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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. For what reasons did Japanese films escape censorship from their government in their Golden Age?
2. What was significant about the economy in American films during the early to mid-eighties?
3. Which of of the following was not one of the associate companies of the commercial conglomerates that helped keep the American film industry from floundering in the sixties?
4. What British comedy troupe had a cinematic bright spot for their country's struggling film industry?
5. What movement is credited with the influx of women in positions of power in the film industry?
Short Essay Questions
1. In the 1970s, how did West Germany start to address their role in World War II?
2. Describe Italian cinema during the 1940s.
3. Why and how did commercial conglomerates help support the American film industry in the 1960s?
4. Describe Britain's Golden Age.
5. How and why did the quality of mass-produced films diminish in the 1980s?
6. How did Germany's film industry attempt to recover from World War II?
7. What were some of the political issues that made their way into 1970s Hollywood?
8. As the studios declined with the invention of the television, how did Americans' tastes in film subject begin to change?
9. What was the New Wave movement in France?
10. In what ways did Japanese cinema flourish in the fifties?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
How did the social revolution of the sixties change the American film industry?
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