Packet 6: Tossup 9

A one-word idiom meaning “ordinary” titles a 1998 film set in this state about an art student who shoots Polaroids of men she believes will go extinct. (-5[1])This state is the setting of Bless Their Little Hearts, My Brother’s Wedding, and a film whose scene depicting boys jumping on rooftops (15[1])was tinted red for the cover (15[1])of the 2009 album The Ecstatic. Piano (15[1])music plays over a shot of a broken motor lying on a street in this state (15[1])in a 1978 film (15[1])that wasn’t released generally (15[3])until 2007, (15[1])due to its soundtrack’s use of recordings by singers like Dinah Washington and Paul Robeson in scenes set in a (*) slaughterhouse. The poem “Phenomenal Woman” and song “Again” were written for a film set in this state that popularized long box braids across America in the 1990s. (10[1])This state’s main film school produced the directors of To Sleep With Anger, Killer of Sheep, and Poetic Justice. (10[2])For 10 points, (10[1])name this home state of Charles Burnett, John Singleton, and other Black directors from the L.A. Rebellion. ■END■ (10[2])

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