Contemporary Cinema Final UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers
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Contemporary Cinema
Contemporary Cinema Final UPDATED
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
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Classical period Hong Kong cinema () - CORRECT ANSWER- -Immigration
of film workers from Shanghai
-Rise of a new Mandarin film industry (most pre-war films were Cantonese)
-More concerned with entertainment than teachin...
Contemporary Cinema Final UPDATED
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Classical period Hong Kong cinema (1946-1970) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔-Immigration
of film workers from Shanghai
-Rise of a new Mandarin film industry (most pre-war films were Cantonese)
-More concerned with entertainment than teaching folks (didactic)
-Most of the immigrant population came from southern China-80% of whom spoke
Cantonese
-1946-1969 total output of Cantonese films was 3,500 which is more than three times the
number of Mandarin productions
-Union Film Enterprises (founded in 1952) produced a new respect for Cantonese films
Transitional period Hong Kong cinema (1971-1979) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔-
Demise/localization of Cantonese cinema
-Dominance of kung-fu films
-Motion Picture and General Investment Company
-Shaw Brothers (during its peak had a staff of over 1,000 including 20 directors and 140
actors. Had an annual output of 40-50 films)
-Kung-fu films -- energetic style of combat borrowed from Japanese samurai films married to
a Chinese martial arts tradition
-Action valued over drama and male stars replaced female stars
-Proved more popular than Hollywood product as it held 50-70% of domestic market share
Modern period Hong Kong cinema (1979-present) "new wave" - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔-New generation in front of and behind the camera
-Film production freed from studio sound stages
-Production qualities and marketing strategies improved to allow Hong Kong to compete
internationally
-Work of New Wave filmmakers were generally marked by realism and technical competence
-In 2002, Hong Kong and Chinese governments signed an agreement that gave Hong Kong
films greater access to the mainland market
, -China has become a lucrative market for Hollywood studios
What is and independent film? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A film not released by a major
studio...HUGE increase in independent production over the years
-Many failed though
New Line Cinema - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔-Formed in 1967 as a non-theatrical
distributor focusing on the market for "special events" on college campuses
-In 1973, New Line opened a theatrical distribution arm, specializing in "arty and freak" films
-Marketing and distribution plan: tap those markets which were ignored by the majors and
maximize differences from more commercial films
-1978 New Line began a limited policy of film production through alliance with other
companies -- split their products into "mainstream" and "specialty"
-Art-house oriented Fine Line Features founded in 1990
Miramax - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔-Founded in 1979 by Bob and Harvey Weinstein to
book rock concerts and roadshow concert movies
-Breakthrough film: sex, lives, and videotape (1989)
-Often found success in distributing products which lent themselves to media-induced
controversy (challenging the MPAA)
Synergy and conglomeration - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔-In May 1993, Disney acquired
Miramax for close to $60 million
-Same year the Turner Broadcasting Corporation merged with New Line Cinema/Fine Line
Features
Indiewood - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔-Pulp Fiction (1994) heralded as creating the
"independent blockbuster"
-Its success ensured that all major studios would either acquire or establish a speciality film
unit to make award caliber movies on tight budgets
New Wave Black Cinema - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔-Comprised not only of films
themselves, but also communities of black directors and writers, as well as both black and
nonblack technicians, who produced these films
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