international classical cinema

Question 1

why wasn’t it possible for film industries to develop in many parts of the world? (2)

Answer 1

• due to how expensive filmmaking was
• competition from hollywood

Question 2

center of the Indian filmmaking industry was…

Answer 2

Bombay, now Mumbai

Question 3

Bollywood film was in what language?

Answer 3

Hindi

Question 4

what are the two major differences in Bollywood from Hollywood?

Answer 4

1. almost all films are musicals
2. film stars were more powerful

Question 5

define parallel cinema

Answer 5

independent low budget realism that emerged in the 50s in India

Question 6

parallel cinema rejected the…

Answer 6

idealized Bollywood style inspired by the neorealist movement

Question 7

in the classical era, Egypt had the [?] largest film industry in the world

Answer 7

3rd

Question 8

egyptian film felt more like hollywood movies because…

Answer 8

they didn’t have the musical emphasis of bollywood

Question 9

the classical Indonesian film industry is an example of…

Answer 9

one that is very difficult to understand today

Question 10

why is the Indonesian film industry so hard to understand?

Answer 10

b/c although huge numbers of films were produced, most are lost or too decayed to watch

Question 11

hollywood put great effort into exporting their films to latin america by…

Answer 11

dubbing them into Spanish or Portuguese

Question 12

which latin american country had the closest thing to a commercial film industry?

Answer 12

Mexico

Question 13

what are the 4 examples of european nations with large film industries?

Answer 13

1. germany
2. england
3. france
4. italy

Question 14

define quota

Answer 14

law requiring that a certain percentage of films screened in a country must have been made in that country

Question 15

the dominance that Hollywood had over smaller english speaking countries stifled the…

Answer 15

development of major film studios in canada

Question 16

why was hollywood so dominant over smaller english speaking countries?

Answer 16

fewer linguistic and cultural differences than in other areas

Question 17

english language classical era canadian films…

Answer 17

simply do not exist

Question 18

what year was the National Film Board of Canada created?

Answer 18

1939

Question 19

the NFB was created to…

Answer 19

help train and finance Canadian films

Question 20

the NFB didn’t produce…

Answer 20

feature films

Question 21

what did the Canada Cooperation Project do?

Answer 21

instead of the canadian govt. setting up a quota system, hollywood would film a few movies in canada and include positive references to canada

Question 22

what years was the canada cooperation project in effect?

Answer 22

1948-58

Question 23

the canada cooperation project prevented the development of…

Answer 23

a canadian film industry in the classical era

Question 24

china didn’t have a big or powerful film industry during the classical era because…

Answer 24

of war and revolution

Question 25

when the communists took control of china in the 50s, they took control of the film industry and did two things:

Answer 25

1. banned earlier films
2. allowed only propaganda films to be made

Question 26

some chinese filmmakers escaped to hong kong, meaning that…

Answer 26

a commercial film industry developed

Question 27

hong kong then exported…

Answer 27

chinese films all around the world