You need to know the characters names from the movies on the syllabus since the midterm You also will need to recall information points not names though from the clips shown in class HUM 3321 Final Study Guide from Shaft blaxploitation Modern Times charlie chaplin marks the workers of the factory represent a flock of sheep trying to represent class alienation of the worker Killing Me Softly 4 how women are portrayed is doing them wrong hypersexuality of women The Celluloid Closet how gays are showed on film and peoples perception of them Dr Strangelove not received well people were scared the bomb attack was possible scopophilia Cabaret androgynous character homosexuality Nazi stuff Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix dusty particles represent breaking shattering glass throughout the movie motif and all of the James Bond films viewed in class The most important articles are the Bird dominance over women Hegemonic masculinity the maintenance of practices that institutionalize men s o Emotional detachment young men detach themselves from mothers and develop gender identities in relation to that which they are not withholding expression of intimacy o Competitiveness maintained through relationships with other men whereby simple individuality becomes competitive individuality o Sexual objectification of women maintained through relationships with other men whereby male individuality is different and better than female Hegemonic femininity same as above but switched for women Individuals understand the gender norms they are accountable for Money gives power money can make an ugly man beautiful Money has power to confuse and invert all human and natural qualities what as a man I am unable to do is made possible for me by money Money transforms real human and natural faculties into abstract representations o Is both a deity and a whore men and nations o Can transform humans into their opposites and is universally desired between Marx Risman Gender difference is socially constructed and use to justify stratification o As long as women and men see themselves as different kinds of people women will be unlikely to compare their life options to men o Cultural expectations construct gender inequality without attention to the actions of members of the dominant group o Common adaption of women to subordination is trading power for patronage Women gain benefits for themselves and their children in exchange for their subordinate status o Gender intersectionality can be used to promote gender desegregation Omi and Winant character US has always been a racial dictatorship with whites as the dominant race Physiognomy racially based study of facial features to determine racial origin and Native Americans seen as other so they should be enslaved by the Europeans Europeans children of God human beings White is seen as a pure category any race intermixture makes one non white Race is associated with higher and lower cultural groups Use race to provide clues about who a person is generalization stereotypes o Associates others with discomfort Racial formation process by which social economic and political forces determine the content and importance of racial categories stereotyping Hooks Racism were are now desegregated people claim racism does not exist I have a black friend so I am not racist still experience racial separation in society Materialism must shift form a thing orientated society to a person orientated society profit motives and rights are more important than people Militarism nation more concerned with financial bankruptcy as opposed to moral and spiritual bankruptcy meaning financial gain is more important than the people Says we lie and say racism is dead and no problem in the US Our institutions teach us that it is right for the strong to rule over the weak the powerful over the powerless teaches us to believe that domination is natural Property rights mostly in hands of white people domination Giroux National identity is structured through a notion of citizenship and patriotism that subordinate ethnic racial and cultural differences to assimilate merge together logic of a common culture melting pot mixing of every culture but can be a negative concept Cant understand multiculturalism if don t understand nationalism National identity provides a defense of the narratives of imperial power and dominant culture and legitimates a narrow and bigoted biased prejudiced intolerance notion creation beliefs of what it means to be American National identity of a common culture recognizes cultural differences and flattens them in order to assimilate for the development of tolerance o National identity challenges cultural inequality Rubins Sex is for reproduction Homosexuals seen as communists Sexual essentialism sex for reproduction only thus no homosexuals Domino theory of sexual peril if one person does it more people will begin to do it if one practice is approved other practices will be approved Things to Know Film Related Terms Cahiers du Cinema French students replaying old American films and then people learn to appreciate them this is the journal they started Auteur the director the director s film reflects the director s personal creative vision French New Wave beginning of independent film young people in france interested in movie industries watched old movies and tried to imitate them in france transfers to U S Reaganite Cinema restores the norm of patriotism more important in movies more feel good Star Persona cant be a superstar without having a persona stars create their own personalities movies that appeals to the public Motif reoccurring theme Allusion referring to something else Homage positive allusion Parody funny form of negative allusion The Catholic League of Decency org dedicated to identify object able content in the eyes of the catholic church in motion pictures Sissy occupies the space between male and female makes women feel more feminine and men more masculine subliminal homosexual joke The Hays Production Code code of censorship for film women and men were not aloud to be show sexually or same bed The Hollywood Ten group of directors and actors that were ostracized for not turning over information about suspected communists in the film industry The Waldorf Statement made by 48 film executives agreeing not to hire any of the Hollywood ten Montage time distortion allows for two scenes to happen at once one quick scene fight is slowed down so it can run with a
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