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UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX
1st Year Examinations 2010

INTRODUCTION TO FILM

Time allowed: 3 hours.

Candidates must answer THREE questions: ONE from EACH section. The paper consists of SIX questions and is divided into THREE sections. Candidates should not write substantially on the same authors or works in more than one answer. Candidates should not substantially repeat material used elsewhere in answers to examination papers.

Please do not leave your seat unless you are given permission by an Invigilator. Do not communicate in any way with any other candidate in the examination room. Do not open the question paper until told to do so. All answers must be written in the answer book(s) provided. All rough work must be written in the answer book(s) provided. A line should be drawn through any rough work to indicate to the examiner that it is not part of the work to be marked. At the end of the examination, remain seated until your answer book(s) have been collected and you have been told you may leave.

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SECTION A 1.

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Write a concise description of THREE of the following concepts, and give specific examples where necessary: a) b) c) d) e) f) g) h) cinema of attractions; expressionism; montage; diegesis; alienation effect; matte shot; three-point lighting; postmodernism. (END OF SECTION A)

SECTION B 2. Had [Porter] capitalized on the success of The Great Train Robbery, investigating and expanding the story-telling methods he had used in that film, he might well have become a father of American film. Assess Porters contribution to the history of film narrative in The Great Train Robbery. 3. Discuss Un Chien Andalou in relation to what Andr Breton called the cinemas power to disorient. 4. In what ways does the device of deep focus function in relation to the paradigm of classical narrative in Citizen Kane? 5. STOP! Explore the different ways in which the transition to sound is reflected in both the technical realization and diegetic world of The Jazz Singer. (END OF SECTION B) SECTION C 6. In psychoanalytic terms, Black Narcissus dramatizes a key Freudian syndrome: the return of the repressed. Discuss this claim in relation to the films use of light and colour. Explore the ways in which EITHER Run Lola Run OR Mulholland Drive challenge classical narrative conventions of causality. Animation can redefine the everyday, subvert our accepted notions of reality, and challenge the orthodox understanding. In the light of this quotation, discuss how the possibilities of the animated medium are harnessed in Princess Mononoke. (END OF SECTION C) END OF PAPER

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