur and no one else.
We can think of the films of an auteur as being purely imaginative.
We can think of the films of an auteur as being creative pieces that express the what the director believes about film history.
We can think of the films of an auteur as being creative pieces that express the director's worldview.
What is NOT a strength of auteurism as a critical lens?
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Critics can look for repeating elements across a director's films.
Critics can identify recurring images, techniques, or ideas that give unity to a director's films.
Critics can look at the way a director's work develops over time.
Critics can look at the ways a director allows other people's ideas to influence his or her films.
Auteur criticism also encourages the study of style. What could be a good definition of film style for us to use (as presented in the chapter)?
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Style is WHAT is said in a film.
Style is WHAT is said and WHY it is said in a film.
Style is HOW things are said in a film.
Style is WHY things are said in a film.
During the 1950s and 1960s, as auteurism took hold, what was the benefit for auteur directors?
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They could develop their own "brand" to make them sellable around the world.
They could develop their own "brand" to keep themselves popular at home.
They could blend with the mass of "ordinary" cinema.
They could keep a stable set of jobs within their own country only.
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