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| Why were the largest Hollywood studios cautious about adopting sound film-making? |
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| They needed to ensure that there would be a single common technology for all producers and theaters so that the major studios could continue to book each other's films in their theaters |
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| What was not a stylistic consequence of the coming of sound? |
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| less emphasis on continuity editing |
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| What important Hollywood genre owed its existence to the coming of sound? |
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| What early German sound film was innovative in its use of the new technology by creating sound bridges and parallelisms between different characters and by using a sound motif as a key narrative device? |
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| What was the Soviet Montage movement's stance on sound filmmaking? |
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| they welcomed sound as a way of creating juxtapositions to affect audiences more powerfully |
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| What was not one way the film industry attempted to cross the "language barrier" introduced with sound filmmaking? |
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| avoiding exporting films altogether and concentrating instead on the domestic market |
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| What did the Big Five have that the Little Three lacked? |
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| What was the purpose of the MPPDA's Production Code? |
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| to protect the Hollywood studios from censorship by creating standards of appropriate film content |
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| What was not a technological innovation in 1930s Hollywood? |
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| What best characterizes the screwball comedy genre? |
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| films about eccentric romantic couples |
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| What sort of social problems were typically treated in 1930s Hollywood social problem films? |
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| poverty, unemployment and homelessness |
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| What is not a typical characteristic of film noir? |
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| appeal to a mainly female audience |
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| What was the first American feature-length animated film? |
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| Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
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| What differentiated Warner Bros.'s cartoons from those of other producers? |
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| they depended on speed, topicality, and silly humor rather than sentimentality and cuteness |
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| What allowed the British film industry to expand considerably during the 1930s? |
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| The British government required that distributors and exhibitors set aside a percentage of their offerings for British films |
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| What best characterizes Alfred Hitchcock's British films in the mid-1930s? |
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| mainly thrillers, but with elements of comedy mixed in |
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| What director known for his socially critical films about Japanese women often used long takes to film emotionally charged scenes? |
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| What does not characterize Indian cinema before World War II? |
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| the major Indian production companies were all vertically integrated, just as in Japan and the United States |
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| How did politics influence Chinese filmmaking in the 1930s and 1940s? |
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| two groups of filmmakers, one right wing and nationalist, the other left wing and sympathetic to communism, struggled to control Chinese filmmaking |
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| What was not a genre of Socialist Realism? |
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| What was the effect of the Nazis' rise to power on the film industry? |
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many Jews in the film industry left Germany
all films produced in Germany were personally screened by Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi minister of propaganda
all films produced pre-1933 with the involvement of Jews were banned
Answer actually is
all of the above |
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| What steps did Goebbels take to assert control over German cinema? |
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| gradual nationalization of the film industry |
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| Which documentary film by Leni Riefensthal depicted Hitler's control of a powerful and unified group of followers? |
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| What best characterizes the Nazi cinema? |
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| although some Nazi films attacked "enemies" of the German people or tried to raise support for the war effort, many films aimed merely to entertain and were not overtly political or ideological |
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| What was not a development in the Italian film industry under the Fascists? |
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| nationalization of the film industry under Luigi Freddi |
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| What controversial 1940s Italian film adapted from an American novel rejected the glamorous "cinema of distraction" popular in the 1930s by shooting in impoverished locations in the countryside? |
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| What best characterizes the French film industry in the 1930s? |
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| a large number of small, often unstable, firms competed with each other but often failed due to financial difficulties and corruption |
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| What industrial factor may explain why so many enduring films were made in France during the 1930s? |
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| the decentralized structure of the industry allowed directors to work on their own |
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| What surrealist-inspired Jean Vigo film was banned for its anti-authority and anti-church content? |
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| What was not a production trend in French cinema of the early 1930s? |
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| What stylistic technique was pioneered by Jean Renoir in films such as Rules of the Game? |
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| What is not true of the French film industry during World War II? |
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| films during this period were typically pro-fascist; censors forbade pro-French films from being made |
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| What sort of French films were most notable during World War II? |
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| comedies and melodramas made with impressive sets and major stars |
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| What quasi-documentary film made by members of the New York Film and Photo League and released in 1942 dramatized the conflict between the working class and forces of capitalism? |
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| What technology was key to the development of political cinema in the 1930s, especially in Britain? |
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| What major political situation was the subject of several important leftist documentaries in the 1930s? |
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the Spanish Civil War
the Chinese Civil War
answer is
Both A and C |
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| What sort of films did British documentarist John Grierson make? |
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| poetic or dramatic films about industrial subjects such as an overnight train, the fishing industry, and the tea trade in Ceylon |
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| Which Hollywood director made a series of propaganda films used in training the American forces for World War II called "Why We Fight"? |
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| What describes Joseph Cornell's surrealistic 1936 film Rose Hobart? |
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| a compilation of footage from a Hollywood film reedited to create repetitions of gestures and false eyeline matches |
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