Sports Movies: Genre Theory (Part 2)

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Why is the sports movie called an "incoherent genre" in the slides?

It spans comedy and tragedy, popular and art cinemas, and historical and contemporary subjects
It has no protagonists
It only covers documentaries
It is limited to biopics

What is Wiedenfeld's definition of a sports movie?

A film about the history of sport
A film whose protagonists inhabit the world of sports (athlete, coach, agent, fan)
A film shot at a sporting event
A film where a team wins

Which view of genre do sports movies challenge, per the syllabus?

Auteur theory
The semantic/syntactic view of genre
Apparatus theory
Realism

Whose concept of action relating body to community informs the course?

Hegel
Bellah
Hannah Arendt
Habermas

What three questions open the slides?

What is the aesthetic value of sports, sports media, and sports movies?
What is the economic value of sports, media, and movies?
What is the political significance of sports, sports media, and sports movies?

Who first proposed civil religion to secure a social contract (Gorski)?

Bellah
Rousseau
Hegel
Alexander

In what year do the slides date Rousseau's civil religion?

1967
1835
1762
2006

Which is NOT a feature of Rousseau's civil religion (slides)?

Sacred social contract
Common morality
Religious intolerance required
No religious intolerance

Who injected civil religion into modern sociology?

Rousseau
Robert Bellah
Philip Gorski
Durkheim

What is the title and year of Bellah's civil religion essay?

"Civil Religion in America," 1967
"The Civil Sphere," 2006
"American Covenant," 2017
"Civil Repair," 2025

How did Bellah first define civil religion?

The state's control of churches
A replacement for organized religion
The "religious dimension" of the "political realm"
The rejection of religion in politics

How did Bellah later define civil religion?

A set of ritual laws
The "founding myth" of a political community interpreting its history in light of transcendent reality
A form of religious nationalism
A neutral public square

Is Bellah's civil religion voluntary or compulsory?

Compulsory
Voluntary

Is Bellah's civil religion more scriptural or more ritual?

More scriptural
More ritual

Does Bellah's civil religion replace organized religion?

Yes, entirely
Yes, in public life
No, it exists alongside and is differentiated from the churches
It only replaces Protestantism

What is the major weakness of Bellah's definition, per Gorski?

It is too ritualistic
It does not clearly separate civil religion from religious nationalism
It is compulsory
It ignores the Bible

Who wrote "The Civil Religious Tradition and Its Rivals"?

Robert Bellah
Philip Gorski
Jeffrey Alexander
Michael Thomas

How does the week 1 slide sum up American civil religion?

Union of church and state
Total separation of religion and politics
Separation of church and state, but sacredness of the state
Rule by the churches

Which is NOT one of the three "sacred beliefs in practice" on the slides?

Remember great actions and persons
Revere special icons and words
Prohibit all public ritual
Recite texts and rehearse ideas

What image illustrates American civil religion in the slides?

Lincoln Memorial
JFK lying in state
Washington crossing the Delaware
The Liberty Bell

What image illustrates Rousseau's civil religion in the slides?

The storming of the Bastille
A papal procession
Voltaire's remains moved to the French Pantheon
Napoleon's coronation

What does the Canadian civil religion slide show?

Parliament Hill
The Princes' Gates, inaugurated 1927 by Princes George and Edward
A hockey arena
The CN Tower

What is the horizon of "world civil religion" for Bellah?

Economic growth
Cultural homogeneity
Global peace
Military alliance

Which symbols appear on the "world civil religion" slide?

Only national flags
Flags of the U.N., I.O.C., and Pride progress, peace sign, world religion symbols
Only religious symbols
Corporate logos

What two views of "religion" and "ritual" does week 1 contrast?

Ancient versus modern
Irrational beliefs that deceive and control versus forms of social organization and collective feeling
Private versus public
Christian versus secular

What are Gorski's three rival traditions?

Republicanism, liberalism, socialism
Civil religion, religious nationalism, radical secularism
Prophetic religion, apocalypticism, atheism
Civil sphere, state, economy

What does religious nationalism want between religion and politics?

Total separation
Partial overlap
Maximum fusion

What does radical secularism want between religion and politics?

Maximum fusion
Partial overlap
Total separation

What does civil religion want between religion and politics?

Maximum fusion
Total separation
Partial overlap

What two sources feed American civil religion (Gorski)?

Conquest narrative and apocalypticism
Libertarian liberalism and total separationism
Prophetic religion and civic republicanism
Rousseau and Hobbes

What two sources feed religious nationalism?

