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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. Which of the following was not one of the main focuses of American cinema in the 1980s?

2. What declined per America's changing tastes and desire for more sophisticated films in the 1950s?

3. Which of the following was not one of the most popular genres to emerge from Japan's film industry?

4. In what year did the Production Code become obsolete?

5. What style of acting became popular in films in the 1950s?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was the Third Cinema theater realism?

3. Why did Hollywood studios flourish in the 1980s?

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

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

6. How did television damage the film industry?

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

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

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

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

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

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

How did the French New Wave movement affect cinema in different countries and in different eras?

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