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Can somebody please help me answer these! I am taking Film Appreciation
Which of the following is NOT one of the meanings of the word “narrative” in regard to movies?
Question 1 options:
A type of movie.
The story that a particular film tells.
A character who narrates events in the film through voice-over.
The particular system by which a fictional story is structured.
A concept describing the sequential organization of events presented in almost any kind of movie.
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Question 2 (1 point)
Why do human beings continually create narratives out of various facts and details?
Question 2 options:
Because narratives inherently convert storytelling material into propaganda to instill in others a particular political point of view.
Because narratives are the most efficient way of disseminating and communicating all information.
Because without narrative people would not be able to make sense of the world around them.
Because narrative style is the same all over the world, and thus to use narrative is to universalize particular experiences.
Because by framing and presenting information we use narrative to arrange and understand the world and our place in it.
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Question 3 (1 point)
How is “narrative” used in a broad conceptual context?
Question 3 options:
To denote any cinematic structure in which content is selected and arranged linearly.
To apply to any film that has characters.
To categorize only Hollywood films that adhere to a five-act structure.
To designate only experimental films that have no discernible story or action.
To rethink films in relation to literature, painting, music, and the like.
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Question 4 (1 point)
Which of the following is an example of a film employing narrative organization in a way that goes against the arrangement of events in conventional order?
Question 4 options:
A film possesses an exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and denouement.
A film’s material is chosen and organized so that one event leads to another in a recognizable progression.
A film jumps from scene to scene so that events proceed not in chronological order but according to poetical associations.
A film advances linearly from scene to scene by following a character throughout the course of her day.
A film documents the development of a protest movement by following several participants in dramatic fashion.
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Question 5 (1 point)
Why can it be said that nearly every movie, regardless of genre or type, employs at least a semblance of narrative?
Question 5 options:
Because all art is narrative.
Because the linear nature of movies lends itself to structures that possess some form of progression.
Because all movies contain characters and recognizable situations.
Because all movies follow the same formula for structured action.
Because of the way audiences have been taught to understand art, which forces them to transform seen, read, or heard material into a story.
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Question 6 (1 point)
What distinguishes narrative films from documentary and experimental films?
Question 6 options:
Narrative films are directed toward fiction.
Narrative films are linear.
Narrative films focus on the human condition.
Narrative films are actually produced on film stock.
Narrative films intend to mean something.
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Question 7 (1 point)
Which of the following is NOT one of the primary concerns of documentary filmmaking?
Question 7 options:
The recording of reality.
The fabrication of fantastic events.
The education of viewers.
The presentation of political or social analyses.
The creation of nonfiction.
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Question 8 (1 point)
Which of the following demonstrates how documentary filmmaking inherently entails the “creative treatment of actuality”?
Question 8 options:
A director decides to simply base a fiction film on a true story rather than shoot a real-life subject because of potential legal repercussions.
A scriptwriter loosely incorporates into a fiction film’s action the facts of a well-known historical event.
A director captures events behind the scenes of a political campaign and edits his footage so as to portray the candidate in a harsh light.
A producer withdraws funding from a documentary that dares to investigate the ramifications of mass-marketed baby food.
A cinematographer decides to record the events at a bustling marketplace by simply setting up his camera from one angle and shooting footage for an hour.
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Question 9 (1 point)
Which of the following is NOT a branch of documentary filmmaking?
Question 9 options:
Factual.
Instructional.
Persuasive.
Demonstrative.
Propaganda.
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Question 10 (1 point)
Which of the following is NOT an element of direct cinema?
Question 10 options:
Over-the-shoulder interviews with subjects.
The limited use or even absence of voice-over narration.
The placement of camera equipment in a location for extended periods of time to record events as they occur.
Narrative voice and perspective.
The arrangement of material to suit the filmmaker’s point of view.
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Question 11 (1 point)
Which of the following is NOT one of the characteristics of experimental movies?
Question 11 options:
Noncommercial intent.
A personal style and sensibility.
Conformity to narrative conventions.
A critical stance toward culture and media.
An invitation to individual interpretation.
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Question 12 (1 point)
What is the defining characteristic of found footage experimental movies?
Question 12 options:
A personal approach to unconventional filmmaking strategies.
A political approach to unconventional filmmaking strategies.
A purely formal approach to unconventional filmmaking strategies.
The manipulation of film from other sources in order to create meanings and associations.
The manipulation of originally produced film in order to create meanings and associations.
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Question 13 (1 point)
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of experimental films of the 1920s?
Question 13 options:
Surreal content.
Abstract images.
An absence of actors.
A critique of capitalism.
A desire to shock.
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Question 14 (1 point)
Which of the following films would be considered part of the self-reflexive strain of experimental cinema?
Question 14 options:
A film in which a city during the evening is shot as a play of light and color.
A film that pokes fun at classical Westerns by irreverently editing together John Wayne films.
A film in which a filmmaker records daily scenes of his own life in fragmented, oblique fashion.
A film that explicitly yet poetically documents acts of lesbian eroticism.
A film that animates abstract shapes to the tune of a Bach sonata.
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Question 15 (1 point)
How have narrative feature films incorporated into themselves documentary filmmaking techniques?
Question 15 options:
By using small crews, natural lighting, handheld cameras, and nonprofessional actors.
By tackling issues of political and social importance.
By being informed by painstaking research.
By interrupting the narrative flow with interviews of experts in the field that the film is examining.
By being made with extremely small budgets.
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Question 16 (1 point)
What is the definition of genre?
Question 16 options:
The categorization of narrative films by their cost.
The categorization of narrative films by their indebtedness to literary sources.
The categorization of narrative films by featured actors.
The categorization of narrative films by country of origin.
The categorization of narrative films by the stories they tell and the ways they tell them.
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Question 17 (1 point)
Which of the following is NOT a recognized movie genre?
Question 17 options:
The Western.
Foreign films.
Horror.
Romantic comedies.
Biopics.
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Question 18 (1 point)
How do film genres generally tend to originate and develop?
Question 18 options:
Organically, as inspired by shifts in history, politics, or society.
Artificially, as concocted by quasi-scientific marketing teams.
Ideologically, as created by filmmakers trying to advance a political platform.
Commercially, as thought up by movie theaters in need of familiar hooks to attract moviegoers.
Academically, as developed by intellectuals arguing for movies as a legitimate art form.
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Question 19 (1 point)
Which of the following is NOT an example of how genre