Prophetic religion and civic republicanism
The conquest narrative and apocalypticism
Libertarian liberalism and total separationism
Utilitarianism and atomism

What two sources feed radical secularism?

Libertarian liberalism and total separationism
Conquest narrative and apocalypticism
Prophetic religion and republicanism
Canon and archive

Which biblical books ground the conquest narrative?

Amos, Isaiah, Jeremiah
Joshua, Judges, and Kings
Genesis and Exodus
Matthew and Mark

Which biblical books ground prophetic religion?

Joshua, Judges, Kings
Revelation and Daniel
The Latter Prophets (Amos, Isaiah, Jeremiah)
Leviticus

What does the God of the prophets demand instead of blood sacrifice?

Conquest
Obedience in war
Individual righteousness and social justice
Silence

What does blood sacrifice mark in Gorski's argument?

The birth of republicanism
Divergence of prophetic religion and the conquest narrative
The end of the Exodus
The rise of secularism

What is Gorski's formula for American religious nationalism?

Prophetic religion plus civic republicanism
Apocalyptic politics plus the conquest narrative
Libertarianism plus separationism
Canon plus archive

What is Gorski's formula for American civil religion?

Conquest narrative plus apocalypse
Individualism plus utilitarianism
Prophetic religion plus civic republicanism
Liberalism plus secularism

How does the apocalyptic worldview read scripture?

Allegorically and symbolically
Predictively, literally, premillennially, and vindictively
Historically and critically
Postmillennially

Which is NOT one of Gorski's four dangers of apocalyptic nationalism?

Hubris
Demonization of others
Fatalism
Excessive civic virtue

What is religious nationalism to civil religion, per Gorski?

Its opposite
Its dark side
Its ancestor
Its replacement

What is radical secularism to civil religion, per Gorski?

Its dark side
Its source
The libertarian version of civil religion
Its ritual form

Which of Gorski's traditions arrived first in America?

Radical secularism
Religious nationalism
Civil religion, with the Puritans

Where was religious nationalism born, per Gorski?

In the French Revolution
Out of the Puritans' wars with native peoples
In the Civil War
In the Progressive Era

How do republicans see human nature (Gorski)?

Unsocial and rapacious
Inherently social and political
Driven only by exchange
Presocial

How does liberal freedom differ from republican freedom (Gorski)?

Liberal: being an active citizen
Liberal: not being interfered with
Liberal: not being a slave to passions
Liberal: virtue

What does Gorski call the greatest danger to civil religion today?

Religious revival
Secular decline
The weakening of civic republicanism
Prophetic religion

What are the four elements of a tradition (Gorski)?

Canon, creed, ritual, narrative
Text, image, rite, myth
Canon, archive, pantheon, narrative
Scripture, saint, hymn, rite

What is a "canon" for Gorski?

Widely known and read texts that focus civic debate
Heroes and martyrs
Stories not yet incorporated
An interpretation of the past

What is a "pantheon" for Gorski?

A set of texts
An interpretation of the past
The founders, heroes, saints, and martyrs of civic life
Unincorporated stories

What is a "narrative" for Gorski?

Heroes of civic life
An interpretation of the past that generates a vision of the future
A set of texts
A set of rituals

What is an "archive" for Gorski?

Famous founders
The Constitution
Texts, persons, and stories not yet in the tradition but possibly incorporated later
A ritual calendar

Who sits at the apex of Gorski's pantheon?

Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln
King, Lincoln, Washington
Lincoln, Reagan, King
Paine, Jefferson, Madison

Which biblical story models many American civic narratives?

Noah's flood
The Exodus
The Crucifixion
Revelation

Which Obama speech does Gorski quote?

The 2004 convention speech
The inaugural address
The 2008 "race speech"
The Selma speech

How did African Americans retell the Exodus by the Civil War?

As a story of conquest
They were the chosen people and white Americans the Egyptians
As an apocalypse
They rejected it

Which chapter by Wiedenfeld is on the week 1 syllabus?

"Multicultural American Heroes" on Obama-era biopics of Robinson and Owens
"Egalitarian Women and Sideline Men"
"Hegel and Ethiopia"
"Sports Queen"

Who directed 42 (2013)?

Stephen Hopkins
Brian Helgeland
Hugh Hudson
Kon Ichikawa

What themes does Wiedenfeld list for 42?

Marxism and feminism
Christian evangelicalism, liberalism, libertarianism
Nationalism and fascism
Modernism and realism

Who directed Race (2016)?

