Theatre 300
Semester Overview Name: ________________________
BE SURE TO FILL IN YOUR ANSWERS TO THIS TEST AND TURN IT IN TO CLASS!
1.6. PLEASE LIST: THE 6 PARTS OF ARISTOTLE’S POETICS BELOW:
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2. PLEASE DEFINE: IN YOUR OWN WORDS, WHAT ARISTOTILIAN TRAGEDY IS AND HOW YOU
UNDERSTAND IT.
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8. PLEASE DEFINE THE TERM AESTHEITC:
9-12. PLEASE GIVE FOUR EXAMPLE OF MISE-EN-SCENE:
A B. C. D.
13.16. NOVELS EMPLOY A NARRATIVE VOICE TO DESCRIBE IN DETAIL EVERYTHING A READER NEEDS. NAME FOUR ELEMENTS THAT A PLAY AND FILM MAY USE TO EXPRESS THE SAME INFORMATION.
A B. C. D.
17. PLEASE DEFINE: IN YOUR OWN WORDS, DEFINE THE CONCEPT OF VERISIMILITUDEAND WHY IT IS IMPORTANT FOR EXPERIENCING TRAGEDY/NARRATIVE STORYTELLING.
18.19. FINISH THIS STATEMENT: FOR ONE TO EXPERIENCE VERISIMILITUDE,
ONE MUST WILLINGLY ________________________ THEIR ____________________
20. DEFINE: REALISM
21. DEFINE: HYPER-REALSIM
22. DEFINE: ANTI-REALISM
23. DEFINE: SUREALISM
24. DEFINE: DIEGETIC SOUND
25. DEFINE: NON-DIAGETIC SOUND
26. DEFINE: MELODRAMA
27.29. PLEASE LIST: WHAT ARE THE THREE MAIN SETTING QUESTIONS FOR ANALYSING THE GIVEN CIRCUMSTANCES OF A STORY?
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30.33. PLEASE LIST: WHAT ARE THE FOUR MAIN ENVIRONMENT QUESTIONS THAT ARE USED FOR ANALYSING THE CULTURE OF THE GIVEN CIRCUMSTANCES OF A STORY?
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34. PLEASE DEFINE: WHAT IS EXPOSITION IN A NARRATIVE?
35.36. PROVIDE THE NAMES:THE AFRICAN GROVE THEATRE WAS THE FIRST THEATRE TO REPESENT AFRICAN AMERICANS IN NEW YORK. IT WAS FOUNDED BY ________________________ AND ______________________
37-38. PROVIDE THE ANSWERS: THE FIRST PLAY WRITTEN AND PRODUCED BY AN AFRICAN AMERICAN WAS PERFORMED IN THE YEAR: __________________________AND THE PLAY WAS TITLED: ____________________________
39. WHAT YEARS WERE THE PERIOD KNOWN AS THE ANTEBELLUM ERA? ___________________
41-42. ___________________IS A PLAY BY DION BOUCICAULT THAT OPENED IN THE YEAR_____________ THE WINTRER GARDEN THEATRE, NEW YORK CITY.
43.45. ________________________OR, LIFE AMONG THE LOWLY, IS AN ANTI SLAVERY NOVEL BY AMERICAN AUTHOR HARRIET BEECHER STOWE. PUBLISHED IN _____________, THE NOVEL “HELPED LAY THE GROUND WORK FOR THE _________________________”.
46. DEFINE MISCEGENATION
47. DEFINE MISOGYNY
48.50. NAME THREE OF THE DISPARAGING “BLACK PLANTATION’ STERYOTYPES/CHARACTERS THAT WERE USED BY WHITE PERFORMERS IN BLACK FACE.
A. B C.
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53. WHAT YEARS WERE THE PERIOD KNOWN AS THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA? __________________
54. PLEASE DEFINE:JIM CROW LAWS:
55. PLEASE EXPLAIN: “DEJOUR” SEGREGATION
56. HOW WAS THE DEBUNKED SCIENCE OF EUGENICS UNDERSTOOD TO SUPPORT WHITE SUPREMECY?
57. HOW DID THE IDEAS OF THE LOST CAUSE INFLUENCE SOUTHERN CITIZENS DURING THE ERA OF JIM CROW?
58. WHAT ORGANIZATION WAS RESPONSIPLE FOR THE SPREAD AND INFLUENCE OF THE LOST CAUSE IDEALS?
59.62. NAME FOUR INVENTIONS DURING THE 19TH CENTURY THAT HELPED THE BEGINNING OF GLOBALIZATION AND MULTICULTURALISM IN THE U.S
A. B. C. D.
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65.66. NAME TWO MUSICAL STYLES AT THE TURN OF THE 19TH TO THE 20TH CENTURY THAT WERE CONSIDERED DANGEROUS AS IT WAS “BLACK MUSIC”
A. B.
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68. PLEASE EXPLAIN: IN WHAT WAY DID THE STYLE OF VAUDVILLE DURING THE EARLY YEARS OF BROWDWAY HELP TO HIGHLIGHT AND MOVE OUR COUNTRY INTO A MULTI CULTURAL SOCIETY?
