3321-02 HUM Final Exam Study Guide
The final exam will consist of 100 total questions (matching, multiple choice, and true/false).
The exam will cover the articles and chapters listed below in addition to the ten films we have
watched. Questions will also come from class lectures.
Articles and Chapters
Belton
Chapter 1: The Emergence of the Cinema as an Institution
Chapter 2: Classical Hollywood Cinema: Narration
Chapter 3: Classical Hollywood Cinema: Style
Chapter 4: The Studio System
Chapter 5: The Star System
Chapter 8: American Comedy
Chapter 9: War and Cinema
Chapter 10: Film Noir
Chapter 11: The Making of the West
Chapter 12: Horror and Science Fiction
Chapter 13: Hollywood and the Cold War
Chapter 14: Hollywood in the Age of Television
Chapter 15: The 1960s: The Counterculture Strikes Back
Chapter 17: Into the Twenty-First Century
Reader Anthology
Chapter 1: Lynn Weber, Conceptual Framework for Understanding Race, Class, Gender,
and Sexuality
Chapter 2: Louis Althusser, Ideology and Ideological State Appartuses
Chapter 3: Stuart Halls Representation, Meaning, and Language
Chapter 4: Judith Andre, Stereotypes: Conceptual and Normative Considerations
Chapter 5: Benedict Anderson, Introduction and Cultural Roots of Imagined
Communities
Chapter 6: Kelli Marshall, Somethings Gotta Give and the Classical Screwball
Comedy
Chapter 7: Barbara Payne and Frank Whittington, Older Women
Chapter 8: Janey Place, Women in Film Noir
Chapter 10: Robert Davis, The Frontiers of Genre: Science-Fiction Westerns
Chapter 12: I. Peter Ukpokodu, African American Males in Dance, Music, Theater, and
Film
Chapter 14: Cesar Cuauhtemoc, No Human Being is Illegal
Chapter 15: Aimee Rowe, Whose America? The Politics of Rhetoric and Space in the
Formation of U.S. Nationalism
Chapter 16: Lisa Marie Hogeland, Fear of Feminism
Chapter 17: Sharon R. Bird Welcome to the Mens Club: Homosociality and the
Maintenance of Hegemonic Masculinity
Films
Chapter 19: Pierre Sorlin, The Cinema: American Weapon for the Cold War
Chapter 20: Paul Boyer, Dr. Strangelove at 40
Chapter 21: Karl Marx, The Destructive Power of Money
Chapter 22: Karl Marx, The Perversion of Human Needs
Chapter 24: Katie Hogan, Creating the Lesbian Mammy
Chapter 25: Lisa M. Diamond, Will the Real Lesbians Please Stand Up?
Chapter 26: Matthew Meleuners, Valuing Student Diversity
Revenge of the Nerds
Somethings Gotta Give
The Big Sleep
Spaceballs
Life
A Day Without a Mexican
Mr. Mom
Dr. Strangelove
Fight Club
Boys on the Side
Belton
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
phonograph
kinetoscope
institution
actuality
decline of nickelodeons
movie going audience between 1896 and 1905
modernist film
role of characters in narration
classical narrative pattern
shot
scene
low-angle shot
high-angle shot
point-of-view editing
sound mixing
three-point lighting
sound editing
major / minor studios in the studio system
blind bidding
block booking
vertical integration
collapse of studio system
typecasting
star
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 17
Anthology
Chapter (Weber)
star 1 actor
fast-talking dame
screwball comedies and Hays Production Code
homoeroticism in the war film
Effect of Vietnam War on war films
role of women in war film
film noir as mode, genre, and series
femme fatale
femme fatale vs. fast-talking dame
role of literature in film noir
film noir iconography (handout)
femme fatale and family
role of literature in the western genre
portrayal of Native Americans in western
eastern woman
tenderfoot
hero in western genre vs. war film (handout)
horror subgenres
horror genre and literature
values at stake in horror film (handout)
purpose of horror and science fiction genres (handout)
Alfred Hitchcocks monsters
Waldorf Statement
science fiction and Cold War
Martin Dies
Hollywood Ten
HUAC
portrayal of Communitsts during Great Depression (Scavenger
Hunt)
home video and second run theaters
cinema attendance after World War II
Drive-In Theater
Decline of Movie Going Audience
Brutal Black and blaxploitation
portrayal of women in blaxploitation films
younger generation of movie goers
1960s film and womens movement
different audiences in the 1960s
definition of independent film
independent films become mainstream
letterboxing
fantasy film
Nostalgia films in 1980s
multicultural issues as power relationships
Chapter 2 (Althusser)
Chapter 3 (Hall)
Chapter 4 (Andre)
Chapter 5 (Anderson)
Chapter 6 (Marshall)
Chapter 7 (Payne and
Whittington)
Chapter 8 (Place)
Chapter 10 (Davis)
Chapter 12 (Ukpokodu)
Chapter 14 (Cuauhtemoc)
Chapter 15 (Rowe)
Chapter 16 (Hogeland)
Chapter 17 (Bird)
Chapter 19 (Sorlin)
Chapter 20 (Boyer)
Chapters 21 and 22 (Marx)
Chapter 24 (Hogan)
Chapter 25 (Diamond)
social psychological level
ideology
purpose of institutions
productive forces
RSA
ISA
Reflective, Intention, and Constructionist Approaches to
Language
characteristics of stereotypes
definition of imagined community
screwball characteristics in Somethings Gotta Give
non-traditional aspects of Somethings Gotta Give
stereotypes of older women
relation of stereotypes to Somethings Gotta Give
femme fatale
spider woman
role of economic security in western and science fiction
frontier in western and science fiction
role of violence in western and science fiction
role of history in western and science fiction
African American roles and Lincoln Motion Picture Company
Sambo
Brutal Black
blackface
illegal immigrants as criminals
racism and immigration law
illegal immigrants as criminals
White race and illegal immigration
definition of feminism
continued relevance of feminism
homosociality
hegemonic masculinity (3 man laws)
definition of newsreel
role of newsreel in Cold War
Soviet portrayal of Americans
Welt im Film
relevance of Dr. Strangelove today
Two Hours to Doom
viewers reaction to Dr. Strangelove in 1960s
alienation
power / role of money in capitalism
human needs
Marx and Fight Club (handout)
lesbian mammy vs. traditional mammy
heterosexuality as valuable in Boys on the Side
lesbian continuum
Chapter 26 (Meleuners)
characteristics of female sexual orientation
behavior/desire and sexual orientation
culture and sexual expression
Recognition
Tolerance
Celebration