Module #2 - Test #2

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The plot structure of Italian Neo-realist films is perhaps best described as:

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Episodic

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The phrase ‘Italian Spring’ refers to:

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The rebirth of Italy based on ideas implemented by a coalition government of left-liberal Italian parties

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Italy’s Andreotti Law of 1949 effectively created preproduction film censorship by:

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Providing loans to production firms that submitted film scripts with an apolitical slant

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In many Italian films of the early 1950s, directors used slowly paced tracking shots to:

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Explore characters’ relations within a concrete environment

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The Bicycle Thief, perhaps the most influential film of the neo-realist trend, was directed by:

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Vittorio De Sica

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The death of Pina in Rome, Open City was unsettling for many viewers in 1945 for all of the following reasons except:

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Up to that point the film appeared to be a documentary

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The term ‘rosy Neorealism’ refers to films that melded working class characters with:

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The populist comedy

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Italian Neo-realist films were edited in a manner based on:

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The norms of the Classical Hollywood style