Z284 Music in Global Cinema

T/F tracing musical parameters, we often explore ideas that can intersect with other parameters

true

All of the following are plausible explanations for the unique visibility and success of Kurosawa and his films outside of Japan:

- his films could be categorized as "art cinema," and thus found an audience with western film festival culture and art house cinema exhibition - his work sometimes adapted familiar classics of world literature - his work addressed universally recognizable themes of social criticism and ethics

Ravi Shankar involvement in Pather Panchali

-Already famous as a sitar player -Composed/improvised, using traditional formulas of Indian Classical music (ragas), traditional instruments

aspects of "melodrama"

-clear "good guys" and "bad guys" -profound moral conflicts -extreme emotionality

All of the following are plausible explanations for the unique visibility and success of Kurosawa and his films outside of Japan:

-european musical modernism, especially french impressionism -traditional japanese gagaku -hollywood film music

All of the following statements are true about Paul Pena:

-his musical background is informed by the blues and his cape verdean hertiage -he was a respected musician in the industry in the 1960s and 70s; playing as a sideman and session musician on many records by more famous artists -he taught himself tuvan throat singing by listening to records, rather than through formal musical training

All of the following are reasons that the early 1990s "New Wave" of art cinema filmmaking has arguably subsided:

-hong kong culture gradually shifted in ways that problematized cultural expression of its unique identify -international co-productions and hollywood filmmaking have incentivized activity and talent to shift abroad -rampant video piracy eroded some of the economic health of theatrical exhibition

recurring thematic or stylistic characteristics of ang lee' films

-interest in emotional repression and social conventions -an interest in the dynamics of complex family relationships -an interest in myth and fantasy

Chungking Express encompasses all of the following regions/eras/styles of popular music:

-irish indie rock from 1990s -jamaican reggae from the 1970s -chinese canton-pop from the 1990s -american jazz-popp from the 1950s

influences on indiana cinema

-persian muslim love poetry, its images, rhetoric and (to some extent) its language -indian classical music traditions -theatrical genres in which song, drama, and dance were combined

Following statements are true about Cinema Vèrité

-relies upon capturing events as they happen, and sometimes even provoking to happen while filming, in order to capture a more authentic sense of the experience of reality -minimize talking heads who frame or interpret the subject of the film

historical representations of strong audiences for exported Bollywood films

-soviet union -indian diasporic communities abraod -several countries in the developing world

Statements about the production of Monsoon Wedding

-this film, while fiction, drew upon the experiences of Nair (and screens-writer Sabrina Dawan) growing up as middle-class Punjabis in Dehli -while, fiction, draws uon Nair's background verite documentary in its depiction of life in Dehli

T/F: By the mid-1950s, the focus on Wuxia in Hong Kong filmmaking was so strong and prevelent that it squeezed out all other genres from production, dominating the industry.

FALSE

T/F: Chungking Express follows a strongly linear form, in which all the narrative events and characters interact to create a single plot that moves from the beginning, to the middle, to the end.

FALSE

T/F: Chungking Express strove to make strong, comprehensible statements about the political situation in Hong Kong prior to the 1997 handover.

FALSE

T/F: Hong Kong cinema is similar to Indian cinema because, in both cinemas, a global "discovery" of its films (beyond their regional export reach) occurred through an engagement with popular cinema, rather than art cinema.

FALSE

T/F: Kurosawa's film Rashomon, like Pather Panchali, was hardly seen outside of Japan.

FALSE

T/F: There was tension in Kurosawa and Hayasaka's working relationship, due to Hayasaka's interest in Western classical music, an influence that Kurosawa rejected as ill-fitting to his artistic purposes.

FALSE

T/F: the genre of wuxia relies upon scrupulous historical research and an aesthetic of realism to convey to its audience what the world of ancient China was really like.

FALSE

True/False: Mychael Danna was coming to Indian music completely fresh, with no background knowledge, which delayed the production of the film.

FALSE

All of the following characters are alive during the events of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon except for:

Li Mu Bai' master and teacher

T/F: Genghis Blues focuses on traditional rural Tuvan culture to the near-exclusion of its urban city culture.

