首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Film is a medium that might have been especially made for America, a vast country which, by the beginning of the twentieth centu
Film is a medium that might have been especially made for America, a vast country which, by the beginning of the twentieth centu
admin
2010-08-21
21
问题
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.
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.
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 film is not interested in arts 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. The maker of decent, serviceable and mass-produced furniture is not to be looked down on because he isn’t Chippendale. You might wish he were, but. that is another matter. So 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.
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.
What does "it" in the last sentence of Paragraph 3 refer to?
选项
A、To develop the potential of a movie as the an art form.
B、An entertainment medium in Hollywood.
C、Movie industry of America.
D、Money for the producer, distributor and cinema managers.
答案
A
解析
词义推断题。从上下文可以推断出代词it指示American movie industry。且it文后有“to develop its potential as an art form”,因此,正确答案为A项。
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/sjFMFFFM
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
Britainwasawealthycountry.Therewereafewveryrichpeoplewhoreceivedmoneyfromlandor【B1】______,anddidnotneedt
Theplaceofthechildinsocietyhasvariedforthousandsofyearsandhasbeeneffectedbydifferent【S
Incontrollingyourdreamsthekeywordsare【S1】______,practice,effort,and【S2】______.Inthebeginningyoumaybeable
Inthelate1960s,manypeopleinNorthAmericaturnedtheirattentiontoenvironmentalproblems,andnewsteel-and-glassskyscr
A、Differencesbetweenpeoplewillgraduallydisappear.B、Differencesbetweenpeoplewillnotexistasonehopes.C、Differencesb
A、Seveno’clock.B、Seventhirty.C、Eighto’clock.D、Eightthirty.B细节考察题。女士说她等火车已经等了快半小时了,男士安慰她说快八点了,就要坐上火车了。两个时间一计算,即可推断出女士是七点
A、Helikestobesad.B、Helikesastormyocean.C、Helikesfinesandandcalmwater.D、Helikesthemermaidlivinginthesea.
A、BecausetheIranianswerenotgoodatmakingmoney.B、Becauseshewasn’trichyetasacollegestudent.C、Becauseshefelttha
A、Asingleroom.B、Adoubleroom.C、Abeautifully-decoratedroom.D、Acleansingleroomwithgoodorderandhotwater.D
A、Themanhastoreschedulehistrip.B、Themanshouldtakehisvacationsomewhereelse.C、Themanhasn’tcalledthetravelagen
随机试题
A、Getsomesmallchange.B、Findashoppingcenter.C、Cashacheckatabank.D、Findaparkingmeter.A
触诊腹部肿块适用()腹壁较厚时触诊肾脏适用()
律师对申请股权基金管理人登记的机构出具法律意见书时应先进行充分的尽职调查,尽职调查事项可以不包括()。
事业单位非财政补助专项资金结转后,按规定留归本单位使用的剩余资金应转入的科目是()。
罗荣渠在论述中国现代化进程时认为:“从表面上看.清室的退位似乎使以改革政治体制为主体的第三次现代化努力失败了.事实上民国初年的共和政治正是仿效西方方式以争取民主建制的斗争的继续。”材料中“三次现代化努力”指的是()。
公务员是指依法履行公职,由国家财政负担工资福利的工作人员,同时被纳入()。
下列选项中,全部属于城市环境污染的是()。
琵琶:木材:乐器
《远生遗著》(北大2010年研)
《计算机软件保护条例》中所称的计算机软件(简称软件)是指
最新回复
(
0
)