Deck 9: European Cinema in the 1940s

Question 1

The Third Man is considered Carol Reed's finest achievement in part because of which of the following traits?

A)rhythm and pacing
B)use of black and white
C)dialogue
D)mood,ambiance,setting

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The favorite American movies of Josef Stalin were gangster movies.___

Answer 2

False

Question 3

The few French directors who remained in France during the war concentrated on making period and fantasy films.___

Answer 3

True

Question 4

What film is considered the precursor of neorealism in Italy after World War II?

A)Ossessione
B)La Terra Trema
C)A Day in the Country
D)The Stranger

Question 5

British actors of the 1940s were trained in all the following except

A)direction
B)diction
C)dancing
D)dialects

Question 6

Which of the following American actors starred in Luchino Visconti's The Leopard?

A)Kirk Douglas
B)Burt Lancaster
C)Robert Mitchum
D)Raymond Burr

Question 7

The children referred to in Marcel Carné 's Children of Paradise are

A)naively hopeful characters
B)low-class theater patrons
C)neither of the above
D)both of the above

Question 8

What caused neorealism to wane in Italy in the 1940s?

A)the Andreoti Law
B)the introduction of color film
C)the economic "miracle" of the country
D)none of the above

Question 9

Vittorio De Sica teamed with Cesare Zavattini to create which of the following films:

A)The Bicycle Thief
B)Umberto D
C)Miracle in Milan
D)all of the above

Question 10

Germany's postwar "rubble" films were not characterized by which of the following?

A)didactic
B)corrected lies
C)period pieces
D)political

Question 11

Which of the following is true about movie production in Europe in the 1940s?

A)European filmmakers made only documentaries.
B)Fiction movies declined sharply in the war years.
C)Warring countries were careful to allow film production to escape destruction.
D)none of the above

Question 12

Nazi propaganda films were efforts to depict conditions in Germany truthfully.___

Question 13

Which of the following is true about Italian neorealism?

A)focused on ordinary people,played by non-professional actors
B)stories were loose and episodic and filmed on actual locations,often outdoors
C)both a and b
D)neither a nor b
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Question 14

David Lean worked with Noel Coward on all of the following movies except

A)The Happy Breed
B)The Red Shoes
C)Blithe Spirit
D)Brief Encounters

Question 15

David Lean's filmmaking style includes which one of the following?

A)no class consciousness
B)a single dominant acting star
C)well written scripts
D)low-quality production

Question 16

Who led Great Britain's documentary-film effort to bolster that nation's morale during World War II?

A)Carol Reed
B)Laurence Olivier
C)John Grierson
D)Michael Powell

Question 17

What idea did Denmark's Carl Dreyer like to explore in his films

A)how a person's soul can rise above the constraints of the physical world
B)how foreign occupation creates tyranny in a country
C)how a controlled national economy affects the working class adversely
D)all of the above

Question 18

Laurence Olivier used all of the following movie making techniques while directing Hamlet except

A)voice-over interior monologues
B)crane and dolly shots
C)deep-focus photography
D)short takes

Question 19

French postwar movie making suffered from

A)lack of capital.
B)outmoded equipment.
C)limited studio space.
D)all of the above.

Question 20

What types of films were brought to production immediately in postwar Russia?

A)boy-loves- tractor
B)historic heroes of the people
C)science fiction
D)crime thrillers
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Question 21

Matching
a.won 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture
b.a typical Nazi cinematic lie
c.finest French film of the occupation
d.superb political thriller with James Mason
e.coined the term "neorealism"
f.Michael Powell film,very popular in America
g.film industry emerged intact
h.The Open City
i.best of "heroes of Mother Russia" films
j.won Best Actress award for The Rose Tattoo
Children of Paradise ___

Question 22

By what means did British filmmakers finally and successfully crash the American film market during the war?

Question 23

The vast majority of Soviet film technicians and artists managed to escape and survive the horrors visited upon their country in World War II.___

Question 24

Visconti's Ossessione,loosely based on The Postman Always Rings Twice,is said to

Question 25

Carol Reed's The Third Man uses many dramatic high-contrast and low-key lighting effects as well as baroque compositions and bizarre tilt shots.___

Question 26

What theme do Carol Reed movies of the 1940s - like Odd Man Out and The
Third Man - often explore?