Given the following images, answer the questions. Your responses should be in complete sentences.
a. Describe each image in detail. What is going on per each image?
b. What message are these images sending to the viewer? Who might be the target audience?
c. Would these be appropriate to show girls in school?
d. How does these images promote women empowerment?
AmGiPi POLICE RS MA HE TEPCO SALES I SAL- SALE SOLE SALL SALE SALE SAL FOR SALE
NYPD
AmGiPi SPECIAL POLICE RICE SUBWAY
AmGipi LICE NEW YORK D .LD FORST-
SPECIAL POLICE AmGiPi PARTMENT NEW YORK WILLIAMS AND SONS POLICE NYPD
SPECIAL POLICE POLICE EMA

What are ways to identify new insights about a topic?
consider the relevance
consider the depth and breadth
consider the motivation
consider the creative genius of the speaker

Review your text regarding Cindy Sherman (Lazzari and Schlesier, pp. 99-100) and the video clips from youtube. Address in your response art critic Douglas Crimp’s quote (pg. 100 in your text) regarding Cindy Sherman’s works and the notion of “self”. He states Sherman “is literally self-created in these works; her self is therefore understood as contingent upon the possibilities provided by the culture in which Sherman participates, not by some inner impulse…” What does Crimp mean by this statement? Do you agree with him? If so why or why not?

