Deck 12: American Cinema in the 1960s

Question 1

The top male box office star of the 60s was

A)John Wayne
B)Burt Lancaster
C)Dustin Hoffman
D)Paul Newman

Answer 1

A

Question 2

The genre of movie that knew the most success in the early 1960s was which of the following?

A)political thriller
B)screwball comedy
C)western
D)spectacle

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Where did many of the newer directors of the 1960s come from?

A)New York
B)London
C)Paris
D)none of the above

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Stanley Kubrick made all of the following statements except

A)"The commie conspiracy has contaminated my precious bodily fluids…"
B)"I'm interested in the brutal and violent nature of man…"
C)"What I'm after is a majestic visual experience…"
D)all of the above

Question 5

The early 1960s,in American cinema,were a time when English movies,financed with American money,were very popular.___

Question 6

What is true about movies by 1969?

A)Movie attendance rose rather than declined.
B)Movies returned to classical genre movies.
C)Movies restored the Production Code to protect audiences.
D)none of the above

Question 7

Sam Peckinpah was a

A)champion of individualism
B)romantic conservative
C)neither a nor b
D)both a and b
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Question 8

Which of the following is true about Stanley Kubrick?

A)he worked in America and Great Britain
B)he worked in a variety of genres
C)he was inclined toward a pessimistic view of the human condition
D)all of the above

Question 9

All of the following are true about Sam Peckinpah's movies except

A)tended to be personal and loosely structured
B)often had to be reedited to improve their lengths for the commercial market
C)was praised for his handling of sex
D)created controversy for his treatment of violence

Question 10

Each of the following is true about John Frankenheimer's films except

A)worked in several genres
B)used the motif of imprisonment often
C)vision tends to be optimistic
D)had no single theme

Question 11

The film that was the "box office champion" of the 60s was

A)Seven Days in May
B)Husbands
C)Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
D)The Graduate

Question 12

Which of the following tended to be true of Vietnam era movies?

A)big-budget films ruled
B)the protagonist(s)often died
C)westerns disappeared
D)non-political positions were taken in the movies

Question 13

The studio system benefited by gaining new perspectives when conglomerates like Transamerica Corporation acquired them.___

Question 14

Movies made in the late 60s were often characterized by

A)small budgets.
B)rebels against the mainstream.
C)no-name or unimportant stars.
D)all of the above

Question 15

John Cassavetes used which of the following

A)tightly framed close-ups or medium shots
B)fancy camera work
C)action
D)quick cuts,short scenes
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Question 16

Cleopatra represents the excess and failure,in general,of the American spectacular.
___

Question 17

Sidney Lumet was known to

A)work fast.
B)handle actors well.
C)bring in movies on time and on budget.
D)all of the above

Question 18

Which of the following was not a problem with the major studios at the beginning of the 1960s?

A)television viewer numbers
B)reasonable salaries
C)expense of literary and stage properties
D)lavish production values

Question 19

Films became more strident as the 60s neared the end because of

A)The National Rifle Association
B)Vietnam
C)The Civil Rights Movement
D)Psychedelic music

Question 20

What became true of movies of the 1960s?

A)They were careful not to mix tones like anguish and absurdity.
B)They focused on extraordinary,heroic characters.
C)Downbeat themes in movies were often money makers.
D)They used almost no film techniques like fast forward,slow motion,jump cuts,etc.

Question 21

New movie directors in the 1960s often got their training in television.___

Question 22

Matching
a.George Roy Hill western
b.music and lyrics by Rogers and Hammerstein
c.Lumet NY City drama using radical editing
d.Mike Nichols film of sterile,middle-class materialism
e.won Best Picture Oscar with an x rating
f.more than a biker film by Dennis Hopper
g.John Cassevetes,urban horror movie
h.in the final shootout,virtually a whole Mexican village is destroyed
i.English film financed with American money
j.John Frankenheimer imprisonment movie
The Graduate ___ class materialism

Question 23

How were New York and television-trained films directors regarded by "Hollywood
regulars"?

Question 24

Because they came from a different background,new directors had no sense of movie-making style.___

Question 25

Stanley Kubrick's Dr.Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the
Bomb is a lighthearted comedy which makes fun of nuclear physicists during the Cold
War.___
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Question 26

Matching
a.George Roy Hill western
b.music and lyrics by Rogers and Hammerstein
c.Lumet NY City drama using radical editing
d.Mike Nichols film of sterile,middle-class materialism
e.won Best Picture Oscar with an x rating
f.more than a biker film by Dennis Hopper
g.John Cassevetes,urban horror movie
h.in the final shootout,virtually a whole Mexican village is destroyed
i.English film financed with American money
j.John Frankenheimer imprisonment movie
The Sound of Music ___ editing

Question 27

Matching
a.George Roy Hill western
b.music and lyrics by Rogers and Hammerstein
c.Lumet NY City drama using radical editing
d.Mike Nichols film of sterile,middle-class materialism
e.won Best Picture Oscar with an x rating
f.more than a biker film by Dennis Hopper
g.John Cassevetes,urban horror movie
h.in the final shootout,virtually a whole Mexican village is destroyed
i.English film financed with American money
j.John Frankenheimer imprisonment movie
Butch Cassidy and rating
the Sundance Kid ___

