Hollywood 1930-1990 comparative study overview quiz - WJEC A-Level Film Studies quiz

Two British films from since 1995

One European and one non-European global film

One documentary and one experimental film

One Classical Hollywood film (1930-1960) and one New Hollywood film (1961-1990)

The auteur

Spectatorship

Documentary critical debates

Filmmakers' theories

Director-led production replacing the studio system

The powerful studio system and the production code

Looser, ambiguous narratives and downbeat endings

Freedom from all censorship of content

Invisible continuity style with no self-conscious technique

Strict enforcement of the production code

Director-driven films with looser narratives and darker themes

Total studio control over every creative decision

That the producer is always the true author of a film

That films have no single author because they are collaborative

That the studio system prevents any personal vision

That the director is the author of a film, with a recurring signature

Around points of comparison that cover both films

As a full description of the first film, then the second

As a plot summary of both films with no analysis

Around the biography of each director in turn

Directors never have any recurring style at all

Film is collaborative and the studio system constrained directors

Audiences cannot recognise a director's films

The theory only applies to documentary film

Listed without any explanation of their cause

Ignored in favour of similarities only

Explained through the shift from Classical to New Hollywood and context

Treated as random and unimportant

Because its films had no directors credited

Because the production code was strictly enforced

Because studios controlled every choice tightly

Because director-led production gave directors more creative control

Giving both films roughly equal weight and attention

Spending most of the answer on one film

Only discussing the film you prefer

Comparing the films to a third, unstudied film

Their literal handwritten name in the credits

The single film they are most famous for

The recurring style, themes and motifs across their films

The studio that produced their films

It applied equally and unchanged across both eras

It constrained classical content; its decline freed New Hollywood films

It only ever applied to New Hollywood films

It had no effect on either era's films