Indiana University Bloomington What is America & Girl Friday Film Quiz

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Indiana University Bloomington What is America & Girl Friday Film Quiz

Icons - watercolor effect_Book.pngAssigned Reading

1. Hassenger, Jesse. “His Girl Friday Salutes Journalism and the Amazing Rosalind Russell. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.” AV 11 December 2015.

2. NA. “His Girl Friday and the Agency of Women Journalists in Hollywood. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.” The Artifice. n.d.

3. Nava Atlas, “10 Pioneering African-American Women Journalists (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..” Literary Ladies Guide. 4 November 2017.

Icons - watercolor effect_Video.pngAssigned Viewing

“His Girl Friday (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.” (hyperlink). It’s 1 hour 31 minutes. It may take you to the IU Library CAS Log-in.Watch the whole movie.


Close Reading Quiz

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Questions

  1. “His Girl Friday Salutes Journalism and the Amazing Rosalind Russell”

This article concludes with the following observation:

“His Girl Friday [is] one of the snappiest and most purely enjoyable rom-coms ever made. It’s also a swell screwball tribute to the journalism profession, depicted as a job noble and exciting enough to get a woman in 1940 to choose her career over domestic bliss.”

Question: Explain whether and why you agree or disagree with this article’s conclusion that the film portrays journalism as a “noble and exciting” profession? (5 pts) Make reference to a particular scene in the film (and give the time stamp for where in the film it shows up) that supports your answer and explain WHY it does so(5 pts)

2. “His Girl Friday and the Agency of Women Journalists in Hollywood”

Question: Explain whether or not this article suggests that Hildy fulfills the role of a journalistic “sob sister” in this movie. (4 points) Cite evidence from both the article (a quote–3 pts) and the film, like a particular scene with a time-stamp (3 pts), as support for your argument about this tragic event.

3. “His Girl Friday and the Agency of Women Journalists in Hollywood”

Question: Explain why this article suggests that Hollywood studios enjoyed including women journalists as characters in films during this golden age (6 pts). Give textual evidence from the article (a quote–4 pts) that supports your claim.

4. His Girl Friday film

Question: Analyze why the on-screen depiction of a suicide does not warrant the journalist’s attention as part of the larger prison-escape story? [6 pts] Cite evidence from the film, like the reporters’ reactions with a time-stamp, as support for your argument about this tragic event. (4 pts)

5. “10 Pioneering African American Women Journalists”

Question: Explain which one of the journalists featured in the article you think might have told the story from a different perspective to the issues discussed in the film His Girl Friday (murder of a Black policeman, the mayor’s efforts to cater to the African American community for votes in the upcoming election, or African American women and medical care for pregnancy) and why. (5 pts). Include a quote from the article that relates to why you chose that particular journalist. (5 pts)