Brian Helgeland
Stephen Hopkins
Peyton Reed
Hugh Hudson

Which mix of nationalities made Race (2016)?

All American
Canadian producers and star, German producers and settings, USA subject, British director
Only British
Japanese and German

What two ideas head week 2 ("The Power of Ritual")?

Sport is play
Heroes fail
Rituals ingrain orderly conduct
songs and poems praise heroes
Law replaces ritual

Whose classical views are studied in week 2?

Hegel and Rousseau
Bellah and Gorski
Confucius and Plato
Plato and Aristotle

When are the Analects dated, and who translated the course edition?

About 500 BC
Burton Watson
About 100 BC
Burton Watson
About 500 BC
R. G. Bury
About 347 BC
T. M. Knox

What are the Analects, per the slide?

A legal code
Conversations with Master Kong of the Ru school
A military manual
A Han dynasty history

What period does the slide place Confucius in?

The three ancient dynasties
The Han Dynasty
Feudal clans at war, about 500 BC
The Qing dynasty

What does the slide date to Emperor Wu?

About 500 BC
About 1000 BC
About 100 BC (Han Dynasty)
About 347 BC

For Confucius, poems are the best means to what (slide)?

Winning wars
Orderly communities
Individual freedom
Wealth

What does Analects 2.1 compare virtuous government to?

A river
The North Star with other stars paying court
A builder's prop
A chariot

What does Analects 2.2 say the Odes sum up to?

"Know thyself"
"Be filial"
"Think nothing base"
"Follow the Way"

In Analects 2.3, what follows guiding by virtue and ritual?

People evade the law
A sense of shame and uprightness
Fear of penalties
Strict obedience

What year do the slides date Plato's Laws?

427 BC
510 BC
347 BC
380 BC

What dates do the slides give Plato?

510-323 BC
427-347 BC
380-347 BC
1000-500 BC

What did Plato found and when?

The Academy in Athens, 380s BC
The Lyceum, 340s BC
A colony on Crete, 347 BC
The Olympic Games, 776 BC

Which places does the slide say Plato traveled to?

Persia and India
Egypt and Sicily
Rome and Gaul
Sparta and Crete

What two things do sports do for Plato (week 2 slide)?

Entertain and unite
Form lawful citizens and cultivate excellence
Win wars and honour gods
Make profit and fame

Which book of Plato's Laws is studied, and where is the city set?

Book I, Athens
Book VII, a new city on Crete
Book X, Sparta
Book VII, Egypt

Who is educated in Laws VII?

Boys only
Nobles only
Children of both sexes
Soldiers

How does Plato describe ancestral customs (§793C)?

Like a river
Like builders' props that wrap up the laws
Like chains
Like a mirror

Which people's method does Plato cite for dance, music and sacred feasts?

Spartan
Persian
Egyptian
Cretan

How do mothers calm sleepless children (§790C)?

With silence
With food
With combined movements of dance and song
With games

What are Plato's early education stages?

0-6 school
0-3 nurses, 3-6 games at village temples, 6+ lessons separated by sex
0-3 mothers, 3-6 temples, 6+ army
All together to age 10

Why do children's games matter for legislation (§797B)?

They exhaust children
Unchanging games let the serious laws remain undisturbed
They teach combat
They honour gods

What do gymnastic and musical lessons train (§795E)?

Gymnastic: soul
musical: body
Gymnastic: body
musical: soul
Both: body
Both: soul

Which two kinds of dancing does Plato list?

Sacred and profane
Pacific and warlike
Male and female
Slow and fast

Do girls get military training in Plato's Laws (§794D)?

No
Only in Sparta
Yes, riding, archery, javelin and slinging alongside boys
Only dancing

Which warrior women appear on Plato's slide?

Amazons
Spartans
Sauromatian women
Athenians

How does Plato divide music between the sexes (§802-03)?

Same music for both
Noble and manly is masculine
decorum and sedateness feminine
Women get no music
Men get only hymns

What life deserves the name "life" for Plato (§807C-D)?

A life of leisure
A life of war
One aiming at a Pythian or Olympian victory, caring for bodily and spiritual excellence
A life of trade

Whom does Plato say to praise in hymns (§801D)?

Living athletes
Gods first, then daemons and heroes
Only kings
Only ancestors

Why is it unsafe to praise the living (§802A)?

They are proud
They have not completed life and reached a noble end
They are rivals
They are foreign

Who shares honours for excellence in Plato (§802A)?

