Quiz a lot 2. Art & Culture - Film

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In 1984, a grainy, bleached-out black-and-white Jim Jarmusch film made for $110,000 became the emblem of a new trend in U.S. filmmaking. Identify the film.

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In the context of indies and the industry, ________, established in 1967, was a premiere distributor of European films and low-budget horror and ________ was founded in 1979 by brothers Bob and Harvey Weinstein.

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________ made films that were flamboyant and jarring; rapidly cut, full of jolting camera movements, they mixed color with black-and-white footage, 35mm with super 8mm, and naturalistic shooting with outrageous special effects.

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In the United States, the market shed nearly 3,000 screens. The crash came in 2000-2001 when:

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Which of the following was NOT a significant strategy adopted by the Majors during the 1980s and 1990s for offsetting the costs of making blockbusters?

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In the context of shot design and editing, identify the style preferred by cinematographers for comedy films.

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A film series with sequels and prequels featuring the same characters and story world is known as ________.

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Many Hollywood movies from the 1980s onward present a drama of improvement, in which:

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In the context of the blockbuster mentality, which of the following statements is true of the prime audience of Hollywood at home and abroad?

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In the context of the blockbuster mentality, identify a true statement about prestige pictures.

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Because parents and critics complained about the amount and intensity of violence contained in them, which two films were instrumental in splitting the PG rating into two separate labels, PG and PG-13?

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When experiencing a director's interpretive point of view,

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By 2000, home video was yielding an annual $20 billion worldwide, or:

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Comic-Con, which was held every July in San Diego, began as a convention for comic book collectors, and fans perused displays of the latest video games and franchise products and watched previews of films and TV shows.

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"Synergy" is defined as:

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In what ways have a) home video and b) the Internet changed movie fandom? Trace the evolution of fan communities and their relation to the cinema since the 1980s. How have fans in the last thirty years participated in shaping the discourse about-and even influenced the production of-Hollywood cinema?

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What tactics were employed by the Hollywood Majors during the 1990s and 2000s to capture a major share of international film box office? Use Universal/Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park and the Disney company as case studies. In what ways did the American film industry directly buy into foreign film markets, and how successful have these attempts been?

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One of the prominent Mini-Majors founded in 1980 by the management team who left United Artists was:

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The box-office failure of Jurassic Park in India convinced Hollywood that there was no Indian audience for Hindi-dubbed Hollywood films.

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At the start of the 1980s, all the Majors EXCEPT ________ had become wings of diversified conglomerates.

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In Germany, Kutlig Ataman's Lola and Billy the Kid (1999) portrays a young German Turk who learns that the brother whom he believed dead is actually a transvestite performing in gay nightclubs. This film best describes:

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________, a film of the 1990s, won the Grand Prize at Cannes, and its look was inspired by the loose camerawork in the television series Homicide: Life on the Streets.

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By 2008, counting all the local and regional events, the world contained at least 4,000 film festivals. This explosive growth turned the festival scene into a global distribution system, one rivaling Hollywood's in quantity and reach.

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What qualities have enabled the film festival circuit to become perhaps the leading alternative global film distribution system? In what ways do festivals benefit both host communities and countries and noncommercial filmmaking? How do they benefit Hollywood studios?

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In diasporic films, often the second-generation character gains access to his or her roots through direct memory rather than through popular culture.

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