69. THE ORIGINAL NAME FOR TIMES SQUARE WAS: _______________________________
70. WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PLAY, IN DAHOMEY?
71. FINISH THIS STATEMENT:
BLACK ARTISTS, WRITERS AND MUSICIANS BEGAN RESPONDING TO THE COMMON RACIST DEPICTIONS OF THEIR ERA AND STARTED CREATING THEIR OWN ARTISTIC REPRESENTATION OF BLACK LIFE AND PHILOSOPHY. THIS PERIOD OF BURGEONING TALENT AND NEW WORK THAT WAS HAPPENING IN NEW YORK WAS KNOWN AS THE __________________________
72. THE ROARING 20’S WAS ALSO KNOWN AS THE ___________AGE
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74. THE GREAT DEPRESSION WAS ALSO KNOWN AS THE ______________________ ERA
75.78. NAME FOUR AFRICAN AMERICAN PERFORMERS FROM THIS SAME MUSIC PERIOD IN THE QUESTION ABOVE.
A. B. C. D.
79.80. NAME THE SUPREME COURT CASE THAT ENEDED SCHOOL SEGREGATION AND THE YEAR IT WAS RULED.
A. B.
81. THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT OF THE 60’S WAS ALSO KNOW AS THE BLACK _____________________ MOVEMENT.
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83. NAME THE AFRICAN AMERICAN PERFORMER WHO IS CREDITED FOR INVENTING ROCK’N ROLL IN THE EARLY 1950’S? ____________________________________
84.87. PLEASE LIST: 4 OF THE MAJOR THEMES FROM A RAISIN IN THE SUN:
A. B. C. D.
88. PLEASE DEFINE: DEFINEASSIMILATIONAS DISCUSSED IN CLASS.
89. PLEASE IDENTIFY AND EXPLAIN: IDENTIFY ONE OF THE MAJOR SYMBOLS FROM OUR CLASS FIILM “DUTCHMAN” AND WHY THE SYMBOL IS IMPORTANT FOR OUR UNDERSTANDING THE THAT PIECE OF CINEMA AND THE FILMAKERS INTENT.
90.91. NAME THE SUPREME COURT CASE THAT ENDED LAWS AGAINST INTERACIAL MARRIAGE AND THE YEAR IT WAS RULED.
A. B.
92.93. IDENTIFY TWO MAJOR THEMES THAT THE BLAXPLOITATION ERA OF FILMS EXPOSED AND OFTEN SENSATIONALIZED?
A. B.
94.97. PLEASE LIST: LIST FOUR MODERN BLACK PLAYWRIGHTS AND AN EXAMPLE/TITLE OF THEIR WORK
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101.103. PLEASE DESCRIBE: DESRIBE THE LOCATION, THE ERA AND THE INDUSTRY THAT BROUGHT SO MANY IMIGRANTS FROM ASIAN COUNTRIES TO AMERICA.
A. B. C.
104. PLEASE DEFINE: DEFINE THE CONCEPT OF YELLOW-FACE AND HOW IT HAS EFFECTED CASTING FOR ASIAN AMERICANS IN THEATRE AND FILM
105.108. PLEASE LIST: LIST FOUR MODERN ASIAN AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS AND AN EXAMPLE/TITLE OF THEIR WORK
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110.111. IN WHAT YEAR WAS THE “PADLOCK” BILL PASSED AND WHAT DID IT DO?
A. B.
112.113. IN WHAT YEAR WAS THE “HAYE’S CODE” ENACTED AND WHAT DID IT DO?
A. B.
114. PLEASE DECRIBE WHAT THE PANSEY CRAZE WAS.
115. WHAT WAS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF CAFFE’ CINO IN NEW YORK IN THE 1950’S
116.119. TWO OFF, OFF BROADWAY ONE-ACT PLAYS WERE PERFORMED AT CAFÉ CINO.
WHAT IS THE TITLE OF THE TWO PLAY’S AND THEIR PLAYWRIGHT?
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C. D.
