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Film History 3 - LA 382
Contemporary Cinema
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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 3
03/21/2015

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Term

 'Jaws' (1975)

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Director 

L Actor| L Character 

C Actor | C Character

Camera

R Actor | R Character

Score

Editor

 

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Steven Speilberg | Quint |Roy Cheider | Robert Shaw | Chief Martin Brody | Bill Butter | Matt Hopper | Richard Dreyfuss | John Williams | Verna Fields 

 

Definition

Jaws (1975)

 

 

Director :  
Steven Speilberg
Camera:  
Bill Butler
Score:     
John Williams
Editor:
Verna Fields
Script:
Peter Benchley
Actor (L)
Robert Shaw
Character (L)
Quint
Actor (C)
Roy Scheider
Character (C
Chief Martin Brody
Actor (R)
Richard Dreyfuss
Chracter (R)
Matt Hooper     

 

Term

 

The 1970s began in turmoil and ended in a return to ________ values, best illustrated perhaps by the agenda of the Ronald Reagan years in the 1980s. For some, this symbolized a trip from darkness to light. For others, it represented the transformation of a great promise into a defining 1980s phrase, “diminished expectation."
 
Definition
traditional
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 Name the “elder statesman” of the directors who came into their own in the 1970s. He too started as a TV director in the 1960s but when he finally was given a major studio film M.A.S.H. (1970), he broke many rules like deemphasizing plot, showcasing characters, revising genre expectations with a humorous pessimism and overlapped dialogue, often with a large ensemble cast. 
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Definition


Robert Altman

Term
Name the most prestigious filmmaker of the 1970s, winning Oscars for Best Picture for The Godfather (1972) & The Godfather II (1974) as well as the Grand Prize at cannes for The Conversation (1974). The film were all made with extreme details and were cast of mostly unknowns to guarantee a sense of authenticity.
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Definition
Francis Ford Coppola
Term
Name the 1970s  director who graduated from NYU’s film program, started as an editor and transitioned into making Independent violent and personal films based in Little Italy of New York. His films are technically elegant while showing very gritty and inarticulate characters. His most personal films are Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976) and Raging Bull (1980).
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Definition
Martin Scorsese
Term
Born and raised in New York, this comedian started writing jokes as a teenager for 1950s TV. He turned to doing stand-up himself in the 1960s and even though he hated it, he perfected it. His persona as a small, frail, klutzy, cowardly, sex-obsessed, Jewish, intellectual was celebrated unanimously with Annie Hall (1977) when it won an Oscar for Best picture. He has since made a movie every year for almost 40 years.
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Definition
Woody Allen

Term
On the basic of some 8 mm/16mm student films that this film freak had made as a teenager in Arizona, this twenty-one-year-old was hired by MCA to direct TV episodes. he then was assigned an adaptation of the book Jaws (1975), which became highest money-maker of all time. Each of his films following he has been able to choose to make including Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1978), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) & E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial (1982) .
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Definition
Steven Spielberg
Term
Shortly after the middle of the decade, American movies became progressively more optimistic, less concerned with social tensions. Name the screenwriter and star of the boxing film Rocky (1976) that won Best Picture. He has since made five sequels and has become an icon of American cinema for all time.
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Definition
Sylvester Stallone

Term

The Godfather (1972)

 

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Francis Ford Coppola | Gordon Willis | Al Pacino 

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Director | Camera | Actor

Definition
Director
Francis Ford Coppola
Camera
Gorden Willis
Actor
Al Pacino
Term

The Godfather (1977)

 

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L Actor | R Actor/ Director | Camera

 

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Francis Ford Coppla| Diana Keaton   | Gordon Willis

 

Definition

L Actor : Diana Keaton

R Actor/ Director: Francis Ford Coppla

Camera: Gordon Willis

Term

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Rocky (1976)

 

Director | Actor/Script

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Sylvester Stallone | John Vildsen  

 

 

