Multiple Choice Questions

Question 10.1

1. The 1948 Supreme Court ruling that effectively ended the studios’ monopolization of the film industry is referred to as the _________.

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Question 10.2

2. A critically or popularly accepted list of essential great works is called _______.

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Question 10.3

3. The postwar film movement of Italian neorealism (1942–1952) is known for _______.

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Question 10.4

4. The act of dividing film history into historical segments that help identify movies’ shared thematic and stylistic concerns is called ___________.

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Question 10.5

5. Films that have survived through time but have been neglected or abandoned by their owners or copyright holders are called ________.

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Question 10.6

6. The period in film history from roughly 1895 to 1913, which was marked by rapid development and experimentation, is known as____________.

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Question 10.7

7. The Production Code Administration was established in 1934 to ___________.

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Question 10.8

8. As developed by director and theorist Sergei Eisenstein, the linking of conflicting images to generate an emotional, intellectual, and political understanding of events is called________.

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Question 10.9

9. The filmmaker Maya Deren is well known for her contributions to________.

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Question 10.10

10. The standardization of film production and the establishment of the feature film in Hollywood occurred during the _______________ period.

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Question 10.11

11. In the 1920s __________ destabilized familiar or objective ways of seeing and revitalized the dynamics of human perception.

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Question 10.12

12. Movies that depicted a darker side of teenagers and the American family, like Rebel Without a Cause, appeared in Hollywood during the__________.

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Question 10.13

13. In 1969, Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino wrote which manifesto?

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Question 10.14

14. Which of the following are trends associated with contemporary Hollywood cinema?

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Question 10.15

15. What percentage of silent films do scholars estimate no longer exist due to neglect or damage?

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Question 10.16

16. In the early 1990s, an impressive group of young LGBT filmmakers produced a crop of commercially successful, aesthetically innovative films dubbed _________.

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Question 10.17

17. Who directed the first African American feature film?

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Question 10.18

18. The diverse group of films brought together under the rubric of "Third Cinema" share an agenda to ___________.

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Question 10.19

19. Sub-Saharan African cinema is unified by ____________.

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Question 10.20

20. Who was the first woman to win an Oscar for best director?

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