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FMS 200 Final Exam Review 2024,2025A Face in the Crowd" - ANSWER-a 1957 American drama film starring Andy Griffith that
is a parody of American TV commercialism and its reliance on sponsors (a satire with
the bias of filmmaking)
"Airport" - ANSWER-Airport is a 1970 American disaster-drama film starring Burt
Lancaster and Dean Martin, directed and written by George Seaton,[3] and based on
Arthur Hailey's 1968 novel of the same name. It originated the 1970s disaster film
genre.
"Blowup" - ANSWER-a 1966 British-Italian film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
about a fashion photographer, played by David Hemmings, who believes he has
unwittingly captured a murder on film. Noted for a scene that has heavily implied sexual
content, but no actual sex (photographer and model scene).
"Boys Don't Cry" - ANSWER-A film by Kimberly Peirce; telling the true account about
the rape and murder of transgender man Brandon Teena
"Carnal Knowledge" - ANSWER-a 1971 American comedy-drama film directed by Mike
Nichols that received an NC-17 rating initially despite not having any sexual content;
only talk of sexual nature. Eventually was revised to an R rating.
"Five Easy Pieces" - ANSWER-a 1970 American drama film written by Carole Eastman
(as Adrien Joyce) and Bob Rafelson, and directed by Rafelson. A famous scene from
the film takes place in a roadside restaurant where Bobby tries to get a waitress to bring
him a side order of toast with his breakfast. The waitress refuses, stating that toast is
not offered as a side item, despite the diner's offering a chicken salad sandwich on
toast.
"Notorious" - ANSWER-a 1946 American spy film noir directed and produced by Alfred
Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains as three people
whose lives become intimately entangled during an espionage operation.
"Psycho" - ANSWER-a 1960 American psychological horror film directed and produced
by Alfred Hitchcock. The end murder scene uses ellipses in editing to disguise the knife
entering the body, but the sound can still be heard perfectly.
"Rebel Without a Cause" - ANSWER-This film used the aspect ratio of Cinemascope for
great aesthetic emotional effect.
"Salt of the Earth" - ANSWER-a 1954 American drama film written by Michael Wilson,
directed by Herbert J. Biberman, and produced by Paul Jarrico. All had been blacklisted
by the Hollywood establishment due to their alleged involvement in communist politics.
The drama film is one of the first pictures to advance the feminist social and political
, point of view. The film was called subversive and blacklisted because the International
Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers sponsored it and many blacklisted Hollywood
professionals helped produce it. The union had been expelled from the CIO in 1950 for
its alleged communist-dominated leadership.
"Salt of the Earth" - ANSWER-This film was a true account ofthe struggle of the labor of
Mexican-Americans at a zinc mine. It used art as a political form to portray enthicity.
Employees of this film were blacklisted for communist sympathies
"Star Wars" - ANSWER-a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by
George Lucas. It surpassed Jaws (1975) to become the highest-grossing film of all time
until the release of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982). It began a new generation of
special effects and high-energy motion pictures. The film was one of the first films to link
genres together to invent a new, high-concept genre for filmmakers to build upon.
Finally, along with Steven Spielberg's Jaws, it shifted the film industry's focus away from
personal filmmaking of the 1970s and towards fast-paced, big-budget blockbusters for
younger audiences.
"The Godfather" - ANSWER-The Godfather is a 1972 American crime film directed by
Francis Ford Coppola. The film was the highest-grossing film of 1972 and was for a time
the highest-grossing film ever made. It won the Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actor
(Brando) and Best Adapted Screenplay (for Puzo and Coppola).
"The Wild Bunch" - ANSWER-a 1969 American epic Western film directed by Sam
Peckinpah about an aging outlaw gang on the Texas-Mexico border, trying to exist in
the changing modern world of 1913. The film was controversial because of its graphic
violence and its portrayal of crude men attempting to survive by any available means.
American International Pictures competing with the majors - ANSWER-Producing low-
budgeted youth-oriented films; founded by Roger Corman and Samuel Arkoff
Chris Anderson's "Hollywood in the Home" - ANSWER-Television became an "enemy"
to Hollywood, when audience attendance dropped dramatically. Eventually, Hollywood
turned to television for advertising, increased viewing and the like
Cinema of Sensation - ANSWER--graphic visuals
-editing that played with the temporal nature of films
-stories involving the sensationalistic and explicit representation of language, sex, and
violence
Dr. Kevin Sandler on freedom of artistic expression - ANSWER-"'Responsible
entertainment' consisted of a balance of 'artistic freedom' or 'artistic expression and
cultural sensitivity'". More specifically, the rating system allowed Hollywood filmmakers
to deal with possible provocative subjects, such as sex and violence, but one of the
board's sanctioned ratings - G, PG, or R - assured audiences that these taboo subjects
would be handled with "suitability" and "respectability".
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