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One could describe Tampopo as a hybrid of film genres including:

All of the above (Western, detective, romance)

Timothy Craig draws a connection between contemporary Japanese popular culture and traditional arts in terms of:

Artistic skill

According to Napier, anime is superbly positioned to illustrate what aspects of Japanese as well as other industrialized or industrializing societies?

Change and transformation

"The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (Taketori Monogatari)" made its way to Japan from:

China

Theodore Adorno famously said that Walt Disney was the most ________man in America.

Dangerous

In the scene pictured below, the "master" is teaching his "disciple" to---:

Eat ramen

According to the Bryce and Davis article, the film's depiction of the vigorousness of bamboo represents the dynamism of life on earth in contrast to the lifelessness of the moon, wherein beautiful immortals happily reside free of ______________.

Emotions

Theodore Adorno believed that people require all of the following EXCEPT:

Excitement

According to Bryce and Davis, Takahata does not make any changes to the storyline of the original 10th century folktale.

False

According to Freedman and Slade, the fact that tourists from China and Korea travel to Japan to buy popular culture goods indicates that political relations between Japan and those countries has improved.

False

According to Freedman and Slade, the nation state is an appropriate organizing principle for the categorization of culture.

False

According to Timothy Craig, all Japan pop is high quality.

False

Ashkenazi notes that "native" Japanese food is featured in many of the scenes in Tampopo.

False

In "The Tale of the Princess Kaguya," Bryce and Davis emphasize the continuity between the village in which Kaguya grew up and the capital to which she moved.

False

In Tampopo, the proprietor of the ramen shop revitalizes her shop single-handedly.

False

In Your Name, Taki and Mitsuha are unable to change the course of events surrounding a devastating historical event.

False

In Your Name, Taki expresses a desire to live a quiet life in the rural countryside.

False

In the article assigned for this week, Michael Ashkenazi states that in Tampopo food represents homogeneity in Japanese culture.

False

In this week's article, Maggie Childs states that the emotions depicted in the fiction of other cultures is experienced in the same way universally.

False

One definition of popular culture says that it must originate from an elite group of people.

False

Parody is a quality found in many "modernist" films.

False

Storey says that cultural critics are slowly moving in the direction of deciding on a single definition of popular culture.

False

The Princess was excited and happy to leave her village.

False

The people of Itomori are the only ones who know about this place: (image of the crater with that old tree where mistuha and her family go to bring the sake and taki goes to reconnect with mitsuha)

False

The unpleasant aspects of life are avoided in Japanese popular culture, which makes them appealing to a broad audience.

False

Theodore Adorno admired California consumer culture.

False

Timothy Craig would argue that a distinction should be made between "high culture" (such as kabuki theater or a Kurosawa film) and "low culture" (a trendy drama or popular manga).

False

Financial assistance for raising the princess is provided by:

Gold nuggets discovered nearby

According to some cultural critics, "high culture" should be all of the following EXCEPT:

Interesting

According to Michael Ashkenazi, which food appears most often in Tampopo?

Noodles

Maggie Childs suggests that a fundamental component of love in premodern Japanese literature is:

Nurturance

In Your Name, Mitsuha's father is pursuing a career in:

Politics

Theodor Adorno felt that the people's suffering is caused mainly by:

Psychological Problems

In this week's "Cultural Notes" on the film, the moon to which Princess Kaguya returns is associated with:

Pure land buddhism

Itami Jūzō once said that a common theme in all of his films concerned:

Ritual and rules

The recurring image of the cord/thread in Your Name could symbolize all of the following EXCEPT:

Rope connecting two nations traditions

In Your Name, which of the following rituals is ridiculed by Mitsuha's classmates?

Sake making

According to Storey, one way to view popular culture is to define it as something well-liked by many people. Which of the following is NOT a method to determine this quantitative index?

Taking accurate census records

What is the relationship between the Princess and the woman below (on the left)?

Teacher

The Princess and her parents move to:

The capital

According to Bryce and Davis, the final image of the film, an infant within the face of the moon, symbolizes___________________:

The cycle of birth and death

Napier says that the popularity of anime is influenced by which of the following?

The flexibility of the medium itself, its visual trove of traditional culture, its cross-media nature (realtionship with other forms of popular culture)

In Your Name, Mitsuha is the daughter of the town mayor and comes from a family that is heavily tied to the traditions of:

The local shrine

According to Bryce and Davis, the psychological collapse of Princess Kaguya as she struggles with the "suffocating, commodity-driven, urban life world of social betterment," is something to which contemporary Japanese people can relate.

True

According to Napier, Japanese popular culture is more subversive than American popular culture.

True

According to Storey, postmodern culture no longer recognizes the difference between high and popular culture.

True

According to the video "Isao Takahata: Animating Reality," one reason we appreciate animation is because we are aware of its artificiality.

True

An example of "intertextuality" in film includes modern remakes of classic literature.

True

Ashkenazi observes that there is not one instance of a "standard" husband + wife + child family relationship in Tampopo.

True

At times, Japanese society has determined anime and manga to be socially unhealthy.

True

Bhaktin's Carnivalesque is connected to postmodernism.

