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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. Which decade is considered the beginning of Japan's Golden Age in cinema?

2. Who replaced Czechoslovakia's government, obliterating their film industry?

3. What was significant about the economy in American films during the early to mid-eighties?

4. At the end of the 1950s, how many homes in America had a television set?

5. What became the new standard screen ratio for films in the 1950s?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. As the studios declined with the invention of the television, how did Americans' tastes in film subject begin to change?

5. What were some of the trends in American films during the 1970s?

6. What was the New Wave movement in France?

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

8. Describe Italian cinema during the 1940s.

9. Discuss Method acting.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the different European film movements and effects on the industries of different countries.

Essay Topic 2

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

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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