TFM 310 Final correctly answered 2024 passed

TFM 310 Final correctly answered 2024 passedSignifier - correct answer the object, word or stimulus itself. "RAIN" (four letters) Signified - correct answer what that object, word or stimulus represents. "water falling from the sky" Icon - correct answer A mode in which the signifier is perceived as resembling or imitating the signified Signify by: resemblance Process: can see Examples: a portrait, picture Symbol - correct answer A mode in which the signifier does not resemble the signified but which is fundamentally arbitrary or purely conventional - so that the relationship must be learnt. Signify by: by conventions Process: must learn Examples: language, traffic signs Index - correct answer A mode in which the signifier is not arbitrary but is directly connected in some way (physically or causally) to the signified - this link can be observed or inferred Signify by: by causal connections Process: can figure out Examples: smoke/fire, footprints, medical symptoms Scopophilia - correct answer the pleasure of seeing The Gaze - correct answer the exchange of looks that takes place in cinema. Four looks - correct answer • that of the camera • that of the character - Intra-diegetic gaze (subjective POV) - Extra-diegetic gaze ("direct address") • that of the spectator Hegemony - correct answer dominating influence or authority of one group over another; dominant ideology "Ruling Group" maintains power in two basic ways: - correct answer 1. By force 2. By consent a. The Church b. School c. The Media Ideology - correct answer the system of ideas that makes sense of society. Controlled by the 'ruling power'. Genre - correct answer A recognizable type of film, characterized by pre-established conventions (including Character and Narrative Patterns, Iconography/Images, Locations, Themes) Serving Audience - correct answer Ritual Approach Serving Hollywood - correct answer Ideological Approach The Importance of Myths - correct answer 1. Myths constitute an identity, a reflection of a culture. 2. Myths are metaphors for the way we live. They provide "life lessons." State Apparatus - correct answer Government (Louis Althusser) Ideological State Apparatus - correct answer Education, Religion, Media (Louis Althusser) Semantic - correct answer stresses the genre's building blocks (signs and signification). Broad Applicability. Syntactic - correct answer privileges the structures into which they are arranged (relationships of the signs). Explanatory Power.