What's Going On In France?
New and Improved
It's All About the Money
Oui Oui I Love French TV
French Cinema Goes Abroad
100

He was helped organize the European Union at the beginning of the new decade.


Who is Michel Rocard?

100

This is describes French cinema in the 1930s through the 1970s.

What is visual lyricism

100

The financial aid system ______________ was money given directly to producers, once approved by the CNC, as a long-term loan.


What is aide sélective à la production?

100

As a popular cultural catalyst television became the new medium for artistic discourse, due to ____.

What is it's accessibility?
100

CNC created the production company Unifrance in _____.

What is  1949?

200

This describes French political society in the 1990s

What is Socialist Presidency?

200

The filmmaker who wanted the French administration to defend “cultural pluralism”.


Who is Claude Berri

200

Jack Lang created this to establish a closer link between the movie industry and world finance, and boost investment.


What is SOFICA? (Sociétés de Financement des Industries Cinématographiques et Audiovisuelles)

200

____ had been the buzzword during the 1990s and resulted in a significant rise in viewership.

What is Diversification?
200

_________ was the key propagator for the emergence of the cinéma du look  in the late 80s and 90s

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What (Who?) is Luc Besson?

300

A pledge to endorse closer economic connections between France and its European partners.


What is the Maastricht Treaty in 1991?

300

Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Luc Besson and Patrice Leconte are some of the filmmakers in the 1990s that were able to reunite what conflicting trends?


What is changing racial makeup, economic hardships and growing apathy among young people.

300

Public and private channels used a finance system that allowed for an increase in investments in 1993 for coproductions.


What is aide automatique?


300

The arrangement between these two companies created the largest film library in the world.


What are Universal Pictures and Canal +?
300

The tradition of preference for french production methods began in _______ with ________ immigrants.

What is the 1920s, and Russian?

400

Both Francois Mitterrand, Jacques Chirac have this in common...


Who ran for three presidential elections before winning?


400

This generated a fissure between French general audiences and regular cinéphile moviegoers.

What is hyperrealism


400

This system produced a new approach to distribution and statistics among theaters.


What is salles actives?

400

Competition for private television companies in France(4 answers)

What are purchase of videos, DVDs, and American television?

400

This event facilitated an increase in Us distribution of French films.

What is the Sarasota Film Festival?

500

Although his platform to reduce unemployment, clandestine immigration, and end an epidemic of political corruption

Who is Edouard Balladur?


500

American delegates thought ___ was against the GATT and the global market, probably because they were not getting airtime.

What is the European protection quotas

500

French cinema relied on this financial aid system that generated funds from television networks for future film productions.

What is soutient automatique?

500

The discrepancy between the profits of television companies and the ethical principles of the CSA.

What is the dilemma for the French film industry?

500

Although Americanized, French Cinema can be described as _________ and _________.

What is creative, and culturally relevant?