Question 28

Matching
a.George Roy Hill western
b.music and lyrics by Rogers and Hammerstein
c.Lumet NY City drama using radical editing
d.Mike Nichols film of sterile,middle-class materialism
e.won Best Picture Oscar with an x rating
f.more than a biker film by Dennis Hopper
g.John Cassevetes,urban horror movie
h.in the final shootout,virtually a whole Mexican village is destroyed
i.English film financed with American money
j.John Frankenheimer imprisonment movie
Birdman of Alcatraz ___

Question 29

What was the goal of noted African-American actor Sidney Poitier?

Question 30

What was the problem with realism in films at least during the early years of the 60s?

Question 31

Martin Ritt once said,"It is possible to survive making films that basically represent who you are and what you are about." ___
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Question 32

Sam Peckinpah has been criticized for glorifying,in a romantic way,extreme violence.___

Question 33

Matching
a.George Roy Hill western
b.music and lyrics by Rogers and Hammerstein
c.Lumet NY City drama using radical editing
d.Mike Nichols film of sterile,middle-class materialism
e.won Best Picture Oscar with an x rating
f.more than a biker film by Dennis Hopper
g.John Cassevetes,urban horror movie
h.in the final shootout,virtually a whole Mexican village is destroyed
i.English film financed with American money
j.John Frankenheimer imprisonment movie
The Wild Bunch ___

Question 34

Matching
a.George Roy Hill western
b.music and lyrics by Rogers and Hammerstein
c.Lumet NY City drama using radical editing
d.Mike Nichols film of sterile,middle-class materialism
e.won Best Picture Oscar with an x rating
f.more than a biker film by Dennis Hopper
g.John Cassevetes,urban horror movie
h.in the final shootout,virtually a whole Mexican village is destroyed
i.English film financed with American money
j.John Frankenheimer imprisonment movie
Midnight Cowboy ___

Question 35

Matching
a.George Roy Hill western
b.music and lyrics by Rogers and Hammerstein
c.Lumet NY City drama using radical editing
d.Mike Nichols film of sterile,middle-class materialism
e.won Best Picture Oscar with an x rating
f.more than a biker film by Dennis Hopper
g.John Cassevetes,urban horror movie
h.in the final shootout,virtually a whole Mexican village is destroyed
i.English film financed with American money
j.John Frankenheimer imprisonment movie
Rosemary's Baby ___ Hammerstein

Question 36

Arthur Penn was interested in filming stories of people who were struggling to find
their place and get along in society-the essential theme,for example,of Bonnie and
Clyde.___

Question 37

Matching
a.George Roy Hill western
b.music and lyrics by Rogers and Hammerstein
c.Lumet NY City drama using radical editing
d.Mike Nichols film of sterile,middle-class materialism
e.won Best Picture Oscar with an x rating
f.more than a biker film by Dennis Hopper
g.John Cassevetes,urban horror movie
h.in the final shootout,virtually a whole Mexican village is destroyed
i.English film financed with American money
j.John Frankenheimer imprisonment movie
Dr.Zhivago ___

Question 38

Matching
a.George Roy Hill western
b.music and lyrics by Rogers and Hammerstein
c.Lumet NY City drama using radical editing
d.Mike Nichols film of sterile,middle-class materialism
e.won Best Picture Oscar with an x rating
f.more than a biker film by Dennis Hopper
g.John Cassevetes,urban horror movie
h.in the final shootout,virtually a whole Mexican village is destroyed
i.English film financed with American money
j.John Frankenheimer imprisonment movie
The Pawnbroker ___

Question 39

Matching
a.George Roy Hill western
b.music and lyrics by Rogers and Hammerstein
c.Lumet NY City drama using radical editing
d.Mike Nichols film of sterile,middle-class materialism
e.won Best Picture Oscar with an x rating
f.more than a biker film by Dennis Hopper
g.John Cassevetes,urban horror movie
h.in the final shootout,virtually a whole Mexican village is destroyed
i.English film financed with American money
j.John Frankenheimer imprisonment movie
Easy Rider ___ Hopper

Question 40

Most film critics agree that the escalation of the war in Vietnam influenced movies,which became angry,militant,and anti-Establishment.___

Question 41

Why is Bonnie and Clyde,directed by Arthur Penn,considered the turning point from the old filmmaking sensibility to the new?

Question 42

What were some of the filmmaking techniques that directors from New York like
Sidney Lumet,John Frankenheimer,Mike Nichols,etc.used that made their films "arty"?

Question 43

Why is the cliché "all that glitters is not gold" appropriate for the films,whether realistic or spectacle,of the early 60s?

Question 44

What happened to the Production Code in 1968 and what was the result?

Question 45

What characteristics of Sam Peckinpah's westerns made them revisionist?