Midterm

Question 1

Sexual essentialism

Answer 1

assumed that sex, sexuality, & gender exist prior to our exposure to culture

Question 2

Social Construction

Answer 2

assumed that identity is both culturally & historically situated

Question 3

Gender-Stratified Society

Answer 3

what men do is usually valued higher than what women do

Question 4

Ethnocentrism

Answer 4

“we/us” are the center of the universe

Question 5

Prejudice

Answer 5

“they” are inherently not as good as “we” are because “they” are different from “us”

Question 6

Cooperative

Answer 6

mutually beneficial relationships, out-group assimilates in the in-group

Question 7

Stratified

Answer 7

dominant groups create stereotypes of subdominant groups, either as harmless or dangerous

Question 8

Oppositional

Answer 8

dominant groups feel threatened by subdominant groups “battle over resources”

Question 9

Plastic representation

Answer 9

combination of synthetic elements put together and shaped to look like meaningful imagery, it’s hollow/can’t survive scrutiny

Question 10

Late 1940s/early 1950s

Answer 10

• popularity of urban, “ethnic” comedies
• ethnic specificity (Italian, Swedish, Jewish)
• these programs are about nostalgia
• characters get “white” over the years

Question 11

Late 1950s

Answer 11

• nuclear families were stressed
• idealized suburban life
• reaffirmed the “American Dream”
• more whiteness as an unnamed category

Question 12

Scopophilia

Answer 12

pleasure derived from the act of looking
(active/male v. passive/female)

Question 13

Fetishistic scopophilia

Answer 13

builds up physical beauty of the object, transforming it into something satisfying in itself
(solving problem of castrating women)

Question 14

Voyeurism

Answer 14

pleasure lies in asserting control & subjecting the guilty person to judgment/ punishment

Question 15

First wave feminism

Answer 15

goal was to see fully autonomous, independent women

Question 16

Second wave feminism

Answer 16

not just how much representation but what kind (not just quantitative but qualitative)

Question 17

Mid-1960s

Answer 17

• social shifts in the US, national mood of about/distrust with politics/systems
• generation gap regarding media interests (boomers & their kids)
• largely escapist shows of various genres
• specifically targets young adults (lots of experimenting)

Question 18

Crypto-feminism

Answer 18

more women wanted/needed to work outside the home (the institutions that are supposed to serve women were not very helpful)

Question 19

Early 1970s US TV

Answer 19

• attempted to appeal to younger, urban, interested in political/social satire audiences (split generations of viewers)
• aimed for realism
• touched on controversial issues
• more “realistic” depictions of women, class, race/ethnicity, sexuality, etc.

Question 20

New Woman

Answer 20

• had careers, more realistic, still wives/mothers at times
• consumers had become more liberated

Question 21

Cady Heron

Answer 21

Mean Girls

Question 22

Karen Smith

Answer 22

Mean Girls

Question 23

Gretchen Wieners

Answer 23

Mean Girls

Question 24

Mademoiselle Amy Jolly

Answer 24

Morocco

Question 25

Légionnaire Tom Brown

Answer 25

Morocco

Question 26

L.B. Jefferies

Answer 26

Rear Window

Question 27

Lisa Fremont

Answer 27

Rear Window

Question 28

Tom Doyle

Answer 28

Rear Window