TELE 3010 1nd Edition Exam 2 Study Guide 11 16 Lecture 1 Silverstone Chp 4 6 Rhetoric is an idea first thought of by whom Aristotle What is rhetoric It is language oriented to action a form of persuasion designed to persuade What are the assumptions of persuasion The desire to influence Hierarchy in structure there is a power differential between politicians and us the news and us Etc Free will to chose persuasion implies that we have freedom Presumption of disagreement it doesn t make since to persuade someone who is thinking the exact same as you are When people landed on the moon why did we believe that to truly be reality Because we trust the government and NASA and any other institutions involved Conventions of representation we saw the video evidence control room their families There was significance of meaning Identification between speaker and audience in this case NASA the people What makes up poetics Poetics are principles of construction function and effect They make up the stories that are central to what we are as human beings Describe erotics and why it is important in the media Erotics are any pleasure sensation and excitement It is important in the media because we as humans want pleasure and we seek it It requires participation we as the viewer must engage It is offered to us because we seek it but it is rarely delivered For example we might desire to grow wings and fly if we drink red bull but that is not going to happen Lecture 2 ELC reading Stories are important Why They are central to the human experience We see and hear them every where we turn What are the types of stories Myths Dystopia Utopia Realism Fantasy What is the difference between dystopia and utopia Utopia is depicted as the perfect and ideal society Dystopia is the falling apart of a society such as in Hunger Games Describe realism As a reader we want to feel that the story is something that can happen to us and seems pliable for us as well like in romantic comedies and how we want that to happen to us It is present in non fiction and fiction Why do we as humans need stories Catharsis Identification we see people in movies and books and we identify with those people Empathy Emotional release in the form of comedy We need to laugh Engagement with social taboo satire Satire is the way people can go against those who have power and get away with it Challenge power Karl Marx stories show us what is wrong with our society This is the Marxist interpretation Literature and film endeavor to show how narratives reveal the struggle between social groups and classes and how the stories of these individual characters are a part of the struggle What is catharsis The act of taking something and purging it from you A cathartic release is when you re upset you cry Who inspired the idea of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud Now describe psychoanalysis There are two aspects to stories the psychological pleasures that stories give us and the method for interpreting them If we are reading a story that is not realistic but we fantasize over it anyway this is a story Fantasy Lecture 3 ELC READING How does traditional narrative art behave There is stasis some form of stability and then a disruption followed by a resolution in order to return stasis We see this in romance stories western tales crime stories What does the structural position of characters typically look like There is someone who takes action There is a point of view involved who are authors wanting us to identify with Characters have distinct roles There is a dominant discourse within the text Which characters are superior How are we asked to participate with characters within a narrative Compare this with ways we are not There are close ups with the character emotional involvement of some sort narration etc These are ways we are asked to participate within stories or movies Long shots slower editing and no main characters or no simple answers are usually not roles we are asked to participate with What is dominant discourse Dominant discourse is the competing argument or truth within the story How are characters roles positioned There are always questions of race class and gender Roles are structured based on who is in positions of power such as lawyers or doctors or Olivia Pope compared to positions of weakness cops can be in this role criminals and Quinn Perkins Describe mise en scene This is how women are depicted in movies or stories They are placed in soft lighting wear makeup erotic costuming etc Their actions are erotic such as dancing and singing and reactive What do ideological meanings tell us about narrative structure They teach us for example how women should act and appear or how men should save the woman etc Lecture 4 What is ideology Ideology is a system of meaning that helps us define the world judge the world and explain the world around us How is language ideological Explain the Rodney King example discussed in class There is a difference in meaning between words In class we discussed riot versus rebellion how they mean two different things A riot is a word that if used there must be some sort of reason to support it Property Rights if someone breaks the window of your property in an act of political violence your property rights have been violated THEREFORE it is sufficient for police to come in and protect the properties rights It s justifiable Equality of opportunity Legitimacy of state violence there is actual violence occurring Open political system A rebellion indicates History of racial repression and discrimination argument for rebellion is that there is a history of this type of black oppression Inequality of opportunities and outcomes State violence targets people of color Political system is about white elite control idea of police operating in the favor of the white elites The important point to make with this example is that depending on whichever word is used in media there can be a justifiable reason to defend each case Karl Marx describes ideology in what way Marx sees ideology as a mechanism of social control by the ruling classes The ruling classes impose their worldviews which represent their own interests What are examples of superstructure Religion schools media and culture Marx believed subordinate classes experience a false consciousness What is that false consciousness That the worldview supports the interests of others and not their own class Its about ruling class ideas that serve only that particular class but