Exam 10: Film and Ideology

Explain why some,like Rupert Everett,argue that contemporary film industry is still biased against openly gay actors,despite the proliferation of gay characters on film and television.

The aim of feminist critics is to focus analysis solely on female characters and films that target female audiences,as it is believed that these have traditionally been ignored in film scholarship.

The feminist filmmaking movement ________.

How did The Birth of a Nation depict the black politicians who ran the South Carolina legislature?

During the 1950s and 1960s,what political movement had a significant impact on Hollywood's depiction of African Americans?

Criticism that examines the ideologies of sexuality may consider films that ________.

Some critics complain that studio-era films like Gone with the Wind and Shirley Temple's childhood films (e.g.,The Little Colonel)are racist because they ________.

Systems of beliefs,values and opinions based on underlying assumptions about the way the world should be are known as ________.

The 1915 release of The Birth of a Nation has been linked to a revival of the Ku Klux Klan organization,whose numbers had been dwindling for more than a decade.

The group of individuals whose careers and lives were interrupted or ruined by having been listed in The Waldorf Statement were known as ________.

The events of the communist "witch hunt" of the late 1940s and early 1950s illustrate that Hollywood strives to be immune to politics.

Robin Woods' analysis of It's a Wonderful Life contends that,"Wonderful Life It's a manages a convincing and moving affirmation of the values (and value)of bourgeois family life." But what is revealed when "disaster releases George's suppressed tensions"?

Using a film that has been screened in class,articulate an ideology that you feel it presents. In what ways does it do this overtly? In what ways does it do this implicitly?

The Edison film The Gay Brothers from 1895 depicts two men ________.

In The Birth of a Nation,African Americans are ________.

The term "celluloid closet" refers to the fact that ________.

Both Million Dollar Baby and Avatar feature disabled central characters. Why do some critics argue they reflect different ideologies of disability?

Which of the following describes the U.S.Congress's House Committee on Un-American Activities (also known as "HUAC")?

________ directed the first African-American feature film.

How does the storyline in Freaks disturb the tendency to identify the disabled as "others"?