QUIZ #6 Spanish Cinema

Question 1

In relation to the History of Spanish Cinema, what movie denoted the beginning and who directed it?

Answer 1

1929: Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog)

Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali

Question 2

In An Andalusian Dog what is one Iconic Image?

Answer 2

: the moving clouds followed by a cut (technical) and a cut (literal)

Question 3

An Andalusian Dog is Anti-?

Answer 3

Clerical Patriarchy and Authoriative

Question 4

In the Devastating civil war of 1936-39 in spain who won and who lost

Answer 4

won- Conservative pro catholic nartionalists

Lost- Liberals socialists anarchists communists

Question 5

In Spain The dicatorship of Genreal Fransisco Franco Lasted from when to when?

Answer 5

1936-75

Question 6

When did Spain Finally receive a democracy?

Answer 6

1976

Question 7

What does this authoratative government mean for cinema?

Answer 7

Working Under censorship

Question 8

Who are two of the most world famous Spanish Directors?

Answer 8

Luis Bunuel

Pedro Almodovar

Question 9

What do Almodovars early films bear thematically in relation to the death of Franco?

Answer 9

Political liberation

Question 10

Where were most of Luis Bunuels Films Made?

Answer 10

They were created in exilein mexico and france

Question 11

Who directed Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown?

Answer 11

Pedro Almodovar

Question 12

Almodovarts conema touches on issues of?

Answer 12

Rpresentation- ghender homosexuality, nation

Question 13

What does Almodovars conema not deal with?

Answer 13

Privation of franco

Question 14

What kind of asthetic are Almodovars films?

Answer 14

Post Modern

Question 15

What does Almodovars cinema deal with?

Answer 15

social transgressions of various kinds, such that the audience are supposed to sympathize and identify with the transgressor

Question 16

they can be seen as pastiches, they rely on intertextuality, they de-centre traditional notions of socio-sexual identity, and, through, their uses of television, they seem both to embody and to ironize Jean Baudrillard’s notion of the hyper-real.” this describes who’s asethetic?

Answer 16

Almodovar

Question 17

What is Pastiche?

Answer 17

an artistic work in a style that imitates that of another work, artist, or period:

Question 18

How is Almodovarsa work Pastiche? In other words, what art movement does he immitate?

Answer 18

Baroque

Question 19

Who was Jean Baudrillard?

Answer 19

was a French theorist of the simulacrum and whose concept became synonymous with one way of theorizing the postmodern landscape of the everyday taken over by the image

Question 20

What is the Simulacrum?

Answer 20

: we are far removed from the real and revel instead in an ecstatic image of the real, the simulacrum or appearance of the real that amounts to the hyper-real

Question 21

What is the Hyper real?

Answer 21

The everyday seems and is lived like a melodramatic movie or sitcom

Question 22

Post modern Film can be said broadly to be characterized by?

Answer 22

Intertextuality

Question 23

What 9is Intertextuality?

Answer 23

other films are invoked, either directly or indirectly; other texts, literary or popular, add another layer of meaning to what is on screen; literary or filmic figures, characters, archetypes help to understand the character at hand

Question 24

What is Camp?

Answer 24

an aesthetic sensibility in which the appeal is drawn from the ironic value and ‘bad taste’ of something. This kind of sensibility turns the banal, artificial and mediocre into a perversely sophisticated and appealing form that flies in the face of what is considered normative good taste

Question 25

What theorist authored camp?

Answer 25

Susan Sontag

Question 26

What is Intermediality?

Answer 26

: we could add the invocation or use of other media, such as television, within the film, to add a critical layer to the film. Putting TV clips, or film clips that play on a television set immediately raises critical questions, such as the status of cinema vis-à-vis television; life imitating art due to the ever-present TV images; society of spectatorship in which nothing is real unless it appears on a screen or is re-packaged for consumption by the media

Question 27

Almodovar’s signature, and a unique contribution to the movies, is the synthesis of the melodramatic mode with a clash of quotations. This combination allows Almodovar both a quasi-classical Hollywood narrative structure (which facilitates audience identification) and a very self-conscious narration (which normally produces a sense of alienation). This results in dialectical moments in which the absurd is imbued with emotional resonance…In this way the emotional can be checked with cheek without disrupting identification…and camp can be imbued with depth without losing its wit.” (Arroyos, 109)
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Answer 27

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Question 28

Almodovars Prefered Mode of cinema is?

Answer 28

Melodramatic

Question 29

Almodovar uses of the codes of the melodrama and strong colors do what ?

Answer 29

signal ironic/critical distance from the social norms of this era.

Question 30

What are the three phases of almodovars carrer?

Answer 30

: underground, work for other producers, and independent company. From the moment Almodovar establishes his own independent company, he is seen as reaching a pinnacle in his career, with a decline and resurgence

Question 31

“Almodovar’s films are urban, camp, frivolous, sexy, colourful, fun and free. They epitomize how post-Franco Spain liked to see itself and how it liked to be seen.”

Answer 31

yes

Question 32

Almodovars men according to specks slide are

Answer 32

subservient to the female characters, and their attempts at machista ideals or at normative notions of masculinity fail.

Question 33

Almodovars women according to speck are

Answer 33

We see postmodern clichés and types, but also touching glimpses of ‘real’ women who manage to overcome their neuroses, their failed, obsessive relationships with men and women, and who emancipate themselves from cultural expectations and limitations, even if only briefly

Question 34

The burning bed in women on the verge indicates pepa ?

Answer 34

Emanciopating herself

Question 35

The gazpacho can be seen as intertextuality in Women because it is

Answer 35

Melodramatic filmmaking: tragic-comic cocktail

Reminiscent of sit-coms, with entrance of characters, silly plot-twists, sentiment that turns into ‘real’ feeling by the end

Intertext with fairytales, where toxic cocktails and spells are routinely served by witches, good and bad, to vanquish the opposition

Question 36

Who is Considered the father of Surrealist film?

Answer 36

Luis Bunuel lol BUT GERMAINE DULAC WAS MAKING FILMS 10 YEARS BEFORE and in france HMMMMMMMM

Question 37

Bunuiels films attack what?

Answer 37

Catholic church and upper middle classes

Question 38

What are some Important Charfacteristics of Bunuels films?

Answer 38

Insects

Animals, which often seem out of place, but make sense as surrealist element

Satirizes and attacks the bourgeoisie and their ostentatious, vapid, self-centered lifestyle

Shock factor: from his first short to his later feature films, there is always shocking subject matter.

Chance, memory, imagination and dream: all links to the surrealist movement

Question 39

In an andalusion dog the ants on the palm indiv=cate what famous franch phrasew?

Answer 39

Someone is itching to kill

Question 40

Slicing the ye equals?

Answer 40

Killing vision