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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 editor displayed the emotional impact of crowd scenes on film?
2. Filmmaker Jean Renoir was the son of what influential artist?
3. What aspect of the newly-heard dialogue in the Golden Age made audiences uneasy?
4. Which of the following was not one of the Little Three in the Golden Age of the Studio?
5. What was one of the biggest threats to the film industry in the 1930s?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did so many artists leave Europe in the thirties and how did this effect the film industry?
2. Describe the film industry in the USSR after the first World War.
3. What led to the mass migration of film production from New York and New Jersey to California?
4. Discuss the financial status of American films and how this led to the rise of the studios during the early years of Hollywood's Golden Age of the Studio.
5. What were the differences between early films from the United States and Europe?
6. How did the position of film producer become part of the filmmaking process?
7. How did the Production Code come into existence and what were some of the effects it had on films?
8. Who were some of the great directors and their innovative storytelling techniques from Hollywood in the 1940s?
9. What were popular themes in early German films?
10. How did the governor of California's commission for horse photography develop into Meissonier's project in creating the illusion of moving pictures?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
How did Europe's film industries recover from World War II? How were their recoveries helped or hampered by the Soviet Union? In what ways were these recoveries indicative of the culture of that country?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the evolution of acting, from the silent film star to the Method actor and even to the modern megastar.
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