Week 7 - War and Peace Flashcards
Identify and define the narrative paradigm and its recognize its core principles (unity, fidelity, and coherence) and keywords
narrative paradigm: According to Fisher, stories are one of the most powerful forms of persuasion because audiences do not need an expert to decode then. All they need, argued Fisher, is unity, or fidelity, and coherence (Fisher, 1984).
Narrative Coherence: internal consistency; characters act in a reliable fashion; the story makes sense
Narrative Fidelity: congruence between values in the message and what the listener regards as truthful
Identify and describe the data, methodology and central conclusions of Greenwood & Smith’s article, “How the World Looks to Us.”
-Methodology: Greenwood & Smith use content analysis to explore the themes and framing devices evident in Pictures of the Year
-data: Pictures of the Year
-Greenwood and Smith outline that these places are often framed by western audiences as places with high rates of social and political conflict. They conclude that international photojournalism highlights themes of war, poverty, and crime. Simply, they state that the world outside the United States is framed by these photographs as a world of violence and hardship. One of the negative consequences of this, argue Greenwood & Smith, is that it reinforces stereotypes about these places held by the audience.
Identify, list and explain the central themes and framing devices in award winning photojournalism
-argue that there is a limited range of themes and places in these photographs. Largely, the author’s found that these images portray international events through a narrow themes of crisis and conflict. The visual themes that emerge include:
war; poverty; social trauma.
The geographical regions that characterize the subject-matter of these photographs include:
Eastern Europe; Africa; Latin American.
Identify and recognize the life and intellectual accomplishments of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a celebrated Nigerian author whose work draws on themes of war, suffering, and survival. As you will learn on this content page, Adichie was a bright reader and good student from a young age. Although she spent the better part of her youth in Africa, she attended university in the United States, earning a Bachelor of Arts in 2001 from Eastern Connecticut State University. She went on to achieve a Master’s Degree in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University
Identify the significance of the Biafran War to Adichie’s work, Half of a Yellow Sun, and recognize the reasons why, according to Adichie, the war is ‘wrapped in silence.’
In 1998, Adichie’s play, For Love of Biafra, was first published to critical acclaim. It explored the war in Nigeria that her parents had lived through in the 1960s. Likewise, her successful book, Half of a Yellow Sun, was published in 2006 and used short stories to highlight themes of conflict, war, and love.
the Biafran war is still wrapped in a formal silence. There are no major memorials, and it is hardly taught in schools. This week, Nigerian government censors delayed the release of the film adaptation of “Half of a Yellow Sun” because, according to them, it might incite violence in the country; at issue in particular is a scene based on a historically documented massacre at a northern Nigerian airport. It is now up to the State Security Service to make a decision.
Identify the danger of a single story.
Adichie argues that stories are often defined by power, which is expressed through brutality. She outlines that stories about Africa have been driven, largely, by western and Eurocentric writers. Writers who have framed Africa’s story as brutal, culturally inferior, and defined in relation to imperial conquest. The danger of this, argues Adichie, is that a single story of dispossession and dehumanization fails to tell the rich and complex history of African people, and also disempowers them to be the author of their own complex narratives.
Identify and recognize the stereotypes about Africa and African peoples present in western stories about Africa.
Recognize and identify the significance of John Lennon and Yoko Ono and their protest art.
one of the most iconic and culminating anthems of the new left movement that advancedsweeping social, political, legislative and cultural changes in 1960s and subsequent decades
Identify the social and political climate in which Lennon and Ono mounted their campaign for peace.
After John Lennon and Yoko Ono sought to spread a message of peace in 1969, at the height of the Vietnam War Links to an external site., they were subsequently denied entry to the U.S. The couple decided to spend their honeymoon, and second Bed-In, in Montreal, Quebec. John Lennon, one member of the British boy-band, The Beatles, had emerged as a vocal and conscientious objector to the war. With his partner, the Japanese performance artist and peace activist Yoko Ono, Lennon engaged in vocal and politically active conversations condemning war and violence in all forms. Their peaceful politics–framed by the rhetoric of hope, humanity, and unity–influenced their music, poetry, and performance art and told the story of creative resistance.
List and identify the motivations and goals of the Montreal Bed-In. Identify and recognize how the Montreal Bed-In was received.
newlyweds hosted a honeymoon “bed-in” for peace at the Amsterdam Hilton, wanting to use their celebrity for good. The gesture was part honeymoon, part performance art, interlaced with a protest against the Vietnam War
