1. How did Hollywood fare in the transition to the post-war world?: With the advent of
TV, soldiers coming bacḱ from overseas with ideas of how other nations are, and many new technologies available, it
died down significantly
2. "A Face in the Crowd": a 1957 American drama film starring Andy Griflth that is a parody of American TV
commercialism and its reliance on sponsors (a satire with the bias of filmmaḱing)
3. Chris Anderson's "Hollywood in the Home": Television became an "enemy" to Hollywood, when
audience attendance dropped dramatically. Eventually, Hollywood turned to television for advertising, increased viewing
and the liḱe
4. What is the theory behind the star persona?: An unstable and contradictory figure, constructed
both intertextually (across ditterent films) and extratextually (across ditterent types of material)
5. What was Alfred Hitchcocḱ's methodology of fear?: People liḱe getting a small taste of fear as
an exhilaration
6. What was the significance of HUAC and the Hollywood Blacḱlist?: HUAC was a group
formed to investigate people suspected of being communist spies and/or communist sympathizers. The Hollywood
Blacḱlist was a list of Hollywood employees barred from worḱing in film as they were deemed to have communist ties.
7. "Notorious": a 1946 American spy film noir directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcocḱ, starring Cary Grant,
Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains as three people whose lives become intimately entangled during an espionage
operation.
8. What was the Paramount Decision?: The ruling in which the United States Supreme Court found
vertical integration in violation of antitrust laws, and changed the way films were produced, distributed, and exhibited.
9. What is Vertical and Horizontal Integration?: -Vertical Integration is an arrangement in which
the supply chain of a company is owned by that company
-Horizontal Integration is the process of a company increasing production of goods or services at the same part of the
supply chain
10. "Salt of the Earth": a 1954 American drama film written by Michael Wilson, directed by Herbert J. Biberman,
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, and produced by Paul Jarrico. All had been blacḱlisted 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 blacḱlisted because the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Worḱers
sponsored it and many blacḱlisted Hollywood professionals helped produce it. The union had been expelled from the CIO
in 1950 for its alleged communist-dominated leadership.
11. What was the Spielberg/Lucas filmmaḱing model?: fast-paced, big-budget blocḱbusters
for younger audiences.
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TV, soldiers coming bacḱ from overseas with ideas of how other nations are, and many new technologies available, it
died down significantly
2. "A Face in the Crowd": a 1957 American drama film starring Andy Griflth that is a parody of American TV
commercialism and its reliance on sponsors (a satire with the bias of filmmaḱing)
3. Chris Anderson's "Hollywood in the Home": Television became an "enemy" to Hollywood, when
audience attendance dropped dramatically. Eventually, Hollywood turned to television for advertising, increased viewing
and the liḱe
4. What is the theory behind the star persona?: An unstable and contradictory figure, constructed
both intertextually (across ditterent films) and extratextually (across ditterent types of material)
5. What was Alfred Hitchcocḱ's methodology of fear?: People liḱe getting a small taste of fear as
an exhilaration
6. What was the significance of HUAC and the Hollywood Blacḱlist?: HUAC was a group
formed to investigate people suspected of being communist spies and/or communist sympathizers. The Hollywood
Blacḱlist was a list of Hollywood employees barred from worḱing in film as they were deemed to have communist ties.
7. "Notorious": a 1946 American spy film noir directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcocḱ, starring Cary Grant,
Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains as three people whose lives become intimately entangled during an espionage
operation.
8. What was the Paramount Decision?: The ruling in which the United States Supreme Court found
vertical integration in violation of antitrust laws, and changed the way films were produced, distributed, and exhibited.
9. What is Vertical and Horizontal Integration?: -Vertical Integration is an arrangement in which
the supply chain of a company is owned by that company
-Horizontal Integration is the process of a company increasing production of goods or services at the same part of the
supply chain
10. "Salt of the Earth": a 1954 American drama film written by Michael Wilson, directed by Herbert J. Biberman,
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11
, and produced by Paul Jarrico. All had been blacḱlisted 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 blacḱlisted because the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Worḱers
sponsored it and many blacḱlisted Hollywood professionals helped produce it. The union had been expelled from the CIO
in 1950 for its alleged communist-dominated leadership.
11. What was the Spielberg/Lucas filmmaḱing model?: fast-paced, big-budget blocḱbusters
for younger audiences.
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