Definition

Director: John Vildsen

Actor/Script :Sylvester Stallone

Term

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Star Wars (1977)

 

Director 

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George Lucas | Francis Ford Coppola | Diana Kwatow

Definition
George Lucas
Term

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E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

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Director

George Lucas | Steven Spielberg | Sidney Lumet

Definition
Steven Spielberg
Term

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Network (1976)

 

Director | Camera | Screen Writer  

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Owen Roizmen | Sidney Lumet | Raddy Chayefsky | 

Definition

Director :  Sidney Lumet 

 Camera: Owen Roizmen

Screen Writer  : Raddy Chayefsky

Term

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Actor:

Peter Finch | William Holder | Robert Duvall

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Character:

Max | Howard Beale | Flank

Definition

William Holder

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Max

Term

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Actor:

Peter Finch | William Holder | Robert Duvall

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Character:

Max | Howard Beale | Flank

Definition

Actor:

Peter Finch 

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Character:

 Howard Beale 

Term

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Actor:

Peter Finch | William Holder | Robert Duvall

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Character:

Max | Howard Beale | Flank Hackett

Definition

Actor:

Robert Duvall

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Character:

Flank Hackett

Term

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Actor:

Peter Finch | Faye Dunaway | Robert Duvall

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Character:

Diana | Howard Beale | Flank

Definition

 Faye Dunaway

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Diana

Term

Name the president of the U.S from 1981-1989. He had become famous from being a B-Movie actor in Action films during the 1930s & 1940s. _______

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 | Robert Zemeckis | Meryl Streep | Ronald Reagan |

Definition
Ronald Reagan
Term

The advent of what new device added yet another diversion (like the television in the 1950s) with which movie theatres had to compete with. Hint: The way movies were screened, the number of revival movie houses declined, as well as how movies were filmed, widescreen processes diminished because this new invention allowed audiences to have most of film history at their fingertips.

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VCR | traditional | 

Definition
The video cassette record (VCR)
Term

Major studios started rebuilding vertical integration that controlled films and their makers. By the end of the 1980s, the studios owned 3,500 of the countries 22,000 theatres. List the three branches.

a.________

b.________

c.________

 

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Orbit | Disney's touch stone | Paramount |  Orion  | MGM | Disney Studio

Definition

1. Disney's TouchStone

2. Paramount 

3. Orion

 

Term

The top 10 box office performers of the 1980s were all men. The return to conservative "traditional" values in the 1980s did not bode well for female actresses & directors who had a difficult time finding good work in the 1980s. Name three of the top male 1980s star moneymakers.

a.________

b.________

c.________

 

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Harrison Ford| Robert Zemeckis | Dan Aykroud | Meryl Streep | Eddie Murphy

Definition
Harrison Ford | Dan Aykroud | Eddie Murphy
Term

The 1980s was a decade of big money and military spending both of which were what people wanted to see at the movies. The richest 20% of the U.S accounted for 44% of the income while the poorest 20% received only 4.6% of the income. Close to 3 million Americans were homeless, mostly consisting of Vietnam veterans, women and children and who are still barely surviving to this day. What Charles Dickens line can sum up the decade's ironic dilemma?

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Definition
"It was the best of times;  it was the morst of times."
Term

The War Film. Name the actor helped re-invent the glory and the proud American post-Vietnam War, with his recurring portrayals of the "common man" characters Rocky Balboa & John Rambo.

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Robert Zemeckis | Arnold Schwarzeneger | Meryl Streep

Definition
Arnold Schwarzeneger
Term

With Steven Spielberg as his mentor, this energetic protege brought a comedic zest to family friendly film creating the Back to the Future trilogy and Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1989), the ingenious amalgam of live action and animation, which served as both a tribute to and rebirth to classical animation.

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Arnold Schwarzeneger | Robert Zemeckis | Meryl Streep 

Definition
Robert Zemeckis
Term

Name the "Actress of the 1980s (&1990s)" best known for her diverse roles Sophie's Choice (1982) playing tragic, comedic and courageous women and has now (by 2012) been nominated 17 times winning 3 Oscars.

