HUM3321 Dr Grant Fall 2012 Final Study Guide Answers Watch Namesake Moneyball Bobby The Seven Year Itch 1 Production and Political Economy Analyzing cultural texts within their system of production and distribution It can determine the limits and range of political and ideological discourses and effects Textual analysis The products of media culture require textual analysis to analyze their various forms of discourses ideological positions narrative strategies image construction and effects Audience reception and use of media culture Members of distinct groups and political ideologies are going to read texts differently and cultural studies can illuminate why diverse audiences interpret texts in various sometimes conflicting ways 2 6 Common themes in race class gender and sexuality Contextual Socially constructed Systems of power relationships Social structural macro and social psychological micro Simultaneously expressed Interdependence of knowledge and activism 5 Positive view Watched Over 900 Feature Films Negative Effect Formed after a continuously Negative Tone View is used 3 4 Psychological Imperative Provides relief Sociological Imperative Portrays the breaking of norms usually humor is based on breaking norms Seeing gross things 40 year old virgin something about Mary Cognitive Imperative enhances comic experience for audience by involving their brain Allegorical Imperative reflective of cultural and subcultural ideas that males are the center aggressor literally Figuratively 5 From Class Group Powerpoint Orientalism The study of Orientals people from the west as discovered by Europeans Ex Aladdin Welcome to Agrabah Accents XL Turbans Selling Hookah merchandise Shown as sneaky sly Mostly Politically grounded stereotypes but some cultural and geographical Arab and Islam are mostly what they called orient We have a set idea instead of what it really is a place just like any other that comes to be due to cultural economical and political reasons Three aspects of Contemporary Reality o Distinction between pure political knowledge o Methodological question Picking a place to start end with your study o Personal Dimension He is considered oriental which affects his identity Industrialization Rise in economy let to rise of pay which caused people to save spend People needed fun time in the short time they weren t at work 1 Created more leisure time 2 More Money 3 Capitalism needs consumers Biological Vs Social o Social Structure created Gender Doing Gender Gender as imbedded institution Marilyn Monroe is objectified as a sex object with a baby voice innocence airheaded with a curvy body She accepted this role was able to put herself into the role when needed like flipping a switch She subverted it because she understands it is only her job did it to do it right 9 Read Bell Hooks Article 6 7 8 10 Sambo Needs white masters to make them civilized and for them to have motivation A Happy going slave who sings and dances to make the best of it shows they liked it there when really it was a terrible place to be Mammy Head of black house hold she is rude and beats her own children is also harsh and dominant Showing that Black families cannot function on their own They are broken Obese and not sexual Pickaninny Black child post civil war wild savages endangered in nature It justifies slavery because without it they become savages Eaten by alligators because they had no one to care for them Zip Coon During emancipation emancipated slave who tries to be like intelligent white person even if you gave them their freedom they are too stupid to do anything on their own Model with black eye Model in Body Bag Male is always aggressor Young teen model for Jean add Man asks Can you unzip pants Objectification Degrading women allowing men to feel superior Showing women as sexual things objects as well as vulnerable Problematic because women start to accept it or think it s okay 11 Film Genre Western o Expansion Freedom o American Identity o Wifeing Whoreing o Agency War o Belton Argues that was film mediates our relationship to war helping us prepare for it reconcile us to victory or defeat and to adjust us to the aftermath o Why we Fight o Comedy Musical o Cultural Safety Valve o Ecstasy o Escape o Make music coherent Horror and Sci Fi Film Noir o Explore what it means to be human o Explore 2 primary anxieties Independence Women Following WWII Skip One s he said were not going to be on exam all one s with movies as answers Important Belton Quizzes Marx The Star System 1 True 2 True 3 True 4 True 5 Mediating 6 Deity Will be True False on Test 1 True 2 Stereotypes 3 False 4 Will not be on test No short answer 5 Manufactures or consumes 6 Anti Stars 7 Royalty 8 Billion 9 True 10 True
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