Men only
Citizens only
Women as well as men
Soldiers only

What does sober music do (§802C)?

Weakens the soul
A man reared on it detests the opposite kind as "vulgar"
Makes him fearless
Makes him idle

What is the week 2 summary on Plato and heroes?

Heroes weaken communities
Stories of heroes cultivate resilient and orderly communities
Heroes should be forgotten
Heroes belong to gods

Who directed Tokyo Olympiad and who produced it?

Hugh Hudson, Allied Stars
Kon Ichikawa, IOC/Toho
Leni Riefenstahl, Olympia-Film
Sun Yu, Lianhua

What was week 2's in-class prompt on Tokyo Olympiad?

Compare it with Olympia
A moment Confucius would approve or disapprove of
Its portrayal of women
Its use of sound

What was week 2's in-class prompt on Plato?

Two reasons Plato's Athenian thinks ideal citizens should play sports
Plato's view of poetry
Plato's view of war
Plato's view of law

What is Hargreaves's Sport, Power and Culture (1986) about?

A social and historical analysis of popular sports in Britain
The Olympic Games
American baseball
Sport in film

What does the week 3 slide call Victorian sport?

A working-class rebellion
A ritual for the bourgeois ruling class, 1830-1900
A religious rite
A military drill

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What was the week 3 slide question?

Why did sport become a film genre?
Why did sport become a modern social practice?
Why did sport become professional?
Why did sport become global?

101

Who was Rugby headmaster 1828-42?

Thomas Arnold
Eric Liddell
Harold Abrahams
Hugh Hudson

102

What was Arnold's aim, per Hargreaves?

Train athletes
Train soldiers
An enlightened ruling class of "Christian gentlemen"
Train teachers

103

What did Arnold want his men to resist?

Christianity
The greed and vulgarity of industrialists and socialist claims of the oppressed
Public schools
Amateurism

104

What is "noblesse oblige" in Hargreaves's account?

Inheritance of rank
Privileged men earn position by duty and restrained conduct as an example to the lower orders
Free service to the poor
Military honour

105

What happened to those who did not fit Arnold's world?

They were retrained
They were ruthlessly excluded
They were promoted
They were ignored

106

What did the "Christian gentleman" give primacy to?

The intellect
Athletic skill
Moral excellence and character training without neglecting the intellect
Wealth

107

What were English "public schools" (slide)?

Free state schools
Fee-paying boarding schools not restricted to nobility
Noble-only academies
Church schools for the poor

108

Which is NOT one of the four features of "rational ritual" sport (slide)?

Rule-governed
Team loyalty
Moral excellence
Professional payment

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What does "amateur" connote versus "professional"?

Amateur: working class
Amateur: ruling class
professional: lower-class mechanics, artisans, labourers
Both: ruling class
Both: working class

110

What are the two phases on the week 3 slide?

1800-1830 and 1900-1930
1830-1875 bourgeois sport established
1880-1914 extended to working class
1750-1800 and 1800-1850
1914-1945 only

111

What does the YMCA (1880s) illustrate?

Professional sport
A civilizing mission
Women's sport
Military training

112

Which is NOT in "rational control of play time" on the slide?

Settlement houses
Boys' clubs
Boy Scouts
Professional leagues

113

What example of "sport for ladies" appears on the slide?

Roedean Public School for Girls, 1885
The Girl Guides
Wimbledon
Rugby School

114

What was week 3's in-class prompt on Hargreaves?

Why elite British schools in the Victorian Era instituted sports
Why sport became professional
Why women played sport
Why sport spread to colonies

115

Who financed Chariots of Fire (slide)?

The BBC
Mohamed Al-Fayed and Dodi Fayed
Warner Bros only
The Olympic Committee

116

Who directed Chariots of Fire?

Brian Helgeland
Stephen Hopkins
Hugh Hudson
Kon Ichikawa

117

Which 1924 Olympians does the slide list for Chariots of Fire?

Jesse Owens and Jackie Robinson
Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams
Abebe Bikila and Jesse Owens
Eric Liddell and Thomas Arnold

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What question does the slide ask about Chariots of Fire?

Who financed it?
What meaning does the film convey for the UK in 1981?
Is it an epic?
Is it classical?

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Who was Hegel, per the slide?

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 Stuttgart to 1831 Berlin
Plato, 427-347 BC
Rousseau, 1712-1778
Weber, 1864-1920

120

When are Hegel's Lectures on Aesthetics dated on the slide?