TRUE

T/F: Ray's relationship to film moved from fandom of Hollywood popular cinema to an appreciation for modern art cinema, particularly that of European directors.

TRUE

T/F: Tuva's culture was impacted by a long history of being absorbed into both China and Russia as an imperial property.

TRUE

Which of the following musical characteristics were, to some degree, shared by both Japanese and French Impressionist art?

an interest in musical qualities of tone color and spatiality

In what way is Tan Dun and his personal background similar to that of Ang Lee?

both came of age as artists in an era marked by a loosening of censorship and/or access to foreign cultures

Which of the following elements is not broadly true as a description of both Taiwan and Hong Kong?

both had political relationships with britain that were founded in colonial era and lasted until the late 1990s

What do Hollywood filmmaking and Hong Kong filmmaking from the silent era have in common?

both produced an extremely large number of films that are now lost (i.e. do not survive in any historical materials)

Over time, Hong Kong film production has encompassed which languages, either spoken, or on subtitles for domestic exhibition?

cantonese, mandarini, english

defining the relationship between chords and modes (or scales)

chords can be imagined as vertical collections of pitches, sounding at the same time; modes can be understood as horizontal collection of pitches, used in sequences to create melodies

Which of the following characteristics is specific to parallel cinema?

conspicuously avoiding musical performance numbers or, if they are used, framing them within a style that contrast with the products familiar from most mainstream films

Tuvan overtone singing is created by:

controlling the shape of the throat and mouth to create audible, distinct pitches that harmonize with the lower drone pitch

dissonant and consonant intervals are most productively associated with

culturally determined patterns of tension (unsettled) and release (settled) sounds

As a regional export industry, Hong Kong filmmaking has embraced what technology for maximum exportability?

dubbing the spoken dialogue into whatever regional language is spoken in the region of export

Which of the following statement about Satyajit Ray's background is true?

his family included several other artists, stretching back to the Bengali renaissance of the late 19th century

What was the Salaam Balaak Trust, and why was it important to Mira Nair to help establish it?

humanitarian org focused on addressing the problem of childhood homelessness in Mumbai, which grew out of the production of Salaam Bombay. nair helped to found it to counter the tendency for films using homeless actors to potentially exploit their subjects

Why did I decide to start teaching this film?

its depiction of Indian middle class counters a tendency towards stereotypical associations of India with poverty

Which of the following was, in the 1950s, a genre of Japanese film set in the historical past?

jidai-geki

Which of the following figures is a musican of Tuvan descent.

kongal-or ondar

indian tala are most comparable to which more familiar musical paramter

meter or rhythm

What elements of Italian Neo-Realism and French Poetic Realism were influential on Ray's work on Pather Panchali?

non-studio location shooting

indian raga are most comparable to which more familiar musical paramter

scales and modes

Which of the following characters is correctly paired with their role/function in the film?

sir te, an honorable, but slightly shady diplomat

what is a way that bollywood films are like hollywood musicals

songs are typically composed in pre-production and often sung to playback

All of the following elements just discussed regarding Howrah Bridge also appeared in Sholay, with the exception of...

strong focus on the themes of vigilante justice and social violence, connected to real life political upheaval

Which of these three instruments (sho, koto, binzasara) is an idiophone

the binzasara

Which of the following lists of three events are listed in the correct chronological order?

the end of chinese civil war; loosening of censorship and reopening of the beijing film academy

what is a common traditional way of depicting the sho in japanese visual arts?

the instrument is seen played by a goddess, presiding over a temple at the top of the painting

which of these answers best encompasses the larger idea of "rhythm," as a whole, as opposed to more specific components of that idea?

the organization of music in time

voice, chordophones, aerophones, idiophones, membranophones, electrophones relate most directly to...

the physical process through which sound is produced and vibrates

Which of these best describes the relationship between the term "art film" and "parallel cinema."

they are similar in meaning, but "parallel cinema refers to a specifically Indian tradition of art film that emerged int he second half of the 20th century

synonym for sound

timbre