On Imagination
By Phillis Wheatley
Thy various works, imperial queen, we see,
How bright their forms! how deck’d with pomp by thee!
Thy wond’rous acts in beauteous order stand,
And all attest how potent is thine hand.
From Helicon’s refulgent heights attend,
Ye sacred choir, and my attempts befriend:
To tell her glories with a faithful tongue,
Ye blooming graces, triumph in my song.
Now here, now there, the roving Fancy flies,
Till some lov’d object strikes her wand’ring eyes,
Whose silken fetters all the senses bind,
And soft captivity involves the mind.
Imagination! who can sing thy force?
Or who describe the swiftness of thy course?
Soaring through air to find the bright abode,
Th’ empyreal palace of the thund’ring God,
We on thy pinions can surpass the wind,
And leave the rolling universe behind:
From star to star the mental optics rove,
Measure the skies, and range the realms above.
There in one view we grasp the mighty whole,
Or with new worlds amaze th’ unbounded soul.
Though Winter frowns to Fancy’s raptur’d eyes
The fields may flourish, and gay scenes arise;
The frozen deeps may break their iron bands,
And bid their waters murmur o’er the sands.
Fair Flora may resume her fragrant reign,
And with her flow’ry riches deck the plain;
Sylvanus may diffuse his honours round,
And all the forest may with leaves be crown’d:
Show’rs may descend, and dews their gems disclose,
And nectar sparkle on the blooming rose.
Such is thy pow’r, nor are thine orders vain,
O thou the leader of the mental train:
In full perfection all thy works are wrought,
And thine the sceptre o’er the realms of thought.
Before thy throne the subject-passions bow,
Of subject-passions sov’reign ruler thou;
At thy command joy rushes on the heart,
And through the glowing veins the spirits dart.
Fancy might now her silken pinions try
To rise from earth, and sweep th’ expanse on high:
From Tithon’s bed now might Aurora rise,
Her cheeks all glowing with celestial dies,
While a pure stream of light o’erflows the skies.
The monarch of the day I might behold,
And all the mountains tipt with radiant gold,
But I reluctant leave the pleasing views,
Which Fancy dresses to delight the Muse;
Winter austere forbids me to aspire,
And northern tempests damp the rising fire;
They chill the tides of Fancy’s flowing sea,
Cease then, my song, cease the unequal lay
QUESTIONS:
(1) Who is the
speaker
— who narrates?
(2) Is there a
setting
? What
mood
or emotional
atmosphere
does it suggest?
(3) What is striking about the poem’s language? Is it informal or formal?
(4) Is the poem
lyric
or
narrative
?
(5) How is the poem structured or divided? Does it use
couplets
,
quatrains
, or other units?
(6) Does the poem use
rhyme
? If so, how does the rhyme contribute to the meaning?
(7) Does the poem have
rhythm
? How does the rhythm contribute to the meaning?
(8) What does the
title
of the poem mean?

What themes are especially important in the story “Taco Head” from The Tequila Worm by Viola Canales?
what are the  evidence to support your ideas.
What are  more than one theme that comes across in the story
how different parts of the story support each theme •
discuss the technique(s) the author used to develop at least one of these themes.

What is meant by the formulation of universal law?
?      a.)
?      Acting according to a maxim that respects everyone
?      b.)
?      Acting according to the categorical imperative
?      c.)
?      Acting according to a maxim everyone can use
?      d.)
?      Acting according to an action’s objective morality
According to Kantian deontology, which of the following would make an act impermissible?
?      a.)
?      It is harmful to myself.
?      b.)
?      It is considered sinful by sacred texts.
?      c.)
?      It is forbidden by local custom or law.
?      d.)
?      It violates the categorical imperative.
Which of the following violates a person’s humanity, according to Kant?
?      a.)
?      Trying to influence someone
?      b.)
?      Hitting someone
?      c.)
?      Protecting someone from harm
?      d.)
?      Lying to someone
How would a Kantian deontologist evaluate murder?
?      a.)
?      It is morally wrong because it violates the victim’s humanity.
?      b.)
?      It is morally wrong if the victim feels any pain.
?      c.)
?      It is morally right when it is done with good intentions.
?      d.)
?      It is morally right when it puts a person out of his or her misery.
Which of the following people would likely be satisfied with Kantian deontology?
?      a.)
?      Carrie is looking for an ethical framework that advances her own agenda.
?      b.)
?      Candice is looking for an ethical framework that respects cultural norms.
?      c.)
?      Carl is looking for an ethical framework that considers a person’s intentions.
?      d.)
?      Cord is looking for an ethical framework that considers an action’s effects.
Which of the following represents a potential problem for Kantian deontology?
?      a.)
?      People can sometimes be treated as objects.
?      b.)
?      No weight is given to a person’s intentions.
?      c.)
?      Unintended effects have no impact on a person’s moral character.
?      d.)
?      The same rules don’t apply to everyone.
A friend is staying at my house. I hear a knock at the door and open it to find a gang of armed men. They ask if my friend is in the house. I want to say no so they will go away, but I also want to say yes because that is the truth.
Does this situation present a problem for Kantian deontological ethics?
?      a.)
?      No, because Kant claims an action is permissible if not performing that action leads to negative consequences.
?      b.)
?      Yes, because Kantian ethics states that right and wrong are determined by gathering all available information.
?      c.)
?      No, because Kant claims that self-interest should be the dominant consideration when faced with an ethical dilemma.
?      d.)
?      Yes, because Kantian ethics does not provide a clear way of handling conflicting moral duties.