Question 27

Matching
a.won 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture
b.a typical Nazi cinematic lie
c.finest French film of the occupation
d.superb political thriller with James Mason
e.coined the term "neorealism"
f.Michael Powell film,very popular in America
g.film industry emerged intact
h.The Open City
i.best of "heroes of Mother Russia" films
j.won Best Actress award for The Rose Tattoo
America ___

Question 28

Matching
a.won 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture
b.a typical Nazi cinematic lie
c.finest French film of the occupation
d.superb political thriller with James Mason
e.coined the term "neorealism"
f.Michael Powell film,very popular in America
g.film industry emerged intact
h.The Open City
i.best of "heroes of Mother Russia" films
j.won Best Actress award for The Rose Tattoo
Alexander Nevsky ___

Question 29

Matching
a.won 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture
b.a typical Nazi cinematic lie
c.finest French film of the occupation
d.superb political thriller with James Mason
e.coined the term "neorealism"
f.Michael Powell film,very popular in America
g.film industry emerged intact
h.The Open City
i.best of "heroes of Mother Russia" films
j.won Best Actress award for The Rose Tattoo
Roberto Rossellini ___

Question 30

Matching
a.won 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture
b.a typical Nazi cinematic lie
c.finest French film of the occupation
d.superb political thriller with James Mason
e.coined the term "neorealism"
f.Michael Powell film,very popular in America
g.film industry emerged intact
h.The Open City
i.best of "heroes of Mother Russia" films
j.won Best Actress award for The Rose Tattoo
Umberto Barbero ___

Question 31

What happened to Germany's film industry before,during,and after (until the 1960s)World War II?

Question 32

Matching
a.won 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture
b.a typical Nazi cinematic lie
c.finest French film of the occupation
d.superb political thriller with James Mason
e.coined the term "neorealism"
f.Michael Powell film,very popular in America
g.film industry emerged intact
h.The Open City
i.best of "heroes of Mother Russia" films
j.won Best Actress award for The Rose Tattoo
Anna Magnani ___

Question 33

David Lean's film version of Dickens' Great Expectations preserves the major materials of the novel,but does so in cinematic terms.___

Question 34

Matching
a.won 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture
b.a typical Nazi cinematic lie
c.finest French film of the occupation
d.superb political thriller with James Mason
e.coined the term "neorealism"
f.Michael Powell film,very popular in America
g.film industry emerged intact
h.The Open City
i.best of "heroes of Mother Russia" films
j.won Best Actress award for The Rose Tattoo
The Eternal Jew ___

Question 35

Matching
a.won 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture
b.a typical Nazi cinematic lie
c.finest French film of the occupation
d.superb political thriller with James Mason
e.coined the term "neorealism"
f.Michael Powell film,very popular in America
g.film industry emerged intact
h.The Open City
i.best of "heroes of Mother Russia" films
j.won Best Actress award for The Rose Tattoo
The Red Shoes ___

Question 36

Like other countries,Great Britain's movie industry produced one war movie after another during the war.___

Question 37

Matching
a.won 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture
b.a typical Nazi cinematic lie
c.finest French film of the occupation
d.superb political thriller with James Mason
e.coined the term "neorealism"
f.Michael Powell film,very popular in America
g.film industry emerged intact
h.The Open City
i.best of "heroes of Mother Russia" films
j.won Best Actress award for The Rose Tattoo
Hamlet ___

Question 38

Olivier's film version of Hamlet was a technically amateurish production since Olivier's passion was live theater.___
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Question 39

Vittorio De Sica's idol was Charlie Chaplin,traces of which can be seen in De Sica's The Bicycle Thief.___

Question 40

Matching
a.won 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture
b.a typical Nazi cinematic lie
c.finest French film of the occupation
d.superb political thriller with James Mason
e.coined the term "neorealism"
f.Michael Powell film,very popular in America
g.film industry emerged intact
h.The Open City
i.best of "heroes of Mother Russia" films
j.won Best Actress award for The Rose Tattoo
Odd Man Out ___

Question 41

What happened to the movies in oppressive political regimes like in Germany and/or the Soviet Union/Russia?

Question 42

What was the condition of the French movie making culture in the years following World War II?

Question 43

Why did neorealism emerge in Italy after World War II?

Question 44

What common political philosophy did the Italian neorealists like RobertoRossellini and Michelangelo Antonioni share in the 1940s after World War II?

Question 45

Why would Sir Laurence Olivier be considered a "major national [resource]" of Great Britain during the 1940s?