Exam 3

Question 1

What played a significant role in cultural studies’ turn toward the politics of representation in the 1980s?

Answer 1

Collapse of Western capitalism

Question 2

Which of the following terms refers to the practice of conceiving a female star as an icon rather than as a living body

Answer 2

Fetishistic scopophilia

Question 3

Who wrote that “the unconscious of patriarchal society has structured film form?”

Answer 3

Mulvey

Question 4

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?

Answer 4

McRobbie

Question 5

According to the psychoanalytic tradition, adult male (hetero)sexual desire is driven by

Answer 5

both fear of and craving for a union with the female body

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Jhally

Question 7

What are three circumstances under which repressed desires may slip past the ego and seep into the world

Answer 7

Art, Dreams, Neurotic Symptoms

Question 8

Who wrote that “it is dangerous to unmask images, since the dissimilate the fact that there is nothing behind them?”

Answer 8

Baudrillard

Question 9

According to Williams, our culture’s widespread devaluation of the body genres is due to

Answer 9

their capacity to make our bodies react independently of our rational minds

Question 10

The central characteristic of postmodernism is its

Answer 10

rejection of grand explanatory narratives

Question 11

Name three theorists affiliated with psychoanalytic theory

Answer 11

Mulvey, Freud, Williams

Question 12

Which of the following theorists argues that “post-colonialism destabilizes identity and unsettles the ‘real me?’”

Answer 12

Hall (and McRobbie)

Question 13

Name four theorists who are not postmodernist

Answer 13

Hall, Mulvey, baudrillard, hebdige, althusser

Question 14

One of the central characteristics of modernism is its tendency to

Answer 14

divide people and social phenomena into binaries, such as good/ evil, normal/ abnormal

Question 15

Williams is in direct disagreement with which theorist?

Answer 15

Mulvey

Question 16

Which theorist claims that there is noting wrong with a little objectification?

Answer 16

Jhally

Question 17

The philosophical term for the principle that underlies the postmodern view on the nature of truth is

Answer 17

anti-foundationalism

Question 18

The postmodern age began in the

Answer 18

late 1960s

Question 19

The term for a socially constructed way of perceiving and experiencing the world that makes the existing social relations seem natural and inevitable is

Answer 19

ideology

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Adorno

Question 21

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Answer 21

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Question 22

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

Answer 22

anal

Question 23

The three body genres are

Answer 23

melodrama, horror, and porn

Question 24

The three big thinkers of modernism include

Answer 24

freud, darwin, and marx

Question 25

According to Williams, unless we are willing to see reproduction as the common goal of the sexual drive, we have to admit that we are all

Answer 25

perverts (don’t use this as a term of condemnation)

Question 26

What is the confusing and traumatic event when a male child witnesses his father sexually penetrating his mother

Answer 26

Primal scene

Question 27

Which wave of feminists argue in favor of free expression of female sexuality and sexual desire

Answer 27

third

Question 28

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Answer 28

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Question 29

Mulvey would argue that James Bond does not prompt feelings of emasculation among male audience members because he serves about their

Answer 29

ego ideal

Question 30

According to Freud, the physiologicala penis becomes a symbolic _______ when it represents patriarchal social power

Answer 30

phallus

Question 31

The cinematic male gaze, according to mulvey, is actually composed of the gazes of the three different male figures:

Answer 31

director, audience members, and the male actor on screen

Question 32

Mulvey writes, “It is said that analyzing pleasure, or beauty, ________ it

Answer 32

destroys

Question 33

Williams argues that when viewing a film, we are all rendered bisexual because we _________ between identifying with the male and female characters on screen

Answer 33

oscillate

Question 34

Pleasure gained by causing pain to another is called ______ while pleasure achieved through receiving pain is called _____

Answer 34

sadism =/ masochism

Question 35

Who advocates intersectional feminism

Answer 35

McRobbie