CINE2600 review quiz (Spring 2024)

Which writers did we read in Week 1 during our preliminary conversations about the purpose/role of criticism?

• Martin Scorsese and A. O. Scott
• Paul Schrader and Paul Giamatti
• Anton Ego and Remy
• Pauline Kael and Andrew Sarris
• Angelica Jade Bastién and Naomi Fry

What did Scorsese mean when he said Marvel movies aren't "cinema"?

• They aren't financially viable anymore; nothing is profitable

• They make us dumber; nothing is well-thought-out

• They're too sarcastic; nothing is taken seriously

• They're too violent; nothing is sacred

• There's no emotinal danger in them; nothing is at risk

What was André Bazin preoccupied with in his "Ontology of the Photographic Image" essay?

• The power of editing to suggest ideological associations
• The power of camera-made images as genuine traces of life/reality
• The power of photography as political resistance
• Cinema as propaganda
• Cinema as a speculative imaginative space

What did film critics Pauline Kael and Andrew Sarris most famously disagree about?

• The value of genre theory
• The value of montage theory
• The value of phenomenology
• The value of auteur theory
• The value of criticism

Who directed YOJIMBO (1961)?

• Akira Kurosawa
• Toshiro Mifune
• Ken Wantanabe
• Yoko Ono
• Hayao Miyazaki

Which of these is NOT one of the names of the preteen punk protagonists of WE ARE THE BEST! (2013)?

• Bobo
• Elis
• Klara
• Hedvig

Which of these is NOT a topic of conversation that came up regarding POINT BREAK (1991)?

• Kathryn Bigelow's (deconstructive?) approach to genre
• Star studies and critical approaches to performance
• Homoeroticism, heteronormativity, and 'queering' a text
• Symbolism behind the Reagan, Carter, Nixon, and Johnson masks

• The evolution of normative masculinity in the 1990s

What was NOT a genre we associated with Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles' film BACURAU (2019)?

• Science fiction
• Western
• Action
• Romance
• Horror

Who wrote "Notes on 'Camp'" in 1964?

• Susan Sontag
• Susan Storm
• Susan Sarandon
• Susan B. Anthony
• Susan Albright

Why, primarily, did we watch Patrick Willems' video about S. S. Rajamouli's RRR (2022)?

• To talk about transnational criticism
• To talk about video essays
• To talk about contemporary Indian cinema
• To talk about sensibility, taste, "camp," and trash
• To talk about the language and style of criticism