Exam 7: Movies and the Impact of Images

Mary Pickford was ______.

According to your textbook, what is a main reason that Hollywood tends to make films that belong in certain genres?

Hollywood was the international center of cinema from the very beginning.

Which of the following is not one of the original five major studios that once dominated the film business?

Three-dimensional (3-D) movies did little to stem the drop in movie theater attendance in the 1950s.

Although Hollywood movies may show actual consumer products, such as Pepsi-Cola or BMW automobiles, for the effect of realism, the studios may not receive any money or other compensation for showing those products.

Which answer best describes a reason that movie studios use the Internet to market their films?

The Hollywood Ten were studio writers and directors jailed for leaking military secrets to the Soviet Union.

An oligopoly exists when a few companies control an industry.

The movie industry has largely embraced the Internet's ability to distribute new films and rentals to consumers.

To become a mass medium, the early silent films had to offer what books achieved: the suspension of disbelief and stories that engaged an audience's imagination.

_____ made the controversial epic The Birth of a Nation.

In 2012, movie fans accessed more movies through ______ than physical copies for the first time.

All six major Hollywood film studios today are owned and operated by U.S.-based corporations.

Because of high equipment and operating costs, digital technology is not expected to benefit independent filmmakers for many years.

With television capturing suburban audiences by the mid-1950s, movie producers made only family-friendly films to lure that audience back to theaters.

In scriptwriting terminology, the discourse is how the story is told.

The movie industry used to make most of its money from box-office revenues. Explain why this is no longer the case.

French director Georges Méliès pioneered a number of camera tricks and techniques, including slow motion.

Movie studios can earn more than double their U.S. and Canadian box office receipts by distributing their films in foreign markets.