Study Guide for Midterm MC 3321 Section 11 Fall 15 Terms Understand their meaning and usage ISA Ideological State Apparatus organization not a person that propagates the ideologies of the hegemonic force through means of social and psychological effects o The hegemony s ideas are the best and should be supported o ex church school media books family government RSA Repressive State Apparatus organization not a person that enforces the ideologies of hegemony through the use of violence or force o Less effective means of staying in power o Ex police military court system prison Social Construct socially humanly made o ex race class gender sexuality religion Ideology system of beliefs and values Cultural Pedagogy Cultural Studies analyze hegemonic or ruling forces of domination Hegemony ruling social political and cultural forces power one social group has over the other Lull o America white upper class Political Economy of Production has to do with political environment that films come out in o Adjust films based on what political environment is at the time o Movies are made for economic and political purposes Social Consent people allow themselves to be governed by principles Lull Naturalization Representation description of portrayal of something in a particular way or as being or a certain nature o In film gender race and class are represented by their stereotypes Language film language is all the techniques filmmakers use to tell a story on the screen o Camera distance angle movement editing sound Signs signs are arbitrary Symbols represents or suggests something else Arbitrary something that seems as if it is chosen at random o Signs are arbitrary Socially constructed imagined by the people who perceive themselves to be a part of the group Film Language all the techniques filmmakers use to tell a story on the screen camera distance angle movement editing sound DOD Hollywood Militainment Imperial Ideology Stereotypes conventional formulaic and usually oversimplified conception opinion or belief a person group event or issue considered to typify or conform to an unvarying pattern o Inflexible o Do not adequately describe the complexities of the real world instead merely summarize it in the broadest simplest terms Generalization saying or writing that something is true or someone of some thing all of the time 8 Tropes of Geek Centered Romantic Comedy o Conclict with jocks o Geek melodrama o Simulated ethnicity o Voyeurism and stalkerism o Creativity and vivid fantasy life o Bromance o Marginalized and or masculine women o Slackerism and underemployment Bechdel Test a test that is basic gauge to measure a women s relevance to a film s plot o Movie has to have two of more women in it that have to have named that talk to each other about something other than a man Homosociality nonsexual attraction towards members of their own sex Study Guide for Midterm MC 3321 Section 11 Fall 15 Components of Masculinity o Competitiveness aggression loudness o Emotional Detachment sarcasm o Sexual Objectification of Women leads to violence Male Gaze o Fragmentation fragmenting of body parts generally to dehumanize and often to sexualize African American Stereotypes o Brute o Criminal black man o Coon o Tom o Mammy o Jezebel and Sapphire o Angry black woman o Welfare queen o Picaninny o Tragic mulatto o Magical negro Manhood Acts Invoke fear in others competitiveness family provider winning a fight sex Claim to Membership Gender social construct state of being male or female generally used with social and cultural differences rather than biological ones Sexuality social construct attraction to same sex homosexual opposite sex heterosexual or both sexes bisexual Class social construct system of ordering a society in which people are divided into sets based on perceived social or economic status Race social construct major groupings of mankind with common physical features or similar ethnic background Multiculturalism different cultures in one setting interacting with eachother Imagined Community the belief that you share a kinship with the rest of your community even though you could not possibly meet all of them Nationalism promotes patriotism no scientific definition a scientific definition comprises the idea of repeatability and predictability among other things Limited finite as defined by their geographic if elastic boundaries Sovereign functional independence and conferred authority Film Noir subjects come from the underworld of pulp fiction usually deal with crime or criminal actions that disturb disorientate or induce anxiety in the viewer Hays Production Code code produced when transitioning from silent to talking films Femme Fatale attractive and seductive woman who will ultimately bring disaster to a man that falls for her Spider Woman Femme Fatale Nurturing Woman juxtaposed against the femme fatale she is viewed by the film noir man as boring Arab Stereotypes o Sheik rich pursuing power and wealth Western woman o Maidens mute subservient erotic belly dancers queens or princesses o Egyptians violent poverty stricken mummies o Palestinians portrayed as terrorists Sex vs Gender Masculinity in War films Race and Nation in War films Liminal somebody that generally has a foot in the human and the non human sci fi and horror The Other the group outside of the norm often depressed because of this Sci fi vs Horror Ideologically Liberal vs Conservative Films General formula for all War movies Basic American values vs determined brutal and barbaric enemy No ambiguity No responsibility for war deeds Constructionist vs Essentialist theories of race Omi and Winant s definition of race Racial Formation Study Guide for Midterm MC 3321 Section 11 Fall 15 Macro vs Micro macro societal micro individual The Enlightenment and Race Racism Racial Awareness vs Racial Essentialism Colorblindness racelessness acting as if there is not a racial problem Blaxploitation films made for black audience Popular History vs People s History White Privilege elite gave privilege to white indentured servants and made them think their skin is more important than their economic status Tim Wise Studio System Genres know characteristics as defined by Belton War o Suspension of morality o Hypermasculinity o Homoeroticsm o Death and destruction from a female o Individuals vs group Film Noir Movement Aesthetic Genre Theme o Night time urban setting o Tough guy protagonist o Seductive femme fatale o Crime murder and destruction
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