MIDTERM 1

Question 1

pop culture vs. high culture vs. folk culture

Answer 1

pop culture- everyday typical pasttimes of a majority of people in a social group (differs by group)
high culture- cultural activities that are somehow more serious than pop culture, cultivation of mind and sprit
folk culture- pastimes shared through direct oral/written communication, joke, games, stories, etc.

Question 2

1800s pop culture

Answer 2

Eadweard Muybridge- started film
inventions! kinematoscope, telephone, Edison phonograph, Lumiere brothers, magnetic recording, coon music WOMANS SUFFERAGE

Question 3

1900s-1910s pop culture

Answer 3

Porter’s The Great Train Robbery, first radio signal, growth in Hollywood, star system started, increase in white on black violence, woman suffrage continues

film: Birth of a Nation
music: Ragtime, Joplin sells milions of copies of Maple Leaf Rag, Bessie Smith, W.C. Handy

Question 4

WWI influence on pop culture

Answer 4

women’s roles changed

film for entertainment

Question 5

1920s pop culture

Answer 5

the jazz age, flappers, less modesty, mass advertising (Coke), The american dream, Sears houses, silent comedy, Charlie Chaplin, Rudolph Valentino, sex symbols, radios in homes

Question 6

1930s Pop Culture

Answer 6

Hollywood takes over world film industry, Steamboat Willie, Snow White, “talkies”, Hays Code, Hollywood Golden Age, WWII, propaganda, Leni Riefenstahl films, wartime jobs, comics, stereotypes rise

Question 7

1940s Pop Culture

Answer 7

Private Snafu (warner bros educational video for soldiers), by Col. Frank Capra in charge of armed forces films, Rosie the Riveter, The Negro Soldier, Frank Sinatra, Woody Guthrie political protest in music, Suburban revolution starts, faster technology, TV sales rise heavily

Question 8

1950s Pop Culture

Answer 8

Color TV introduced, Cinemascope invented, “Moondog’s Rock and Roll Party”, cover songs start, blacks being covered by whites, rise in McCarthyism, HUAC, Reality TV, Playboy, more ads, EPS cycle (elite, popular, specialized), The Marlboro Man, Volkswagon

Question 9

1960s Pop Culture

Answer 9

First British Invasion, Bob Dylan, Beatles, first female songwriters/singers: Joan Baez, Judy Collins, JFK/Kennedys, Vietnam War, student protests, Woodstock, Mohammad Ali/change in sports culture, James Bond, The Graduate, 2001: ASO

Question 10

1970s Pop Culture

Answer 10

disco, color, pet rocks, hippies, vietnam war over, Nixon resigns, film violent, gory, dark (think Taxi Driver), Blaxploitation, Blockbusters (Jaws), relaxation in sensorship (deep throat), Bee Gees, David Bowie, Soul Train Genre, Punk Music, Pink Floyd, Bob Marley, rap (sugar hill gang), blondie first female rapper, Home video recorders/cable explodes, SNL debuts, gay characters start appearing on TV

Question 11

1980s Pop Culture

Answer 11

more gay culture in film, The L-word, Epcot in Disney, Madonna, MTV, Lennon assassinated, Nirvana, Simpsons, Princess Diana married, Apple products, Live Aid for Ethiopia, Michael Jackson Thriller, Pixar debut, Space Shuttle Challenger explodes, rap gets “explicit” content labeled, raves/festivals/house music, Reagan Iran scandal, Berlin Wall falls

Question 12

1990s Pop Culture

Answer 12

Princess Diana divorce/death, Cinema Verite, DVDs, contemporary edm rises (started in 70s), Art gets more controversial, 1st gulf war, CNN becomes major news outlet, Clinton/Lewinsky, OJ Simpson, Harry Potter,

Question 13

2000s Pop Culture

Answer 13

CDs, music downloading, Iraq War, media criticized, TV grows, Postmodern Era, Janet Jackson Super bowl, Borat, NAACP criticizes rap, Obama

Question 14

STOREY, What is popular culture?

Answer 14

1-8
camp fire stories, songs, love/heroism and understanding the world in stories, influences travel, views and values of Europe and North America, focus on globalization, influences our society greatly, goes back to Socrates in Apology,

Question 15

MARTIN, Audiences and Reception

Answer 15

1-3

Question 16

KELLNER, Cultural Studies, Multiculturalism and Media Culture

Answer 16

9-19
(What is cultural studies? What is text and text analysis? Political Economy, Audience Reception, What does Kellner mean when he says, cultural studies is multiperspectival?

Question 17

LULL, Hegemony

Answer 17

hegemony- the way in which those in power maintain their control – dominant ideologies are considered this too, usually provoked by the media
cultural hegemony- concept that a culturally diverse society can be dominated by one of its social classes (ex: youtube)
tends to refer to a single group in a society with all the power

Question 18

Chicana Feminism

Answer 18

(aka Xicanisma) + lecture

Question 19

TAYLOR, The Historical Evolution of Black Feminist Theory and Praxis

Answer 19

234-253
africana womanism, empowers black women with new critical thinking about sexism/racism together
raised social awareness
structural/political/representational intersectionality

Question 20

KROLOKKE, Three Waves of Feminism: From Suffragettes to Grrls

Answer 20

first wave- 1848-1920
stanton and mott, womens right convention, resulted in declaration of sentiments, about social, civil, religious conditions of women, finally got right to vote in 1920 and had basic tenets of women; women are subordinated POLITICAL RIGHTS
second wave- 1963-1980s
contemporary feminist movement, free love, identifying double standards, no more happy housewives, higher employment, fulfillment outside the home
focus: politics and reproduction, experience, sexuality/sexual difference, oppression and celebration
lliberal feminism/marxist feminism/radical feminism/socialist feminism GENDER EQUALITY
third wave feminism- 1990s-2012
different types of feminists, playful, aggressive, punk bands, in control, rise of powerful women INTERSECTIONALITY

Question 21

SMEDLEY, Origin of the idea of race

Answer 21

1-4+Lecture

Question 22

LIPPMANN, Stereotypes

Answer 22

67-74 + Lecture

Question 23

APEL, Just Joking? Chimps, Obama and Racial Stereotypes

Answer 23

134-142

Question 24

FENG SUN, LING WOO IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT: The New Face of Asian American

Answer 24

656- 662 + Lecture

Question 25

TENG, Why is it Still Okay to Make Fun of Asians?

Answer 25

1-5

Question 26

ZAVELLA, Beyond the Screams: Latino Punkeros Contest Nativist Discourses

Answer 26

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Question 27

dominant ideologies in the US

Answer 27

capitalism, marriage and family, male superiority, patriotism, media spreads this

Question 28

Marxism

Answer 28

economic and socio-political world view, based upon materialist interpretation of social group that are driven by creating and maintaining wealth, proletariat vs. bourgeoisie
state control instead of private control
false consciousness, revolution

Question 29

intersectionality

Answer 29

different axes of oppression intersect, producing complex and often contradictory results (gender/race/class)

Question 30

nativist

Answer 30

a policy of favoring native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants. 2 : the revival or perpetuation of an indigenous culture especially in opposition to acculturation.

Question 31

zenophobia

Answer 31

dislike/fear of foreigners

Question 32

encoding/decoding

Answer 32

The encoding of a message is the production of the message. It is a system of coded meanings, and in order to create that, the sender needs to understand how the world is comprehensible to the members of the audience. … The decoding of a message is how an audience member is able to understand, and interpret the message.