Deck 6: Movies Big and Small: Art Movies, Blockbusters, and the New Hollywood, 1967-1980

Question 1

How did television influence the movie business in the late 1960s and 1970s?

A) Television became an increasingly important venue for seeing movies.
B) The popularity of color television led to color becoming the standard for movies as well.
C) Television networks began producing their own "movies."
D) All of the above.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Her appearance in this politically informed Vietnam war movie earned Jane Fonda her second Academy Award.

A) Coming Home
B) Klute
C) They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
D) M

Answer 2

A

Question 3

This Steven Spielberg science fiction blockbuster can also be seen as a personal movie about a single mother struggling to raise three children on her own.

A) Close Encounters of the Third Kind
B) A.I. Artificial Intelligence
C) Jurassic Park
D) E.T.: The Extraterrestrial

Answer 3

D

Question 4

What characteristic of 1970s movies do both Star Wars and Taxi Driver represent?

A) An emphasis on confronting the gritty reality of contemporary American life.
B) Hit franchise movies that led to a series of profitable sequels.
C) Movies that challenged the distinction between "A" and "B" films.
D) Movies made by first-time filmmakers.

Question 5

Which of the following aspects of Nashville is part of the signature style of its director, Robert Altman?

A) Its focus on the world of country music.
B) Its fast-paced, exciting action sequences.
C) Its popularity with multiplex audiences.
D) Its intermixing of multiple story lines and multiple characters.

Question 6

The Godfather established the career of what influential American director?

A) Martin Scorsese
B) Francis Ford Coppola
C) Steven Spielberg
D) Robert Altman

Question 7

What statement best describes changes in America movie audiences in the 1960s?

A) Going to the movies became an increasingly popular form of family entertainment.
B) Fewer young people were interested in the movies.
C) Young people became an increasingly important part of the movie going public.
D) Attendance at the movies grew among just about all age groups.

Question 8

In what way can Star Wars be considered a franchise movie?

A) It was made in the always-popular genre of science fiction movies.
B) It featured mainly established, big name movie stars.
C) It spawned a wide and lucrative variety of Star Wars-related merchandise.
D) It was widely expected to be a major hit before it opened.

Question 9

What is one way that America movies of the late 1960s and 1970s seem more contemporary to us than movies from the early 1960s?

A) The increasing popularity of movies based on comic book action heroes.
B) The popularity of elaborate musicals.
C) The reluctance to tackle controversial or disturbing subjects.
D) The increasingly graphic representations of sexuality and violence.

Question 10

This actor was an unlikely action hero in two of the biggest blockbusters of the 1970s, Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

A) Dustin Hoffman
B) Al Pacino
C) Paul Newman
D) Richard Dreyfuss

Question 11

These two stars were considered ideals of conventional masculine beauty in the late 60s and 1970s.

A) Paul Newman and Richard Dreyfuss
B) Paul Newman and Robert Redford
C) Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman
D) Dustin Hoffman and Al Pacino

Question 12

What is one reason that Blaxploitation films were considered controversial?

A) Because they attracted few white audience members.
B) Because they potentially reinforced stereotypes about black urban life.
C) Because they were largely made by white filmmakers.
D) Because they offered a sanitized view of American race relations.

Question 13

What is one major impact of replacing the Production Code with the rating system?

A) Movies could now feature more explicit language and more graphic representations of sexuality.
B) Movies were no longer subject to any kind of review or evaluation by the MPAA.
C) Studios were reluctant to release R-rated movies.
D) There was no major impact; few moviegoers noticed the difference.

Question 14

The surprising success of this low budget road movie featuring a rock and roll soundtrack demonstrated the growing importance of the youth market to the movie industry in the late 60s and 1970s.

A) The Graduate
B) Bonnie and Clyde
C) Nashville
D) Easy Rider

Question 15

Airport is an early example of what popular 1970s movie cycle?

A) Road movies
B) Tentpole pictures
C) Vigilante movies
D) Disaster movies

Question 16

Which of the following could not be considered an example of a "vigilante" movie?

A) The Poseidon Adventure
B) Taxi Driver
C) Dirty Harry
D) Walking Tall

Question 17

Even though it was one of the most popular and critically acclaimed films of 1979, long delays and cost overruns during the making of this Vietnam war movie contributed to the backlash against auteur directors by Hollywood studios.

A) Heaven's Gate
B) Apocalypse Now
C) Coming Home
D) Full Metal Jacket

Question 18

In this his first movie, the filmmaker Mel Brooks established a tradition of outrageous comedy by featuring dancing Nazi storm troopers to satirize anti-Semitism.

A) Blazing Saddles
B) High Anxiety
C) The Producers
D) The Graduate

Question 19

What is one way that Annie Hall deviated from the traditional romantic comedy?

A) By featuring a relationship between an older man and a younger woman.
B) By its use of extended musical numbers.
C) By telling the story of a romance that doesn't work out.
D) By relying primarily on verbal humor.

Question 20

Which of the following is not considered a "Blaxploitation" movie?

A) Shaft
B) Cotton Comes to Harlem
C) Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
D) Superfly

Question 21

Which of the following describes a significant development in the business organization of the movies during the late 1960s and 1970s?

A) The acquisition of movie studios by multinational conglomerates.
B) The increasing number of movie studios coming into existence.
C) Soaring profits for the movie industry.
D) A return to the studio system of movie production.