POLITICAL 001 Quiz 4. 25 Questions and Answers.

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Question Results Question 1: One of the most powerful metaphors in Boyz ‘n the Hood is the constant hum of • The police surveillance helicopters Question 2: Colette Lindroth is referenced in... Chapter 4 as saying that “Buggin’ Out has a reasonable request which he communicates with unreasonable force while Sal has a reasonable reservation which he communicates with contemptuous dismissal. Type: True or False True Question 3: Spike Lee has discovered that the image constituted and claimed by the “Other” within a difference circle represents a place and act of resistance, rebellion, and refusal. Type: True or False True Question 4: Not unlike the homeplace(s) and enclave(s) of resistance presented by bell hooks and Jane Mansbridge, the (re)claiming of black identity and stories by black auteurs and actors represents an act of _________ and _________ of a black self. • Resistance; recovery Question 5: Boyz ‘n the Hood focuses on America’s _________ and a _________ that pervades neglected multiracial or ethnic neighborhoods. • Urban corridors; gang violence Question 6: In Chapter 4, Stanley Fish is referenced as saying that problems that are presented in (a) film are not necessarily exposed and explored in order to be solved. Rather, they are meant to be _________. • Experienced Question 7: The way people view this film and how they reconcile the messages regarding violence has a lot to do with a moviegoer’s experiences and memories. Type: True or False True Question 8: Tahvildaran Jesswein states that when Sal asks Radio Raheem to turn the music off, he is in essence moving to silence Raheem’s identity. Type: True or False True Question 9: The competing messages presented in Do the Right Thing illustrate a conflict between two well-known philosophies regarding violence. Those philosophies can be described as violence as a tool in the fight against racism in the protection of the self (self-defense) and non-violence. Type: True or False True Question 10: In John Singleton’s Boyz ‘n the Hood, the black male image is one fashioned and focused on _________ and _________. • Strength; responsibility Question 11: Do the Right Thing is didactic and goes after, in a direct fashion, ________ in U.S. culture and society. • White bigotry and dominance Question 12: Michael Dyson states that Boyz ‘n the Hood opens with both a ________ and ________ in a battle to reinterpret and redeem the Black male experience. • Summary; opening salvo Question 13: Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing is loosely based on the Howard Beach incident – a racial incident in 1986 where a gang of whites attacked three black men and chased them from a Queens pizzeria. Type: True or False True Question 14: Radio Raheem’s boom box or ghetto blaster represents his ________. • Identity/Black Identity Question 15: In Do the Right Thing, Buggin’ Out, a would-be activist attempts a boycott of Sal’s Famous Pizzeria. What is the premise behind the boycott? • A politics of (mis)recognition Question 16: Perhaps the most visible partner and co-author in the Hood is the _________ and the conditions that are created by an exercise of creating and maintaining ________ in urban centers. • Political Economy; drug territories Question 17: The challenge for filmmakers who identify as being on the periphery, as black independent filmmakers, is resisting consumption by a dominant cultural hegemon and all that comes with that domination – socially and politically. Type: True or False True Question 18: According to Tahvildaran Jesswein there are four difficult themes in Boyz ‘n the Hood. They are: 1. The relationship between adult black men and women; 2. Depiction of (a) single Black women; 3. Devastating effects of a crack economy; 4. Public arts policies in Los Angeles. Type: True or False False Question 19: In Do the Right Thing, Director Spike Lee leaves it to the audience to decide what the right thing is or is not. He asks whether the riot at the end of the film is representative of an act of conventional violence or is it _________. • An act of self-defense Question 20: Recognition does not guarantee a common or universal understanding among different people. Type: True or False True Question 21: Tahvildaran Jesswein argues that Spike Lee’s body of work is a revival in many ways of Black Nationalism. In that he is presenting black identity and black film characters through the eyes of a black director, actors, and film crews in resistance to an historical Hollywood depiction of black Americans. Type: True or False True Question 22: Spike Lee had hoped that Do the Right Thing would encourage a _________ on racism that would possibly lead to a better understanding of race and then better race relations. • Black-white dialogue Question 23: Spike Lee’s works, and Do the Right Thing specifically, present the complexities of both black and white identity from a _________ perspective. • Black Question 24: John Singleton is committed to reclaiming a Black male voice and its rightful partnership in the African American community. Type: True or False True Question 25: Thomas Doherty of Film Quarterly claims that Spike Lee is unprecedented in the history of American film; “He makes movies that play in multiplex malls, and that inspire think pieces in ________ and ________.” • The New Republic; National Review [Show More]

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