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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DirectionsUsing word processing software to save and submit you.docx
1. 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
2. (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.
