Week 8 Flashcards
One view of the world tends to prevail
Dominant ideology
Upholds the existing relations of power and hierarchy
Dominant ideology
Maintains the status quo
Dominant ideology
Resist, challenge, or subvert the dominant ideology
Alternative ideologies
Ideological vs normal
Behaviour
Idiosyncratic
Behaviour
neurotic/psychotic
Behaviour
Resistant
Behaviour
Majority of work falls into this category (blockbusters, tv, etc)
Aesthetic Form vs Social Impact:
Conventional form without Politicizing effect
Affirm our customary way of viewing the world and film
Aesthetic Form vs Social Impact:
Conventional form without Politicizing effect
Few formal chances and may have mild political controversy
Aesthetic Form vs Social Impact:
Conventional form without Politicizing effect
Conservative and reactionary: present the status quo as obvious, unquestionable (eg war films, action films… glorifying war)
Aesthetic Form vs Social Impact:
Conventional form with politicizing effect
Progressive (liberal and radical) politicizing effect through character identification with the intrepid
Aesthetic Form vs Social Impact:
Conventional form with politicizing effect
Formalism: work that is innovative on a formal or stylistic level and exposes formal conventions
Aesthetic Form vs Social Impact:
Radical form without politicizing effect
Radical aesthetics rather than social
Aesthetic Form vs Social Impact:
Radical form without politicizing effect
Redefines the possibilities of the film medium
Aesthetic Form vs Social Impact:
Radical form without politicizing effect
Distances viewers from purely realist style and engages them in the process of understanding how a social reality is constructed
Aesthetic Form vs Social Impact:
Radical form with politicizing effect
A collection of prejudicial images assigned to different groups within the social dynamics related to power and hierarchy
Social imaginary
Power, prejudice, and discrimination
Social imaginary
Supports the hegemonic order
Social imaginary
Stereotypes and cliches
Social imaginary
Denies individual difference, objectifies
Social imaginary
forms of discrimination are built into legalized everyday institutions such as education, medical, financial, laws, etc
Institutional racism
prejudiced individuals internalize an image of themselves (ideology) as superior to a stereotype of another group
Individual racism
the assumption of rights or privileges for oneself because of the color of one’s skin
White skin privilege
Whiteness as universal ethnicity, Melting pot (USA) and the ideal of whiteness
White skin privilege
Burden of representation: success or failure will be seen as a credit or embarrassment to their race
Stereotypes
scheming, deceptive, and murderous (thieves, drunks, killers)
Mexican stereotypes: Greaser
large, cantankerous, speaks her mind, ineffectual, speaks the truth, laughable
African american stereotypes: Mammy
comical, intellectual inferiority, fubling, is made into the butt of jokes
African american stereotypes: Coon
benign, innocent, trusting, compliant, obedient and faithful- doesn’t present a threat
African american stereotypes: Uncle Tom
light-skinned black individual who often tries to pass for white and encounters doom, pushed back into the black culture they sought to escape
African american stereotypes: Tragic mulatto
brutal, ruthless, oversexed, hyper-masculine, powerful, magnetic physical force, subordinates intelligence to physical and sexual prowess
African american stereotypes: Buck
Inability to speak english without an accent
Asian stereotypes
Women as dragon ladies or prostitutes
Asian stereotypes
Men as servants, meek, geeky or martial artists
Asian stereotypes
Highly intelligent, mystically wise, criminally clever, geeky
Asian stereotypes
westerns and documentaries have shaped the public’s perception of Native people, often seen as a people of the past and not existing in contemporary times
Indigenous or Aboriginal Stereotypes
Wise elder
Indigenous or Aboriginal Stereotypes
Drunk
Indigenous or Aboriginal Stereotypes
Indian princess
Indigenous or Aboriginal Stereotypes
Loyal sidekick
Indigenous or Aboriginal Stereotypes
Native warrior, noble savage
Indigenous or Aboriginal Stereotypes
white people playing non-white characters/roles meant for people of color
Hollywood whitewashing
used to signify an abstract other that is a product of the hegemonic processes
The other
Subordinated, demeaned
The other
Reduced to a stereotype
The other
Hierarchy comes into existence
The other
either/or categories such as us/them, black/white, good/evil
Binary oppositions
Based on the fixed images of others
Binary oppositions
Govern hegemonic relations in the social imaginary
Binary oppositions
The Other provokes attraction as well as repulsion
Binary oppositions
Without Others, identity may lose its solidity
Binary oppositions
Identity = insecurity and instability
Binary oppositions
If the other can be fixed (stereotype), the dominant group can project onto the stereotyped other a negative image of themselves
Binary oppositions
Negative self image is projected outwards
“They’re like that; I’m not”
Binary oppositions
Understanding and empathy, utopian
Social symbolic
Social hierarchy dissolves (momentarily)
Social symbolic
Expression of an ideal social society (music, dance)
Social symbolic
Hierarchy dissolves and everyone is equal
Social symbolic
Symbolic harmony
Social symbolic