1762
1842
1835
2015

121

Which thinkers did Hegel's idealism influence (slide)?

Plato and Confucius
Kierkegaard, Marx, Adorno, Eisenstein
Bellah and Gorski
Hansen and Rea

122

What is reason for Hegel (slide)?

Calculation
Self-aware spirit that has freedom
Natural instinct
Faith

123

Which is higher for Hegel: artistic or natural beauty?

Natural beauty
Artistic beauty

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What do nations deposit in works of art, per Hegel?

Their wealth
The profoundest intuitions and ideas of their hearts
Their laws
Their armies

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What does art do, per the slide?

Denies the senses
Replaces thought
Renders ideas in sensuous forms
Copies nature

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What is "pathos" (πάθος) for Hegel?

A form of fear
A lyric mood
An inherently justified power over the heart, the true centre of art
A kind of plot

127

What gives character "living interest," per Hegel?

Simplicity
Heroism
Many-sidedness
Virtue

128

What are Hegel's three types of poetry on the slide?

Tragedy, comedy, satire
Epic, drama, lyric
Ode, ballad, hymn
Myth, saga, fable

129

What is the epic, per Hegel (p. 1045)?

A private lyric
A stage drama
The Saga, Book, Bible of a people expressing its original spirit
A philosophical treatise

130

What does the epic still demand (p. 1046)?

Moral lessons
An immediate unity of feeling with action
Poetic meter
A single hero's death

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What does the epic imply a belief in (slide)?

Individual genius
National character
Divine right
Progress

132

What does the epic hero embody (slide)?

His own passion
The spirit of a people
Divine wrath
Class interest

133

What is a genuinely epical event (Hegel p. 1051)?

A single casual deed
An accident
An action ramified into its whole age and national circumstances, portraying the world in its entirety
A private conflict

134

Which epic does the slide give as an example?

The Iliad
The Ramayana
Beowulf
The Odyssey

135

What question closes the week 4 slides?

Can sports movies be tragedies?
Can sports movies be epics?
Can sports movies be modern?
Can sports movies be civil?

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What was week 4's in-class prompt on Hegel?

Is pathos individual?
Could Hegel's epic poem be a movie? Give two reasons
Is art higher than nature?
Is the lyric a movie?

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What was week 4's in-class prompt on The Athlete?

Its use of music
How it is oriented to Ethiopians living abroad, one formal and one story aspect
Its portrayal of Haile Selassie
Its festival awards

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Who wrote "Contesting Visions of Ethiopia in Two Amharic Sports Films"?

Hargreaves
Hansen
Michael W. Thomas
Hasan Gurkan

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Which two films does Thomas compare?

Offside and The Athlete
The Athlete and Yenegen Alweldim
Race and The Athlete
Yenegen Alweldim and Lagaan

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What is Amharic, per Thomas?

A religion
The official working language of Ethiopia
An Ethiopian dynasty
A film studio

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What does Thomas say about Ethiopia in Africa?

Largest and colonized
Second most populous and only African nation to maintain sovereignty against European colonialism
Smallest and independent
Ruled by Italy

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How many ethnolinguistic groups does Thomas say Ethiopia has?

About 10
About 40
Over 80
Over 200

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What sport gave Ethiopia world power status since the 1960s (Thomas)?

Football
Boxing
Middle- and long-distance running
Cycling

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When did Ethiopia's commercial film industry become established, per Thomas?

1960s
1991
Early 2000s
2009

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Which Higson claim does Thomas question?

That film is classical
That a stable national identity succeeds only by suppressing internal differences
That sport is political
That Amharic is dominant

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What does Thomas say sporting success does in Ethiopia?

Divides ethnic groups
Unites peoples of different ethnic groups and religions behind national athletes
Replaces religion
Weakens the state

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What dates does the slide give for the Ethiopian Empire and Haile Selassie?

Empire 1855-1991
Selassie 1855-74
Empire 1855-1974
Selassie 1916-74
Empire 1916-74
Selassie 1991

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When was Ethiopia's multi-ethnic federal state established?

1855
1916
1974
1991

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Who directed The Athlete and what kind of production was it?

Hudson, UK
Rasselas Lakew and Davey Frankel, USA-Germany-Ethiopia
Panahi, Iran
Ichikawa, Japan

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Who is The Athlete's subject, per the poster?

Haile Selassie
Eric Liddell
Abebe Bikila, first Olympic marathon double gold medallist
Jesse Owens

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Which audience was The Athlete aimed at, per Thomas?

