Final

Question 1

When did the Stonewall Riots take place?

Answer 1

June 27, 1969, a group of Manhattan police officers set off to close the stonewall inn, a gay bar in the heart of Greenwich village.

Question 2

Rich, “before the beginning: lineages and Preconceptions” & “the new queer cinema”.

Answer 2

New Queer Cinema started in 1980s.

Question 3

1990s Tv Programming Trend?

Answer 3

According to Becker, audiences were broken down by race, class, gender, and especially age. Edgy, ironic shows geared to specific adult tastes - shows that pushed the envelope of TV content and style.

Question 4

What did Julia Represent?

Answer 4

a watershed moment in American TV history and was the first sitcom to place a black character in a sole starring role since 1953.

Question 5

Why was the acceptance of Julia by mainstream white Americans so important?

Answer 5

it demonstrated a simultaneous acceptance of a gradualist racial politics espoused by many NAACP leaders.

Question 6

What were the two potential complaints about Julia?

Answer 6

1. the show didn’t address contemporary black problems
2. it could potentially alienate black audiences.

Question 7

What were the politics in Julia?

Answer 7

Julia misconstrued a person’s actions or intentions, or the racist was an obvious target and marked as out of the ordinary.

Question 8

Talk about Julia.

Answer 8

Even though Julia was representing black people on screen, was it really good representation? the show was made for white people, and it begs the question is bad publicity still publicity?

Question 9

Who coined the term The Final Girl?

Answer 9

Carol Clover; the one who did not die: the survivor, or final girl

Question 10

what are the two endings of The Final Girl

Answer 10

to stay the killer long enough to be rescued or to kill him herself.

Question 11

Characteristics of the Final Girl

Answer 11

virgin, prude, innocent, not like other girls. She is marked as different from the beginning. Also, a little boyish, smarter than the average female.

Question 12

What is the body genre porn?

Answer 12

displays of orgasm, cries of pleasure

Question 13

What is the body genre Horror?

Answer 13

displays of violence/terror, screams of fear

Question 14

what is the body genre melodrama?

Answer 14

displays of emotion/crying/weeping, sobs of anguish

Question 15

This network targeted this demographic?

Answer 15

18-49

Question 16

Ellen’s coming out episode was geared towards what audience?

Answer 16

straight

Question 17

Use of psychoanalysis?

Answer 17

Second wave of feminist film criticism was influenced by psychoanalysis. films can be decoded using psychoanalytic methods.

Question 18

What was the best-known black organization for the 1970s?

Answer 18

NBFO (national black feminist organization)

Question 19

What was the best known native American organization in the 1970s?

Answer 19

WARN (Women of all red nations)

Question 20

Who was the mother of the LaBeija house in Paris is burning?

Answer 20

Peppa LaBeija

Question 21

Who killed someone and put them in their closet in Paris is burning?

Answer 21

Dorian

Question 22

who created vogueing in Paris is burning?

Answer 22

Angie or will?

Question 23

What was the court case about segregation?

Answer 23

1954: Brown v. Board of Education found school segregation unconstitutional