Test 3

Question 1

Searched for God and salvation in films like “The Seventh Seal.” His view of life was fairly hopeless.

Answer 1

Ingmar Bergman

Question 2

made films including “Rashomon” that showed people’s versions of the truth are self-serving, and “The Seven Samurai” which was remade as “The Magnificent Seven.” Many of his films appealed to Western audiences.

Answer 2

Akira Kurosawa

Question 3

who began his career as an Italian “Neo Realist” showed life as a circus of human performances in films like “8 ½”.

Answer 3

Federico Fellini

Question 4

This filmmaker’s “On the Waterfront” dramatized mob influence in unions but also acted as a metaphor for Communist influence in Hollywood.

Answer 4

Elia Kazan

Question 5

due to its sexual subject matter, was released without the Production Code’s “Seal of Approval” but went on to significant box office success.

Answer 5

Otto Preminger’s film “Anatomy of a Murder”

Question 6

was one of the most important filmmakers who started in television but went on to have successful big screen careers.

Answer 6

Sidney Lumet

Question 7

shattered the waning credibility of the 1934 Production Code and hastened its end.

Answer 7

Arthur Penn’s 1967 film “Bonnie and Clyde”

Question 8

made the most important “spaghetti westerns” including “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and continued the trend in revisionist westerns.

Answer 8

Sergio Leone

Question 9

pushed the setting of revisionist westerns into the early 20th Century and showed extended scenes of mechanized violence.

Answer 9

Sam Peckinpah’s “The Wild Bunch”

Question 10

made films in the eighties like “Manhattan” and “Annie Hall” that resulted in him being considered an important “intellectual” filmmaker.

Answer 10

Woody Allen

Question 11

has made such successful films as “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” in which he helped revive classical animation.

Answer 11

Robert Zemeckis

Question 12

likes to revise history and promote conspiracy theories in films like “JFK,” “Nixon” and “W.”

Answer 12

Oliver Stone

Question 13

also known as the “Paramount Consent Decree” of 1948 forced the Major Studios to sell their theater chains, thus separating production and distribution from theater exhibition.

Answer 13

Divorce Decree

Question 14

were spawned by the exploding car culture of the Fifties and the Sixties.

Answer 14

Drive-In-Movies

Question 15

One of the effects of the growth of original television series during the Fifties and Sixties was

Answer 15

the revival of the failing careers of aging movie stars.

Question 16

Many science fiction films of the Fifties appealed to the fears of the audience caused by the threat of nuclear war during the “Cold War.”

Answer 16

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Question 17

During the Fifties

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more European films and Asian films were shown in US theaters because the Major Studios had lost control of the theaters, foreign economies were recovering from WWII and because a more worldly, better educated and curious US audience liked the variety, particularly if it involved explicit sexuality.

Question 18

During the Fifties and Sixties the Major Studios tried to combat falling movie attendance due to the increase of television viewing through various “wide screen” formats that changed the “aspect ratio” (height to width ratio) of motion picture screens and employed “anamorphic lenses” (allowing wide screen images to be recorded with standard cameras.) They also fought back by making fewer, bigger, more expensive movies. This tendency resulted in the Sixties being referred to as the ____. An example of this trend is the extravagantly tasteless film “Cleopatra” which went so far over budget that it nearly drove its studio into bankruptcy.

Answer 18

Bloated Era

Question 19

The political conflicts engendered by the US struggle against the Soviet Empire during the “Cold War” caused an upheaval in the Hollywood community called the ____.

Answer 19

Red Scare

Question 20

During the Sixties

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light weight and hand held film equipment developed for television production contributed to the new styles and methods of film making by a “new wave” of American filmmakers.

Question 21

was the first film to employ computer assisted visual effects. This film also fed the growing “counter culture” with psychedelic special effects and implications of mystical intelligence and the rebirth of the human race.

Answer 21

1968’s “2001: A Space Odyssey”

Question 22

also appealed to the “counter culture” of the Sixties by showing images of alienated youth.

Answer 22

“The Graduate,” starring Dustin Hoffman

Question 23

During the Sixties and Seventies

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Hollywood films presented corporations and the US Government as morally compromised and corrupt.

Question 24

is the only “X Rated” film to ever win a Best Picture Oscar.

Answer 24

1969’s “Midnight Cowboy”

Question 25

During the Sixties and Seventies, Hollywood joined the civil rights struggle by making more films with leading African American actors in starring roles.

Answer 25

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Question 26

was the first African American to win the Best Actor Oscar.

Answer 26

Sidney Poitier

Question 27

During the Seventies and Eighties, films like “Star Wars” and “Raiders of the Lost Ark” tapped into audience nostalgia for simpler times and more innocent stories.

Answer 27

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Question 28

Developments in film stocks and developing, as well as the high cost of shooting films with the classic Technicolor process, gradually resulted in the disappearance of Technicolor movies.

Answer 28

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Question 29

After the political upheaval of the Sixties and Seventies over the Viet Nam War, during which war movies were unpopular, war movies, this time anti-war movies, made a comeback during the Eighties.

Answer 29

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Question 30

The Eighties also saw a temporary revival of “3-D” movies. And as shopping malls grew in number, “multiplex” or “multi-screen” theaters with many smaller screens in smaller theaters also grew in number.

Answer 30

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Question 31

opened up the “home entertainment” market and revolutionized aspects of film financing, production and distribution.

Answer 31

The Video Cassette Recorder (VCR)

Question 32

Due to special effects films like “Star Wars,” film budgets exploded during the Eighties resulting in fewer films being made and a growing reliance on “tried and true” genres and sequels. The age of the “Block Buster” had arrived and films were conceived of as “product lines” including the sale of toys, clothing and “Happy Meals.” As outside corporations increasingly took control of the Major Studios, a high number of executives were recruited from business schools, advertising companies and the music industry. As a result, more emphasis was placed on uniformity and slick packaging in studio productions.

Answer 32

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Question 33

became a poster child for this trend to use a motion picture to launch and package multiple levels of other lines of merchandise.

Answer 33

The 1989 film “Batman”

Question 34

In an attempt to control costs during the Eighties, Disney’s Touchstone Pictures division tried to

Answer 34

bring back the old practice of putting a number of actors under long term contracts.

Question 35

During the Nineties, the growing reliance on computer generated visual effects continued to push production budgets up to unprecedented levels. By the end of the Nineties, the average film production, distribution and marketing cost for a studio film had grown to $54 Million. The extensive use of computer generated effects also drove production back into the large studio sound stages of the 1930’s and 1940’s.

Answer 35

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Question 36

The first movie to be marketed entirely on the internet was

Answer 36

The Blair Witch Project