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HUM Exam 1 Study Guide Paper. 100% Coverage, rated A+.
Pedagogy - Media teaches us how to behave, think, feel, fear and desire.
-Identity-based on gender, class, ethnicity, nationality, and sexuality.
-values:what one thinks, feels, believes, fears, and desires.
Multiculturalism - Af...
HUM Exam 1 Study Guide Paper. 100%
Coverage, rated A+.
Pedagogy - ✔✔Media teaches us how to behave, think, feel, fear and desire.
-Identity-based on gender, class, ethnicity, nationality, and sexuality.
-values:what one thinks, feels, believes, fears, and desires.
Multiculturalism - ✔✔Affirms the worth of different types of culture and cultural groups
ex: sex, gender, class, religion and race
Hegemony - ✔✔Power of dominance ruling social, political, and cultural forces
In our culture?
Middle/upper class, moderate, white males
Semiotics - ✔✔Study of how symbols form meaning
Madonna Phenomenon - ✔✔Came about through the time of the production of MTV, music industry,
concerts, marketing, images. Empowered teenage girls and gays.
3 Areas of Media Inquiry - ✔✔1. External-why a film is made, who it is made for, what historical
elements contributed to its production.
2. Internal-what people are depicted are portrayals fair, how does my personal identity affect my
experience.
3. Reactionary-how others respond to the media, what other media it influences.
Social Consent - ✔✔More effective means of control than coercion or force.
, Four aspects of cinema as an Institution - ✔✔1. Economic-designed to make money
2. Social-provides appropriate form of social contact, way to spend leisure time
3. Technological-success depends on industrial-revolution era invention
4. Psychological-provide entertainment that appeals to people.
The Kinetoscope - ✔✔Transformed the face of the late nineteenth-century culture
-Permitted customers to view a short, 50-foot film at any one time.
Nickelodeon - ✔✔Small, 200-seat theaters devoted exclusively to the showing of motion picture films.
Price of admission:only a nickel
-A shift in the audience to more lower class individuals.
Birth of A Nation - ✔✔-complex 3-hour long narrative film
-success transformed the nature of American film production and exhibition
-notorious for its racist agenda, illustrating enormous power of motion picture medium to communicate
ideological arguments.
-Glorified the KKK
ISAs & RSAs - ✔✔Ideological state apparatus: ISAs-plural, private (kind of), functions by ideology and
violence, non-government agencies that teach beliefs.
Repressive state apparatus: RSAs-singular/unified, public, functions by violence and ideology,
government agencies that use force.
Ideology - ✔✔Represents the imaginary relationship of their real conditions of existence in imaginative
form. Beliefs about how the world works.
Style - ✔✔Consists of a films elements such as costume, setting, lighting, camera, angles, cameras
zooming, and panning, lighting, sound, music, and scene transitions.
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