Analyze the reasoning in the passage below. Like the preceding item, this
passage contains a combination of deductive and inductive reasoning.
‘Species-ists’ are like racists.  Racists violate the principal of equality when there is
a clash between their interests and the interests of those of another race by giving
greater weight to the interests of members of their own race.  Similarly, those I
would call species-ists give greater weight to be interests of members of their own
species when there is a clash between their interests and the interests of those
other species.  Racists and species-ists do not accept that pain felt by one group is
as bad as pain felt by other groups. We hold racists accountable when they act on
racist attitudes.  So we should hold species-ists accountable when they cause the
suffering of animals.
People are responsible for the harm they do to other people. If people are
responsible for the harm they do to other people then they are responsible for the
harm they do to animals. Harm to people and harm to animals are morally the
same.  So, all individuals are responsible for the harm they do to animals.
– Adapted from views advocated by Peter Singer
a.
Set the arguments out in standard form.
b.
Using course concepts, evaluate the reasoning.

1. Explain Sartre’s belief: “Human being is free, human being is freedom.”
2. Can the world, with all its power, grandeur, and glory, satisfy to the fullest measure our desire for perfect and everlasting happiness? Explain your answer.
3. Explain Aristotle’s belief: Rationality is not merely passive but a function to be performed.

Direction: Read the text below and answer the questions that follow.
(1) The period from the late 1930s to the middle 1940s is known as the golden age of comic books. The modern comic book came in the early 1930s in the United States as a giveaway premium to promote the sale of the whole range of household products such as cereal and cleanser. The comic books, which are printed in bright colors to attract the attentions of potential customers, proved so popular that some publishers decided to produce comic books that would come out on a monthly basis and would sell for a dime each. Though comic strips had been reproduced in publications prior to this time, the Famous Funnies comic book, which was started in 1934, marked the first occasion that a serialized book of comics was attempted.
(2) Early comic books reprinted already existing comic strips and comics based on known characters; however, publishers soon began introducing original characters developed specially for comic books. Superman was introduced in Action Comics in 1938, and Batman was introduced a year later. The tremendous success of these superhero comic books led to the development of numerous comic books on a variety of topics, though superhero comic books predominated. Astonishingly, by 1945, approximately 160 different comic books were being published in the United States each month, and 90 percent of US children were said to read comic books on a regular basis.
Questions:
1. Why was 1930s – 1940s considered as the golden age of comic books? (Please don’t just state what, EXPLAIN HOW AND WHY.)
2. How were comic books used before? (Please don’t just state what, EXPLAIN HOW AND WHY.)
3. Why do you think comic books become so popular? (Please don’t just state what, EXPLAIN HOW AND WHY.)
4. Do Filipinos also enjoy reading comic books? (Please don’t just state what, EXPLAIN HOW AND WHY.)
5. How did the author arrange the information in the text? (Please don’t just state what, EXPLAIN HOW AND WHY.)
6. Does the said arrangement help you comprehend the text? Explain. (Please don’t just state what, EXPLAIN HOW AND WHY.)
7. Using an appropriate graphic organizer, highlight the significant.