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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was part of Bergson's first thesis of movement?

2. What term is used to designate a frame that isolates and solidifies an image?

3. Who declared, "To be is to be perceived"?

4. What does Deleuze say places images in consciousness?

5. How does Deleuze define philosophy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is cinematographic illusion?

2. How does Deleuze describe subjectivity?

3. What is a montage?

4. Describe Bergson's second thesis.

5. What is the first level describe by Deleuze?

6. What is an action-image?

7. Why was Eisenstein the leader of Soviet film?

8. What is a perception-image?

9. What is the third level?

10. Why might a filmmaker want to use a montage?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose a genre of film that you are familiar with. Then follow Deleuze's reasoning and describe how one might go about creating a film belonging to this genre using different techniques and traits.

Essay Topic 2

Compare Soviet and pre-war French films. How does dialectic composition differ from mechanical composition? Which technique do you think is stronger?

Essay Topic 3

What does the term "any-space-whatevers" mean? How are any-space-whatevers constructed? How do they work with both shadow and Expressionism?

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