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Define melodrama and illustrate your definition with direct reference to The Peasants’
Lot or The Merchant Bashkirev’s Daughter. |
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Why were the early Bolshevik propagandists particularly attracted to the new medium
of the cinema? Give a comprehensive summary of Peter Kenez’s explanation in your
own words |
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| Describe the genre of the agitka and discuss its influence on one feature film. |
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Illustrate Peter Kenez’s claim: “Soviet directors mercilessly caricatured–and often in
the process unwittingly glamorized–wicked NEP men” (60). |
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Discuss at least two filmmakers' responses to the acute urban housing shortage of the
1920s. |
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Discuss the influence of Lev Kuleshov's workshop on a film other than The
Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks. |
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Account for the extreme diversity of filmmaking styles which arose in Russia in the
1920s. Give a comprehensive summary of Peter Kenez’s explanation and class
discussion. |
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Summarize Peter Kenez’s definition of revolutionary spectacle and illustrate with
direct reference to The Battleship Potemkin. |
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In what ways does The House on Trubnaya Street follow the conventions of
revolutionary spectacle as defined by Peter Kenez? In what ways does the film stray
from these traditions? |
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Relate details from one of the five parts of The Battleship Potemkin to the themes of
the film as a whole. |
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Identify an argument in Alexandra Kollontai’s writings and show how it is illustrated
or contradicted by Third Meshchanskaia Street |
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Identify an argument from one of Dziga Vertov’s manifestoes and show how it is
illustrated by The Man with the Movie Camera. |
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| Discuss the influence of Constructivism on a single Russian feature film. |
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Briefly contrast the attitudes of three different Russian directors to the role of actors
in film. |
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What were the major obstacles faced by proponents of the cinefication campaign? To
what extent did it succeed? |
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| Relate 4 to another prior Russian feature film or film tradition. |
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| Discuss The Admiral as a reaction against the model of The Battleship Potemkin. |
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Relate The Admiral to the conventions of pre-revolutionary Russian film
melodrama. |
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