The New Hollywood Era saw many changes in film. Which of the following is NOT an example of one of those changes?

These are all examples of changes during the New Hollywood Era

A French film theorist; founded a film journal called Cahiers du Cinema

Which is NOT true about La Cinematheque?

Founded by French film director Jean-Luc Godard

Why were younger generations drawn to new rising actors?

They played grittier, more down-to-earth, and flawed characters

Which of the following is NOT true about Bonnie and Clyde (1967)?

Shares some similarities with Italian neorealist films

Which is NOT true about Federico Fellini?

He was interested in exploring the human mind through realism in his work

Which is NOT true about director Nicholas Ray?

A very influential director of the French Poetic Realism movement

What was Jean-Luc Godard's first film?

Breathless - a crime drama about a man on the run after killing a policeman

Which is NOT an aspect of French New Wave?

Influenced by German Expressionism

The first films in Japan were of crowds in the streets of Tokyo in the late 1890s. Who made them?

Lumiere Brothers cinematographers

Who was Michael Balcon?

Mogul of Ealing Studios, the most successful British film studio

Which of the following is NOT true about Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966)?

It was the first New Hollywood movie featuring full nudity

Who was Akira Kurosawa?

A Japanese director known for making samurai films

How did Singin' in the Rain (1952) examine the changes Hollywood was going through in the 1950s?

It used the transition to sound as a metaphor

Who was Billy Wilder?

Director of Sunset Boulevard (1950)

