St. Joseph’s College of Commerce (Autonomous)
End Semester Examination – October 2014
B.COM (Travel & Tourism) – III Semester
ADDITIONAL ENGLISH
Duration: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 100
Section -A
- Write short notes on the following in about 100 words. (4×5 =20)
- ‘Waah’ as a note of delighted approval.
- Blockbusters versus Independent films.
- E.M. Forster, as an interviewee.
- Clergies reaction to Franklin’s lightning rod in An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish
III. Answer the following questions in about 250 words. (4×10 =40)
- “It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this”.
How does Bertrand Russell reason out the above statement? What are his suggestions to mankind to combat superstition and irrational beliefs?
- Discuss the importance of repetition in music? How does the human mind react to the repetition of sound?
- 7. “One’s craft, one’s art, is his expressions, not one’s person,”. In view of this statement describe the nature of author interviews mentioned by Hannah Rosefield in her essay ‘No More Questions’
8 Narrate any one version of the central event of the film Rashomon (1950). In your opinion who is the most vulnerable character in the film? Give reasons for your answer.
Section – B
Read the following passage and answer the following questions.
Film is a reflection of society, both present and past. A film and it’s innovations sometimes has to catch up to society but sometimes it leads society too catch up with it. Movies are stories; movies are people who come out with ideas about something they want to say something they want to tell someone. Movies are a form of communication and that communication, those stories, comes from societies- not just where society is presently and what it’s doing now- but where society has been. It’s been that way for as long as movies have been around.
Movies are different things to different people, that is what is so incredible about them. For some movies are about escapism. Movies are about sitting in a theatre, watching something- watching a story unfold with people I don’t know- watching that happen and emoting an emotion knowing that for those two hours, when I walk into that theatre, I don’t have to worry about what is going on outside. I lose myself in what I’m watching. Movies can educate too. They tell us things we never could have known. They tell us things we might not know, and they give us a way to explore the past, the present and the future.
The reason why movies have become so popular, it’s because the images move. They’re not static. I could stare at a Van-Gogh’s painting for hours, but I sit in a theatre and the images move. As the frames move and tell a story, it is that movement which emotionally connects you. This is fundamentally why movies have become global. Every country has stories to tell, about their past, their culture now, and views of what the future will look like through their eyes. What hadn’t happened for many years, and what started to happen relatively recently was a couple of things. Firstly, movie theatres began to be built all over the world- not just here in the USA. In many parts of the world, the phenomenon of movie theatres is only ten or fifteen years old. These theatres give people a place to go, to escape, to learn.
Before that, society had the stories, but they didn’t really have the places to go and enjoy them like that. India, for example, wasn’t making six hundred films a year fifteen years ago. All of a sudden, the business part of film allowed people to invest and make movies- and also have somewhere to make their money back, in theatres! Then the internet came along.
The world is changing now faster. It’s constantly changing, and that constantly changing world is going to induce more movie-making. If you go on YouTube, you can see the most talented young people all over the world who take a camera and start to film ideas they have and put them online. They’re going to be the future of the industry. The internet has connected the world together. So a person in Vietnam can put a movie on the internet which can be instantly seen all around the world, you simply couldn’t have done that before. Movies have become a world-wide feature. Movies allow people to be taken to places they can’t get to on their own- be it travel, or culture, or learning. Great films are those that stand the test of time. That you can look at it later and still enjoy it.
The arts are not just one, they are all connected- and movies have become a huge part of the arts.
III. Answer the following questions in a sentence or two. (5×2=10)
- What makes ‘cinema’ as a mode of communication?
- Give any one reason why cinema has become a global phenomenon at present?
- How cinema paves the way to escape from the real world?
- Why cinema is considered as a popular genre than the others?
- What makes films as ‘great’ or ‘cult’ cinema?
- IV) Answer the following questions in about three paragraphs. (30 marks)
- What is the role of film in society and why has film become such a strong part of the arts? Discuss this with reference to the film Rashomon or any other film of your choice.
(15 Marks)
- 11. How does a film sit alongside with other arts such as music and the visual arts? What is the role of music in popular cinema? Use references, analogies and discussions from the chapters taught in the class- room to elaborate your answer.
(15Marks)
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