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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. As the studios bowed to pressure from outside groups during the Golden Age, what was one of the effects seen on the gangster movies?
2. By what year did "talkies" take over Hollywood?
3. Which director, during America in the 1940s, became renowned for film adaptations of literature?
4. What group was formed in 1908 with the intention to further develop the Kinetoscope technology?
5. What sort of films did Jean Cocteau create in France in the 1930s?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. How did the advent of "talkies" change both technical and acting aspects of film?
3. How did the Film D'Art come to be?
4. Discuss the innovative techniques developed by Alfred Hitchcock, Jean Cocteau, and Jean Renoir.
5. In the early days of the film industry, how did Griffith and others begin making their films more appealing to widespread audiences?
6. How did studios cater to the audience's wishes in the Golden Age of the Studio.
7. How did the position of film producer become part of the filmmaking process?
8. How did the Production Code come into existence and what were some of the effects it had on films?
9. Who were some of the popular stars from the 1920s and of what did their acts consist?
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 films meld both science and creativity together? In what ways was this the overall goal of the Film D'Art? What does this suggest about the technological advances in Hollywood throughout film's history?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
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?
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