What distinguishes Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye in the history of cinema?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. The decline of the Production Code in the late 1960s allowed films to explore previously restricted story lines.
2. Altman’s movie subverts previous cinematic conventions by satirizing criminals, nudity, murder, and police brutality.
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Using the discussion in WOM, briefly outline the history of opera in China
What will be an ideal response?
What kinds of questions should we ask when evaluating the environment used for staging a production?
A. What type of stage did it have? B. Was the space appropriate for the type of play being produced? C. What sort of atmosphere did the space suggest? D. All of these are good questions to ask.
Which of the following influenced sixteenth-century thinking so that paintings of female nudes became socially acceptable?
a. the decline of Christianity b. the interest in Classical mythology c. the dress styles of the day d. a relaxing of moral standards
In the San culture of Zimbabwe, the purpose of ritual dancing is to
a) create communal energy, or num, for crossing into the supernatural world. b) worship the divinity of the shaman. c) fight off the evil power of the shaman. d) celebrate a rite of passage from childhood to maturity and warrior status.