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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 significant about cinema in education in the 1970s?

2. Low-budget films that had the look of home movies were not popular in which of the following countries?

3. For what reasons did filmmakers simplify camera work in the 1980s?

4. Which decade is considered the beginning of Japan's Golden Age in cinema?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss Method acting.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Third Cinema theater realism?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did the blockbuster change the film industry forever in 1975? In what ways did the early blockbusters differ from the later ones? How did these tie into the film industry's need to pair up with commercial conglomerates for financial and marketing purposes?

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 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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