Exam 3 Flashcards
What played a significant role in cultural studies’ turn toward the politics of representation in the 1980s?
Collapse of Western capitalism
Which of the following terms refers to the practice of conceiving a female star as an icon rather than as a living body
Fetishistic scopophilia
Who wrote that “the unconscious of patriarchal society has structured film form?”
Mulvey
Which of the following theorists was generally optimistic about the move from modernism to postmodernism in the 1980s, in terms of its capacity to support a politics of social justice?
McRobbie
According to the psychoanalytic tradition, adult male (hetero)sexual desire is driven by
both fear of and craving for a union with the female body
Who said, in the process of rejecting the rigid second wave feminist position on sexual objectification, that “in the political battle with the standard forms of patriarchal sexuality (and of course representations) there has to be an alternate, a different option, defined. This cannot be left to talk about in the future and not basing our present actions on utopian possibilities. In the battle over gender we have to have that alternative vision now
Jhally
What are three circumstances under which repressed desires may slip past the ego and seep into the world
Art, Dreams, Neurotic Symptoms
Who wrote that “it is dangerous to unmask images, since the dissimilate the fact that there is nothing behind them?”
Baudrillard
According to Williams, our culture’s widespread devaluation of the body genres is due to
their capacity to make our bodies react independently of our rational minds
The central characteristic of postmodernism is its
rejection of grand explanatory narratives
Name three theorists affiliated with psychoanalytic theory
Mulvey, Freud, Williams
Which of the following theorists argues that “post-colonialism destabilizes identity and unsettles the ‘real me?’”
Hall (and McRobbie)
Name four theorists who are not postmodernist
Hall, Mulvey, baudrillard, hebdige, althusser
One of the central characteristics of modernism is its tendency to
divide people and social phenomena into binaries, such as good/ evil, normal/ abnormal
Williams is in direct disagreement with which theorist?
Mulvey
Which theorist claims that there is noting wrong with a little objectification?
Jhally
The philosophical term for the principle that underlies the postmodern view on the nature of truth is
anti-foundationalism
The postmodern age began in the
late 1960s
The term for a socially constructed way of perceiving and experiencing the world that makes the existing social relations seem natural and inevitable is
ideology
Which of the following theorists found the “sameness” of labor and leisure life to be one of the most deadening and dangerous aspects of modern mass media
Adorno
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When we say someone is _____ retentive, we are diagnosing their observable habits and coming to the conclusion that, as infants, they feared maternal disapproval of their bowel management
anal
The three body genres are
melodrama, horror, and porn
The three big thinkers of modernism include
freud, darwin, and marx
