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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 the name of the cultural movement in Czechoslavakia during the sixties?

2. Which European country's film industry was the most devastated after World War II?

3. Post-World War II, who was Italy's most prominent director?

4. Who was the top female filmmaker in Italy from the seventies?

5. In Eastern Europe in the seventies, what topic was generally avoided in their cinema?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Britain's Golden Age.

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

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

4. How did Great Britain's entertainment industry fare in the 1970s?

5. How did the invention of the videocassette simplify camerawork?

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

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

8. Why was the French film industry nearly destroyed because of World War II?

9. How did the Soviet Union change Czechoslovakia's film industry in the 1960s?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider the first several decades of film took place in the midst of several wars, what responsibility did the filmmakers have to their audiences? How did the roles of these directors change from the United States to Europe? How did filmmakers handle the world wars when faced with Nazi persecution?

Essay Topic 2

How did greed help shape Hollywood? In what ways did Eli Whitney and the Patent Company set the standard business model in Hollywood with the strict purpose of making more money?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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