Midterm Flashcards
“…culture is a system for communal life that includes specific beliefs, rituals, performances, art forms, lifestyle patterns, symbols, language, clothing, music, dance and any other mode of human expressive, intellectual, ritualistic and communicative behavior that is associated with a group of people in a particular period of time. “
Danesi “What is Pop Culture”
“When textbooks make racism invisible in American history they obstruct our already poor ability to see it in the present”
Loewen “Gone with the Wind: The Invisibility of Racism in American History Textbooks “
“This seems often now the most widespread use: culture is music, literature, painting and sculpture, theatre and film”
Williams “Culture”
“Meaning is constructed–given produced– through cultural practices; it is not simply ‘found’ in things”
Du Gay “What is Culture”
“It is important that we recognize that how a text is edited to clarify and intensify its message often has a social, economic, and political significance”
Berger “Semiotics and Media”
“Indeed, they undermine the very cornerstones of historical research-appreciation of difference, understanding of context and the ability to make critical comparative judgements on the’ basis of empathy and evidence.”
Lipsitz “Precious and Communicable: History in an Age of
Popular Culture”
“Ideology is the MEANING made necessary by the conditions of society while helping to perpetuate those conditions”
Williamson “Introduction: ‘Meaning and Ideology’”
“I think this way of life, with its emphases on neighborhood, mutual obligation, and common betterment, as expressed in the great working-class political and industrial institutions, is in fact the vest basis for any future English society.”
Williams “Culture is Ordinary”
“I never knew any one so keenly alive to a joke as the king was. He seemed to live only for joking. To tell a good story of the joke kind, ad to tell it well, was the surest road to his favor.”
Poe “Hop-Frog”
In Django Unchained what classic author is used to emphasize Calvin Candie’s ignorance?
Alexander Dumas
In Django Unchained, Broomhilda is possibly named after a character from a classic fairy tale from why country?
Germany
Raymond Williams examines the typology of culture, uncovering it had a wide range of preliminary meanings, including all of the following EXCEPT
Deforest
Paul Du Gay, stuart hall, et al use what object to explore the concept of culture in their Doing Cultural Studies textbook?
The Walkman
Judith Williamson suggests ideology is omnipresent, and uses her critical book to examine it in:
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In her own upbringing, which we discussed in class, Judith Williamson notes that she first began to consider ideology when she was a teenager and was reading Marx and
Honey Magazine
