HUM 3321 Final Study Guide Watch Arranged Stoddard told me it d be hard to get an A without seeing it Usually portrayed as rich and lecherous often pursuing power wealth and western women Shaheen Reel Bad Arabs How Hollywood Vilifies a People Data based on 900 films Repeated negative stereotyping of Arabs in Hollywood films and other media has created a culture of unquestioning acceptance of those stereotypes The Stereotypes The Sheik Maidens Egyptians Palestinians Overlaps with other stereotypes about Arabs such as violent toward Westerners and Israelis as well as men who lust after Wester women Portrayed as poverty stricken with begging children and swindlers in the souk Mute subservient and erotic belly dancers and anonymous women of the harem Femme fatales out to victimize American and British heroes Portrayed as terrorists who are against both Israel and the West McIntosh White Privilege Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack Invisible unearned privilege advantage that whites are given at birth Five men Attended films regularly together at the Cinematheque Watched films Talked argued about them Wrote passionately about them in a new film journal Cinema Notebooks Discussed as an art form Central figures in the New Wave Belton The Film School Generation French Five New Wave the explosion of films made by young first time French Directors Reagan Years Reassurance Comfort Comics Nostalgia A Return to Innocence Conservative films Rugged individualism rules Muscle men Less troubled times reap rewards American relative sociopolitical innocence Raiders of the Lost Ark HUM 3321 Final Study Guide Removed gov t sponsored programs to help single moms Neoliberalism developed almost simultaneously with feminism 1960s 1970s Reaction to patriarchy Liberated Woman Sexually and economically independent Dismantling welfare programs Privatization Deregulation Market driven solutions to social and economic problems McRobbie Feminism the Family and the New Mediated Maternalism Feminists are divided by class Neoliberalism How Did Neoliberalism impact women single women Neoliberalism and Feminism Development of Feminism Transformation of Feminism in the Neoliberalism Context Results The middle class woman has more responsibilities than ever She s a slave to her lifestyle Economic necessities Two income family required for middle class lifestyle What about women who can t participate in this lifestyle Development of middle class mother Balances career sexual life family life She s a consumer No sympathy for single moms No support network for single moms Portrayed as Welfare Queens Male female hermaphrodite Boy vs Man Girl vs Woman Risman Gender as a Social Structure Theory Wrestling with Activism Sex is ascribed by biology anatomy hormones and physiology Gender is an achieved status constructed through psychological cultural and social means Gender as a Social Structure Gender inequality is embedded in social life at 3 levels Individual Identity Interactional Cultural Expectation Institutional Domain HUM 3321 Final Study Guide Doing Gender Social structures shape individuals but individuals simultaneously act on social structure Marx The Destructive Power of Money Introduces third party When you introduce money and private property reality is inverted Essay Question on what film depicts this Blue Jasmine Money becomes a mediating force Money becomes ultimate goal no stopping You become judged by your wealth Stoddard hinted at this Cooper Field of Dreams A Favorite of President Clinton But a Typical Reaganite Film Know how the film relates to the 1980s Definitely a Reaganite Film 1980s Reagan Revolution Robson Field of American Dreams Individualist Ideology in the U S Baseball Movie Backdrop Baseball films in the 1980s were propaganda for conservative ideology Robson focuses on the bigger picture of all baseball movies He s talking more about the genre Belton The Star System Stars are not born they re made with a purpose to sell films Star System the way in which some actors and actresses are made into stars who then play a crucial economic role in the history of the film industry Stars are commodities that the industry sells to viewers yet they hold their own power The Star is made up of The actual person The personality that they cultivate for on screen First stars were born in the 1910s Garnets Sexual Orientations in Perspective What does she think sexual orientation is Ahmed Queer Feelings What does she mean by queer feelings Lyden To Commend or To Critique The Question of Religion and Film Studies Two approaches that see film as exemplative of a popular religious tradition Doesn t have to be one or the other he wants to talk about them together HUM 3321 Final Study Guide Fuller What Difference Does Difference Make Women Race Ethnicity Social Class and Social Change Scholarly work on women has primarily focused on the experiences of white upper class heterosexual women Three most important factors that contribute to social status are gender race ethnicity and class Mueleners Treat Students Right By Valuing Their Diversity Three Ladder Rungs of Diversity Recognition Tolerance We understand it but are still not 100 comfortable with it Celebration fully accept it and recognize it adds value to our life Suggestion that racism no longer exists The media myth that patriarchy has been undone Notion that people are poor and unemployed because they want to be hooks A Revolution of Values Problem 1 Falsehood Solution Multiculturalism Problem 2 Backlash Not that race and gender stuff Solution Commitment and Authenticity Giroux National Identity and the Politics of Multiculturalism Embrace the differences between cultures The Age of Globalization Global Awareness Diaspora Group living outside of their homeland New Nationalism New The nature of media Rush Limbaugh Against multiculturalism
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