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The videogame industry crashed in 1977, what revitalized the videogame market in 1985?

Which of the following is not considered a convention of action films?

The uninterrupted nature of television within, between, and across programs is called:

The 1880s through the early 1900s saw the rise of _______________ as places of entertainment

Time magazine labeled ___________ ___________ “the most resounding industrial flop of 1956.”

The first network to have color broadcasts was _____________________.

Which of the following events occurred the same year that videogames were invented?

How many times has The Twilight Zone been produced as a series for television?

The honor of inventing the radio goes to _______________________.

A particularly notable self-published book was the ______________________.

Edwin Armstrong created ________________ which helped with radio quality.

Which type of media has been dubbed by one scholar to be: “An art form for the digital age”?

A burst of physical action, injected to keep things from turning into a string of conversations

Will Eisner coined the term to describe a book made up of comics content

The practice of watching numerous episodes (and sometimes complete seasons) is known as

The financial foundation of radio is _______________________________.

This was the first American President to appear on TV.

The existence of electromagnetic waves was first demonstrated by

This is one of the factors that changed the comic book landscape in the 70s and 80s?

This media mogul was the first to use television as a method for delivering new content.

Television owes its origins to the telephone and the ____________.

The first truly state-of-the-art videogame console systems in the US were Microsoft’s Xbox and:

Network promos, recap segments, teasers and spoilers are all good examples of ________________.

_________________________ first appeared nationally in 1975.

Why do we study video games?

In action films, plot advances through _______________________.

What does screenwriter William Martell claim is the most important element of the action film?

The space between installments that differentiates serial fiction from other art form is:

What Peanuts character stayed with Linus in the pumpkin patch to meet The Great Pumpkin?

Why do action filmmakers even bother with classical construction in their films?

This, and coverage of the 1932 presidential election brought radio into the forefront of news.

Electronic television was developed by ________________________________ in 1927.

According to Esquire Magazine, the scariest American movie of all time is . . .

It was feared that comic books caused _______________ led to threatened regulation by Congress

The three characteristics of post-network technologies are: