The Birth of a Nation
Director of the 1915 film the Birth of a Nation
D.W. Griffith
During the film, Jakie Rabinowitz undergoes a name change. What is his new name?
Who is Jack Robin
This is the aesthetic technology discussed in chapter 3.
What are light and lighting?
What was the name of the genre of films in the 1970s that gave black filmmakers and actors a chance to tell stories of empowerment and resistance?
blaxploitation
The ethnic ancestry is the Rabinowitz family?
Jewish
This is the earliest type of film stock that was insensitive to red and yellow colors.
What is orthochromatic?
What was the name of the film released in 2018 about a black police officer who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s?
BlackKklansman
The President who had a private viewing of this movie in the White House
Woodrow Wilson
Jakie’s racial caricature of African Americans consists of what element?
Blackface
Western ideals of physical beauty were derived from this country.
What is Ancient Greece?
Who was one famous African American actor in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s?
Clarence Muse or Hattie McDaniel
The actor who used blackface as a way to alienate the viewer
Walter Long
What is the father’s reaction to Jakie coming home on his birthday?
He is unhappy because he does not support Jakie’s life choices
Deployment of light and dark, transparent and substance, female and male, etc. in the context of the over-determinedly translucent image makes a reference to this.
What is light epistemology?
What is the term that is used to refer to the practice of wearing makeup to imitate the appearance of a Black person.
black face
Kitchen Spoon (ladle)
What holiday is the synagogue observing and what song/prayer is traditionally played at the beginning of this service?
Yom Kippur (holiday); Kol Nidre (song/prayer)
This term was derived from an 1854 poem speaking about Victorian society women.
What is “angel in the house”?
What is a type of musical comedy variety show that featured white actors impersonating blacks
Minstrel shows