Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema Quizzes

Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema Quiz 1

1 What year was the essay published?

1929

1965

1973

1982
2 Who was the first person to use the term "male gaze"?

Signmund Freud

John Berger

Laura Mulvey

Jaques Lacan
3 Who established psychoanalysis as a discipline?

Laura Mulvey

Carl Jung

Jaques Lacan

Sigmund Freud
4 Which term denotes the pleasure one derives from looking?

Scopophilia

Libido

Voyeurism

Ego
5 According to Mulvey, the dark and quiet space of a movie theater produces the illusion of what?

Privacy

Fantasy

Voyeurism

Art
6 Where did the essay first appear?

Screen

Reader's Digest

Vanity Fair

The New Yorker
7 Mulvey states that she wants to use psychoanalysis for ____ ends.

Literary

Feminist

Political

Sexual
8 According to Freud and Mulvey, women represent a threat of what?

Motherhood

Womb Envy

Death

Castration
9 According to Mulvey, what destroys beauty?

The male gaze

Bad camera work

Art

Analyzing it
10 Psychoanalysis explores the relationship between what?

Film and desire

The self and society

The conscious and unconscious mind

Men and women
11 According to Mulvey, the male gaze is made up of which two elements?

Power and privilege

Scopophilia and ego

Patriarchy and control

Voyeurism and anxiety
12 Which example did Lacan use to describe the moment a child reaches self-realization?

A portrait

A mirror

A death

A movie
13 Which of these does Mulvey not use as an example of erotic objectification?

Pin-ups

Commercials

Strip-tease

Ziegfield
14 Mulvey quotes Budd Boetticher as saying that, "In herself the woman has not the slightest ____" (809).

Agency

Importance

Gaze

Meaning
15 According to Mulvey, sadism demands ____.

A story

A perpetrator

A victim

Eroticism
16 Which of these directors worked closely with Marlene Dietrich?

Douchet

Cameron

Hitchcock

Sternberg
17 Which of these Hitchcock films does Mulvey not mention?

Rear Window

The Birds

Vertigo

Marnie
18 Which of these elements of psychoanalysis does Mulvey not describe?

Ego

Freudian slip

Castration complex

Scopophilia
19 What is the meaning of verisimilitude?

The acknowledgement of artifice

The study of film settings

The appearance of truth or reality

The oppression of particular groups of people
20 Which of these stars does Mulvey not mention in her essay?

Marilyn Monroe

Lauren Bacall

Marlene Dietrich

Audrey Hepburn
21 Who, according to Mulvey, is the spectator's "screen surrogate" (810)?

The male protagonist

The objectified female

The camera

The director
22 What does the threat of castration produce, according to Freud?

Joy

Exuberance

Confusion

Anxiety
23 What is notable about Sternberg's films, according to Mulvey?

Women are the protagonists

Spectators are detached from the film's narrative

Women are displayed as whole characters

The male gaze of the protagonist is broken
24 Which of these occupations in Hitchcock's films signifies the need to punish and control?

Doctor

Lawyer

Detective

Police officer
25 What does Mulvey argue must be done to create an alternative genre of cinema?

Creating more experimental plots

Freeing the camera from the male gaze

Producing films without male leads

Replacing more directors with women

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