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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 2
10/20/2011

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Mimesis 
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Imitation of life
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Hubris 
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Challenging one's fate
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catharsis
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purging; purging, sense of emotional release in audience
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anagnorisis
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realization/recognition
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harmartia
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error, missing the mark, sometimes called “fatal flaw”

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peripitcia
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reversal of one's fortune/turning point
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denoument
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character's unraveling; suffering one's fate
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6 characteristics of aristotle's tragedy
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dramatic structure, theme, character, spectacle, music, diction
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when was oedipus written? BY who?
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430 BC; Sophacles
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Who was the main character in A Doll's House?
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Nora, Torvald, Dr.Rank, Mrs.Linde, Krogstad
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When was Hamlet written?
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1601
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What is critical race theory?
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Movement of activists and scholars who study the way of how races interact in order to transform them. 
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What is material feminism?
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·         Marxist-materialist feminism (class, race, sexual orientation and how it affects women, example: black poor woman will have different struggles than a white middle-class woman)

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What kind of theatre is Twilight?
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Ver batum theatre
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Who wrote Twilight? What was it about?
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Anna deveare smith; interviews of people who lived during the rodney king riots in 92. It was performed exactly how the people were clothed and how they said the words.
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What's realism?
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representation of daily life of middle class consumers. Usually heightened. 
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What is feminism?
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critiques/lens of looking at a piece of work through of perspective
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How many acts are in hamlet?
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5
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How many acts are in A dolls house?
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3
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