Film 5
Directions:
Using word processing software to save and submit your work, please
answer the following short answer questions. All responses to questions
should be one to two paragraphs, composed of five to seven sentences,
in length. Your responses should include examples from the reading
assignments.
1.How
did the Paramount decision of 1948 change the U.S. film industry? To
what degree did the decision alter the way the industry did business?
2.How
did changes in postwar American lifestyles affect the domestic film
market? Amidst a climate of more selective moviegoers, what type of
film was judged to be capable of attracting audiences? How did the
Hollywood Majors exploit technological advances to produce this type of
film?
3.Identify
the major segments of the U.S. filmgoing audience targeted by producers
in the 1950s. What kinds of films were produced for each of these
segments?
4.What
factors lay behind the "upscaling" of Hollywood film genres during the
1950s? Identify the significant genres of the postwar period, and
explain how each was affected by enhanced production values and
increased thematic complexity.
5.Pick
two of the following directors: Max Ophüls, Jean Renoir, Jean Cocteau.
What were the particularly important or influential qualities of these
directors' postwar French films? In what ways did each director use
visual style to complement his characteristic thematic or narrative
concerns?
6.Why
did the United States, as represented by SCAP (Supreme Commander of the
Armed Powers), take a keen interest in the postwar Japanese film
industry? What steps did SCAP take to help rebuild the Japanese studio
system? In what ways did SCAP both assist and hinder the efforts of the
major postwar Japanese directors?
7.In what ways did film production in the Soviet bloc nations adhere to and
depart from the Soviet industry structure and the Socialist Realist
aesthetic? Specifically, how did "de-Stalinization" affect film
practice?
8.What
were the essential traits of the postwar Hindi film? Identify its
conventions using the films discussed in the text as examples.
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