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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. Who helped Edison open a Kinetoscope parlor?
2. What was Charlie Chaplin's film persona?
3. Which director became renowned for his use of long takes to evoke a darker mood?
4. The two main regions involved in film production before the move to California were New York and _________.
5. As studios struggled to find the balance between pragmatism and idealism in the early decades of the Golden Age, which of the following people was not one of the great directors to innovate filmmaking in this period?
Short Essay Questions
1. What were popular themes in early German films?
2. How did Hollywood join the war effort in the forties?
3. What led to the mass migration of film production from New York and New Jersey to California?
4. How did the House of Un-American Activities Committee bring Hollywood's booming economy and artistic success to a screeching halt in the late forties?
5. Who was David Wark Griffith?
6. Discuss the innovative techniques developed by Alfred Hitchcock, Jean Cocteau, and Jean Renoir.
7. Who were some of the popular stars from the 1920s and of what did their acts consist?
8. Why did so many artists leave Europe in the thirties and how did this effect the film industry?
9. How did studios cater to the audience's wishes in the Golden Age of the Studio.
10. Who were some of the great entertainers that emerged from the talkies in the early years of the film industry that helped revitalize the audience's flagging interest and why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
How did the social revolution of the sixties change the American film industry?
Essay Topic 3
In what ways did Hollywood establish itself as a vital aspect of the American people during times of great turmoil? What does this suggest about the audience's need for escapism and reassurance? How did Hollywood help the country psychologically heal itself during the Great Depression?
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