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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was significant about the economy in American films during the early to mid-eighties?

2. What was encouraged by the New Wave filmmakers?

3. Why did 1950s allow independent filmmakers in America to practice their craft more openly?

4. What was the name of the cultural movement in Czechoslavakia during the sixties?

5. What political event helped shape American cinema in the 1970s?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss Method acting.

2. Describe Italian cinema during the 1940s.

3. How did the Vietnam War change the culture of America in regards to Hollywood?

4. What were some of the political issues that made their way into 1970s Hollywood?

5. Why and how did commercial conglomerates help support the American film industry in the 1960s?

6. What regulations changed in 1960s Hollywood, as well as technical advances?

7. Why did Hollywood studios flourish in the 1980s?

8. What were some of the trends in American films during the 1970s?

9. How did the New Wave movement from France affect American movie trends in the 1970s?

10. In the 1970s, how did West Germany start to address their role in World War II?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the rise of Latin American and Irish cinema in the last years of the twentieth century and the first years of the new millennium.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the effects of television on the film industry.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the detrimental effects of the studio system on the creative process.

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