Exploring the interplay between collectivization and technology in the films in 1930s(sould era of the film). Explore the representations of individuals and groups. Your paper should address films in at least two national cinemas and explicate the role of film in negotiating social and political crises. Consider the ways in which machinery (including that of the sound film) functions on behalf of distinct ideological projects.
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Describe some of the characteristics of the female lead character in Torch Singer as emblematic of the new gender roles appearing in 1930s Hollywood film.

Name three ways in which the Great Depression impacted the American film industry.

What are some the principal cultural and social issues addressed by the gangster film cycle? In what ways do gangster films utilize the capabilities

of the sound film?

How do these concerns manifest themselves in I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang?

Explicate the circumstances leading to the establishment of the Production Code and explain its major provisions. How do films produced before and

after the Code differ?

Explicate the ideology of New Deal era documentaries such as The Plow that Broke the Plains and The City. In what ways do these films draw on the

practices of still photography?

What are the similarities between the social significance accorded cinema by the state in New Deal America, Nazi Germany, and Soviet Russia? How was

film production organized and controlled in these different national settings in the 1930s?

Identify some of the formal differences and similarities between the techniques of films of persuasion produced in the United States during the New

Deal and in Nazi Germany.

Summarize the mechanisms of the “co-ordination” of the film industries in Nazi Germany.

What are the principal tenets of Soviet Socialist Realism and how do they manifest themselves in a film such as Chapayev? How does this film differ

from earlier films by Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov?