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Question 1: 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 represen... ts an act of _________ and _________ of a black self. Question 2: In chapter 4, David Seelow is quoted as having said that the _________ has become “a weapon more powerful than the gun.” Question 3: 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 ________.” Question 4: 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 _________. Points Awarded: 0/2 Question 5: Tahvildaran Jesswein states that when Sal asks Radio Raheem to turn the music off, he is in essence moving to silence Raheem’s identity. Question 6: 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. Question 7: In John Singleton’s Boyz ‘n the Hood, the black male image is one fashioned and focused on _________ and _________. Question 8: 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. Question 9: John Singleton was influenced by white coming-of-age films like _________ and _________. Question 10: Tahvildaran Jesswein, amongst others, characterizes Gus Van Sant’s My Own Private Idaho as associative, and Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing as _________, in that it strives to promote social transformation through the engagement of difference via a dialogue and a continued discussion or debate outside of the theatre. Question 11: Do the Right Thing is didactic and goes after, in a direct fashion, ________ in U.S. culture and society. Question 12: In Do the Right Thing, Spike Lee plays protagonist _________, a young man who is working only to “get paid” as a delivery boy at _________. Question 13: Recognition does not guarantee a common or universal understanding among different people. Question 14: 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. Question 15: 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. Question 16: In Do the Right Thing, Director Spike Lee juxtaposes the teaching of two historically powerful black leaders. They are _________ and _________. Question 17: Radio Raheem’s boom box or ghetto blaster represents his ________. Question 18: 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. Question 19: Spike Lee’s works, and Do the Right Thing specifically, present the complexities of both black and white identity from a _________ perspective. Question 20: Boyz ‘n the Hood focuses on America’s _________ and a _________ that pervades neglected multiracial or ethnic neighborhoods. Question 21: John Singleton is committed to reclaiming a Black male voice and its rightful partnership in the African American community. Question 22: What song is continually playing on Radio Raheem’s “ghetto blaster”? Question 23: 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. Question 24: 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. Question 25: According to David Seelow, the helicopters in Boyz ‘n the Hood have the effect of a social panoptican mobile enough to transform an entire metropolitan region into an invisible prison. [Show More]

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