WorksheetsFall 2025 CINE2600 Review Game
Total questions: 38
Worksheet time: 19mins
Which writers did we read in Week 1 during our preliminary conversations about the purpose/role of criticism?
A. O. Scott and Richard Brody
Anton Ego and Remy
Angelica Jade Bastién and Naomi Fry
Paul Schrader and Paul Giamatti
Pauline Kael and Andrew Sarris
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 photography as political resistance
Cinema as a speculative imaginative space
The power of camera-made images as genuine traces of life/reality
Cinema as propaganda
What did film critics Pauline Kael and Andrew Sarris most famously disagree about?
The value of genre theory
The value of phenomenology
The value of criticism
The value of montage theory
The value of auteur theory
Who directed RIVER OF GRASS (1994)?
Kelly Reichardt
Michelle Williams
Maya Deren
Jodie Mack
Coralie Fargeat
Who said: "This can't last. This misery can't last. I must remember that and try to control myself. Nothing lasts really. Neither happiness nor despair. Not even life lasts very long. There'll come a time in the future when I shan't mind about this anymore, when I can look back and say quite peacefully and cheerfully how silly I was. No, no, I don't want that time to come ever. I want to remember every minute, always, always to the end of my days."
Virginio, UTAMA (2022)
Cozy, RIVER OF GRASS (1994)
Laura, BRIEF ENCOUNTER (1945)
Avi, LONG STORY SHORT (2025-)
Which of these is NOT a topic of conversation that came up regarding POINT BREAK (1991)?
Kathryn Bigelow's (deconstructive?) approach to genre
Homoeroticism, heteronormativity, and 'queering' a text
The evolution of normative masculinity in the 1990s
Star studies and critical approaches to performance
Symbolically matching the Reagan, Carter, Nixon, and Johnson masks to the characters who wear them
What is NOT a genre we associated with Boots Riley's SORRY TO BOTHER YOU (2018)?
Science fiction
Comedy/satire
Surrealism / magical realism
Romance/melodrama
Who wrote "Notes on Camp" in 1964?
Susan Sontag
Susan Sarandon
Susan Albright
Susan Storm
Susan B. Anthony
What was the primary reason I showed you Patrick Willems' video about S. S. Rajamouli's RRR (2022)?
To talk about transnational criticism
To talk about contemporary Indian cinema
To talk about the language and style of criticism
To talk about extremist Hindu nationalism
To talk about sensibility, taste, "camp," and trash
Where does auteur theory originally come from?
(Post)structuralists like Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault
Phenomenologists like Vivian Sobchack and Laura Marks
French critics like André Bazin and Alexandre Astruc
American critics like Andrew Sarris and Pauline Kael
Stewards of Gondor like Ecthelion II and Denethor II
We read an essay by Wesley Morris about "trash" culture. What was the argument?
Culture keeps getting trashier, and this is good
An aesthetic of trashiness has always been sort of baked into who we are as a culture, and we should own it
Culture keeps getting trashier, and this is bad
"Trash culture" used to permeate political discourse but now it's primarily seen in the arts
There's no difference between "trash" aesthetics and "camp" sensibilities
Which major philosopher did Pratāp Rughani prominently cite in his essay that we read together?
Martin Buber
Theodor W. Adorno
Emmanuel Lévinas
Jacques Derrida
Paul Ricœur
Okay but WHY did Rughani cite Emmanuel Lévinas?
To use Lévinas' existentialism to explain crises in documentary studies
To invoke the idea of relational ethics—the duty to look into the face of the Other
To put Lévinas in conversation with Frederick Wiseman's work
To disagree with Lévinas' interpretation of Martin Heidegger
To expand on Lévinas' thoughts about documentary filmmaking
What's objectively and indisputably the best motion picture ever made?
Kung Fu Panda 4
Toy Story 4
John Wick 4
Rocky IV
Lethal Weapon 4
Which of these is NOT one of the examples of styles/modes of criticism-adjacent film writing that we compared during Week 12?
"Think-pieces" / opinion pieces / editorials
Speculative fan fiction
Academic writing (e.g., film theory and/or film history)
Personal / "confessional" essays
Film analysis
In a 2020 thinkpiece, L. A. Hawbaker argues that that REVENGE (2017) is a feminist reclaiming of the _____________ genre.
Blaxploitation
body horror
rape/revenge
social realism
action
Who directed ANTHEM (1992)?
Dee Rees
Charles Burnett
Jennie Livingston
Marlon Riggs
Derek Jarman
Which of these was NOT the topic of a video essay we watched together?
Ideology in the MCU
The complicated legacy of Joseph Campbell
"Slacker movies"
Mystery and photography in FIREWATCH
Jackie Chan's approach to action/comedy
Which character does Diego Luna play in the television episode we watched together?
