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Mid-Term Flashcards

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Diachronic

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Study historic development

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Ferdinand de Saussure founded…

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Semiotics

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Synchronic

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At a particular time

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2 ideas of Structuralism

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  • grammar makes meaning possible

* meaning is the result of interplay of relationships selection

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Claude Levi Strauss

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Analyzed the structure of myths

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What book did Will Wright write?

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Sixguns and Society

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Marx beliefs on culture

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•means of analyzing culture are political
•text must be analyzed by:
  -production
  -consumption
  -reception
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Who was the first English Marxist?

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William Morris

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William Morris on Capitalism

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Capitalism has reduced the workman to a pitiful life

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Who were the members of the Frankfurt School?

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Adorno, Benjamin, Horkheimer, Loventhal and Marcuse

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Who coined the term “culture industry”?

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Adorno & Horkheimer

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The Frankfurt School belief towards products

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Products became highly predictable

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When the Frankfurt School saw conformity, others saw…

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Anarchy

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Adorno belief on pop music

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Standardized passive listening and social cement

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Benjamin believes technological reproduction changes…

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Production

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Althusserianism believed to read a text symptomatically…

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Is to perform a double reading

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Antonio Gramsci came up with what idea?

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Hegemony

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Hegemony

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Is never simply power from above

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Bricolage

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Assembling own styles with texts

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Freud’s main idea about the brain is the…

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Unconscious and preconscious/conscious mind

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The psyche 3 parts

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Id- chicken brain
Ego- contact through culture
Superego- developed thru ego

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Lacanian idea

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A condition of lack

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Human develope 3 parts

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Mirror stage
Fort-da game
Oedipus complex

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Who came up with Cine-psycho

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Laura Mulvey

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Cine-psycho 3 ideas

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  • male gaze
  • scopophilia
  • narcissism

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