Test Flashcards

(29 cards)

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Rossellini’s film trilogy?

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The White Ship
A Pilot Returns
A man of the cross

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The spectacular historical film used by the racist regime as the celebration of the Roman Empire?

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Scipio Africanus

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3
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The name of the leader of the leader of partisan children in Open City?

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Romeoletto or Little Romulus

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The war event that was the major cause for the end of the Fascist Regime and the arrest of Benito Mussolini?

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the landing of the allied forces specifically the British and the Americans.

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The actress who played Pina in Open City ?

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Anna Magnani

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6
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The Brand of the bicycles stolen from Antonio ?

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Fides

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7
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De Sica trilogy Solitude?

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Umberto D

Shoeshine

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The Italian writer whose novel I malavoglia was the inspiration on for Luchino Visconti’s the Earth Trembles?

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Giovanni Verga- Realist Writer

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The French critic who supported neorealism and wrote extensively on Rossellini & De Sica?

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Andre Bazin

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10
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The instrument the fool played in “La Strada”

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Violin

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The French journal that greeted voyage in Italy as an original and revolutionary film?

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Cashiers de Cinema

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The title of James Joyce’s short story that inspired the character of Charles Lewington (the poet remembered Katherine) in Voyage in Italy?

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“The Dead”

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The Italian writer whose considerations on the dramatic clash of mask and face is considered the main inspiration for Fellini’s characters?

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Luigi Pirandello

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The Marxist film critic who attacked Fellini & “La Strada” for its lack of realism ?

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Guido Aristarco

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15
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The title of Luchino Visconti’s film set in 1866 Venice?

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Senso

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16
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The 2 Fellini Films which with La Strada, Constitute his trilogy of grace and salvation?

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The Swindle

The Night of Calabria

17
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The title of Micheangelo Antoninio’s debut feature film?

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Story of a love affair

18
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The film directed by Giuseppe De Santis that attempted to bridge the gap between popular entertainment and neorealism by describing the life of Rice Workers with a Hollywoodian style?

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The name and surname of the famous director who plays “il regista” (the director) in La Ricotta?

A

Larson Welles

20
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The character played by Lamberto Maggioriani (Antonio Ricci) in Pasolini’s Mamma Roma?

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Sick Man in the Hospital Who gets his radio stolen

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The Sicilian town where Sandro and Claudia admire the baroque architecture of the piazza?

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The name of the small island where Anna disappears in L’avventura?

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The Italian Writer who described existential boredom in his novel La Noia?

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Alberto Moravia

24
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Michelangelo Antonioni’s “Trilogy of Alienation”?

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La note

L’eclisse

25
Rossellini's film that obtained a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1959?
General Della Rovere
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The title of at least one early novel written by Pasolini in the 1950s?
The Ragazzi and a violent life
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Mario Monicelli's 1963 film on the rise of the socialist movement in Italy through the story of unsuccessful strike in 1890s Turin?
The Organizer
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The methodological approach to the study of society, economics and history first articulated by Karl Marx?
Historical Materialism vs. Ideology
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European most advanced production facilities opened near Rome in 1937 in an attempt to encourage expansion of Italy's film industry?
Cinecitta or Cinema City