Syril Karn
Cassian Andor
Mon Mothma
Bix Caleen
Luthen Rael
SUCCESSION (2018-2023) was created by Jesse Armstrong, but notably, who directed the first episode?
Will Ferrell
Adam McKay
Michael Shur
Aaron Sorkin
David Fincher
What's one of the things that bell hooks arguest AGAINST in "Artistic Integrity: Race and Accountability"?
The need for art/stories about race and resistance
The intersection of auteur theory and identity politics
The usefulness of racial categories and labels in general
The democratized negotiation of cultural meaning(s)
Racial essentialism
Which of these frogs did I say is my favorite?
In "Responsibilities of a Gay Film Critic," Robin Wood says "when dealing with ideology, it is always necessary to ask not only what it expresses but what it _____."
questions
empowers
idealizes
serves
represses
What did we learn from the reviews we read of Alejandro Loayza Grisi's UTAMA (2022)?
Many of the roles were played by nonprofessional actors.
The llamas were all CGI.
Santos Choque (Clever) is the real-life grandson of José Calcina and Luisa Quispe (who play Virginio and Sisa)
The director has denied the film has anything to do with climate change.
We've seen/read some critics (e.g., Richard Corliss; Armond White) who fear that Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel's TV show may have been damaging to film criticism generally. Why?
It's sensationalized and simplistic.
It focuses more on being entertaining than on being thoughtful.
It flattens nuance into a binary thumbs up/down.
All of the above.
What are three kinds of writing that I've urged you to balance (or at to be keenly aware of) as you produce criticism/commentary?
historical, theoretical, comparative
argumentative, interrogative, poetic
thirsty, hungry, sleepy
descriptive, analytical, evaluative
curious, confrontational, confessional
What movement did the Cahiers du Cinéma folks really love, which inspired some of their own sensibilities in the French New Wave?
Cinema Novo (1960s-1970s)
The Iranian New Wave (1960s-2010s)
Italian neorealism (1940s-1950s)
The Black Independent Movement (1970s-1990s)
Dogme 95 (1995-2005)
Why did we use ten-minute "writing exercises" so often in class?
To practice grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure
To generate a portfolio which will be collected and graded
To exercise the habit of thinking critically and writing generatively
To concretize a personal canon of our film-related opinions to refer to in our future writings
For torture
Which anti-communist politicide was the subject of the documentary film THE ACT OF KILLING (2012)?
The Salvadoran Civil War (1979-1992)
The Indonesian mass killings of 1965-66
The German occupation of Estonia (1941-1944)
The White Terror (1917-1923)
THE GRAND BIZARRE (Jodie Mack, 2018) is an example of _______.
disrupting the "male gaze."
what Susan Sontag called a "camp" sensibility.
experimental / avant-garde film.
a genre-hybrid horror/comedy.
surrealism.
What was the main argument of the book "Make Room for TV"?
Television should be studied as rigorously as cinema and literature are.
Televisions have become too big.
Televisions have become too small.
Part of why "prestige TV" is taken more seriously than soap operas has to do with gendered discourses of legitimation.
The arrival of television had profound effects on domestic values in middle-class postwar America.
Which BARBARELLA character inpired the name of a English new wave band?
Pygar
Sogo's Black Queen
Professor Ping
Durand Durand
Dildano
"Intersectionality" is a framework that accounts for how social and political identites result in _______.
perpetuations of the status quo
cultural power
experimental filmmaking practices
new hybrid identities that cancel out the original identities
unique combinations of discrimination and privilege
In class discussion I have stressed that a good 'think-piece' ought to be both ____ and _____.
long and boring
informative and persuasive
biting and diplomatic
comprehensive and impartial
acerbic and surprising
Which of these filmmakers does NOT appear in LIFE ITSELF (2014) to talk about their experiences with Roger Ebert?
Ramin Bahrani
Martin Scorsese
Lana Wachowski
Werner Herzog
Gregory Nava
The first sentence of Angelica Jade Bastién's piece "The Grace of Keanu Reeves" claims that Keanu Reeves "missed his calling as __________."
a stage magician
an ambassador for multiracial identity
a hypermasculine action star
a silent film actor
a cult leader
In SORRY TO BOTHER YOU (2018), Cassius' "white voice" is a (not-so-subtle) metaphor for ______.
code-switching
double consciousness
the tension between the "politics of representation" vs. the "representation of politics"
crossing the picket line
Did you do all the assigned readings this semester?
Mostly/yes! I gave them an honest and earnest attempt!
I read the first sentence of a lot of them and then fell asleep.
Maybe half of them?
I read a few here and there.
I did not read a single thing you assigned and also I hate u so much
