Chapter 8 Journalism

Where does actor/director Tyler Perry run his studio?

Atlanta, Georgia.

Why did the Hays Office, run by the movie industry, censor films?

Because Hollywood wanted to be responsible and not produce films that would lead to criminal or immoral behavior.

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

D.W. Griffith

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 Production Code started in the 1930s to encourage "lustful kissing" as a way of attracting women to the 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

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

False - the Bechdel Test is aimed to test whether women have meaningful presence in a movie.

Movie attendance peaked in which year?

In 1946

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.

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

Jaws

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

Streaming video services

After World War II, movie attendance declined due to competition from television.

True

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

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

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

True - Ancillary markets include book rights, home video, product placement, etc.

Movie profitability is determined by which of the following?

box office receipts home video sales the budget for making the film * all of the above *

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

controlling the cost of his movies

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

the establishment of United Artists