AFAS 371 - Spring 2020

When Run protests his decision to leave his brother and sign with Galaxy, what lyrics and phrases are heard during the sequence? (Select all that apply - There are two right answers)

Chillin' not Illin' You're blind

The cinematic presentation of hip hop culture was based on an altruistic concern to reveal challenges of inner city communities. (pg 7 in book)

False

The few parents shown in the movie seem distant and uncaring about the lives and futures of their children.

False

The motion picture production code of 1930 did allow for some pictures to show sympathy with crime against the law and Justice

False

Many of these techniques, such as sync-sound, location shooting, hand-held camera (or SteadiCam), and grainy film stock are influenced by cinema verite and lend many of the films, especially Straight, Juice, and Menace, a documentary-like _____

Realism

Which group is presented as the most militant black organization in the USA?

The black panthers

What Hollywood film changed the tone of hip hop depictions from dance music/party jams to b-boys as "all attitude"? (top pg 21 in book)

Tougher Than Leather 1988

Therefore, I contend that what is at the foundation of the cinematic construction of the hood in the 1990s is not only an understanding of historical city and the effects of "successive displacements, migrations, movements, and journeys (forced and otherwise)" on its definition, but also an understanding of the _____ of the inner city as shaped by a different set of sociological and political discourse

Tropes

Yet, despite the similarity with their white immigrant counterparts, the business structures in which cinematic and real-life black gangsters operate differ because of the positioning of _____ in African American communities

Women

One thing about rappers, unlike a lot of singers, is that the talents required in rapping lend themselves to acting, in terms of a kind of ______, a kind of mental and verbal agility, a strong sense of presence

charisma

It is important to remember here that while the film may not _____ address the issues of unemployment, many of the rappers it utilizes on its soundtrack - and the gangsta culture in general - rap about the relationship of joblessness and crime

explicitly

The presence of homosexuality demonstrates a black masculinity that is _____ between the heterosexual poles of good and bad

fluid

One of the big _____ is that you are constantly petitioning a selection committee to recognize the merit, whether social or artistic, of the people you want to make the film about. Because nobody on the selection committee comes from that community, however, they don't know it, or they don't ______

frustrations, care

What is the setting when Suge "persuades Eazy E to let members out of their contracts with Ruthless Records? the recording studio Ruthless Records' business office Eazy E's home a concert

the recording studio

What does the letter from the FBI say? (more than one answer) A song in the album encourages violence against law enforcement The law enforcement community takes exception to the song A song in the album is against religion The law enforcement community takes exception a song but respects the right of free speech

A song in the album encourages violence against law enforcement The law enforcement community takes exception to the song

Why doesn't Sal open up a restaurant in his own neighborhood?

All of the above (too many restaurants there, been there 25+ years, no trouble with the people)

I have written elsewhere that hip hop culture did not spring up full grown on its own and that it _____ on other legacies that exist in the culture and the community that we are not always willing to see. Others have noted that hip hop does not exist in a social-cultural ______, that as a part of the larger culture it takes on elements of the larger culture as well

Builds, vacuum

By the late 1970s, the term blaxploitation had come under attack in black communities as "white control and commercialization of the ghetto imagery, while from the white side of the fence it denigrated the idea of black creative control, since, though the bulk of the films were now written and directed by whites, they were still marketed and sold as the original and _____ product of black imaginations"

Control, authentic

According to the film, who comes up with the idea of investing into the music business? Dr. Dre Arabian Prince Mc Ren Easy E Ice Cube

Dr. Dre

In its commodified forms, hip hop has _____ nearly all aspects of American and world visual culture

Energized

Beat Street strongly incorporated extended social commentary while also including the significance of hip-hop clothing, language, and attitudes (top/mid pg 11 in book)

False

Nick, the white cop, says drugs are a black thing - that whites cannot understand it. True False

False

Passive resistance NOT Black Power is seen as the primary and crucial aspect of the 1960s-70s struggle for civil rights

False

Extra credit: Who sued the production of Straight Outta Compton for a false portrayal of him? You are going to have to look this one up. Actor Ice Cube Andre Romelle Young, aka Dr. Dre Former N.W.A manager Jerry Heller

Former N.W.A manager Jerry Heller

What does Eazy E do in an effort to make his AIDS disease profitable for his fans? He writes a letter to them He composes a new song He has a private party and gives a speech

He writes a letter to them

Who is the first person Russell asks to give him $5,000?

His father, the preacher

How does Nino take revenge against the mob? They are lured to wharf and murdered His men shoots members as they are eating outside a café Members are knifed simultaneously by individual members of CMD He bombs a key mob place of business

His men shoots members as they are eating outside a café

The film's most obvious reference to the political context is the inclusion of political posters for Reagan's reelection campaign on the wall bordering a murder scene, which ______ - even momentarily - the conditions in South Central Los Angeles with the Reagan and Bush administrations' virtual abandonment of the inner cities

Link

In the documentary the Black Power mixtape, 1968 was a key year because

Many people had died for the movement

Which of the following is accurate? Nino references white entrepreneur Joe Kennedy who made money by distributing alcohol but was also known as a philanthropist. Nino references black entrepreneur Casper Holstein who made money in a numbers operation but was also known as a philanthropist.

