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1.      <\/span><\/span><\/span>Identify the Big Five Hollywood studios (or “Majors”) of the 1930s and summarize their strategies for weathering the effects of the Great Depression.<\/span><\/p>\n

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2.      <\/span><\/span><\/span>Pick two of the following stylistic categories: sound recording, camera movement, color, special effects, cinematography styles.  <\/span>Analyze how innovations within these categories influenced the development of the Hollywood style.  <\/span>In what ways did these innovations complement the aims of classical continuity filmmaking?<\/span><\/p>\n

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3.      <\/span><\/span><\/span>What types of film content caused problems for the major Hollywood production companies during the late 1920s and early 1930s?  <\/span>How did the Hays Office operate to protect, rather than hinder, the interests of the American film industry?  <\/span>Explain how Production Code regulations helped modify the content of Hollywood movies.<\/span><\/p>\n

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4.      <\/span><\/span><\/span>Compare and contrast the production practices of the top three animation studios of the studio era: Disney, Fleischer, and Warner Bros.  <\/span>What sorts of animation techniques did each specialize in?  <\/span>How did their individual expertise influence the style and makeup of the studios’ signature characters? <\/span><\/p>\n

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5.      <\/span><\/span><\/span>Pick two of the following genres: the war film, the gangster film, the screwball comedy, the musical.  <\/span>Describe the evolution of these genres between 1930 and 1945, and provide examples of representative films.<\/span><\/p>\n

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6.      <\/span><\/span><\/span>Describe the immediate causes and effects of both of Britain’s Quota Acts.  <\/span>In each case, how did these effects contribute to or hinder the consolidation of the British studio system?  <\/span>What kinds of films resulted from these acts?<\/span><\/p>\n

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7.      <\/span><\/span><\/span>Compare and contrast popular cinema in Japan during the early and middle 1930s to Japanese cinema during the years of World War II.<\/span><\/p>\n

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8.      <\/span><\/span><\/span>How did the Paramount decision of 1948 change the U.S. film industry?  <\/span>To what degree did the decision alter the way the industry did business?<\/span><\/p>\n

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9.      <\/span><\/span><\/span>How did changes in postwar American lifestyles affect the domestic film market?  <\/span>Amidst a climate of more selective moviegoers, what type of film was judged to be capable of attracting audiences?  <\/span>How did the Hollywood Majors exploit technological advances to produce this type of film?<\/span><\/p>\n

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10.  <\/span><\/span><\/span>Identify the major segments of the U.S. filmgoing audience targeted by producers in the 1950s.  <\/span>What kinds of films were produced for each of these segments?<\/span><\/p>\n

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11.  <\/span><\/span><\/span>What factors lay behind the “upscaling” of Hollywood film genres during the 1950s?  <\/span>Identify the significant genres of the postwar period, and explain how each was affected by enhanced production values and increased thematic complexity.<\/span><\/p>\n

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12.  <\/span><\/span><\/span>Pick two of the following directors: Max Oph\u00fcls, Jean Renoir, Jean Cocteau.  <\/span>What were the particularly important or influential qualities of these directors’ postwar French films?  <\/span>In what ways did each director use visual style to complement his characteristic thematic or narrative concerns?<\/span><\/p>\n

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13.  <\/span><\/span><\/span>Why did the United States, as represented by SCAP (Supreme Commander of the Armed Powers), take a keen interest in the postwar Japanese film industry?  <\/span>What steps did SCAP take to help rebuild the Japanese studio system?  <\/span>In what ways did SCAP both assist and hinder the efforts of the major postwar Japanese directors?<\/span><\/p>\n

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14.  <\/span><\/span><\/span>In what ways did film production in the Soviet bloc nations adhere to and<\/span> depart from the Soviet industry structure and the Socialist Realist aesthetic?  <\/span>Specifically, how did “de-Stalinization” affect film practice?<\/span><\/p>\n

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15.  <\/span><\/span><\/span>What were the essential traits of the postwar Hindi film?  <\/span>Identify its conventions using the films discussed in the text as examples.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \n

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