MED274- Quizzes 01 The Spirit of the Beehive and Reading quiz

The color yellow first appears with the beehive. What does the beehive represent?

Contemporary Spanish society

In The Spirit of the Beehive, one of the functions of the letters that Teresa writes to an unknown person is to give the viewer information about the family and what has taken place before the film began.

True

The Spirit of the Beehive was released in 1973, near the end of General Franco's dictatorship in Spain. Therefore the film is intentionally ambiguous in its criticism of Franco's regime and the Spanish Civil War.

True

The film that Ana and her sister Isabel watch, and which makes a profound impression on Ana, is

Frankenstein

Ana's repeated trips to the abandoned building are all slightly unlike one another. Therefore, these trips are an example of the principle of difference and variation.

True

What links Ana to the wounded soldier?

Her father’s pocket watch

Cinematographer Luís Cuadrado was going blind while he was filming The Spirit of the Beehive. He later when completely blind, and committed suicide. This is true; I just want to see if you are paying attention

True

Among the motifs we see in The Spirit of the Beehive are:

The color yellow, bees, the movie Frankenstein

In the video tutorial above, navigate to minute 3:10 and press pause. In this shot of the mother with the piano, how does the yellow motif make itself evident in the mise-en-scene? Check all that apply.

Window and the sunlight

The thematic motif of pale yellow in this film is evident in what aspects of the mise-en-scene? Check all that apply.

Candle, landscape, armchair, mother, the wall where hand puppets were played

A repetition in a film's formal pattern that is different from others

Variation

Something that justifies the existence of an element in a film

Motivation

A significant repeated element in a film

Motif

Something that prompts the comparison of elements of a film through similarity

Parallel

Progression, as in the changes that take place on a journey

Development

The overall pattern of relationships among the parts of a film is called

Form

The straightforward plot summary that relies on the viewer's ability to identify things or places already invested with significance in the real world would fall under what type of meaning?

Referential

An explicit meaning could be summarized as what?

An openly asserted meaning

A symptomatic reading of a film would examine

a meaning that is a manifestation of a wider set of values characteristic of a whole society

When we speak of ________, we're asking about what justifies anything being included in the movie.

Motivation

Suspense is created by which of the following?

A delay in fulfilling an established expectation

Implicit meanings can lead the audience to come up with broad concepts for the film, called what?

Theme

If an artist takes a familiar convention and uses it in a way that makes it a fresh experience, this formal criterion of evaluation is known as ________

Originality

The formal principle of difference may manifest itself in which of the following ways?

Through character conflict, through setting, and through action

A quick way to recognize how a film develops formally is to do what?

To compare the beginning and the ending of the film