Local Ethiopian cinema-goers
Amharic speakers only
A global audience
Festival jurors only

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What language is The Athlete's voice-over?

Amharic
English
German
French

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How does The Athlete represent Ethiopia, per Thomas?

Critically
Hegemonic, nostalgic national culture through Bikila and highland vistas, countering negative stereotypes
Through ethnic division
Through politics

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How successful was The Athlete on the festival circuit?

A few festivals
Banned
Over 40 festivals and 14 awards
One award

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How did Rasselas Lakew describe himself?

A local Ethiopian filmmaker
A British filmmaker
"More of an American filmmaker," 14 years in New York
A German producer

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Who is Jeffrey C. Alexander, per the slide?

Author of American Covenant
Author of The Civil Sphere (2006), student of Bellah
Author of Hegel's Aesthetics
Teacher of Bellah

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What tradition does Civil Sphere Theory draw from?

Marxist
Weberian
Late Durkheimian
Foucauldian

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What question motivates CST?

How does capital shape society?
How can belief in democracy act as a social force?
How do states form?
How does ritual deceive?

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What does CST say modern societies are structured by?

Only economy and state
Only religion
Economic and political forces and a solidary civil sphere
Only culture

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What is the civil sphere (slide)?

The state
The market
A collective feeling of democratic solidarity with real force
A church

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Which is NOT a non-civil sphere for Alexander and Horgan?

Economy
State
Family
Civil

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Which are the civil qualities (slide)?

Dependence, irrationality, dishonesty
Autonomy, rationality, honesty, cooperativeness
Loyalty, faith, love
Wealth, power, status

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Which are the anti-civil qualities (slide)?

Autonomy, rationality, honesty
Dependence, irrationality, dishonesty, selfishness, aggression
Autonomy, aggression
Cooperativeness, honesty

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Why is civil discourse "dangerous"?

It is irrational
It is binary, purifying and polluting, so it includes and excludes
It is violent
It is secret

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What are "primordial" qualities (slide)?

Universal civil virtues
Non-democratic traits of founding groups mistaken as essential
Economic traits
Religious doctrines

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What exclusion examples does the slide give?

Catholics and Muslims
Scots and Jews, and women
Workers and farmers
Immigrants only

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Who founded America's civil sphere, per Alexander?

Women and Catholics
White, male, heterosexual Anglo-Saxon Protestants
Indigenous peoples
Immigrants

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What triggers civil repair (Alexander and Horgan p. 16)?

Economic growth
Strains from contradictions between founding primordial qualities and non-civil pressures
War
Elections

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What is the slide goal of "repairing solidarity"?

Narrow membership
Restore tradition
Expand membership
Abolish spheres

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What is "frontlash"?

Advancing the civil sphere and expanding civil recognition
Subordinating the civil sphere
Narrowing recognition
Banning movies

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What is "backlash"?

Expanding recognition
Advancing the civil sphere
Subordinating the civil sphere to other spheres and narrowing recognition
Repair

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How does civil repair work, per Alexander (2025)?

Through violence
Activists pollute the old order as anti-civil and communicative institutions spread the critique
Through ritual
Through the market

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Which are examples of civil repair?

Klan and Jim Crow
Feminists, Black civil rights activists, Dalit protesters
Nazism
Trumpism

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Which institutions communicate civil judgments?

Courts and parties
Police and army
Journalists, filmmakers, novelists, associations, polling
Banks and firms

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What are the civil sphere's regulative institutions?

Journalism, film, polling, novels
Voting, law, office, political parties
Church, family, market
Army, police

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What is "whiplash" in civil repair?

A form of repair
Losses and broken hearts among those on the losing side of progress
A film technique
A regulative institution

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Which are backlash examples Alexander gives?

Weimar and Reconstruction
KKK and Jim Crow, Nazism, right-wing populism or Trumpism
Feminism and civil rights
Fabian socialism

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What did Alexander say Weber ignored?

Bureaucracy
Secular civic republicanism and the cultural foundations of democracy
Capitalism
Protestantism

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What is Alexander's critique of Marx, Weber, Foucault, Bourdieu, and Bauman?

They ignore economics
Their critical theories are one-sided and miss the democratic thread of modern life
They are too normative
They are too optimistic

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What do movies do in the civil sphere (Alexander and Horgan p. 6)?

