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America on Film
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is "colorism"? | Favoring people of lighter skin color. |
| Early in our country's history, how was the sexual commingling between different racial and ethnic groups regarded? | It was fairly common. |
| How did we respond to the arrival of poor, Irish, Catholic immigrants fleeing the potato famine in the 19th century? | With the rise of "Nativism". |
| What has been the cost of dividing people by race? | Slavery, genocide, and war. |
| How were African Americans stereotyped in early cinema? | Although some are supportive of their white master, others reflect fears os miscegenation. |
| What was one of the ways "Birth of a Nation" depicted Black characters to make them seem more dangerous and less sympathetic? | Most of them were part of a mob and disconnected from any family. |
| Why did the genre of social problem films about racism develop in America after WWII? | The racism of axis powers prompted the US to look at its own racism. |
| What was one of the most significant controversies surrounding blaxploitation films of the 1970's? | Their presentation of sexy, super cool, drug dealers as role models. |
| What was the most common element defining stereotypes in early cinema? | Mysteriousness. |
| How was the "Dragon Lady" characterized? | She was a spy or a criminal mastermind but also a femme fatale. |
| How did WWII impact the depictions of Japanese on film? | Japanese soldiers were depicted as bloodthirsty villains in order to maintain American support for our troops' participation in WWII. |
| How did Hollywood depict the Vietnam war in the 1970's and 80's? | They were primarily focused on how it impacted America rather than Vietnam or Vietnamese Americans. |
| What defined the "Latin Lover" stereotype? | Sensual, passionate, and exotic with erotic secrets. |
| How was miscegenation between White women and male Latinos viewed? | Permissible if with a Latin Lover, who was seen as "not quite white" but capable of assimilation. |
| What historical event caused a significant shift in the American cinematic depiction of Latinos in Central and South America? | WWII because the US was looking for allies and enlisted Hollywood's aid. |
| What do the textbook writers believe is the future for Latino film culture? | It is uncertain because films with positive depictions of Latinos are counterbalanced by those with negative, fear inspiring depictions. |
| What was one of the primary reasons the revolutionaries sought to overthrow British rule? | They thought that all White men should have equal opportunity to pursue happiness and success. |
| What kind of country is America regarding the connection between class/socioeconomic status and power? | A society where the wealthy have the most privilege and power. |
| What was the Horatio Alger myth and what happened to it in the early 1930's? | The myth features a poor, White young man whose gumption is rewarded with success. In the 1930's these films were often inverted with dark endings. |
| Why do economically struggling groups often promote machismo? | They are trying to stave off potential criticism of their insufficient masculinity because of their lack of wealth. |
| The end of WWII saw the emergence of which prominent film genre? | Film noir. |
| Why were many careers in Hollywood ended in the 1950's? | The red scare and being blacklisted as a suspected communist. There was also a drop in demand with Americans moving to the suburbs and subsequent layoffs. |
| How are working class characters on TV most often portrayed in the 21st century? | They are seen as deserving of their economic situation. |
| The millennials' cynicism as a result of their diminished possibilities in life promoted what kind of films? | Dystopian works of fiction and film. |
| What does John Berger's "Way of Seeing" argue about how we have historically viewed women? | Our visual culture for hundreds of years has taught us to objectify women. |
| The contemporary portrayal of women in mass media and film often communicates what idea? | Women should remake themselves with beauty products to achieve ideal beauty. |
| How is women's power in their cinematic representations contained? | Various body parts are fetishized so they don't seem like real people and their allure is investigated and punished if they aren't on the hero's side. |
| When men are objectified, what else about their characters/the narrative typically qualifies their objectification? | They are "kicking ass" and demonstrating their strength. |
| Two potential outcomes of following traditional masculine ideas are...? | Higher mortality rates than women since boys are taught to endure without complaint and ignore signs of illness. AND. An inability to develop intimate relationships since boys are taught to suppress their emotions. |
| What historical event in the 20th century prompted an intensification of traditional masculinity? | The Great Depression |
| Male protagonists in Film noir struggle to resolve the crisis of their masculinity by doing what? | By manhandling the femme fatales. |
| The sense of entrapment men experience in Film noir is communicated artistically through what devices? | Shots of horizontal blinds, staircases, ceiling fans, shadows, and spiderwebs. |
| How were women often treated by male activists during the civil rights movement? | They were only used as sexual objects. |
| In slasher films, what narrative device demonstrated that the character's destiny was determined by their gender? | Men were killed off screen while women suffered a long and brutal death on screen. |
| What's the defining perspective of third wave feminism? | It claims there is no essential masculinity or femininity, and women have the right to choose whether to be conventionally feminine or not. |
| How does the biological model explain sexuality? | It states that people's sexual orientation is hardwired, i.e. pre existing at birth. |
| Connotative homosexuality most often appeared in which genre? | Horror. |
| What was a "Blue Discharge"? | Homosexuals dishonorably discharged from the Army because of their "mental illness". |
| What was the counterculture of the 1960's focused on? | Love. |
| Prior to the 19th century, disability was typically seen as what kind of phenomenon? | A moral phenomenon. |
| What was the genre that disabled people originally appeared in most frequently? | Horror. |
| What was one of the earliest and most enduring stereotypes characterizing differently abled people? | The Obsessive Avenger. |
| Why did the Nobel Warrior soldier trope shift to the Tragic Victim following the Vietnam war? | People were criticizing the failures of national policy that had led to the tragedies. |
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