Chapter 15

3. This type of cinema searched for meaning in a challenge to traditional moral values.
5. This, deprived of traditional values and religious beliefs, bears the burden of freedom and the total responsibility for his actions.
8. This new Modernist style originated in New York City in 1945.
11. A war fought between the Soviet Union and the US of A.
13. The postwar years saw crusades for ethnic self-identity and demands—especially fierce in the United States—for racial and gender equality.
14. Was a pioneering Japanese filmmaker who explored the complexities of modern life in his films.
15. The leading philosopher of the twentieth-century philosophical movement called existentialism.

1. Abstract Expressionism originated here.
2. The result, in 1947, of Islamic liberation movements in India was an independent what.
4. Was the primary figure in epic poetry, not postwar literature.
6. These plays did not follow traditional narrative structure (from conflict to resolution).
7. was a fact of American life for 250 years, until the end of the Civil War.
9. This type of leaders were figures in literature since humans began telling stories.
10. This era reform movements were primarily aimed to achieve freedom from oppression
12. These playwrights rejected traditional dramatic structure.