AMS 205 Test #1

What term refers to the "systematic study of the lifeworld and rituals of a particular community or people"?

Ethnography

"The notion of America's uniquely privileged status, its freedom from the constraints and downturns facing other polities" can be defined as what?

Exceptionalism

What modern horror film by a black director did we discuss as having gothic imagery not dissimilar to other gothic-influenced images and texts?

Get Out

What was the movie about Black Civil War soldiers that Robert A. Rosenstone writes is an example of good use of history in film?

Glory

Who took the photograph of Mrs. Watson

Gordon Parks

Who is the artist for the painting "American Gothic?"

Grant Wood

Who wrote the classic myth and symbol text "Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth?"

Henry Nash Smith

What term "involves the representation of history and our thoughts about it in visual images and filmic discourse"?

Historiophoty

Who wrote the classic beat/road trip novel "On the Road"?

Jack Kerouac

The strategy for analyzing a historical film involves three parts: the genesis, the synopsis, and ______

Judgement

What term refers to "films that are not documentaries and are not necessarily historical in nature, but they may be set in any time period (including present or past, as long as it is not set in the future)"?

Mainstream dramas

Who wrote "The Handmaid's Tale?"

Margaret Atwood

Leo ____ wrote the classic myth and symbol book "The Machine in the Garden"

Marx

Puritans were English people who came to what is now the U.S. for religious freedom. Where did they settle, predominantly?

Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island

What state were the Freedom Summer workers going to register Black voters?

Mississippi

What was the armed struggle by the thirteen British colonies to free themselves from rule by London, fought from 1775 to 1783

The American Revolutionary War

Alan Trachtenberg wrote an influential book on what feat of engineering

The Brooklyn Bridge

What animated sitcom featured an episode satirizing Puritan life?

The Simpsons

What was the "name given to a dominant tendency in American studies following World War II, which sought to identify and examine intellectual or imaginative schemas shared across America"?

The myth and symbol school

What was the name of the PBS documentary we watched for class that was about voting rights

Training for Freedom

What is the name of the American spiritual movement of the early 1800s typified by the belief in the inherent goodness of people and nature

Transcendentalism

What film genre, which experienced a decline starting in the 1970s, is still of interest in American Studies because of its exploration of U.S. identity?

Westerns

In ________ studies a scholar might combine social sciences and the humanities to approach texts like Breaking Bad, Succession, and other works

television

What is the connection between the PBS documentary we watched for class and Miami University

the Freedom Summer training took place on what is now Miami University's western campus, originally Western College

Who wrote our textbook?

Andrew Dix

What is the "non-hierarchical movement for racial justice in the United States and beyond, founded in 2013 by three African American women"?

Black Lives Matter (BLM)

From what three branches of influence did American Studies emerge

British cultural studies, American history, and American literature

What word, "as a term in literary studies refers to a body of fiction, poetry, drama, and other writing deemed worthy of serious engagement by scholars"?

Canon

Bartolome de la Casas wanted America to be called "Columba" after whom?

Christopher Columbus

While American Studies first developed institutionally as a manifestation of ____ War politics, the history has been contested in recent years.

Cold