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Postwar Cinema Beyond the West, 1945-1959
Multiple Choice
1
What effect did the U.S. occupation of Japan after World War II have on Japanese film production?
A)
independent production replaced vertical integration
B)
films with political themes were discouraged
C)
many films were banned
D)
the film industry went into a steady decline
2
What sort of films did Japanese producers typically export to the west in the 1950s?
A)
films about contemporary life
B)
"salaryman" comedies
C)
monster movies
D)
historical films
3
Which postwar Japanese director is distinctive for his use of long takes and distant framings as well as for drawing on Japanese aesthetic pictorial traditions?
A)
Kenji Mizoguchi
B)
Akira Kurosawa
C)
Yasujiro Ozu
D)
Mikio Naruse
4
Which of the following films is an example of the new humanism in Soviet cinema of the late 1950s?
A)
Ivan the Terrible
B)
The Cranes are Flying
C)
The Fall of Berlin
D)
Ashes and Diamonds
5
Which Eastern European country produced the most prominent cinema in the 1950s?
A)
Hungary
B)
Yugoslavia
C)
Czechoslovakia
D)
Poland
6
Which Eastern European director gained fame and acclaim for his trilogy of films about World War II with doomed heroes and baroque visual effects?
A)
Andrzej Munk
B)
Andrzej Wajda
C)
Zbigniew Cybulski
D)
Aleksandr Ford
7
Which of the following does not characterize Chinese cinema in the late 1940s?
A)
the film industry was nationalized under the communists
B)
Western films imported into China were gradually phased out
C)
China had a very small number of movie theaters
D)
Chinese films were successful as exports to the USSR, Eastern Europe, and India
8
What effect did the Great Leap Forward and its aftermath have on Chinese cinema?
A)
regional film production increased
B)
more films were made about Chinese minorities
C)
a renewal of the historical film
D)
all of the above
9
Which of the following is true of post-partition Indian cinema?
A)
virtually all Hindi films were "mythologicals" with stories drawn from religious epics
B)
virtually all Hindi films had several song and dance numbers
C)
the populist tradition of the 1930s had largely died out by the late 1940s
D)
all of the above
10
Which Indian actor/director was "the master showman of the Hindi film"?
A)
Satyajit Ray
B)
Guru Dutt
C)
Raj Kapoor
D)
Ritwik Ghatak
11
Which Latin American country had the most productive film industry in the postwar years?
A)
Argentina
B)
Brazil
C)
Cuba
D)
Mexico
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