AMST 142 Midterm Questions with complete solutions
ideology - ✔✔-a system of beliefs that we develop to explain the world around us
- the mental frameworks which different classes and social groups deploy in order to make sense of,
define, figure out the way society works
-There are a lot of ideologies, and many contradict each other
-How does one ideology become very influential and the other not so much? - ✔✔What is the
problem of ideology?
negative conception of ideology - ✔✔says ideology distorts reality and inhibits us from
understanding how the world works
neutral conception of ideology - ✔✔says that it is impossible to see the world outside of ideologies,
what reality is is an inner play between ideologies
slavery - ✔✔Race was created as an explanation for...
1. Race is biology 2. Race doesn't exist 3. Race is a social construction - ✔✔Name the 3 approaches
to race:
race - ✔✔-a concept which signifies and symbolizes social conflicts and interests by referring to
different types of human bodies
-a category you're placed into based on society and how you experience the world around you
ethnic identity, cultural background - ✔✔Ethnicity is...
an identity that is formed by the perception that others have of you, assumption others make of you
by experience - ✔✔What is racialization?
racism - ✔✔a racial project that creates or reproduces structure of dominance based on essentialist
categories
essentialism - ✔✔the idea that all people that share a racial identity are the same
, -if someone has x (racial identity) they must have y (characteristic)
1. Essentialism 2. Power - ✔✔Racism requires 2 ingredients:
prejudice - ✔✔Having negative or biased feelings about a particular group
-no backing of power
racial formation - ✔✔a sociohistorical process by which racial categories are created, inhabited,
transformed, and destroyed
-racial categories are dynamic and fluid, constantly changing
history; biology - ✔✔Race is _____, not ______
Biology
Socially constructed categories
How someone identifies - ✔✔Assigned sex is:
Gender is:
Gender identity is:
mise-en-scene, shot, montage - ✔✔Visual style includes:
Narrative, continuity, sound - ✔✔Film form includes:
Production, distribution, exhibition - ✔✔Economic includes:
genre, star, auteur - ✔✔Hollywood includes:
Location/setting
costume/makeup
blocking
performance - ✔✔Mise-en-scene includes:
ideology - ✔✔-a system of beliefs that we develop to explain the world around us
- the mental frameworks which different classes and social groups deploy in order to make sense of,
define, figure out the way society works
-There are a lot of ideologies, and many contradict each other
-How does one ideology become very influential and the other not so much? - ✔✔What is the
problem of ideology?
negative conception of ideology - ✔✔says ideology distorts reality and inhibits us from
understanding how the world works
neutral conception of ideology - ✔✔says that it is impossible to see the world outside of ideologies,
what reality is is an inner play between ideologies
slavery - ✔✔Race was created as an explanation for...
1. Race is biology 2. Race doesn't exist 3. Race is a social construction - ✔✔Name the 3 approaches
to race:
race - ✔✔-a concept which signifies and symbolizes social conflicts and interests by referring to
different types of human bodies
-a category you're placed into based on society and how you experience the world around you
ethnic identity, cultural background - ✔✔Ethnicity is...
an identity that is formed by the perception that others have of you, assumption others make of you
by experience - ✔✔What is racialization?
racism - ✔✔a racial project that creates or reproduces structure of dominance based on essentialist
categories
essentialism - ✔✔the idea that all people that share a racial identity are the same
, -if someone has x (racial identity) they must have y (characteristic)
1. Essentialism 2. Power - ✔✔Racism requires 2 ingredients:
prejudice - ✔✔Having negative or biased feelings about a particular group
-no backing of power
racial formation - ✔✔a sociohistorical process by which racial categories are created, inhabited,
transformed, and destroyed
-racial categories are dynamic and fluid, constantly changing
history; biology - ✔✔Race is _____, not ______
Biology
Socially constructed categories
How someone identifies - ✔✔Assigned sex is:
Gender is:
Gender identity is:
mise-en-scene, shot, montage - ✔✔Visual style includes:
Narrative, continuity, sound - ✔✔Film form includes:
Production, distribution, exhibition - ✔✔Economic includes:
genre, star, auteur - ✔✔Hollywood includes:
Location/setting
costume/makeup
blocking
performance - ✔✔Mise-en-scene includes:
