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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 influenced the audience's desire for music and voices to be added to films?

2. What early realization helped films develop both special effects and story lines?

3. Filmmaker Jean Renoir was the son of what influential artist?

4. During World War II, which director became known for his films that examined sex, greed, and the inherent sadism of humans?

5. What was created in order to satisfy the demands of the Catholic Church (among others) in the 1930s?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did so many artists leave Europe in the thirties and how did this effect the film industry?

2. Who was David Wark Griffith?

3. How did the Production Code come into existence and what were some of the effects it had on films?

4. How did Hollywood join the war effort in the forties?

5. How did the film industry begin to suffer after the advent of talkies?

6. What were popular themes in early German films?

7. How did the Film D'Art come to be?

8. How did the position of film producer become part of the filmmaking process?

9. How did the House of Un-American Activities Committee bring Hollywood's booming economy and artistic success to a screeching halt in the late forties?

10. How did the differing situations in both Europe and America in the thirties ultimately influence the film industry?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did cinema both aid and depict the struggles for equal rights in America?

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

Discuss the role of censorship in the film industry.

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