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CHAPTER 2
HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY: HOLLYWOOD AND BEYOND
MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS
1. The “Biograph Girl” was
3. Which of the following statements accurately describes German expressionist cinema?
5. The Motion Picture Production Code
6. Parallel Cinema was
7. An example of a postwar film movement, which spanned from 1946 to 1968, is
8. An example of a “Big Five” studio is
9. In the early 1990s, the burgeoning trend of aesthetically innovative films by young LGBT filmmakers was dubbed
10. Characteristics of Iranian cinema include
A. child protagonists.
FILL-IN-THE-BLANK QUESTIONS
1. _____________ is the study of the methods and principles through which the past becomes organized according
2. A conventional way of organizing film history, _____________ divides film history into historical segments that
3. _____________ often emphasized documentary and historical subjects, centering creating an audience response.
4. Films that have been abandoned by their owners or copyright holders, or otherwise neglected are called
5. The genre known as _____________, which featured streetwise African American protagonists, was made
SHORT-ANSWER QUESTIONS (3–4 SENTENCES)
1. What was HUAC, and what was its effect on Hollywood’s creative pool?
2. How did Hollywood movies change in 1968, when the Production Code era officially ended and the ratings
system was introduced?
3. What are orphan films? Give two examples of how the variety of forms, styles, and uses of orphan films helps us
understand how central film was to the twentieth century, and how taken for granted it was.
4. What effect might be created for the film viewer by the proliferation of LGBT images in mainstream television
and films?
5. Explain two possible benefits of film archives and film preservation.