PHIL 1361 TEST 4 REVIEW EXAM 2025
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What is whitewashing? - ANS "generally, the casting of white actors to play traditionally non-
white roles (usually without being made up to appear non-white)."
What is the issue with defending the practice based off of "marketability"? - ANS "Making a
film 'too black', Taylor says, 'threatens, or is thought to threaten, its marketability across
populations'." The issue is that it is still racist.
Be familiar with the Bechdel test and what it means if a film passes or fails the test. -
ANS "The rule, which gained attention in the 2010s, has come to be known as the Bechdel
Test. To
pass the Bechdel Test, a movie must (1) have at least two (named) women in it (2) who talk to
each other (3) about something other than a man. This may not sound like a terribly high bar,
but as of 2016, 42.2 per cent of the 6,866 movies analysed at bechdeltest.com fail to reach that
bar."
Why does Nochlin think there were no "great women artists"? - ANS "No great women artist
existed not because women are or were unable to create great art, but because they were
excluded from the art world."
What are the "higher senses" and how did they become gendered? - ANS "Sight and sound
were seen as the higher senses and were intellectual whereas taste, touch and smell were seen
as the lower senses and were sensual and domestic."
They are gendered by associating the intellectual/rationality "historically viewed as the domain
of men and emotion [/sensual] was the domain of women" (Quote 198).
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What is whitewashing? - ANS "generally, the casting of white actors to play traditionally non-
white roles (usually without being made up to appear non-white)."
What is the issue with defending the practice based off of "marketability"? - ANS "Making a
film 'too black', Taylor says, 'threatens, or is thought to threaten, its marketability across
populations'." The issue is that it is still racist.
Be familiar with the Bechdel test and what it means if a film passes or fails the test. -
ANS "The rule, which gained attention in the 2010s, has come to be known as the Bechdel
Test. To
pass the Bechdel Test, a movie must (1) have at least two (named) women in it (2) who talk to
each other (3) about something other than a man. This may not sound like a terribly high bar,
but as of 2016, 42.2 per cent of the 6,866 movies analysed at bechdeltest.com fail to reach that
bar."
Why does Nochlin think there were no "great women artists"? - ANS "No great women artist
existed not because women are or were unable to create great art, but because they were
excluded from the art world."
What are the "higher senses" and how did they become gendered? - ANS "Sight and sound
were seen as the higher senses and were intellectual whereas taste, touch and smell were seen
as the lower senses and were sensual and domestic."
They are gendered by associating the intellectual/rationality "historically viewed as the domain
of men and emotion [/sensual] was the domain of women" (Quote 198).
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