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Danish directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg laid down an "indisputable set of rules" for the new avant-garde: a "Vow of Chastity." Which of the following is NOT one of these rules?

Films had to be shot in black-and-white.

In 1982, three young boys in Mississippi began creating a shot-by-shot VHS remake of ________. It took them seven years, with the result that the actors grow older or younger from scene to scene.

In 1982, three young boys in Mississippi began creating a shot-by-shot VHS remake of ________. It took them seven years, with the result that the actors grow older or younger from scene to scene.

Identify a true statement about Berlin's World Cinema Fund that was launched in 2004 with a budget of half a million euros.

It aimed to support filmmaking in areas fraught with political or economic crises.

What is NOT an example of transmedia storytelling?

Jurassic World reintroducing characters from the film Jurassic Park

________________, Hollywood's trade association, has promoted films, lobbied politicians, and helped launch coproductions in dozens of countries around the globe.

Motion Picture Association of America

Identify a true statement about cooperation and cooptation.

The Disney company taught Hollywood to keep the world market in mind at all times.

Which of the following statements is true of multiplexing in the 1990s?

The new European multiplexes usually provided ample parking and adjacent malls with restaurants, bars, and shops.

Media giants outside America might buy up distribution outlets and theatre screens, and they could pour billions into Hollywood films. The early thinking was that a truly global film would need to succeed in the United States, and the film would therefore need to:

be in English.

Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) was the most financially successful Asian film of its time and won four Academy Awards. Which of the following features of this film defied the early thinking of a truly global film?

dialogue in Mandarin

The term "VCD" refers to a(n):

digital movie format using low-level compression.

Films of dispersion and displacement, also known as diasporic cinema, might appear in any country except the United States.

false

In diasporic films, often the second-generation character gains access to his or her roots through direct memory rather than through popular culture. Group starts

false

In the context of global film distribution since 1980, Hollywood studios have avoided the practices of block booking and blind bidding in foreign markets.

false

The box-office failure of Jurassic Park in India convinced Hollywood that there was no Indian audience for Hindi-dubbed Hollywood films.

false

Between 1996 and 2000, the European Union shifted the focus of its MEDIA program to all of the following activities EXCEPT:

funding productions.

To maximize their global audience, and to undercut piracy, the Hollywood studios in the 2000s:

increasingly aimed at day-and-date release, putting the film on offshore screens at the same.

The films Hero and House of Flying Daggers were packed with stars from different nations and gained significant exposure in Western countries. These films belonged to the genre of ________.

mainland costume pictures

At the start of the 1990s, the studios and the U.S. independents were pumping out many films but most countries had comparatively few places to show them. Which of the following could have been the natural solution?

multiplexing

Although Hollywood produced only a small fraction of the world's feature films by the 1990s, it garnered about ________ of theatrical motion picture revenues.

75 percent

________, a film of the 1990s, won the Grand Prize at Cannes, and its look was inspired by the loose camerawork in the television series Homicide: Life on the Streets.

Breaking the Waves

In 1988, Kinepolis opened on the outskirts of ________, with 24 screens, an IMAX theater, and 7,400 seats—at that time, the largest movie complex in the world.

Brussels

In Germany, Kutlig Ataman's Lola and Billy the Kid (1999) portrays a young German Turk who learns that the brother whom he believed dead is actually a transvestite performing in gay nightclubs. This film best describes:

the experience of migration.

Kung-fu sagas, Bollywood musicals, and Japanese animation have found niches in mainstream youth culture thanks largely to:

the fans who tirelessly circulated video copies in the 1980s and 1990s.

Although China forbade direct investment from Taiwanese businesses, Taiwanese film producers set up companies in Hong Kong to fund Mainland films during the 1990s.

true

Before the 1980s, mergers and acquisitions across national borders were rare.

true

By 1998, Dogme began issuing certificates for projects that adhered to the Vow of Chastity, while directors who strayed from it made public confession on the Dogme website.

true

By 2008, counting all the local and regional events, the world contained at least 4,000 film festivals. This explosive growth turned the festival scene into a global distribution system, one rivaling Hollywood's in quantity and reach.

true

Comic-Con, which was held every July in San Diego, began as a convention for comic book collectors, and fans perused displays of the latest video games and franchise products and watched previews of films and TV shows.

true

New Line's The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-2003) became a fan fetish as soon as it was announced, and many fans believed that protesting in chatrooms against changes to the original novel encouraged the director to shoot a more faithful version.

true