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

2. What movement is credited with the influx of women in positions of power in the film industry?

3. What was the main focus in French cinema in the seventies?

4. Who was the top female filmmaker in Italy from the seventies?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Third Cinema theater realism?

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

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

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

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

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

7. Describe Italian cinema during the 1940s.

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did the social revolution of the sixties change the American film industry?

Essay Topic 2

How did greed help shape Hollywood? In what ways did Eli Whitney and the Patent Company set the standard business model in Hollywood with the strict purpose of making more money?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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