national cineman

Question 1

crucial issue is the role of…

Answer 1

hegemony

Question 2

national cinema focuses on two central questions

Answer 2

how do one nation’s film differ from other nations
can we indentify common characteristics in films produced in one place

Question 3

what does gramsci say about hegemony!!

Answer 3

consensus culture, values of dominant class become common sense

Question 4

what kind of hegemony do we talk about in cinema

Answer 4

stylistic hegemony

Question 5

cinematograph films act 1927

Answer 5

7 1/2% of all films in british theatres had to be british in origin

Question 6

Canadian government motion picture bureau

Answer 6

CGMPB to advertise canada and distribute canadian films

Question 7

quota quickies

Answer 7

low-cost British films made by American distributors in order to satisfy the quota requirements of the Cinematograph Films Act 1927

Question 8

what did john grierson found in 1939

Answer 8

national film board of canada to fix canadian film production’s inferiority complex

Question 9

typical characteristics of hollywood cinema

Answer 9

high budget, entertainment, happy ending, clear, linear, style secondary to narrative

Question 10

characteristics of english-canadian cinema

Answer 10

low budget, no spectacle, fragmented narrative, lack of resolution or sad ending, documentary influence, landscape

Question 11

national cinema benefits

Answer 11

-alternatives to mainstream hegemony
-empowering
-opportunities for domestic film techs

Question 12

drawbacks of national cinema

Answer 12

forced to be reactive
how to be successful with domestic audiences
reductive?

Question 13

quebec cinema has a preoccupation with ___

Answer 13

past– public & personal

Question 14

the subaltern is simultaneously ___ of and ___ from the Dominant

Answer 14

part of / excluded

Question 15

a system of oppression based on genocide and colonialism that aims to displace a population of a nation and replace it with a new settler population

Answer 15

settler-colonialism

Question 16

“the imaginary indian”

Answer 16

first nations as other, need to be protected from themselves and ‘civilization’

Question 17

in cultural studies otherness is seen as a cultural construct as a means of ___

Answer 17

reaffirming the dominant

Question 18

what did derrida do with western philosophy and culture

Answer 18

poking holes at its gaps and contradictions

Question 19

the study of signs and signification

Answer 19

semiotics

Question 20

semiotics asks how does ___ work, thus focusing on language as ____

Answer 20

language / structure

Question 21

saussure’s equation

Answer 21

the sign arises from the interaction between the signified and the signifier

Question 22

saussure says the connection between the signifier and the signified is ___

Answer 22

arbitrary

Question 23

derrida: the sign is based on ___ not resemblance

Answer 23

difference

Question 24

derrida: the sign is seen as a _____, with the first part of the equation seen as being more important than the second part

Answer 24

binary opposition

Question 25

derrida: each side of the equation carries with it the ___ of the other side

Answer 25

trace

Question 26

3 kinds of Other in film

Answer 26

1. spectatorship and the other 2. identification and the other 3. style as other

Question 27

lacan argues that...

Answer 27

alterity emphasizes the way the Other is seen as making the self possible

Question 28

national cinema is seen as a form of ____ to hollywood cinema

Answer 28

RESISTANCE

Question 29

who said colonialism creates an Other of the colonized

Answer 29

Edward Said

Question 30

landscape used for

Answer 30

1. spectacle 2. resource 3. other