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Questions 44

Answers

1
The New Hollywood Era saw many changes in film. Which of the following is NOT an example of one of those changes?
These are all examples of changes during the New Hollywood Era
The decline of the studio system
The Hays Production Code was replaced by the MPAA rating system
Cameras were less bulky and easier to acquire
2
Who was Andre Bazin?
A French film preservationist and collector; founded La Cinematheque
A French film theorist; founded a film journal called Cahiers du Cinema
A French filmmaker and director of Breathless (1960)
A French filmmaker and director of The 400 Blows (1959)
3
Which company created widescreen projections in 1952?
Cinerama
Vistavision
Cinemascope
Technicolor
4
What popular aspect of film did critics at Cahiers du Cinema reject?
The studio system
The importance of screenwriting
Using editing as a storytelling device
All of the above
5
Which of the following is NOT true about Ishiro Honda?
He was an anti-war activist
He grew up in a temple and his father and grandfather were Buddhist monks
He directed Godzilla (1954)
He directed many samurai films
6
Which is NOT true about La Cinematheque?
Andre Bazin hired Cinematheque filmmakers to write for Cahiers du Cinema
Hid films and held secret meetings during Nazi occupation of France
Many French New Wave filmmakers were exposed to film from the Cinematheque
Founded by French film director Jean-Luc Godard
7
Why were younger generations drawn to new rising actors?
They were better trained than the previous generation of actors
They played grittier, more down-to-earth, and flawed characters
They were already familiar with them from seeing them on TV
They were more attractive than older actors
8
Which company invented a film camera that shot in color?
Eastman Color
Vistavision
Technicolor
Warner Color
9
What is the meta connection between Sunset Boulevard and the real-world film industry?
Gloria Swanson, who played Norma Desmond, was a real-life silent actress
Silent film director Cecil B. DeMille plays himself in the film
All of the above
Erich von Stroheim was a silent film director in the movie and real life
10
What do Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Bonnie and Clyde have in common?
New Hollywood films aimed at younger audiences
Commentaries on how you can’t beat the system
Deconstructions of genres from old Hollywood
All of the above
11
Given that 1940 to 1958 is the Golden Age of film noir, movies with noir elements made after 1958 are considered ___.
Crypto-noirs
Klepto-noirs
Psuedo-noirs
Neo-noirs
12
Plato from Rebel Without a Cause (1955) has the distinction of being considered cinema's first ___.
First teenage murderer
First gay teenager
First teenage death on screen
First teenager with mental illness
13
Which of the following is NOT true about Bonnie and Clyde (1967)?
Shares some similarities with Italian neorealist films
It is considered one of the most influential New Hollywood films
The idea was turned down by Truffaut and Godard
It is a neo-noir film
14
Swedish director Ingmar Bergman was abused and grew up surrounded by ___, which had a great impact on his storytelling.
Mental illness
Religious iconography
Communist propaganda
Fascist propaganda
15
Which of the following is NOT true about Alfred Hitchcock?
Learned from German expressionists (such as F.W. Murnau)
A self-described coward and full of Catholic guilt
Started out as a screenwriter and had a strong belief in writing
Had a very happy childhood
16
Which is NOT true about Federico Fellini?
He had the mindset that he could go back and change dialogue later
He worked as a comedy writer for a magazine early in his career
He was forced to join a fascist youth group
He was interested in exploring the human mind through realism in his work
17
What is the unseen antagonist in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) called?
Femme fatale
Anti-hero
Hardboiled
Super-posse
18
The oldest complete film we have from a Japanese filmmaker is Momijigari. What was it?
A kaiju monster film
A kabuki play
A communist propaganda film
A "slice of life" film
19
Who directed The 400 Blows (1959)?
Henri Langlois
Francois Truffaut
Jean-Luc Godard
Andre Bazin
20
What was the first feature-length animated Japanese film?
Sugata Sanshiro
Momijigari
Momotarō: Sacred Sailors
Ikiru
21
Which is NOT true about director Nicholas Ray?
He worked in the Office of War Information making radio propaganda
A very influential director of the French Poetic Realism movement
He started a chapter of the Communist party in college
He directed Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
22
Which filmmaking/storytelling technique that Hitchcock used allowed for a lot of conflict to happen between characters?
