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Question Paper Name: Cinema Studies 902 30th May 2019 Shift2 Set1

Subject Name: Cinema Studies 902

Duration: 180

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Total Marks: 100

PART I

Question Number : 1 Question Id : 12820612959 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number : Yes Single Line Question Option : No Option Orientation : Vertical Correct Marks : 2 Wrong Marks : 0

nand de Saussure's linguistic sign, the relation between signifier and signified is:

  1. Motivated

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  2. Arbitrary
  3. Prophetic
  4. Elliptical

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12820651135. A

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12820651136. B

12820651137. C

12820651138. D

Question Number : 2 Question Id : 12820612960 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : No Display Question Number : Yes Single Line Question Option : No Option Orientation : Vertical Correct Marks: 2 Wrong Marks : 0

For Jean Rouch, the camera functions in the documentary film as:

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  1. A fly on the wall
  2. A psychoanalytic stimulant
  3. A faithful recorder
  4. None of the above

Options:

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12820651139. A

12820651140. B

12820651141. C

12820651142. D

Question Number : 3 Question Id : 12820612961 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : No Display Question Number : Yes Single Line Question Option : No Option Orientation : Vertical Correct Marks: 2 Wrong Marks : 0

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Mani Kaul's Uski Roti is based on a famous short story by:

  1. Ismat Chugtai
  2. Mohan Rakesh
  3. Saadat Hasan Manto
  4. Nirmal Verma

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Options:

12820651143. A

12820651144. B

12820651145. C

12820651146. D

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Question Number : 4 Question Id : 12820612962 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : No Display Question Number : Yes Single Line Question Option : No Option Orientation : Vertical Correct Marks : 2 Wrong Marks : 0

The silent film festival was held in:

  1. Pordenone
  2. Cannes
  3. Pusan

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  4. Karlovy-Vary

Options:

12820651147. A

12820651148. B

12820651149. C

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12820651150. D

Question Number : 5 Question Id : 12820612963 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number : Yes Single Line Question Option : No Option Orientation : Vertical Correct Marks: 2 Wrong Marks : 0

"The prohibition of kissing, a meaningless prohibition of a harmless act, may well reveal some dirty secrets of the State." Writing about the ban on kissing in Indian cinema (until recently), Madhav Prasad is referring to:

  1. The scopic privilege of the patriarchal authority of the state
  2. The emphasis on family renewal

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  3. The nexus between feudal patriarchy and the State
  4. All of the above

Options:

12820651151. A

12820651152. B

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12820651153. C

12820651154. D

Question Number : 6 Question Id : 12820612964 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : No Display Question Number : Yes Single Line Question Option : No Option Orientation : Vertical Correct Marks : 2 Wrong Marks : 0

"Western man has become a confessing animal" is a famous provocation by:

  1. Michel Foucault

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  2. Antonio Gramsci
  3. Karl Marx
  4. Jacques Derrida

Options:

12820651155. A

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12820651156. B

12820651157. C

12820651158. D

Question Number : 7 Question Id : 12820612965 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number : Yes Single Line Question Option : No Option Orientation : Vertical Correct Marks : 2 Wrong Marks : 0

...film's indebtedness to photography has been much theorized. The primary difference is by basing it in the:

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  1. Ontological
  2. Discursive
  3. Hermeneutic
  4. None of the above

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12820651159. A

12820651160. B

12820651161. C

12820651162. D

Question Number : 8 Question Id : 12820612966 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number : Yes Single Line Question Option : No Option Orientation : Vertical Correct Marks: 2 Wrong Marks : 0

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Which one is NOT a key feature of postmodernism as identified by Fredric Jameson:

  1. Intertextuality
  2. Seamless Narratives
  3. Nostalgia Film
  4. Pastiche

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Options:

12820651163. A

12820651164. B

12820651165. C

12820651166. D

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Question Number : 9 Question Id : 12820612967 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option : No Option Orientation : Vertical Correct Marks : 2 Wrong Marks : 0

"Immaterial Labour" is a term used to describe:

  1. Blue collar work
  2. The work of screen guilds and unions
  3. The work of mystics and saints

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  4. None of the above

Options:

12820651167. A

12820651168. B

12820651169. C

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12820651170. D

Question Number : 10 Question Id : 12820612968 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number : Yes Single Line Question Option : No Option Orientation : Vertical Correct Marks: 2 Wrong Marks : 0

...essay reading the optical unconscious

  1. As a sensory domain
  2. As a psychoanalytic category

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  3. As an ethical category
  4. None of the above

Options:

12820651171. A

12820651172. B

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12820651173. C

12820651174. D

PART II

Question Id : 12820612969 Question Type: COMPREHENSION Sub Question Shuffling Allowed : Yes Group Comprehension Questions: No

Question Numbers : (11 to 15)

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Question Label: Comprehension

Question Number : 11 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number : Yes

What is the debate that the author is setting up?

