Journalism Chapter 8 Review

Who was the director of Birth of a Nation, the controversial silent film about the Civil War?

D.W. Griffith

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow was a significant movie for which of the following reasons?

It was the first major American movie to be filmed with all digital sets and backgrounds

Which of the following was first major movie with multiple scenes and a plot?

The great train robbery

Eadweard Muybridge and Etienne Marey are famous for which of the following?

They conducted early experiments on depicting motion with photos.

The blacklist of the 1940s and 1950s was driven by which of the following?

a fear of communism

Where does actor/director Tyler Perry run his studio?

atlanta, georgia

Spike Lee has maintained his independence as a movie director by doing which of the following?

controlling the cost of his movies

Critics of the MPAA rating system say that the raters award harsher ratings to films that are violent vs. filled with sexual content.

false

The "Hollywood Ten" are the writers who made David Letterman a star.

false

The Bechdel Test for Women in Film is designed to see how much violence is directed against women in movies.

false

The United States produces more movies every year than any other country.

false

The movie The Blair Witch Project demonstrated that any movie, no matter how bad, could become a success if you spent millions of dollars promoting it.

false

Which of the following was the movie that sold the most tickets of all time?

gone with the wind

movie attendance peaked in which year

in 1946

The movie High School Musical 3: Senior Year was a profitable hit because:

it had a small budget, lots of product tie-ins, and high video sales.

The film that created the idea of the summer blockbuster was which of the following?

jaws

In 2015, the makers of the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Green Legend angered theater owners because of their plans to __________________________.

release the movie on netflix and in max theaters first

Movie studios are responding to the growth of movie piracy by doing which of the following?

releasing the movie to as many theaters as possible

Once it was introduced, almost every movie made used which of the following technologies?

sound

By 2012, ______ was the most popular way to play movies at home.

streaming video services

Which of the following movies proved the value of Internet promotion?

the blair witch project

which of the following movies proved the value of internet promotion

the blair witch project

Which of the following was one of the earliest rebellions against the controls of the studio system?

the establishment of united artists

As of 2010, the movie Avatar had the largest domestic box office of all time.

true

Atlanta-based filmmaker Tyler Perry was the nation's second-highest paid African-American in the movie business in 2010.

true

Big budget movies can earn as much from ancillary rights as they do from the domestic box office.

true

Directors often "re-cut" their films, taking out violence or explicit sex, in order to move their movie from an NC-17 to an R rating.

true

In 2007, for the first time, movie fans could see the Oscar-nominated short films as digital downloads from Apple's iTunes store.

true

In the studio system, an actor, writer or director could work only for the studio that had his or her contract.

true

directors often "recut" their films, taking out violence or explicit sex, in order to move their movie from an NC-17 to an R rating

true