HIUS 222 FINAL FINAL PAPER 2026 SOLVED
QUESTIONS AND FULL SOLUTION UPDATED
◉ Dracula.
Answer: A wealthy aristocrat who drained the blood of local
peasants
◉ Frankenstein's monster.
Answer: miserable and abandoned—like many laborers
◉ Frank Capra.
Answer: Italian-American director
Translated his deep love for the U.S. into a vaguely populistic
admiration for ordinary people.
Films often contrasted the decency of small-town America and the
common man with what he considered the grasping opportunism of
the city and greedy capitalist marketplace
Won 3 Oscars for "Best Director" in the 1930s
,Best known films:
It Happened One Night (1934)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
You Can't Take It With You (1938)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
It's A wonderful Life (1946)
◉ Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939).
Answer: Hailed as one of the greatest films of all time
James Stewart starred as "Jefferson Smith," small town good guy
Appointed U.S. Senator by political cronies who hope to control him
◉ Origins of Comic Books.
Answer: 1. The emergence of newspaper comic strips in the 1890s
Most featured serious narrative content but the name "comic" stuck
Term relates to sequential art, regardless of content
2. The rise of the pulp magazine industry in the early 20th century
,Dubbed "pulp" because of the cheap paper that was used to print
them
Usually catered to more offbeat tastes, and were often considered
lurid, sadistic, and grotesque
3. In 1929, pulp fiction and comic strips merged when pulp heroes
Tarzan and Buck Rogers became popular adventure newspaper
strips.
4. In 1929, Dell Publishing experimented with a comic strip that
appeared in the same form as a pulp magazine- i.e. as a weekly,
softcover magazine.
While sales were poor, the venture inspired others to explore the
commercial potential of comics magazines.
5. In 1937, pulp magazine writer Malcom Wheeler-Nicholson helped
form Detective Comics (DC)
Different from "funny" comic books:
Original material created by freelance cartoonists
More inventive page lay-outs
, Larger panels
Heavier shading
New formula-- crime fighting
6. In 1938, Wheeler-Nicholson partners Harry Donenfeld and Jack
Liebowitz formed Action Comics
Superman appeared that June.
◉ Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.
Answer: Science fiction writers from Ohio who created Superman
Jewish & conscious of their outsider status in American culture
Created outsider characters with alter egos-- i.e. identities they used
while living in the normal world.
◉ Superman.
Answer: 1. Superman was an outsider- an alien in a foreign land--
and he hid his identity behind the persona of the mild-mannered
reporter "Clark Kent"
QUESTIONS AND FULL SOLUTION UPDATED
◉ Dracula.
Answer: A wealthy aristocrat who drained the blood of local
peasants
◉ Frankenstein's monster.
Answer: miserable and abandoned—like many laborers
◉ Frank Capra.
Answer: Italian-American director
Translated his deep love for the U.S. into a vaguely populistic
admiration for ordinary people.
Films often contrasted the decency of small-town America and the
common man with what he considered the grasping opportunism of
the city and greedy capitalist marketplace
Won 3 Oscars for "Best Director" in the 1930s
,Best known films:
It Happened One Night (1934)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
You Can't Take It With You (1938)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
It's A wonderful Life (1946)
◉ Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939).
Answer: Hailed as one of the greatest films of all time
James Stewart starred as "Jefferson Smith," small town good guy
Appointed U.S. Senator by political cronies who hope to control him
◉ Origins of Comic Books.
Answer: 1. The emergence of newspaper comic strips in the 1890s
Most featured serious narrative content but the name "comic" stuck
Term relates to sequential art, regardless of content
2. The rise of the pulp magazine industry in the early 20th century
,Dubbed "pulp" because of the cheap paper that was used to print
them
Usually catered to more offbeat tastes, and were often considered
lurid, sadistic, and grotesque
3. In 1929, pulp fiction and comic strips merged when pulp heroes
Tarzan and Buck Rogers became popular adventure newspaper
strips.
4. In 1929, Dell Publishing experimented with a comic strip that
appeared in the same form as a pulp magazine- i.e. as a weekly,
softcover magazine.
While sales were poor, the venture inspired others to explore the
commercial potential of comics magazines.
5. In 1937, pulp magazine writer Malcom Wheeler-Nicholson helped
form Detective Comics (DC)
Different from "funny" comic books:
Original material created by freelance cartoonists
More inventive page lay-outs
, Larger panels
Heavier shading
New formula-- crime fighting
6. In 1938, Wheeler-Nicholson partners Harry Donenfeld and Jack
Liebowitz formed Action Comics
Superman appeared that June.
◉ Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.
Answer: Science fiction writers from Ohio who created Superman
Jewish & conscious of their outsider status in American culture
Created outsider characters with alter egos-- i.e. identities they used
while living in the normal world.
◉ Superman.
Answer: 1. Superman was an outsider- an alien in a foreign land--
and he hid his identity behind the persona of the mild-mannered
reporter "Clark Kent"
