This is what regulated Hollywood films from the mid 1930s until the 1960s.
What is the Production Code?
100
This person is the first black actor to win a Best Actor Oscar.
Who is Sidney Poitier?
100
This is the term currently being used to attract more men to the feminist cause.
What is gender equality?
100
It's just a jump to the left, and then a step to the right. You put your hands on your hips, you bring your knees in tight. But it's the pelvic thrust that drives you insane. Let's do the (BLANK)
What is the Time Warp again?
100
This is the majority of Hollywood films, a blending of relatable storylines and characters with invisible cinematography and editing.
What is classical cinema?
200
This is a set of political and social beliefs influenced by your culture, background, and education.
What is ideology?
200
According to theorist Tom Bogle, this stereotype is usually a subservient, "obedient" black male.
What is a Tom or Uncle Tom?
200
Are there two women talking to each other about something besides a man? Then the film passes this test.
What is the Bechdel Test?
200
Does the film have a LGBT character who is not defined by his or her sexuality? Would the film lose anything if the character were removed? If yes, then it passes this test.
What is the Russo Test?
200
This style of film is characterized by the director's unique and personal vision of the world.
What is formalism?
300
This is a statement about the meaning of a film, a truth about the human condition expressed in at least one complete sentence.
What is a theme?
300
This genre developed in the 1970s and featured strong black male protagonists in films intended for black audiences.
What is blaxploitation?
300
This is Laura Mulvey's theory that the camera films women the way that men see them.
What is male gaze?
300
Rocky Horror is an example of this type of sensibility or tone.
What is camp?
300
This style tries to present the world as honestly as possible with minimal manipulation.
What is realism?
400
This was William Hays' guidelines for what was and was not acceptable in film.
What are "Don't and Be Carefuls"?
400
This 1980s director is often credited with popularizing the Black New Wave in cinema and directed Mo' Better Blues and Do the Right Thing.
Who is Spike Lee?
400
In this era of early Hollywood, women were generally better represented in front of and behind the camera.
What is Pre-Code Hollywood?
400
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's theory states that men can only have socially "acceptable" relationships in film if a woman - love interest, sister - connects them.
What is homosocial desire?
400
In this theory, the director's entire body of work becomes the genre.
What is auteur theory?
500
This (later overturned) Supreme Court case stated that films were not protected under the First Amendment.
What is Mutual Film Corporation v. Ohio?
500
Do the Right Thing features several shots with this angle to foreshadow the tragic ending.
What is a Dutch/oblique/canted angle?
500
This is a form of psychological abuse in which the victim, often a woman in an abusive or unbalanced relationship, is made to doubt her sanity.
What is gaslighting?
500
This is the major event in the civil rights movement for LGBT Americans.
What are the Stonewall Riots of 1969?
500
This style from the 1910s-1920s used surrealistic sets and influenced both the horror and sci-fi genres.