Exam 8: American Cinema in the 1940s

All the documentaries made in Hollywood during World War II were fully patriotic,saber rattlers.___

What quality(ies)make Walt Disney's animated movies such as Pinocchio work as well as they do?

Billy Wilder was a

In what ways did American cinema show that innovation could come through adaptation,as in borrowing techniques from the Italian neorealists?

Matching -Bambi ___

Matching -The Stranger ___

Whom in Hollywood did the investigations of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)affect?

The Why We Fight war propaganda films are characterized by which of the following:

Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard is a realistic meditation on the nature of Hollywood that turns into wonderful screwball comedy.___

What could,like Ben Hecht,Billy Wilder do almost instinctively and why?

All of the following are true about the state of the American film industry during World War II except

Animation at Warners was markedly different from that of Disney: anarchic,astringent,unstable,disinterested in family.___

William Wyler,as demonstrated in The Best Years of Our Lives,thought that the camera ,the staging,the externals of a scene were "important only as they help the audience understand what the characters are thinking,feeling or doing." ___

Which of the following is an example of film noir by John Huston?

What makes film noir run counter to the American tradition of optimism?

In what ways did Hollywood do "itself proud during World War II"?

Matching -Memphis Belle ___

Matching -proud and combative ___

Matching -Billy Wilder ___

What essentially was John Huston's interest in characters found in movies like The Maltese Falcon and The Treasure of Sierra Madre,? Was Huston pessimistic or optimistic overall in his view of life?