Exam 10: Film and Ideology

Contemporary film scholarship reveals that gay and lesbian characters ________.

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

Before Kathryn Bigelow won an Oscar for The Hurt Locker, ________ women had won the Academy Award for Best Director.

"Blaxploitation" films ________.

Following the 1915 release of The Birth of a Nation,________.

John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy (1969)was the first film to depict gay characters.

A self-reflexive film ________.

The House Un-American Activities Committee called on many people in the film industry to testify before congress and provide names of acquaintances who may have been involved with ________.

Female directors in Hollywood were most numerous during the 1910s and the 1920s.

Oscar Micheaux was ________.

When someone analyzes a film in light of its ideological content,the criteria used may be biased by the critic's own political values.

What is a stereotype and what is the relationship between stereotyping and ideology in cinema?

The most important conveyers of a country's ideologies are its laws and its constitution.

A society structured by the ideologies of male supremacy is called a ________.

"Midnight rambles" is the term used to describe events staged by the Ku Klux Klan protesting the exhibition of films sympathetic to African-American causes.

The "Hollywood Ten" were a group of writers and directors who were blacklisted because they gave names to congress of their friends and co-workers who were known to be members of the American Communist Party.

The 1932 film Freaks was banned because the director's decision to have "normal" actors portraying dwarves,siamese twins and people with missing limbs was considered demeaning to the disabled community.

Following __________________,the film industry's depiction of disabled characters became considerably more complex,as evident in films like The Best Years of Our Lives.

Initially black audiences applauded the depiction of aggressive African American men in blaxploitation movies like Shaft and Superfly because these characters challenged the squeaky clean image fostered by Sidney Poitier.

Animated films like Wall-E are able to avoid the pitfalls of gender stereotyping,largely because they don't focus on human characters and thus don't have to adhere to arbitrary standards of 'realism' in terms of character development.