  1. To revisit the distinction between sound recording and photograph
  2. To revisit the relationship between sound and its representation

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  3. To bring out a new definition of sound
  4. All of the above

Options:

12820651175. A

12820651176. B

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12820651177. C

12820651178. D

Question Number : 12 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes

The author is making a distinction between:

  1. Original and recorded sound

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  2. Image and Sound
  3. Two theoretical positions
  4. Original and Copy

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12820651179. A

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12820651180. B

12820651181. C

12820651182. D

Question Number : 13 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes

Based on this passage what is Alan Williams's key argument?

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  1. That sound recording can reproduce a sound event
  2. That sound recording cannot reproduce a sound event
  3. That sound recording is always a copy
  4. None of the above

Options:

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12820651183. A

12820651184. B

12820651185. C

12820651186. D

Question Number : 14 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes

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...sound, has been described as a three dimensional material event because:

  1. We hear sound from all directions
  2. Sound is ephemeral
  3. Sound occurs in a particular space
  4. All of the above

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Options:

12820651187. A

12820651188. B

12820651189. C

12820651190. D

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Question Number : 15 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : No Display Question Number : Yes

In your reading, sound in the above passage is being conceptualized in relation to:

  1. Sonic event
  2. Recorded sound
  3. Perception of sound

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  4. All of the above

Options:

12820651191. A

12820651192. B

12820651193. C

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12820651194. D

Question Id : 12820612975 Question Type : COMPREHENSION Sub Question Shuffling Allowed : Yes Group Comprehension Questions: No

Question Numbers: (16 to 20)

Question Label: Comprehension

Question Number : 16 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes

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...Rajadhyaksha refers to Bollywood:

  1. As something in excess of the cinematic output from Bombay
  2. As cultural sign in a transnational world
  3. As a culture industry
  4. All of the above

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Options:

12820651195. A

12820651196. B

12820651197. C

12820651198. D

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Question Number : 17 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number : Yes

The methodological impetus for this article is drawn from:

  1. The Cultural Studies vision of Stuart Hall
  2. Louis Althusser's writings on Ideological State Apparatuses
  3. The Frankfurt School's philosophical writings on Mass Culture

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  4. Brian Larkin's work on Infrastructure

Options:

12820651199. A

12820651200. B

12820651201. C

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12820651202. D

Question Number : 18 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling : No Display Question Number : Yes

The author argues that the industrial success of cinema can be assessed best through:

  1. The symbolic operations of cinematic nostalgia
  2. The proliferation of new forms of consumption practices linked to cinema

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  3. The creation of "film personalities" via television programming
  4. All of the above

Options:

12820651203. A

12820651204. B

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12820651205. C

12820651206. D

Question Number : 19 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number : Yes

Elsewhere Rajadhyaksha has referred to Bollywood related fashion, live entertainment, advertising, popular installations, music and dance forms as:

  1. Exploitation culture

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  2. Cultural excess
  3. Consumerist culture
  4. Cinema Effect

Options:

12820651207. A

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12820651208. B

12820651209. C

12820651210. D

Question Number: 20 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number : Yes

Identify the film that led to Rajinikanth's popularity in Japan:

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  1. Muthu
  2. Aatank Hi Aatank
  3. Arunachalam
  4. Padayappa

Options:

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12820651211. A

12820651212. B

12820651213. C

12820651214. D

Question Id : 12820612981 Question Type: COMPREHENSION Sub Question Shuffling Allowed : Yes Group Comprehension Questions: No

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Question Numbers : (21 to 25)

Question Label: Comprehension

Question Number: 21 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes

The passage above deals with:

  1. Imaging ghosts in cinema

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  2. Imaging ecology in cinema
  3. Cinema's capacity to express subtle things
  4. Cinema's capacity to evoke nostalgia

Options:

12820651215. A

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12820651216. B

12820651217. C

12820651218. D

Question Number: 22 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes

...in the above passage is:

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  1. A habitation for all kinds of ghosts
  2. Ghosts recomposing themselves in commingling
  3. Where human beings and ghosts meet to understand one another
  4. Where modernity turns back to animistic magical thought

Options:

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12820651219. A

12820651220. B

12820651221. C

12820651222. D

Question Number : 23 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number : Yes

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Certain ghosts are seen and others not in Apichatpong's films because:

  1. Some ghosts live near us and others afar
  2. Ghosts come in various ways of being
  3. The filmmaker is interested in felt things
  4. Our senses are biased towards certain ghosts

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Options:

12820651223. A

12820651224. B

12820651225. C

12820651226. D

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Question Number: 24 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling : No Display Question Number : Yes

Why should making ghosts felt be considered a politicization of cinema?

