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

3. What became the new standard screen ratio for films in the 1950s?

4. Why did 1950s allow independent filmmakers in America to practice their craft more openly?

5. At the end of the 1950s, how many homes in America had a television set?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was the Third Cinema theater realism?

3. In what ways did Japanese cinema flourish in the fifties?

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

5. How and why did the quality of mass-produced films diminish in the 1980s?

6. How did television damage the film industry?

7. Describe Italian cinema during the 1940s.

8. Describe Britain's Golden Age.

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

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

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

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

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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