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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 is the other term for the Angry Young Man movement?

2. What was the focus of Italy's films in the years around World War II?

3. In America during the late 1960s, what was the general mood of the youth?

4. What was encouraged by the New Wave filmmakers?

5. Upon what were the greatest works of entertainment in Britain focused in the seventies?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was the Third Cinema theater realism?

3. How and why did the quality of mass-produced films diminish in the 1980s?

4. Describe Britain's Golden Age.

5. How did television damage the film industry?

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

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

8. In what ways did Japanese cinema flourish in the fifties?

9. Describe Italian cinema during the 1940s.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What were David Wark Griffith's main contributions to the early cinema? In what ways are his contributions overshadowed by the content of his films? Should these be factors in considering the achievements wrought by his work?

Essay Topic 2

How did cinema both aid and depict the struggles for equal rights in America?

Essay Topic 3

How did the politics of the Third World countries try to prevent the film industries from growing? Discuss the difficulties and dangers the filmmakers would encounter, as well as the issues they had with marketing the film to an international audience.

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