Exam two review terms and questions
- Culture and ideology
- Perspectives of right versus left
- Top-down, bottom-up models of control
- Jersey Shore as example
- Idiocracy as example
- Lawrence Lessig's speech
- What is free culture?
- How did Walt Disney use public domain culture?
- What films are examples of Disney's use of public domain?
- Does Disney allow free use of its cultural forms?
- Helprin article
- Why should copyright have fewer limitations?
- Subcultures
- Definition
- Examples from lecture
- How is membership signalled?
- How does mainstream culture reaction to it?
- Cycle of cultures: resistance > incorporation > resistance
- Frontline video: "Merchants of Cool"
- What methods are used by marketers to determine what is cool?
- What are the "mook" and "midriff" archetypes
- How do the fans of Insane Clown Posse identify with the music?
- Who is the chief demographic that consumes "cool" stuff?
- South Park discussion
- What, exactly, was the Muhammad cartoon conflict during 2005?
- How did American editors respond to the crisis?
- How did Stone and Parker (South Park creators) respond?
- How is Muhammad depicted in the South Park episode
- Hegemony
- Be familiar with Antonio Gramsci
- Definition
- Examples of hegemonic signs (flag, police, trademarks)
- Crime
- Gerbner's research showed what?
- Origins of crime in mass media: Jesse James
- James' relation with John Edwards (editor)
- What region did the James gang represent?
- Bernhard Goetz saga
- Coverage of Goetz in New York newspapers & comparisons to mass cultural figure
- Reading
-- questions
and concepts
- Why does R. Crumb object to modern music?
- What worlds does Jay-Z comfortably inhabit?
- Be familiar with Antonio Gramsci & hegemony
- Postmodernism and mass culture
- Why would the opera be considered postmodern?
- Dusty Springfield and cultural identity
- Any major concept from chapters 3 through 6 in Inventing Popular Culture may be discussed