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Mass Media Chapter 6 quiz

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Synergy   An interaction that produces a combined effect greater than the sum of separate effects  
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Suspension of Disbelief   Occurs when you surrender doubts about the reality of a story and become caught in the story  
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Adolph Zukor   Innovative creator of Paramount as a major movie studio  
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Star System   Making actors into celebrities to increase the size of movie audiences  
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Studio System   When major studios controlled all aspects of the movie industry  
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Block Booking   A rental agreement through which a movie house accepts a batch of movies  
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Paramount decision   U.S. Supreme Court breakup of movie industry oligarchy in 1948  
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Federal Radio Act   Original law in 1927 for government regulation of U.S. broadcasting  
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Federal Communications Act   Revision of Federal Radio Act in 1934 to include television  
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Two-Tier System   Original U.S. broadcast infrastructure had two tiers, one of locally licensed stations, the other of national networks  
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Big Three   ABC, CBS, NBC  
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Newton Minow   FCC chair who called television a "vast wasteland"  
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Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)   Quasi-government agency that changes tax-generated funds into the U.S. noncommercial television and radio system  
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Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)   Television network for noncommercial over-air stations  
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CATV   Early local cable television systems; short for community antenna television  
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Gerald Levin   Used orbiting satellite to relay exclusive programs to local cable systems in 1975  
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CNN   First 24-hour television news service  
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Multisystem Operator (MSO)   A company that owns several local cable television delivery units in different, usually far-flung, communities  
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DirecTV   Larger of two U.S. satellite-direct companies  
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Dish Network   Satellite-direct company  
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Walt Disney   Pioneer in animated films  
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Indies   Minor movie studies; not among Big Five  
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Narrative Films   Movies that tell a story  
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Warner Brothers   A movie studio that introduced the first successful sound movie  
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The Jazz Singer   The first feature sound movie  
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The Singing Fool   The first full-length sound movie  
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Gone with the Wind   Pioneer color film  
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The Black Pirate   The first feature movie in color  
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Computer-generated imagery (CGI)   The application of three-dimensional computer graphics for special effects, particularly in movies and television  
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Animated film   Narrative films with drawn scenes and characters  
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Steamboat Willie   Animated cartoon character that became Mickey Mouse  
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs   First full-length animated film  
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Robert Flaherty   First documentary filmmaker  
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Documentary   A video examination of a historical or current event or a natural or social phenomenon  
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Frank Capra   Hollywood movie director who produced powerful propaganda movies for the U.S. war effort in WW2  
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Why We Fight   Frank Capra's war mobilization documentary series  
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Fairness Doctrine   A U.S. government requirement from 1949 to 1987 that broadcast presentations had to include both sides on competing public issues  
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Docu-ganda   Documentaries that seek to influence their viewers  
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Michael Moore   Producer-director of point-of-view documentaries  
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Webisode   A short episode of story line created for downloading to internet television or hand-held devices, the word is a contrivance of web and episode  
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Multiplex   Movie theater with multiple screens  
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Blockbuster   A movie that is a great commercial success; also used to describe books  
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B-movie   Low-budget movie; usually with a little artistic aspiration  
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Video on demand (VOD)   Viewer controlled access to content at anytime  
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TiVo   Digital recording and playback device for television  
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Time Shifting   Ability of viewer to change when they access programming  
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