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Question 1 1/1pts According to Thomas Schatz, what term best characterizes Hollywood since the late 1940s? HINT: The Ten Commandments, The Sound of Music, and Jaws are all examples of this. m Blockbuster Answer: B. On pages 8 and 9, Schatz states, “The key to Hollywood’s survival and the one abiding aspect of its postwar transformation has been the steady rise of the movie blockbuster. In terms of budgets, production values, and market strategy, Hollywood has been increasingly hit-driven since the early 1950s. This marks a significant departure from the classical era, when the studios turned out a few ‘prestige’ pictures each year and relished the occasional runaway box-office hit, but relied primarily on routine A-list features to generate revenues. The exceptional became the rule in postwar Hollywood, as the occasional hit gave way to the calculated blockbuster.”