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122. NAME THE PLAY STARRING IAN MCKELLEN THAT DEALT WITH HOMOSEXUALS DURING NAZI GERMANY_________________________
123. WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE FIRST TWO ACT OPENLY GAY PLAY MOUNTED IN NEW YORK? _______________________________________
124. PROVIDE THE ANSWER: ANGELS IN AMERICA IS A PLAY THAT DEALS WITH WHAT TOPIC?
125. WHO WROTE ANGELS IN AMERICA? ______________________
126.127. NAME TWO TELEVISION SHOWS FROM THE 90’S THAT INTRODUCED HOMOSEXUAL CHARACRERS IN A WAY THAT WERE EMBRACED BY AMERICAN AUDIENCES
A. B.
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129. PROVIDE THE ANSWER: WHAT THEATRE COMPANY WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR RESEACRHING, WRITING AND MOUNTING THE LARAMIE PROJECT? ____________________________
130. PLEASE EXPLAIN: WHAT WAS D.O.M.A. AND WHAT WAS ITS INTENTION?
131. PLEASE EXPLAIN: HOW DID THE EVENTS WITH MATHEW SHEPPARD IN LARAMIE WYOMING CHANGE THE POLITICAL DISCOURSE OF OUR NATION AND THE GENERAL FEELING ABOUT LGBT AMERICANS?
132. IN WHAT YEAR DID THE SUPREME COURT LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE ACROSS THE UNITED STATES? ______________________
133.136. PLEASE LIST: LIST FOUR MODERN LGBTQ PLAYWRIGHTS AND AN EXAMPLE/TITLE OF THEIR WORK.
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139.142. PLEASE LIST: LIST FOUR PLAYS OR FILMS THAT WERE WRITTEN BY LUIS VALDEZ.
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143-146. PLEASE LIST: LIST WHAT YOU BELIEVE TO BE FOUR OF THE STRONGEST THEMES/IDEAS
OF LATINO/CHICANO THEATRE&FILM.
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147-150. PLEASE LIST: LIST FOUR MODERN FEMALE PLAYWRIGHTS AND AN EXAMPLE/TITLE OF THEIR WORK.
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152. WHAT LAW DID PRESIDENT JOHN F KENNEDY SIGN IN 1963 THAT HELPED LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD FOR WOMEN? ________________________
153.154. THE NAME OF THE FIRST APPROVED BIRTH CONTROL FOR WOMEN PILL WAS CALLED ________________ AND WAS RELEASED IN YEAR:________________
155.158. PLEASE LIST: LIST WHAT YOU BELIEVE TO BE FOUR OF THE STRONGEST THEMES/IDEAS
OF WOMEN IN THEATRE & FILM.
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159.162. PLEASE LIST: LIST WHAT YOU BELIEVE TO BE FOUR OF THE STRONGEST THEMES/IDEAS
OF URBAN THEATRE & FILM.
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164. PLEASE DEFINE: DEFINE WHAT GENTRIFICTION IS.
165.167. URBAN DRAMA IS ORIGINALLY A GENRE THAT DEALT WITH THE MIGRATION
OF_______________________ FROM THE ______________ TO THE _________________?
168.170. NAME THREE STYLES OF MUSIC THAT ARE OFTEN ASSOCIATED WITH URBAN DRAMA
A. B. C.
171.174. PLEASE LIST: LIST FOUR URBAN FILMAKER/PLAYWRIGHT AND AN EXAMPLE/TITLE OF THEIR WORK.
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175-180. PLEASE LIST FIVE THEMES THAT THE FILMAKERS OF THE FILM CRASH WERE LOOKING TO
EXPRESS FOR THEOR AUDIENCE(S)
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180-185. PLEASE LIST FIVE THEMES THAT THE FILMAKERS OF THE FILM ZOOTOPIA WERE LOOKING TO
EXPRESS FOR THEOR AUDIENCE(S)
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C
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186.200. PLEASE EXPLAIN: WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE OR MOST INTERESTED TOPIC OF STUDY IN THIS COURSE AND WHY OR WHAT SIGNIFICANCE DID YOU DRAW FROM THE TOPIC/MODULE THAT RESONATED WITH YOU SO SPECIFICALLY?
OPTIONAL EXTRA CREDIT IS WORTH 2 PTS EACH.
UP TP SIX POINT TOTAOL FOR EXTRA CREDIT.
EXTRA CREDIT #1 – DEFINE TRIBALISMAS DISCUSSED IN CLASS.
EXTRA CREDIT #2 – DEFINE GENTRIFICATIONAS DISCUSSED IN CLASS.
EXTRA CREDIT #3 – DEFINE APPROPRIATION AS DISCUSSED IN CLASS.
