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Please choose ONE of the following questions only and write a 2000-word essay. Y
Please choose ONE of the following questions only and write a 2000-word essay. Your answer should focus on the theoretical topic studied, but it must refer to the films studied in the module. Some questions include specific instructions about the number of films that you are expected to refer to.
TOPIC 1 – Cinema and Ideology
1. ‘The separation and expropriation of labor from the laborer, the alienation of labor, is a precursor to the separation and expropriation of vision from the spectator’ (Jonathan Beller) Discuss this statement with reference to at least ONE film of your choice referred to in the module.
2. ‘In every production, in every sequence, in every frame, a choice is made between a conservative economy of desire and a revolutionary breakthrough’ (Felix Guattari). Discuss.
TOPIC 2 – Spectatorship
3. ‘The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author’ (Roland Barthes). Discuss Barthes’s statement with reference to spectatorship theory and refer to at least one film studied in the module.
4. ‘[T]he cinema allowed for the public recognition of concrete needs, conflicts, anxieties, memories, and fantasies of particular social groups […]’ (Miriam Hansen).
Discuss this statement with references to at least one film studied in the module.
TOPIC 3 – National Cinema
5. Discuss the usefulness and limitations of ‘national’ cinema as a concept in Film Studies. You must illustrate your answer with reference to AT LEAST ONE film studied.
6. In Getino and Solanas’s manifesto ‘Towards A Third Cinema’, they claim: ‘it is hard to find a film within the field of commercial cinema what
cinema”, in both the capitalist and socialist countries Discuss this claim with reference to AT LEAST ONE film studied
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is known as
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models of Hollywood pictures’.
TOPIC 4 – Cinematic Realism
7. Bazin argues that cinema is an intrinsically realist medium on two grounds, ontological and phenomenological. Discuss with reference to at least one film directed by Jean Renoir.
8. What are the implications of Bazin’s claim that film is an asymptote of reality? Discuss this claim with reference to AT LEAST ONE film studied.
TOPIC 5 – Digital Cinema and Animation
9. Consider the use of digital technologies (e.g., CGI, special effects, stereoscopic vision, digital surround systems, etc.) in AT LEAST ONE film of your choice. Discuss how they contribute to novel forms of immersive storytelling, paying special attention to the ways they offer a vivid and persuasive window to the film’s fictional world (e.g., Pandora in the case of Avatar).
10. Commenting on recent transformations in digital filmmaking, Elsaesser and Hagener (2015) state that ‘though everything has changed (underneath), everything will stay the same (on the surface)’. What is the argument they make here? Taking Elsaesser and Hagener’s observation as a point of departure, elaborate your answer by referring to the suggested literature and AT LEAST ONE film of your choice.
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