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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 hysterical fear threatened artists in the film industry?

2. From what country did director Ingmar Bergman come?

3. In France's New Wave, filmmakers experimented with mixing _____.

4. What was France's main big screen hit in the 1970s?

5. During the World War II, what types of films did the governments in Europe support?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why and how did commercial conglomerates help support the American film industry in the 1960s?

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

3. Describe Italian cinema during the 1940s.

4. How did the New Wave movement from France affect American movie trends in the 1970s?

5. How did Germany's film industry attempt to recover from World War II?

6. Why was the French film industry nearly destroyed because of World War II?

7. How did Great Britain's entertainment industry fare in the 1970s?

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

9. What was the Third Cinema theater realism?

10. What was the New Wave movement in France?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

How did the blockbuster change the film industry forever in 1975? In what ways did the early blockbusters differ from the later ones? How did these tie into the film industry's need to pair up with commercial conglomerates for financial and marketing purposes?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the role of censorship in the film industry.

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