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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 focus of Italy's films in the years around World War II?

2. What technological advance helped revolutionize cinema and the film-going experience?

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 political event helped shape American cinema in the 1970s?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Japan's golden age in film able to thrive throughout the World War II and beyond, despite the political turmoil?

2. How did the Vietnam War change the culture of America in regards to Hollywood?

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

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

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

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

7. Describe Italian cinema during the 1940s.

8. Describe Britain's Golden Age.

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

10. How did television damage the film industry?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

How did the politics of the Third World countries try to prevent the film industries from growing? Discuss the difficulties and dangers the filmmakers would encounter, as well as the issues they had with marketing the film to an international audience.

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