True

In "What is Japanese Popular Culture," Freedman and Slade assert that "popular culture" is well liked by the masses and just as valuable as "high culture."

True

In Heian period (794-1185) courtship practices, women often had the upper hand because they could choose to accept or reject a man's advances, which were initiated through writing (poetry).

True

In Your Name, Mitsuha wishes to escape her drab and mundane lifestyle.

True

In the film, Tampopo tries to steal a soup recipe from a competitor.

True

Itami Jūzō had originally planned a film comprised of about 30 short episodes, but it didn't work.

True

Maggie Childs states that one strategy for a man to overcome a woman's resistance was to fall dramatically and obsessively in love, thus arousing her pity.

True

Michael Ashkenazi sees Tampopo as a hybrid of traditional and modern Japan.

True

One might consider Kamikaze Girls an example of postmodern film making.

True

Some cultural critics equate popular culture with American culture.

True

Some cultural critics suggest that popular culture is simply whatever does not fit into the category of "high" culture.

True

Tampopo was influenced by an American Western film.

True

The training that Tampopo undergoes in her effort to improve her ramen shop includes physical education and exercise.

True

Timothy Craig (Inside the World of J Pop Culture) notes that compared to Western style comics Japanese manga are longer.

True

Timothy Craig says that Americans like Japanese popular culture because it is different.

True

Timothy Craig says that people from other Asian nations like Japanese popular culture in part because the music is familiar and agreeable to them.

True

Anime critics observe that anime visually differs from mass-audience American cartoons with its:

Variety of shots, pans, and camera angles

In what traditional art is Mitsuha's grandmother an expert in Your Name?

Weaving cords

According to Video #1, Modernism (not Postmodernism) as a theory developed after WW I when society saw the development of industries and the growth of cities. The singular "truth" associated with modernism (the singular meaning of human life) includes which of the following?

Working hard to achieve success, Consumerism, The nuclear family

TAKAHATA Isao's The Tale of Princess Kaguya is based on:

a 10th century folk tale

Your Name revolves around a young high school boy and girl who mysteriously swap bodies on a regular basis for a period of about:

a couple of months

The Princess in The Tale of the Princess Kaguya was found in:

a luminous bamboo shoot

Where does the Princess sometimes take refuge?

a small garden that her mother tends

Napier states that compared to live-action film, anime adds a special touch to the "festival" mode of expression because it:

allows entry into a new world more radically

In Your Name, Taki and Mitsuha take advantage of their body-swapping experience to try to create another thread of history in which nobody would die of:

an impending comet

In which of the following scenes are the ideas of social hierarchy, seniority, losing face, and deferring to one's elders at play?

business lunch at the French restaurant

How does Ashkezaki describe the setting of Tampopo?

cosmopolitan; without cherry blossoms and temples

In Tampopo, one of the vignettes shows and old women in a grocery store who----:

damages some of the products

According to Napier, anime's range of modes, themes and imagery can be attributed in part to:

dark events in Japan's recent history

Gramsci views popular culture as a struggle between which two groups?

dominant classes vs. subordinate classes

When does the Princess flee to her former village?

during her coming of age banquet

According to the "Postmodernism in Film" video, self-referentiality in film includes all of the following EXCEPT:

having the director star in the film

Momoko currently lives with

her father and grandmother outside of Tokyo

Kamikaze Girls is about________

identity construction/performance, class, friendship resisting the status quo

Which of the following binary oppositions does NOT characterize Taki and Mitsuha's body-swapping experience in Your Name:

individual/group

Napier argues that anime should be studied for which of the following reasons?

it tell us something about the relationship between global/local culture, it reflects contemporary Japan, it's a global phenomenon

When did Postmodernism develop?

late 20th century

Which of the following is NOT offered as a token of love/commitment for the Princess?

mirror from the great shine at Ise

When watching his animation, Takahata Isao aims for us to:

recall the reality within the drawing

Historian Harry Harutoonian contends that when Tampopo was made the Japanese government had embarked on a program to:

reinforce traditional values

What are some of the general characteristics of the Bhaktin's "Carnivalesque"?

reversal of social hierarchy, celebration of socially unacceptable behavior

What is bricolage?

the coming together of different conventions, fashion, music choices, etc.

What might be some of the positive aspects of Japanese society conveyed in Tampopo?

the value of teamwork, the value of the teacher-pupil relationship, personal growth through labor and hard work

Maggie Childs theorizes that in premodern Japanese literature men caused distress in relationships with women:

to create an immediate need for consolation

At the end of the film, the Princess returns:

to the moon

Susan Napier contends that anime builds on which of the following cultural traditions?

traditional Japanese theater (Kabuki), worldwide traditions in photography, worldwide traditions in cinema, traditional Japanese woodblock prints

According to the assigned video, what is the idea at the center of Bhaktin's "carnivalesque"?

two contrasting ideas brought together

The Childs' article for this week argues that the emotional value of love affairs in premodern Japanese literature put a high value on:

vulnerabillity

Approximately what percentage of Japanese studio releases are animated?

50%

Itami Jūzō was active (as a filmmaker) during the following years:

1980's and 1990's