week 6

Question 1

popular culture

3 ways how popular culture is made relevant

Answer 1

shapes and normalizes what we think of ourselves and others; culture for mass consumption; part of everyday life/ powerful storyteller

1. through content
2. behind the scenes
3. among audiences

Question 2

critical dialectic approach of popular culture

Answer 2

even though it is a persuasive storyteller, the audience plays active role in decoding meaning or rewriting the narrative

Question 3

banal cosmopolitanism

methodological nationalism

Answer 3

experience of globality embedded in everyday life, like universal elements used in movies to reach a wider audience –> diversification strategy

Question 4

media psychology

Answer 4

the intersection of age, gender, and nationality brings different readings regarding popular products

• identification
• attraction

Question 5

whitewashing

color-blindness

Answer 5

use of white actors for non-white characters

assuming that there is small discrimination but systemic racism does not exist; race is a social construct used to include/exclude people that do not exist anymore –> post-racial society

Question 6

articulation 
appropriation 
orientalism 
inoculation 
filial piety 
collective feminism 
educated hope

Answer 6

connecting two distinct discursive elements that would not be connected otherwise

using elements of a culture to fit another culture’s frame

west’s view on the east - stereotypical and essentialist depiction of the east by and for west

1. middle east as fantasy land
2. threatening image

showing a small ‘‘bad’’ to make up for the fundamental issue

a parent-child relationship where the child is morally obedient and respectful

downplays individual or gender differences; no one’s voice is louder

moral imagination and political passion to strive for a change in education

Question 7

counter narratives

Answer 7

black panther: number of black actors matter but also the way they are portrayed matters