  1. It is a form of inclusive politics
  2. It makes me more aware of my histories
  3. It makes me aware that I am merely the most real ghost in my life

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  4. It makes me aware of the Other

Options:

12820651227. A

12820651228. B

12820651229. C

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12820651230. D

Question Number : 25 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number : Yes

...is closest conceptually to the Buddhist concept of:

  1. Pannaparamita
  2. Samma Sati

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  3. Nibbana
  4. Paticca-samuppada

Options:

12820651231. A

12820651232. B

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12820651233. C

12820651234. D

Question Id : 12820612987 Question Type : COMPREHENSION Sub Question Shuffling Allowed: Yes Group Comprehension Questions: No

Question Numbers : (26 to 30)

Question Label: Comprehension

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Question Number: 26 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes

...the famous opening sequence [of Charulata], we are alert to a...

think the scene has been referred to because:

  1. There is some doubt as to the real value of this scene
  2. Does justice to the author's claims

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  3. The author differs from this evaluation
  4. The author wants to join the bandwagon of critics who have praised this film before

Options:

12820651235. A

12820651236. B

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12820651237. C

12820651238. D

Question Number : 27 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number : Yes

How would you appropriately describe the methodology of the author:

  1. Uses inductive reasoning

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  2. Indulges in formalism for its own sake
  3. Combines formalism with a psychoanalytic reading
  4. Does a gendered reading

Options:

12820651239. A

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12820651240. B

12820651241. C

12820651242. D

Question Number: 28 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling : No Display Question Number : Yes

At the end of the passage, the author differentiates between two kinds of gazes. What are they?

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  1. The male AND female
  2. The queer AND straight
  3. The protagonist's AND the spectator's
  4. All of the above

Options:

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12820651243. A

12820651244. B

12820651245. C

12820651246. D

Question Number : 29 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes

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The author identifies the verandah as a prominent spatial element in this scene. How does the verandah function in the film?

  1. To disrupt the narrative flow
  2. To remind the spectator of an outside world
  3. To provide us a glimpse of the protagonist's interiority
  4. To allow the spectator an autonomous point-of-view

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Options:

12820651247. A

12820651248. B

12820651249. C

12820651250. D

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Question Number : 30 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes

"Diegesis" in the above passage refers to:

  1. The world beyond the screen
  2. A time-space continuum
  3. A gesture

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  4. The world within the narrative

Options:

12820651251. A

12820651252. B

12820651253. C

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12820651254. D

Question Id : 12820612993 Question Type : COMPREHENSION Sub Question Shuffling Allowed: Yes Group Comprehension Questions: No

Question Numbers : (31 to 35)

Question Label: Comprehension

Question Number: 31 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes

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In the first paragraph of the above passage, the author is referring to Frantz Fanon's third-worldism in order to:

  1. Emphasize the need to create autonomous art
  2. To reject western templates for the modern
  3. To trace a genealogy of third cinema
  4. All of the above

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Options:

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Question Number: 32 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number : Yes

The author refers to Dejeuner sur l'herbe as an example of:

  1. Third cinema manifestoes

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  2. Postmodern works
  3. High Art
  4. None of the above

Options:

12820651259. A

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12820651260. B

12820651261. C

12820651262. D

Question Number: 33 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number : Yes

The author says that the sequence described above is "ambiguous" because:

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  1. It mocks high art even as it celebrates it
  2. It critiques the art scene while praising artists
  3. It demolishes the museums at the same time as it upholds the values of galleries
  4. It scorns the critics and simultaneously salutes the artists

Options:

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12820651263. A

12820651264. B

12820651265. C

12820651266. D

Question Number : 34 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : No Display Question Number : Yes

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The "semioclasm" that the author refers to in this passage is a reference to:

  1. Roland Barthes' Mythologies
  2. The iconoclasm of Greek artists
  3. Quasi-classical works
  4. None of the above

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Question Number: 35 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number : Yes

The author cites Marinetti's comment: "One must spit daily at the Altar of art," in order to:

  1. Prove that the Futurists were disdainful of third cinema

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  2. To demonstrate the anti-classicism of the modernists
  3. To illustrate the commonalities between high and low culture
  4. To incite the reader

Options:

12820651271. A

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12820651272. B

12820651273. C

12820651274. D

PART III

Question Id : 12820612999 Question Type : COMPREHENSION Sub Question Shuffling Allowed: Yes Group Comprehension Questions: No

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Question Numbers : (36 to 40)

Question Label: Comprehension

Question Number: 36 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes

The image above is from an iconic film. Which of the following about the relay of gazes in this image is true?

  1. The man and woman are looking at each other

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  2. The camera is looking at the pro-filmic world
  3. The camera is looking at the man looking at the woman
  4. All of the above

Options:

12820651275. A

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12820651276. B

12820651277. C

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