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Robert Zemeckis | Meryal Streep | Arnold Schwarzeneger

Definition
Meryl Streep
Term

What 1975 film is known as the "godfather of summer blockbusters"?

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Networks | Jaws | Do The Right Thing

Definition
Jaws
Term

This Canadian horror filmmaker has consistently explored the grotesque physical transformations within in human beings with films like Scanners (1981), Videodrome (1983) and his most commerciallly successful film, a remake of The Fly (1986) which works as an allegory for AIDS, canner and every human being's inevitable aging process. Truly a movie for the 1980s, name this one-of-a-kind artist.

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David Cronenberg | Oliver Stone | Spike Lee

 

Definition
David Cronenberg
Term

Achieving his biggest popular success with Vietnam war film Platoon (1986) winning best picture, director and editing, this filmmaker had been working for a full decade having won an Oscar for his screenplay Midnight Express (1978). His overt and heavy-handed questioning of the era's conservative status quo polarized audiences, yet was the perfect counter-balance to the patriotic flag-waving blockbusters i.e. Top Gun (1986) & Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985).

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David Cronenberg | Oliver Stone | Spike Lee

Definition
Oliver Stone
Term

This New York filmmaker opened the world's eyes to the complexities in the modern ghetto neighborhood. His first film She's Gotta Have It (1986) was a breath of fresh air about a woman who explains why she doesn't need to commit to one man. His film Do the Right Thing (1989) is an uunsentimental critique of bigotry from black, white, brown and yellow! His combination of brilliant comic timing, improve acting, melodrama and inventive camera techniques amkes him one of the most exciting filmmakers of the decade!

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David Cronenberg | Oliver Stone | Spike Lee

Definition
Spike Lee
Term

Debuting with his midnite movie sensation Eraserhead (1977), this painter turned surreal filmmaker combines a truly original subconscious vision, dredging up images and abstract images with very little explanation. Yet somehow he is able to make the irrational simultaneously seductive and terrifying. His films The Elephant Man (1980) and Blue Velvett (1986) are among the strongest made of the decade.

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 | John Sayles | David Lynch | David Lynch | 

Definition
David Lynch
Term

This independent filmmaker began as a novelist and screenwriter writing screenplays for B-movies (Piranha, 1978 and Alligator, 1980) and using the money to make his own films that explored historical and social troubles with a Marxist analysis of capital and labor (Matewan, 1987, and Eight Men Out, 1988). Unfourtunately, the decade mainstream audience was not interested in these subtle and subversive stories.

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| Tim Burton | David Lynch | John Sayles  | 

Definition

 

John Sayles

Term

Attending the Calidornia Institute of the Arts, with a major in animation, this director worked with Disney initially and made his feature film debut with the off beat comdy Pee Wee's Big Adventure (1985). His weird sensibilities are fable-like with a fondness for the bizarre and grotesque yet presented in an accessible childlike way. One of the 1980s biggest box office sucesses was his comic adaptation of Batman (1989)

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| John Sayles | Tim Burton | David Lynch | 

Definition
Tim BUrton
Term

The leader of the most famous British comedy troupe is in fact American. his curious cut-out collage style of antic animation has become the dominant mode of his live action work as well as inspiring modern lo-fi shows like Trey Parker's South Park. His films in the 1980s never fully connected with mainstream critics or audiences ranging from his beautifully designed Time Bandits (1981), his Orwellian masterpiece Brazil (1985), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989).

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John Sayles | Tim Burton | Terry Gilliam

Definition
Terru Gilliam
Term

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First Blood (1982)

 

Director | Actor | Character 

 

Anold Schwarzegger | Ted Kotcheff | Sylvester Stallone | John Rambs | Meryl Streep

Definition

Director: Ted Kotcheff

 Actor:John Rambs

Character : Sylvester Stallone

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