Deck 14: American Cinema in the 1970s

Question 1

Which of the following was emphasized in American movies in the early 1970s?

A)religious conviction
B)just war
C)moral problems in public institutions
D)all of the above

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Films like The Parallax View and Three Days of the Condor reflect what kind of atmosphere?

A)love and tolerance
B)anger and rage
C)paranoia and disillusionment
D)all of the above

Answer 2

C

Question 3

What male-oriented genre stories gained a great deal of popularity in the 1970s?

A)buddy films
B)westerns
C)slapstick comedy
D)sports films

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Studios began to produce off-beat movies,entirely avoiding big-budget movies.___

Question 5

A major influence on the work of Steven Spielberg is

A)Walt Disney
B)D.W.Griffith
C)Stanley Kubrick
D)John Ford

Question 6

Woody Allen's sensibility is defined by his being

A)Jewish.
B)New Yorker.
C)both a and b
D)neither a nor b

Question 7

Traditionally women's status in the American film industry was tied to

A)writing scripts.
B)directing.
C)the star system.
D)costume designs.

Question 8

What is true about the movie-making techniques of the new directors of the 1970s?

A)loose,episodic structures
B)unpredictable and inconclusive endings
C)explored the complexity of character
D)all of the above

Question 9

Films that were profitable in this time often were made with

A)relatively small budgets.
B)no big name stars.
C)innovative and fresh ideas.
D)all of the above

Question 10

Blaxploitation films of the 1970s invariably featured anti-heroes as their main characters.___

Question 11

Martin Scorsese films are often imprinted with

A)tight plots.
B)logical endings.
C)inconspicuous camera use.
D)violence.

Question 12

Which of the following is a true Blaxploitation film?

A)Sounder
B)Shaft
C)Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
D)all of the above

Question 13

The producer of B-films that gave many notable American directors of the 70s, including Martin Scorsese,their starts was

A)Roger Corman
B)Jack Warner
C)Robert Altman
D)none of the above
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Question 14

All of the following are true of a Robert Altman film except

A)overlapping dialogue
B)optimistic view of the human condition
C)de-emphasis of plot
D)subversion of genre expectations

Question 15

What was the source of new American film directors in the 1970s?

A)universities with film programs
B)actors themselves
C)Europe,especially England
D)all of the above

Question 16

Robert DeNiro starred in all of the following Martin Scorsese films except

A)Raging Bull
B)Mean Streets
C)Gangs of New York
D)The King of Comedy

Question 17

Genre films of the 1970s were,given the genre cycle,often which of the following?

A)primitive
B)revisionist
C)parodic
D)all of the above
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Question 18

Of Francis Ford Coppola,it is true that he

A)said "caution doesn't make for good show business"
B)failed with Finnian's Rainbow
C)made Godfather II-"an epic vision of the corruption of America"
D)all of the above

Question 19

Which of the following has always been a very popular subject of American movies?

A)sex
B)gambling
C)mystical experience
D)foreign cultures

Question 20

Movie audiences expanded as retirees,looking for something to do,began to flock to theatres.___

Question 21

George Lucas stuck to classical narrative conventions in American Graffiti,which ensured the movies impressive success for a young director.___

Question 22

Matching
a.Nashville
b.The Heartbreak Kid
c.Blume in Love
d.Raging Bull
e.Apocalypse Now
f.Manhattan
g.Sugarland Express
h.Rocky
i.The French Connection
j.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Allen's contemporary comedy of manners ___ j.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Question 23

Matching
a.Nashville
b.The Heartbreak Kid
c.Blume in Love
d.Raging Bull
e.Apocalypse Now
f.Manhattan
g.Sugarland Express
h.Rocky
i.The French Connection
j.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Spielberg's first theatrical feature ___

Question 24

Matching
a.Nashville
b.The Heartbreak Kid
c.Blume in Love
d.Raging Bull
e.Apocalypse Now
f.Manhattan
g.Sugarland Express
h.Rocky
i.The French Connection
j.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Friedkin's buddy cop movie ___

Question 25

Francis Ford Coppola believed in the 1970s that exercising caution is the key to making good art and good show business.___

Question 26

How was sex portrayed in movies of the 70s?

Question 27

Matching
a.Nashville
b.The Heartbreak Kid
c.Blume in Love
d.Raging Bull
e.Apocalypse Now
f.Manhattan
g.Sugarland Express
h.Rocky
i.The French Connection
j.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Altman's view of country music ___

Question 28

Matching
a.Nashville
b.The Heartbreak Kid
c.Blume in Love
d.Raging Bull
e.Apocalypse Now
f.Manhattan
g.Sugarland Express
h.Rocky
i.The French Connection
j.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Forman's adaptation of a novel ___

Question 29

What happened to the conventions of classical cinema in the early 70s?

Question 30

Steven Spielberg is like European filmmakers in that his films are filled with homages and allusions to other movies,genres,and filmmakers.___

Question 31

Matching
a.Nashville
b.The Heartbreak Kid
c.Blume in Love
d.Raging Bull
e.Apocalypse Now
f.Manhattan
g.Sugarland Express
h.Rocky
i.The French Connection
j.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Alvidsen's optimistic blockbuster ___

Question 32

Matching
a.Nashville
b.The Heartbreak Kid
c.Blume in Love
d.Raging Bull
e.Apocalypse Now
f.Manhattan
g.Sugarland Express
h.Rocky
i.The French Connection
j.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
May's wry,witty movie ___

Question 33

Matching
a.Nashville
b.The Heartbreak Kid
c.Blume in Love
d.Raging Bull
e.Apocalypse Now
f.Manhattan
g.Sugarland Express
h.Rocky
i.The French Connection
j.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Francis Ford Coppola's war movie ___

Question 34

Most of Mel Brooks' movies,like Young Frankenstein,parody popular American genres like the horror film.___
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Question 35

By definition the revisionist stage of the genre development cycle is ironic.___

Question 36

The new directors of the 1970s,like William Friedkin,were called "whiz kids" because they knew the studio system inside and out.___

Question 37

Were foreign directors working in America successful at portraying American life? Explain briefly.

Question 38

Robert Altman eschews planning his movies tightly in favor of capturing the movie.
___

Question 39

Matching
a.Nashville
b.The Heartbreak Kid
c.Blume in Love
d.Raging Bull
e.Apocalypse Now
f.Manhattan
g.Sugarland Express
h.Rocky
i.The French Connection
j.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Scorsese boxing movie ___

Question 40

Matching
a.Nashville
b.The Heartbreak Kid
c.Blume in Love
d.Raging Bull
e.Apocalypse Now
f.Manhattan
g.Sugarland Express
h.Rocky
i.The French Connection
j.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Mazursky's movie of loving relationship ___

Question 41

What was the character of the newly invented "blockbuster" movie as championed by Steven Spielberg?

Question 42

How does the revisionist label apply to genre films of the 70s,especially the early
70s?

Question 43

What was the status - fictional and real - of women in Hollywood in the 70s?

Question 44

Where did the new directors come from and what advantages or strengths did they bring with them?

Question 45

Why were young audiences taken with George Lucas' Star Wars trilogy?