WEEK 1

Question 1

3 processes of (memory) remembering what has been learned

Answer 1

1. encode - acquire data worth remembering
2. storage - data stored in different parts of the brain
   3.retrieval - access to data stored

Question 2

collective memory

Answer 2

memory of a group of people passed from one generation to next one (history, tradition)

Question 3

memory

Answer 3

remembering what has been learned

Question 4

lieux de memoire (memory place)

Answer 4

certain events, objects, and places can have a specific significance related to the group’s remembrance (society is surrounded with memory)
a symbolic element of the memorial heritage attached to a society

Question 5

cultural amnesia

Answer 5

collective, deliberate forgetting of something of the group

Question 6

screen memory

Answer 6

distorted memory, recollection of an early memory recalled falsely to mask traumatic memory

Question 7

Loftus

Answer 7

Brain reconstructs memory not replays it

Question 8

memory is 3 things

Answer 8

1. alive
2. changing
3. shifting

Question 9

golden age

Answer 9

things that happen in an imaginary world, the flourishing period of a nation; time that never existed only in memory

Question 10

nostalgia

Answer 10

remembering something from the past, wanting to reexperience it

Question 11

biopic

Answer 11

biographical movies focusing on the narrative of the historical character

Question 12

the Rashomon effect
2 reasons for the effect
Persepolis

Answer 12

different but equally believable accounts of the situation
1. no evidence of the truth
2. need for closure or definite truth
Persepolis, Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi, France/USA, 2007

Question 13

BIOPIC

Answer 13

Biographical movie focusing on the narrative of the historical character

Question 14

imaginative resistance
300

Answer 14

individuals struggle to accept or engage in imaginative scenarios due to conflicts with their beliefs, morals or values
300, Zack Snyder, USA, 2006

Question 15

documentary

Answer 15

visual expression based on an attempt to document reality

Question 16

Robert J. Flaherty
Nanook of the North

Answer 16

One often has to distort a thing in order to catch its true spirit
Nanook of the North, Robert J. Flaherty, USA, 1922

Question 17

Hawthorne effect

Answer 17

individuals modify behavior when they are being observed

Question 18

Mocumentary
Zelig
Dark Side of the Moon

Answer 18

satirical work presented in the style of a documentary film
Zelig, Woody Allen, USA, 1983
Dark Side of the Moon, William Karel, France, 2002

Question 19

Nuit et brouillard (Night and Fog) - showing the unspeakable

Answer 19

Alain Resnais, France, 1955

Question 20

3 contradicitons embody Folman’s movie

Answer 20

1. tension between dreams and reality
2. short distance between sanity and psychosis
3. what must be shown and what cannot be represented cinematically

Question 21

Folman’s movie exemplifies 4 things otherwise difficult to represent in non-animated documentaries

Answer 21

1. stream of unconsciousness
2. unconscious elements
3. dreams
4. imagination

Question 22

mnemic contexture

Answer 22

associations, connections between memories, experiences, imagination and other processes that form memory and thought pattern

Question 23

Folman’s movie straddles 3 boundaries

Answer 23

1. past and present
2. reality and imagination
3. recollection and hallucination

Question 24

what indicates different temporal locations

Answer 24

1. color scheme
2. filters