Subverting the audience's expectations
The Unity of Opposites
Soviet Montage and the Kuleshov Effect
Suspense
23
Which Kurosawa film is propaganda about a factory worker who continues to work despite injury during World War II?
Stray Dog
Rashomon
Sugata Sanshiro
The Most Beautiful
24
What was Jean-Luc Godard's first film?
The 400 Blows - a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age about a young boy
The Seventh Seal - a film about a knight returning home from the Crusades
Breathless - a crime drama about a man on the run after killing a policeman
8 1/2 - a drama about a filmmaker struggling with creative block
25
Which is NOT an aspect of French New Wave?
Cheaply produced
Focus on mise en scene
Influenced by German Expressionism
Handheld camera with natural lighting and jump cuts
26
Godzilla in the original 1954 film was a personification of ___.
anti-democracy
nuclear fallout
racism
poverty
27
How did the US censor Japanese media during the occupation post-WWII?
Japanese media couldn't mention the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Japanese media couldn't promote imperial propaganda
Couldn’t criticize Allied command including McArthur and his administration
All of the above
28
Who was the most successful director to come out of the silent era?
Alfred Hitchcock
Nicholas Ray
Sidney Lumet
John Ford
29
Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal (1957) used fantasy to explore which themes?
All of the above
Nihilism and existentialism
The silence of God and horrors of death
Aimlessness
30
The first films in Japan were of crowds in the streets of Tokyo in the late 1890s. Who made them?
Lumiere Brothers cinematographers
George Melies
Thomas Edison's cinematographers
Ishiro Honda
31
What is NOT an example of an aspect of the Japanese "pure film" movement?
The development of screenwriting
Anti-communist films
Jidaigeki (period films) and Gendai-geki (modern storytelling)
Experimental films
32
Which is NOT true about Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960)?
These are all true
Credited as a factor in the change of American culture during the 50s/60s
It broke the Hays Code’s rules and pretty much destroyed it as a whole
Called the first modern horror movie
33
How did the film industry draw people back to the theater during the '50s?
Color and 3D films
Types of films produced changed (epics, musicals, science fiction, etc)
All of the above
The younger generation was more drawn to new rising actors
34
What was the name of the court case that declared that films are art and protected by freedom of speech?
The National League of Decency
United States vs. Paramount
The Miracle Decision
United States vs. Hays
35
Who was Michael Balcon?
A French film preservationist and collector who founded La Cinematheque
Mogul of Ealing Studios, the most successful British film studio
An auteur director known as the "Master of Suspense"
A French film critic and theorist
36
Which of the following is NOT true about Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966)?
It was adapted from a play
It was the first New Hollywood movie featuring full nudity
It was the first film to receive a mature rating
It was written by Ernest Lehman
37
The Godzilla franchise is the longest-running and oldest film franchise in history.
False
True
38
What are the Japanese films that are set during the nation's past and set during the modern era, respectively?
Mosura and Ghidorah
Jidaigeki and Gendai-geki
Shochiku and Toho
Benshi and Kaiju
39
Which of the following is NOT true about Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu?
He directed Tokyo Story (1953)
He was an anti-war activist
He was the head of the jidaigeki department at the Shochiku Film Company
He was president of the Directors Guild of Japan
40
Who was Akira Kurosawa?
A Japanese director known for making samurai films
A famous benshi
A Japanese filmmaker known for directing Godzilla
A prominent Japanese director and president of the Directors Guild of Japan
41
How did Singin' in the Rain (1952) examine the changes Hollywood was going through in the 1950s?
Through whimsical song and dance
It used the transition to sound as a metaphor
The characters were unlikeable
By only casting no-name actors
42
Early Japanese cinema featured the use of a narrator for silent films called a ___.
Benshi
Showa
Kaiju
Heisei
43
Why were movie ticket sales plummeting in the 1950s?
B and C
The popularity of television was on the rise
Film quality decreased
Films weren’t catered toward the new generation
44
Who was Billy Wilder?
Director of The Killing (1956)
Director of The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Director of Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Director of Sunset Boulevard (1950)

