Benjamin Robin Wood and Linda Williams

Benjamin  Robin Wood and Linda Williams

Work type:         Coursework

Format:                Other : Other (See instructions)

Pages:   1 pages ( 275 words, Double spaced

Deadline:             Mar 9, 2020 at 4:39 AM (0 d, 06 h, 48 m)

Academic level:                Undergrad. (yrs 1-2)

Subject or discipline:      Film & Theater studies

Title:      Quiz on Benjamin, Robin Wood and Linda Williams

Number of sources:        1

Paper instructions:

Author: Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen

Title: Film Theory & Criticism, 8th Edition

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Publication Date: 2016

Quiz on Benjamin, Robin Wood and Linda Williams

 

Answer the questions below using the assigned readings. Make sure you are specific and answer all aspects of each question comprehensively. You need to show that you understand the reading and also show that you understand the applicability of the readings to the films we have seen in class—i.e. each answer should include at least one reference to one of the films we have seen to this point. Each answer should include direct references or quotes.

 

  1. What is Wood’s thesis? What is his general point?

 

 

  1. In Wood, what are the ideological “values and assumptions so insistently embodied in and reinforced by the classical Hollywood cinema”?

 

 

  1. In Wood, explain the attempt to “render things ‘safe’” in classical Hollywood cinema.

 

 

  1. Explain Linda Williams’ general thesis or point.

 

 

  1. Explain the concept of ‘female body genres’ in Williams.

 

 

  1. In Benjamin, why does the actor feel a sense of strangeness before the camera?

 

 

  1. In Benjamin, what is the idea of ‘aura’ and how is it affected by the cinema?