Film Homework Help

• Please type your answers in a SINGLE WORD DOCUMENT (doc or docx file) and please DOUBLE-SPACE and use size 12 font!  Please also clearly NUMBER your answers. NO GOOGLING answer questions from reading material

Answer every question from readings and fulfill every question requirements  I Also attached the reading document

READINGS LINKS-

https://canadianfilmday.ca/back-to-gods-country/

http://www.ameriquefrancaise.org/en/article-555/Direct_Cinema_and_the_National_Film_Board.html

https://offscreen.com/view/lonely_boy

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/les-ordresorders

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/5824-the-sprightly-civil-servant-norman-mclaren-at-the-national-film-board-of-canada

Questions

1. “The film ultimately serves as a condemnation of unseen power structures.” Who are the authors of this quote and which film are they describing? Explain what this quote means. 

2. “In any case, according to this argument, the conventional NFB documentaries did not simply represent reality but showed a selective version, thereby transforming public service into public relations.”  Who is the author of this quote? Explain what this quote means in connection to a film from the first half of the course. 

3. “The flower itself does little dances and even cowers in fright as the men get violent.” Who is the author of this quote and which film are they describing? Explain what this quote means. 

4. “He favoured a camera with a short focal length, so as to get closer to his subjects and capture the unexpected.” Who is the author of this quote and which filmmaker are they describing? Explain what this quote means in connection to a film from the first half of the course.