HUM Exam 1 Study Guide 2023
HUM Exam 1 Study Guide 2023 Pedagogy - ANS-Media teaches us how to behave, think, feel, fear and desire. -Identity-based on gender, class, ethnicity, nationality, and sexuality. -values:what one thinks, feels, believes, fears, and desires. Multiculturalism - ANS-Affirms the worth of different types of culture and cultural groups ex: sex, gender, class, religion and race Hegemony - ANS-Power of dominance ruling social, political, and cultural forces In our culture? Middle/upper class, moderate, white males Semiotics - ANS-Study of how symbols form meaning Madonna Phenomenon - ANS-Came about through the time of the production of MTV, music industry, concerts, marketing, images. Empowered teenage girls and gays. 3 Areas of Media Inquiry - ANS-1. External-why a film is made, who it is made for, what historical elements contributed to its production. 2. Internal-what people are depicted are portrayals fair, how does my personal identity affect my experience. 3. Reactionary-how others respond to the media, what other media it influences. Social Consent - ANS-More effective means of control than coercion or force. Four aspects of cinema as an Institution - ANS-1. Economic-designed to make money 2. Social-provides appropriate form of social contact, way to spend leisure time 3. Technological-success depends on industrial-revolution era invention 4. Psychological-provide entertainment that appeals to people. The Kinetoscope - ANS-Transformed the face of the late nineteenth-century culture -Permitted customers to view a short, 50-foot film at any one time. Nickelodeon - ANS-Small, 200-seat theaters devoted exclusively to the showing of motion picture films. Price of admission:only a nickel -A shift in the audience to more lower class individuals. Birth of A Nation - ANS--complex 3-hour long narrative film -success transformed the nature of American film production and exhibition -notorious for its racist agenda, illustrating enormous power of motion picture medium to communicate ideological arguments. -Glorified the KKK Continues...
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