25 Multiple Choice Video and Question 2 Essays 20 pts each Movies Fast and Furious Sex and The City Working Girl Puccini for Beginners Da Vinci Code Visitor Star System by Belton Stars provide attraction sell the movies First stars were from plays theatres then television stars 1920s o Stars reflected real life Americans positive values hard work self control the businessman Jazz Stage more erotic and exotic actors emerged returned to same old fashioned values o Filmmakers used adultery promiscuity modern marriages 1930s o New generation of stars working class child stars o Reflected American family during Great Depression o Sex became power of censorship o 1934 reinstituted production code drove sex out Personas o Extends to other media different than just actors Mickey Mouse the perfect star Many actors enlisted after attack on Pearl Harbor Women were sexualized showed musical talents o Pin up girls Betty Grable o Then desexualized waiting for their men to return Antistars went against the grain of traditional stars o Refused type casting explored different roles 1950 s o Stars reinvented themselves explored grittier personas Ex of star today Miley Cyrus Film School Generation By Belton Explosion of films made by new young first time French directors Films resembled American film noir Dennis Hopper Easy Rider shows youthful energy could override old age and experience Moviegoer population shifted most were 12 20 yrs Of age Many films were low budget released in 2 3 big cities spread word of movie then released everywhere else Reassurance films that made the most were those that reassured Americans rather than disturbed the public Reagan Years conservative mainstream films became more successful Reel Bad Arabs Anthology Never depicted as normal everyday people Seen as the enemy in most American films Stereotype in movies will not end until directors stop it More important things to depict in movies than bash an entire population based on few real life scenarios Revolution of Values Are our actions a reflection of our beliefs Must renew our minds if we are to transform educational institutions and society freedom Must find joy in cultural diversity passion for justice love for Problem 1 falsehood suggestion that racism no longer exist that people are poor and unemployed because they want to be etc o Solution multiculturalism development of a world perspective Problem 2 backlash o Solution commitment and authenticity deep commitment that is not easily discouraged Hollywood the Cold War Anticommunism in America Stars like Charlie Chaplin were investigated Movies like Mission to Moscow showed Americans what was happening Red baiting accused opponents as communist sympathizers First cinemascope film The Robe Possible Essay Questions The Old vs the New Paradigms of Sexuality Garnets o Old paradigm More rigid difference between homosexual and heterosexuals Defined by sexual behavior Caused by biological factor o New paradigm Multidimensional and flexible on a spectrum no strict Defined by what you do how you act in society and who Caused influenced by social environmental and dividing line you interact with biological factors Women are more social men are more biological o What is the relationship between homosexual and heterosexual vs female and male difference o Gender is more powerful than sexual orientation Women view sex as relational Men view sex as recreational Hegemonic Feminism Brasfield o Upper class white women who may have good jobs o Talks about Sex and the City argues that the women are an o Use their power and women hood to get ahead of others o Think about class Is this conscious behavior Do they do it on example of this purpose The rich stay rich and the poor stay poor Every man and woman for him or herself Feminism vs Postfeminism Ferriss and Young o Feminism action wanting equality choice is collective construct rejection questioning of feminity suspicion of consumerism o Postfeminism individual choice return to femininity consumerism is ok rejection of anger emphasis on family o Argue Sex and the City is postfeminist focused on the individual rather than women as a group obsessed with relationships family and consumer culture represent femininity The Three Levels of Investigating Gender as a Social Structure Risman o Institution in society almost everywhere o Imbedded in social life on 3 levels Individual identity Social processes socialization internalization Cultural expectations Status expectations cognitive bias Institutional domain Organizational gender stratification o Gender cannot be studied in isolation from other inequalities race class sexuality etc o Equal vs Equitable just cause things are equal does that mean they are fair Risman says no The Aspects of the Meritocracy Myth McNamee and Miller o Meritocracy people get ahead based on merit o Forms of merit hard work intelligence good attitude character talent o Myth if you follow these rules and have these items of merit you will get ahead BUT it is a myth because there are non merit factors that also aid this o Non merit factors inheritance education who you know luck timing o Social gravity the things that keep you tied down to wear your are good or bad o There is a lot of inequality more inequality than people think more inequality than people think there should be o Income is what is earned wealth is what is owned net worth is assets minus liabilities o Impact of merit on economic outcomes is overestimated Interpret passages from Marx s The Destructive Power of Money and Martin Luther King Jr s Beyond Vietnam o Explain key terms like alienation separated from the other money as a mediator I am whatever I can buy with my money etc o Refer to revolution of values discussion Approaches to religion o Marx Focused on the source materialism Religion is sign to oppressed Criticism of religion allows you to be the center o Freud o Durkeim o Weber Religion is an illusion result of the subconscious Id desires Ego moral reality Superego internal conscience Focus on the community sacred things rituals Sacred vs Profane Collective Effervescence the social is the sacred Verstehen understanding interpretive sociology Religion has legit Instrumental emotional value traditional reasoning
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