b. My Life to Live. e. Alphaville.
c. Breathless. f. none of the above
47. Godard’s Band of Outsiders is
a. a neorealist musical.
b. his first return to the gangster genre since Breathless.
c. a sociological tract on the problem of prostitution complete with statistics and jargon.
d. a war film that pays homage to the early documentary style of the Lumières.
e. a film that has no narrative at all but merely attempts to destroy the illusion of cinema.
f. none of the above
48. The scriptless, plotless gangster film that comes closest to achieving Godard’s stated goal of making
“a film where there has been no writing, no editing, and no sound mixing” is
a. Alphaville. d. Le Mépris (Contempt).
b. A Married Woman. e. Masculin/Féminin.
c. Pierrot le fou (Crazy Pete). f. none of the above
49. All of the following are true of Godard’s Made in the U.S.A. EXCEPT
a. it is a remake of Hawks’s The Big Sleep.
b. the characters often speak directly to the audience.
c. it has no plot or any other narrative construction whatsoever.
d. it represents Godard’s celebration of the American cinema.
e. the dialogue is often rendered purposely inaudible.
f. All of the above are true.
50. Godard’s Weekend
a. is a science-fiction film shot in (then) contemporary Paris.
b. is a detective film about the capitalist corruption of the American cinema.
c. is about a group of students who form an unsuccessful Maoist cell.
d. is about a married woman who becomes a prostitute in order to support her bourgeois lifestyle.
e. is about a couple trapped in a monumental traffic jam that changes from a real landscape to a
symbolic one.
f. none of the above
51. The name of the partnership between Godard and ideologist Jean-Pierre Gorin was
a. the Sergei Eisenstein Group. d. Marxist-Leninist Productions.
b. the Weekend Collective. e. Les films du Carrosse.
c. the May 1968 Group. f. none of the above
52. Films like Numéro deux, La Communication, and Comment ça va? represent a departure for Godard
because
a. they combine film and videotape.
b. they are committed to a Marxist ideology.
c. they have conventional plots and characters.