Who Said What
This character/person describes twilight as a sort of in-between time between night and day.
Who is Twilight Bey.
This form of theatre transcribes and performs the exact language testimony and oral history presented by the people interviewed.
What is Verbatim Theatre
Feminist film critics such as Laura Mulvey have often defined ______ as male.
The producer, the art form, the main character, or the camera's perspective?
What is the camera's perspective.
Whose clothes does Parvana wear after she pretends to be a boy in The Breadwinner?
Who is her older brother.
There are two types of this dramatic element: information that every character knows and information only some characters know.
What is exposition.
This character says, "The play's the thing / Wherein I'll catch the conscience of a king."
Who is Hamlet. (Why does he say this?)
Although Shakespeare's tragedies incorporate some of the elements this philosopher spoke of, his theories of tragedy were not particularly influential in Elizabethan England.
Who is Aristotle.
In Sunset Boulevard, Joe's narration is an example of this type of sound.
What is non-diegetic sound.
When Tiresias warns Creon that his "fate stands on a knife-edge," Creon first responds by...
Striking Tiresias down, accusing Tiresias of speaking falsehoods for money, arresting Tiresias, or accepting Tiresias' prophecy.
What is accusing Tiresias of speaking falsehoods for money.
This term refers to the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group.
Intersectionality.
This activist claims that antiracist action works to create racial equality.
Who is Ibram X. Kendi.
This dramatic structure uses many subplots, characters, and may span a great amount of time and/or locations.
What is episodic.
In Sunset Boulevard, Billy Wilders blurs the lines between real life and fiction by...
Casting real silent-screen actors and faded celebrities, basing the screenplay on the real-life murder of Joe Gilson, having a projection of Rudolph Valentino dancing the tango on the wall during Norma's NYE party, or having Norma Desmond end the film with the first line Gloria Swanson ever spoke during a screen test in 1922.
What is casting real silent-screen actors and faded celebrities.
What character expresses how unsatisfying it is to be idle and housebound just because she is a woman in Rutherford and Son.
Who is Janet.
Part of the Federal Theatre Project of the 1930's, this proposed to dramatize the important social and political issues of the day and called for a specific action to be taken.
What is Living Newspaper.
What is norm.
This term of Aristotle means a change in fortune or a reversal of circumstances, often the turning point of a tragic play.
This is the smallest unit of action in a play or film.
What is a beat.
This character in Hamlet sails to England. Their ship is bested by pirates and they become a prisoner.
Who is Hamlet.
This is a particular structure that features exposition -> Rising Action -> Climax -> Denoument -> Resolution.
This activist-researcher argues in her essay for the 1619 Project that Black people in the United States have consistently been leaders in the expansion of democracy.
Who is Nikole Hannah-Jones.
This form of theatre, film, or television dramatizes actual historical events, focusing on the facts of an event as known, but allowing for a certain amount of dramatic license.
What is docudrama.
Joe's first appearance in Sunset Boulevard depicts him in this location.
What is Norma's pool. (And he's dead.)
The beating of Rodney King and the subsequent acquittal of the officers involved.
This type of realism crafts the inner thoughts, feelings, and (hidden) motivations of characters.
What is psychological realism.