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Questions 44

Answers

1
The New Hollywood Era saw many changes in film. Which of the following is NOT an example of one of those changes?
These are all examples of changes during the New Hollywood Era
The decline of the studio system
The Hays Production Code was replaced by the MPAA rating system
Cameras were less bulky and easier to acquire
2
Who was Andre Bazin?
A French film preservationist and collector; founded La Cinematheque
A French film theorist; founded a film journal called Cahiers du Cinema
A French filmmaker and director of Breathless (1960)
A French filmmaker and director of The 400 Blows (1959)
3
Which company created widescreen projections in 1952?
Cinerama
Vistavision
Cinemascope
Technicolor
4
What popular aspect of film did critics at Cahiers du Cinema reject?
The studio system
The importance of screenwriting
Using editing as a storytelling device
All of the above
5
Which of the following is NOT true about Ishiro Honda?
He was an anti-war activist
He grew up in a temple and his father and grandfather were Buddhist monks
He directed Godzilla (1954)
He directed many samurai films
6
Which is NOT true about La Cinematheque?
Andre Bazin hired Cinematheque filmmakers to write for Cahiers du Cinema
Hid films and held secret meetings during Nazi occupation of France
Many French New Wave filmmakers were exposed to film from the Cinematheque
Founded by French film director Jean-Luc Godard
7
Why were younger generations drawn to new rising actors?
They were better trained than the previous generation of actors
They played grittier, more down-to-earth, and flawed characters
They were already familiar with them from seeing them on TV
They were more attractive than older actors
8
Which company invented a film camera that shot in color?
Eastman Color
Vistavision
Technicolor
Warner Color
9
What is the meta connection between Sunset Boulevard and the real-world film industry?
Gloria Swanson, who played Norma Desmond, was a real-life silent actress
Silent film director Cecil B. DeMille plays himself in the film
All of the above
Erich von Stroheim was a silent film director in the movie and real life
10
What do Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Bonnie and Clyde have in common?
New Hollywood films aimed at younger audiences
Commentaries on how you can’t beat the system
Deconstructions of genres from old Hollywood
All of the above
11
Given that 1940 to 1958 is the Golden Age of film noir, movies with noir elements made after 1958 are considered ___.
Crypto-noirs
Klepto-noirs
Psuedo-noirs
Neo-noirs
12
Plato from Rebel Without a Cause (1955) has the distinction of being considered cinema's first ___.
First teenage murderer
First gay teenager
First teenage death on screen
First teenager with mental illness
13
Which of the following is NOT true about Bonnie and Clyde (1967)?
Shares some similarities with Italian neorealist films
It is considered one of the most influential New Hollywood films
The idea was turned down by Truffaut and Godard
It is a neo-noir film
14
Swedish director Ingmar Bergman was abused and grew up surrounded by ___, which had a great impact on his storytelling.
Mental illness
Religious iconography
Communist propaganda
Fascist propaganda
15
Which of the following is NOT true about Alfred Hitchcock?
Learned from German expressionists (such as F.W. Murnau)
A self-described coward and full of Catholic guilt
Started out as a screenwriter and had a strong belief in writing
Had a very happy childhood
16
Which is NOT true about Federico Fellini?
He had the mindset that he could go back and change dialogue later
He worked as a comedy writer for a magazine early in his career
He was forced to join a fascist youth group
He was interested in exploring the human mind through realism in his work
17
What is the unseen antagonist in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) called?
Femme fatale
Anti-hero
Hardboiled
Super-posse
18
The oldest complete film we have from a Japanese filmmaker is Momijigari. What was it?
A kaiju monster film
A kabuki play
A communist propaganda film
A "slice of life" film
19
Who directed The 400 Blows (1959)?
Henri Langlois
Francois Truffaut
Jean-Luc Godard
Andre Bazin
20
What was the first feature-length animated Japanese film?
Sugata Sanshiro
Momijigari
Momotarō: Sacred Sailors
Ikiru
21
Which is NOT true about director Nicholas Ray?
He worked in the Office of War Information making radio propaganda
A very influential director of the French Poetic Realism movement
He started a chapter of the Communist party in college
He directed Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
22
Which filmmaking/storytelling technique that Hitchcock used allowed for a lot of conflict to happen between characters?
Subverting the audience's expectations
The Unity of Opposites
Soviet Montage and the Kuleshov Effect
Suspense
23
Which Kurosawa film is propaganda about a factory worker who continues to work despite injury during World War II?
Stray Dog
Rashomon
Sugata Sanshiro
The Most Beautiful
24
What was Jean-Luc Godard's first film?
The 400 Blows - a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age about a young boy
The Seventh Seal - a film about a knight returning home from the Crusades
Breathless - a crime drama about a man on the run after killing a policeman
8 1/2 - a drama about a filmmaker struggling with creative block
25
Which is NOT an aspect of French New Wave?
Cheaply produced
Focus on mise en scene
Influenced by German Expressionism
Handheld camera with natural lighting and jump cuts
26
Godzilla in the original 1954 film was a personification of ___.
anti-democracy
nuclear fallout
racism
poverty
27
How did the US censor Japanese media during the occupation post-WWII?
Japanese media couldn't mention the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Japanese media couldn't promote imperial propaganda
Couldn’t criticize Allied command including McArthur and his administration
All of the above
28
Who was the most successful director to come out of the silent era?
Alfred Hitchcock
Nicholas Ray
Sidney Lumet
John Ford
29
Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal (1957) used fantasy to explore which themes?
All of the above
Nihilism and existentialism
The silence of God and horrors of death
Aimlessness
30
The first films in Japan were of crowds in the streets of Tokyo in the late 1890s. Who made them?
Lumiere Brothers cinematographers
George Melies
Thomas Edison's cinematographers
Ishiro Honda
31
What is NOT an example of an aspect of the Japanese "pure film" movement?
The development of screenwriting
Anti-communist films
Jidaigeki (period films) and Gendai-geki (modern storytelling)
Experimental films
32
Which is NOT true about Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960)?
These are all true
Credited as a factor in the change of American culture during the 50s/60s
It broke the Hays Code’s rules and pretty much destroyed it as a whole
Called the first modern horror movie
33
How did the film industry draw people back to the theater during the '50s?
Color and 3D films
Types of films produced changed (epics, musicals, science fiction, etc)
All of the above
The younger generation was more drawn to new rising actors
34
What was the name of the court case that declared that films are art and protected by freedom of speech?
The National League of Decency
United States vs. Paramount
The Miracle Decision
United States vs. Hays
35
Who was Michael Balcon?
A French film preservationist and collector who founded La Cinematheque
Mogul of Ealing Studios, the most successful British film studio
An auteur director known as the "Master of Suspense"
A French film critic and theorist
36
Which of the following is NOT true about Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966)?
It was adapted from a play
It was the first New Hollywood movie featuring full nudity
It was the first film to receive a mature rating
It was written by Ernest Lehman
37
The Godzilla franchise is the longest-running and oldest film franchise in history.
False
True
38
What are the Japanese films that are set during the nation's past and set during the modern era, respectively?
Mosura and Ghidorah
Jidaigeki and Gendai-geki
Shochiku and Toho
Benshi and Kaiju
39
Which of the following is NOT true about Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu?
He directed Tokyo Story (1953)
He was an anti-war activist
He was the head of the jidaigeki department at the Shochiku Film Company
He was president of the Directors Guild of Japan
40
Who was Akira Kurosawa?
A Japanese director known for making samurai films
A famous benshi
A Japanese filmmaker known for directing Godzilla
A prominent Japanese director and president of the Directors Guild of Japan
41
How did Singin' in the Rain (1952) examine the changes Hollywood was going through in the 1950s?
Through whimsical song and dance
It used the transition to sound as a metaphor
The characters were unlikeable
By only casting no-name actors
42
Early Japanese cinema featured the use of a narrator for silent films called a ___.
Benshi
Showa
Kaiju
Heisei
43
Why were movie ticket sales plummeting in the 1950s?
B and C
The popularity of television was on the rise
Film quality decreased
Films weren’t catered toward the new generation
44
Who was Billy Wilder?
Director of The Killing (1956)
Director of The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Director of Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Director of Sunset Boulevard (1950)