Terms
This Hollywood production model idealizes bourgeois values to a passive audience through escapist spectacle and individual characters.
First Cinema
In 1973, this DJ is the first known artist to start scratching at a party in The Bronx.
DJ Cool Herc
The LA Rebellion refers to 1860's to 1980's generation of young African and African-American filmmakers who studied at wich Film School?
UCLA
Ernest Dickerson (HU) was the cinematographer on this 1989 Spike Lee film.
She's Gotta Have It
This actor played the lead role in Shaft (1971).
Richard Roundtree
This political film movement began in the 1960s in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. It was a response to Hollywood and European art cinema, and sought to challenge neocolonialism and capitalism.
Third cinema
This band featured in Sweet Sweetback's Badasss Song
Earth Wind and Fire
Which character narrates Daughters of the Dust?
The unborn child.
The term Donald Bogle uses for the 1980's an era “when films did all they could to make audiences forget the Blackness of a Black star”
The era of tan
This 1980's actor got his start in a band then was cast on SNL.
Eddie Murphy
This technique places both the actor and the camera on dollies and moving them through the set at the same pace, a "floating" or "gliding" effect. Made famous by director Spike Lee
The "double dolly" shot
What controversial song serves as the theme song for Lee’s 1989 film Do the Right Thing?
Fight the power by public enemy
This director made the statement "I disagree with many people about the LA Rebellion. For me, we are a failed experiment. When we worked together, we were innovative...…we graduated into a desert, white kids graduated into an industry."
Haile Gerima
The director of the 1993 film Sankofa.
This 1986 film opens with the following statement- "It's really about control, my body, my mind. Who was going to own it? Them? Or me?"
She's Gotta Have It, Spike Lee (1986)
The first Black actor to become a millionaire.
Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry, better known by his stage name Stepin Fetchit
This documentary filmmaking style that emphasizes captures real-life events with minimal intervention or manipulation, often using handheld cameras, natural lighting, and unscripted dialogue. Also known as "cinema truth" in French.
Cinéma vérité
This 1982 song by Grandmaster Flash describe the stress of inner-city poverty and defined hip hop as movement for social change.
the message
This cinematopher was the DP for Daughters of the dust (1991) and eyes wide shut (1999)
Arthur Jafa
Who ran for office on this platform- “Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”
Ronald Reagan
This actor was known as "the integrationist age hero"
Sydney Poitier
Black feminist scholar Moya Bailey coined this word.
Misogynoir
“The anti-Black, racist misogyny that Black women — and people perceived as Black women — experience”
This actor sings the song "Stormy Weather" in the 1943 film of the same name.
Lena Horne
This director was the first Black woman to receive a major film distribution deal.
Julie Dash
Which director made this statement? “Black men loving Black men is THE revolutionary act”.
Marlon Riggs
The star of The Member of the Wedding (1952).
Ethel Waters