Homework
Octubre /23Sobre Rodrigo D: No Futuro
11.¿En su opinión, cuál representa el logro técnico más importante de la película? ¿Existe un logro?
12.¿Cómo intenta la película involucrar a una audiencia ajena al mundo que presenta? ¿Tiene éxito?
13.¿Cuál es el rol de la música en la película?
14.¿Comente sobre el uso del sonido en la película?
Chapter 8: Story
Review questions on pages 388
Answer three of the following questions
1. Buster Keaton's narrative style in The General is best described as classical. What does this mean? What characteristics exemplify this style?
2. Compare and contrast the narrative characteristics of documentary and avant-garde films.
3. Compare and contrast the qualities that typify realistic and formalistic narratives.
4. Discuss how a viewer's experience and expectation are related to spectatorship, the viewer's interaction with the film text.
5. Some critical studies have explored the relationship of a genre to the society that has nurtured it. Recount the central ideas of Hippolyte Taine, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Jung as advanced by the author in the text and discuss how these ideas relate to film genre and myth.
6 What is a genre film? What elements determine the critical reception of this type of film?