Nino references white entrepreneur Joe Kennedy who made money by distributing alcohol but was also known as a philanthropist.

Mookie works for

Sal

What kind of music plays when Sheila E and Russell make love?

Soul/R & B

The producers of this documentary were (Black Power mixtape)

Swedish

Where does the first formal business meeting held by Nino and his partners take place? Gee Money's home The Money Bar The SpotLight Club The Community Center

The SpotLight Club

Da mayor saves the life of a young boy

True

Hip hop related films from the beginning were linked to an appeal of the exotic and foreign rather than social activism (pg 7 in book)

True

In the 1950s, movies also began to exploring the teenage angst that led to music's appeal (mid pg 8 in book)

True

Male dominance in hip hop expression reflects, for some, the often troubling aspect of gender inequality and even misogyny within hip hop culture. (top pg 24 in book)

True

Mother sister gets a gift of flowers from da mayor

True

Pino likes black celebrities but not black people

True

Sal is very friendly to Mookie's sister Jade

True

What best describes the opening shots in Krush Groove?

Urban scenes of buildings

Soon after the rebellion, however, the helicopters became one of the most identifiable aspects of the department's policing strategies, illustrating its adoption of military technology and exemplifying its ______ from the communities it "protects and serves"

alienation

In the cafe scene between Furious and Reva, what would otherwise be pro-feminist stance is rendered feminist _____ as Reva asserts that by raising his son, the furious has done nothing special, has done nothing that black mothers have not been doing for years

backlash

In terms of rap music and hip hop culture, they want to find ways to move ______ counting the amount of times a particular rapper says the word "bitch" or "ho" to a focus on what they consider to be larger issues and concerns

beyond

Homosexuality is present and ______ from the black man and the black community. This presence and detachment serves two purposes. First, there is the establishment of homosexuality as a deviation from and ________ to heterosexual black masculinity. Class and submerged in a discourse of heterosexual, masculine difference, and is defined, and subsequently undefined, by the removal of homosexuality and the _______ of a good, straight black man from a bad, straight black man, a positive image from a negative image

detached, threat, differentiation

We decided to address our institutional ______ by creating our own institution to give us support

disenfranchisement

When did rap music "carve its way into the airwaves"? (top pg 17 in book)

end of the 1980s

What community service does Nino do after becoming wealthy? he serves food to the community he builds a community center he holds a benefit for an urban hospital he sponsors a hip hop talent show

he serves food to the community

The day is describes as

hot

And when we talk about the ways in which hip hop videos are similar to pornography, we cannot have the conversation without looking at the ways in which pornography has ______ the larger culture as well

infiltrated

A hip hop feminist is more than just someone who likes to listen to rap music and feels conflicted about it. A hip hop feminist is someone who was immersed in hip hop culture and experiences hip hop as a way of life. Hip hop as a culture, in turn, _______ his or her world view or approach to life

influences

In the film, when Ice Cube discusses his contract wtih Jerry, the setting is interior room, dark lighting with several close ups park setting, bright lights and mostly medium shots office building, medium lighting and many long shots

interior room, dark lighting with several close ups

Musically, in terms of dance, dress, language, I think rap is to our generation what _____ was to a previous generation. It's more than music, it's a whole cultural _______ statement

jazz, lifestyle

What has been criticized as a self absorption and an excessive focus on the individual in most hip hop feminist writings is a really is really a genuine concern and a search for _____, particularly what it means to be a young woman in often dangerous urban environments; what it means to be a woman who participates in and loves a culture that doesn't always love you; and how you deal with it when some of the ________ aimed at you becomes internalized and affects how you treat others and how you feel about yourself

meaning, hatred

When did break dancing begin to ebb as the premier element of hip hop? (end pg 15 in book)

mid 1980s

Respectability, as in Kid's responsibility in sexual abstinence and respect to and for his father, defines the ________ of moral codes, what is acceptable and not acceptable, what is good or bad

parameters

What are the three major expressions of hip hop youth culture? Select all that apply. (mid of pg 3 or pg 7 in book)

rapping, break dancing, graffiti writing

By representing rappers as being similar to any other aspiring talents, the movie (Krush Groove) encourages viewer to __ on a fundamental level with the characters

relate

As the film continues, it becomes clear that the premise of the film, Kid's going to the party without his father's consent, is ultimately a _______ of his manhood

test

However, as Jacquie Jones contends in "the new ghetto aesthetic," "unlike rap music that can be seen as a reformulation of popular music ... homeboy cinema does not _____ existing conventions. Instead, it exists as a ______ of sensationalist sensationalist Hollywood formulae"

threaten, modification

A House Party is, in fact, a party given in someone's house, but "to House the party" means to _______ ________ ________, to bum rush it, to take it over

turn it out

The first time the police appear is

when a hydrant goes off