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What makes Chapayev a central example of Soviet Socialist Realism? |
| | A) | its challenging formal experimentation |
| | B) | its explicit pro-Stalin political commentary |
| | C) | its slow pace and emphasis on minute details of everyday life |
| | D) | its emphasis on a positive hero who learns to subordinate his own desires for the common good |
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Which of the following was not a genre of Socialist Realism? |
| | A) | historical films |
| | B) | detective films |
| | C) | biographical films |
| | D) | musical comedies |
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What were Stakhanovite films? |
| | A) | films glorifying the heroic accomplishments of a productive worker |
| | B) | films employing Montage-style experimentation |
| | C) | films with song and dance numbers |
| | D) | films set during the Civil War |
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Which project, based on the biography of a well known historical figure, did Eisenstein make during the War? |
| | A) | Peter the Great |
| | B) | Kutuzov |
| | C) | Ivan the Terrible |
| | D) | Alexander Nevsky |
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What was the effect of the Nazis' rise to power on the film industry? |
| | A) | many Jews in the film industry left Germany |
| | B) | all films produced in Germany were personally screened by Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi minister of propaganda |
| | C) | all films produced pre-1933 with the involvement of Jews were banned |
| | D) | all of the above |
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What steps did Goebbels take to assert control over German cinema? |
| | A) | gradual nationalization of the film industry |
| | B) | freezes on imports and exports |
| | C) | creation of subsidies for film producers |
| | D) | all of the above |
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Which documentary film by Leni Riefensthal depicted Hitler's control of a powerful and unified group of followers? |
| | A) | Olympia |
| | B) | The Blue Light |
| | C) | Triumph of the Will |
| | D) | Hitlerjunge Quex |
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Which of the following best characterizes the Nazi cinema? |
| | A) | a majority of films made during the Nazi era contain overt anti-Semitic, anti-communist, or anti-American propaganda |
| | B) | Nazi cinema avoided politics and ideology, preferring to distract the population with light entertainment |
| | C) | some of the most popular genres of filmmaking, such as the musical, were avoided during the Nazi period |
| | D) | although some Nazi films attacked "enemies" of the German people or tried to raise support for the war effort, many films aimed merely to entertain and were not overtly political or ideological |
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Which of the following was not a development in the Italian film industry under the Fascists? |
| | A) | the founding of a film school, the Centro Sperimentale |
| | B) | nationalization of the film industry under Luigi Freddi |
| | C) | creation of a new film production studio in Rome, Cinecittà |
| | D) | the first Venice film festival |
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What were the "white telephone films" popular in Italy in the 1930s? |
| | A) | fascist propaganda films |
| | B) | romantic comedies with dialect humor |
| | C) | romantic melodramas set among the rich |
| | D) | documentaries about everyday life among the urban poor |
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What controversial 1940s Italian film adapted from an American novel rejected the glamorous "cinema of distraction" popular in the 1930s by shooting in impoverished locations in the countryside? |
| | A) | Ossessione |
| | B) | Four Steps in the Clouds |
| | C) | The Children are Watching Us |
| | D) | La Nave Bianca |
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