Deceive citizens
Social performances representing solidarity through meaningful structures of feeling
Replace journalism
Serve the state

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What does the week 5 slide ask of movies?

Who watches them?
How do state, economic, and other spheres affect production and exhibition?
Are they classical?
Are they epics?

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What is the title of Alexander's companion volume to Civil Repair?

The Civil Sphere
Civil Religion
Frontlash/Backlash
Civil Whiplash

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Who directed Offside (2006)?

Sun Yu
Jafar Panahi
Hugh Hudson
Rasselas Lakew

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What does Offside's poster say about women in Iran?

They may attend with escorts
They are banned from men's sporting events
They may attend freely
They may play football

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Which event does Offside's poster mention?

Iran beating Bahrain in 2005 to qualify for the World Cup (June 2005); Iran winning the 1998 World Cup; Iran hosting the World Cup; Iran losing to Japan

186

Which award did Offside win, per the poster?

Golden Palm
Oscar
Silver Bear (Berlin)
Golden Lion

187

What was week 5's in-class prompt on Offside?

Compare it with Challengers
Why an Iranian censor might approve it
and an instance of civil sphere versus a non-civil sphere
Its use of sound
Its ending

188

Who wrote "Cinema as an Alternative Media: Offside by Jafar Panahi"?

Ali Jaafar
Hasan Gurkan
Michael Thomas
Miriam Hansen

189

Who wrote the Sight and Sound pieces on Panahi and Iranian cinema?

Hasan Gurkan
Ali Jaafar
Christopher Rea
André Loiselle

190

What does the slide say classical cinema is?

Fragmented and shocking
Systematic production and storytelling with unity, harmony, transparency
High modernism
Documentary only

191

What question opens the vernacular modernism slides?

Is cinema art?
Is mainstream cinema classical art, or modern art?
Is cinema political?
Is cinema national?

192

What does the slide say modernity involves?

Rural tradition
Industrial and social revolution, and sensory mediation (not natural)
Natural experience
Religious revival

193

Which modern themes mark Shanghai cinema (slide)?

Rural harmony
City/country antithesis and women characters symbolizing contradictions of modernity
Only war
Only comedy

194

Who wrote "Fallen Women, Rising Stars, New Horizons"?

Christopher Rea
Miriam Bratu Hansen
Sun Yu
Stefan Hübner

195

What does Hansen say Queen of Sport promotes?

A traditional role for women
A new physicality, in line with the New Life Movement
Communism
Isolation

196

Which Western qualities does Hansen see in Queen of Sport?

Classical harmony
An Americanist celebration of youth and white teeth, and mass ornament shots
British gentlemanliness
Russian montage

197

What does Hansen say happens to the "falling woman" stereotype?

It disappears
It is reinforced
It slides into an alternative that does not exactly conform to Confucian standards
It becomes heroic

198

How does Hansen say the star's body is shown?

Hidden
A privileged site of visual pleasure and display, linking to modern fashion and consumption
As purely symbolic
As religious

199

Who wrote "Sports Queen" in Chinese Film Classics?

Hansen
Christopher G. Rea
Loiselle
Thomas

200

What message does Rea say Sports Queen extends to women?

Domestic duty
Self-strengthening the nation
Class struggle
Religious piety

201

How does Rea contrast Li Lili with Anna May Wong?

Li: active, outdoors, natural, barefoot
Wong: silks, makeup, high heels
Li: slinky, silks
Wong: active
Both the same
Li: foreign
Wong: local

202

How does Rea contrast Li Lili with Ruan Lingyu?

Li: fragile
Ruan: robust
Li: robust and upbeat
Ruan: delicate, fragile, melancholy
Both fragile
Both robust

203

What else does Rea say Sports Queen offers besides healthy patriotism?

Only moral lessons
Visual pleasure, including the star's "frisky" and "spontaneous sexuality"
Political satire
Religious imagery

204

Who directed Queen of Sport and who stars?

Wu Yonggang, Ruan Lingyu
Sun Yu, Li Lili
Sun Yu, Ruan Lingyu
Wu Yonggang, Li Lili

205

Who directed and wrote The Goddess (1934) and who stars?

Wu Yonggang
Ruan Lingyu
Sun Yu
Li Lili
Sun Yu
Ruan Lingyu
Wu Yonggang
Li Lili

206

What does The Big Road (1934, Sun Yu) show, per the slide?

A love story
Worker-led solidarity against a foreign (Japanese) threat
A sports championship
A courtroom drama

207

What did the 1911 Revolution do?

