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1. Film is a medium that might have been especially made for America, a vast country which, by the beginning of the twentieth ce
1. Film is a medium that might have been especially made for America, a vast country which, by the beginning of the twentieth ce
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1. Film is a medium that might have been especially made for America, a vast country which, by the beginning of the twentieth century, had a large immigrant population, many of whom could hardly speak English. These people would have had little use for the theatre, even if they lived within easy distance of one, or for most of the books they could buy because they did not have enough English. But the movies — the silent movies — these they could all understand, so what America had more than any European country was a huge captive audience, a large proportion of them pretty well uneducated. And what these people wanted were simple stories in which, irrespective of the fact they couldn’t understand the captions, the action told all.
2. In feeding the growing demand for screen entertainment, America was greatly helped by the First World War. Between 1914 and 1918 the making of films was not exactly high on the list of any European country’s priorities. Films continued to be made but not to the same extent as before, and to fill the gap in foreign imports, America had to increase its own production. By the end of the decade, with Hollywood now firmly established as the center of the industry, America was well on its way to monopolizing the world market.
3. But if by the beginning of the 1920s America was the world leader in film production, it was not then — nor has it been since — in the lead when it comes to developing film as an art form. Hollywood is not interested in art; it is interested in money and the two rarely go together. To Hollywood film is, and really always has been, an industry. There is nothing about this attitude that should make us look down on it. Hollywood quickly recognized film as an entertainment medium with a unique ability to put people onto seats and money in the pockets of producers, distributors and cinema managers and, mostly, left it to others to develop its potential as an art form.
4. Generally speaking the efforts to extend the boundaries of film — to show that it could do more than car chases, romance and clowning — were being made elsewhere. In the 1920s in Germany, for example, expressionism was an artistic movement which used film as a medium. Expressionism is described in the Oxford Companion to Film as "a movement whose main aim was to show in images man’s inner world and in particular the emotions of fear, hatred, love and anxiety". These days, most serious — and sometimes not so serious — films attempt to do something like that as a matter of course.
5. Meanwhile Russian film-makers were developing advanced techniques in editing and montage — using scenes to give background information, ideas and intellectual points. Hollywood was not slow to learn from its foreign competitors or to take on and adapt their ideas, but with regard to the style and content of film-making, it was and still is far more in the business of learning than of teaching.
Questions 1-5
Directions: For questions 1-5, choose the best title for each paragraph from below. For each numbered paragraph(1-5), mark one letter(A-6)on your Answer Sheet. Do not mark any letter twice.
A. The American immigrants
B. Hollywood’s attitude to film
C. Huge audience of film in America
D. Developing film as an art form
E. Learning from foreign film-makers
F. Extending film boundaries in other countries
G. The development of American film industry
Paragraph 5 ______
选项
答案
E
解析
第5段提到了好莱坞向其竞争对手学习电影题材、表现手法等方面的经验。
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