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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 was the name of the cultural movement in Czechoslavakia during the sixties?

2. What popular American film from the eighties was one of the most successful mixes of both animation and live action?

3. Who revolutionized the way films were shot on-location through such "studios on wheels" such as the Cinemobile Mark IV?

4. How did the end of the Vietnam War affect the content of American films?

5. During Japan's Golden Age in cinema, what country, previously considered a strong force in cinema, began to decline?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Third Cinema theater realism?

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

3. What was the New Wave movement in France?

4. What regulations changed in 1960s Hollywood, as well as technical advances?

5. Discuss Method acting.

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

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

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

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

10. What were some of the prominent trends in European cinema in the 1950s?

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

Compare and contrast the rise of Latin American and Irish cinema in the last years of the twentieth century and the first years of the new millennium.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the role of censorship in the film industry.

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