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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 directors was not one the greats in 1940s Italy?

2. What was the focus of Italy's films in the years around World War II?

3. For what did the American film-going public demand in regards to the subjects of films in the 1980s?

4. What political event helped shape American cinema in the 1970s?

5. What event in the sixties shifted the American film industry's focus?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Italian cinema during the 1940s.

2. How did television damage the film industry?

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

4. What was the Third Cinema theater realism?

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

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

7. What was the New Wave movement in France?

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

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

10. Discuss Method acting.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What were some of the obstacles and dangers faced by filmmakers who haled from the film industries of the Third World and in Islamic cinema?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the evolution of acting, from the silent film star to the Method actor and even to the modern megastar.

Essay Topic 3

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

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