Test One Review
The test will consist of short answer questions. You will have the opportunity to select from four of five options. The following list is intended to provide a guide for studying. Questions on the exam will require critical and analytical thought as well as the integration of information from the course beyond the basic memorization of these terms. Please bring either a large “blue book” or blank sheets of paper on which you can write your responses.
Films
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Office Space
V for Vendetta
Good Night and Good Luck
Birth of a Nation
Long Walk Home
Mississippi Burning
Do the Right Thing
Reader
Thoreau’s “On Civil Disobedience”
Braunwarth’s “Participatory Democracy”
Susan B. Anthony
ERA
Martin Luther King’s “Letters from the Birmingham City Jail”
Parenti
Chapters 1 - 9
Topics
The power of popular films to reinforce/create cultural values
The Theme of Power v. Freedom and how this theme is represented in the films we have seen and the Thoreau reading
Central Conflict and political themes in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
How power imposes its will on individuals and the role of the individuals in the imposition of this power as presented in Cuckoo’s Nest, Office Space, Fight Club, V for Vendetta, Good Night and Good Luck, and Thoreau’s “On Civil Disobedience”
Parenti’s argument regarding “political entertainment” and how such entertainment often “flips history on its head”
The cultural values that Parenti argues are reinforced by “political entertainment”
The degree to which major studio films require a protagonist or hero to portray social movements or hero-against-the-system storylines
The definition of civil liberties
Constitutionalism
Civil Liberties during times of war including the War on Terror
Civil Liberties in V for Vendetta
Civil Rights
History of Civil Rights in the U.S.
Civil Rights and Susan B. Anthony, ERA, Martin Luther King, Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing
The use of the dialectic in Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing
The stereotyped perspectives on race relations in Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing
The depiction of race in films as discussed in class and in the Parenti reading
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