Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema Quizzes

Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema Quiz 1

1 What year was the essay published?
1929

1973

1982

1965
2 Who was the first person to use the term "male gaze"?
John Berger

Laura Mulvey

Jaques Lacan

Signmund Freud
3 Who established psychoanalysis as a discipline?
Jaques Lacan

Laura Mulvey

Sigmund Freud

Carl Jung
4 Which term denotes the pleasure one derives from looking?
Libido

Scopophilia

Voyeurism

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

Privacy

Fantasy

Art
6 Where did the essay first appear?
The New Yorker

Screen

Vanity Fair

Reader's Digest
7 Mulvey states that she wants to use psychoanalysis for ____ ends.
Literary

Sexual

Feminist

Political
8 According to Freud and Mulvey, women represent a threat of what?
Womb Envy

Death

Castration

Motherhood
9 According to Mulvey, what destroys beauty?
The male gaze

Art

Bad camera work

Analyzing it
10 Psychoanalysis explores the relationship between what?
The conscious and unconscious mind

Film and desire

The self and society

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

Patriarchy and control

Voyeurism and anxiety

Power and privilege
12 Which example did Lacan use to describe the moment a child reaches self-realization?
A death

A mirror

A movie

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

Ziegfield

Pin-ups

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

Importance

Agency

Gaze
15 According to Mulvey, sadism demands ____.
A story

Eroticism

A victim

A perpetrator
16 Which of these directors worked closely with Marlene Dietrich?
Cameron

Douchet

Hitchcock

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

Marnie

Vertigo

Rear Window
18 Which of these elements of psychoanalysis does Mulvey not describe?
Scopophilia

Ego

Castration complex

Freudian slip
19 What is the meaning of verisimilitude?
The oppression of particular groups of people

The acknowledgement of artifice

The study of film settings

The appearance of truth or reality
20 Which of these stars does Mulvey not mention in her essay?
Marlene Dietrich

Audrey Hepburn

Lauren Bacall

Marilyn Monroe
21 Who, according to Mulvey, is the spectator's "screen surrogate" (810)?
The director

The camera

The objectified female

The male protagonist
22 What does the threat of castration produce, according to Freud?
Confusion

Anxiety

Exuberance

Joy
23 What is notable about Sternberg's films, according to Mulvey?
The male gaze of the protagonist is broken

Spectators are detached from the film's narrative

Women are the protagonists

Women are displayed as whole characters
24 Which of these occupations in Hitchcock's films signifies the need to punish and control?
Lawyer

Doctor

Detective

Police officer
25 What does Mulvey argue must be done to create an alternative genre of cinema?
Replacing more directors with women

Freeing the camera from the male gaze

Producing films without male leads

Creating more experimental plots

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