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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. What Soviet filmmaker and film theorist is arguably the very first film theorist, as he was a leader in Soviet montage theory?
2. The two supporting characters in Nostalgia are named Domenico and what?
3. Whose dictum states: "in every sense, art is made for you, the people"?
4. Who wrote: "Keep awake, keep awake, artist, / Do not give in to sleep . . . / You are eternity's hostage / And prisoner of time"?
5. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter VIII that there have never been any what in his films?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Tarkovsky write of "heroes" in Chapter VIII?
2. How is success measured, according to Tarkovsky?
3. What makes the cinema different than other art forms, according to Tarkovsky?
4. What painting of Leonardo Da Vinci's does Tarkovsky discuss in Chapter V? What remarks does he make on the painting?
5. What does Tarkovsky write of the director's "vision" in Chapter V?
6. What kept Tarkovsky from quitting the cinema after Mirror?
7. Tarkovsky describes the filmmaker's responsibility to share his story in Chapter VII. What does he say?
8. How is the artist "at odds with society," as Tarkovsky states in Chapter VII?
9. What Japanese form of art does Tarkovsky repeatedly compare cinema to? Why?
10. What does Tarkovsky claim the link is between the artist and audience in Chapter VI?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe Tarkovsky's position on commercialism and the cinema. How does he suggest the director approach compromise?
Essay Topic 2
Describe Andrey Tarkovsky's career in film. What drew the director to cinema? Where did he study? How many films did he produce?
Essay Topic 3
Describe Tarkovsky's film, The Mirror. Who is the central character? What is the plot? What stylistic elements are notable in this film?
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