Established the KMT
Replaced the Qing dynasty with a republic
Began the civil war
Ended Japanese rule

208

When was the Chinese civil war (slide)?

1911-1927
1927-1949
1937-1949
1949-1970

209

What did Chiang Kai-shek do in 1927?

Fled to Taipei
Established a national government and purged communists from the KMT
Invaded Shanghai
Founded Lianhua

210

What happened in 1937 and 1949 (slide)?

1937 civil war begins
1937 Japan invaded Shanghai
1949 Chiang and KMT fled to Taipei
1937 Revolution
1949 Japan surrenders

211

What was the 1932 Film Group, League of Left-Wing Writers?

KMT censors
CCP-affiliated filmmakers evading censorship and dominating Yihua and Diantong early on
Lianhua's owners
A Hollywood studio

212

When was Lianhua founded, and what were its units?

1911
1930
owner loyal to Chiang Kai-shek, three units with one left-wing
1949
all left-wing
1932
two units

213

What were the Far Eastern Championship Games (slide)?

A 1960s event
Games held 1913-1934, studied as a sporting "civilizing mission"
The Olympics itself
A Japanese film festival

214

How did a 1913 Philippines Free Press piece describe the Far Eastern Olympiad?

As a failure
As "democracy in itself" and a sign of progress
As imperial
As a Western plot

215

What did Japan do in 1934 (slide)?

Withdrew from the Games
Applied to host the 1940 Olympics
Hosted the Far Eastern Games
Banned women

216

How were women included in the Far Eastern Games (slide)?

Excluded
1930 two women accompanied male flag bearers
1934 women's events on par with men's
Only 1913
Only as spectators

217

What was week 6's in-class prompt on Queen of Sports?

Compare it with Olympia
Two features of vernacular modernism and one moment supporting Nationalist initiatives
Its use of colour
Its ending

218

Who directed Olympia (1938)?

Sun Yu
Kon Ichikawa
Leni Riefenstahl
Hugh Hudson

219

What is Les Raquetteurs (1958)?

A feature on Montreal
A 15-minute NFB film by Michel Brault and Gilles Groulx
A Quebec feature
A hockey documentary

220

Who wrote Michel Brault: Cinema as History (2007)?

Christopher Rea
André Loiselle
Michael Thomas
Grant Wiedenfeld

221

Which screening pairs with Gorski and Wiedenfeld (week 1)?

Race
42
Chariots of Fire
Offside

222

Which screening pairs with Confucius and Plato (week 2)?

Olympia
Chariots of Fire
Tokyo Olympiad
The Athlete

223

Which screening pairs with Hargreaves (week 3)?

Tokyo Olympiad
Chariots of Fire
42
Offside

224

Which screening pairs with Hegel and Thomas (week 4)?

Offside
Chariots of Fire
The Athlete
Queen of Sport

225

Which screening pairs with Alexander and Horgan, Gurkan, and Jaafar (week 5)?

The Athlete
Queen of Sport
Offside
42

226

Which screening pairs with Hansen and Rea (week 6)?

Les Raquetteurs
Queen of Sport (plus an Olympia excerpt)
Tokyo Olympiad
Offside

227

Which screening pairs with Loiselle (week 7)?

Queen of Sport
Les Raquetteurs
The Athlete
Offside

228

Which director made Chariots of Fire?

Hugh Hudson
Kon Ichikawa
Sun Yu
Jafar Panahi

229

Which director made Tokyo Olympiad?

Kon Ichikawa
Hugh Hudson
Brian Helgeland
Leni Riefenstahl

230

Which director made Offside?

Jafar Panahi
Sun Yu
Stephen Hopkins
Hugh Hudson

231

Which director made 42?

Brian Helgeland
Stephen Hopkins
Hugh Hudson
Kon Ichikawa

232

Which director made Queen of Sport?

Sun Yu
Wu Yonggang
Kon Ichikawa
Jafar Panahi

233

Which thinker says rituals ingrain orderly conduct?

Confucius
Hegel
Bellah
Hargreaves

234

Which thinker says the epic hero embodies the spirit of a people?

Hegel
Plato
Rousseau
Gorski

235

Which author describes sport as a ritual for the bourgeois ruling class?

Hargreaves
Hegel
Hansen
Alexander

236

Which author developed civil repair and frontlashacklash?

Alexander
Gorski
Hansen
Bellah

237

Which author wrote on Shanghai silent film as vernacular modernism?

Hansen
Hegel
Rea
Thomas

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