PCUL 1F92 - Sem. 2

Question 1

Define imagined community.

Answer 1

The way in which a geographic entity (nation, region, locality) is imagined to be .

Question 2

Who created the concept of imagined community?

Answer 2

Benedict Anderson.

Question 3

What could be the reasons for an imagined community?

Answer 3

Economic or political.

Question 4

Why is a sense of nation hard to maintain in Canada?

Answer 4

It’s so large and diverse.

Question 5

Why is a sense of nation very significant in Canada?

Answer 5

It’s hard to maintain.

Question 6

Does Canada’s popular representation match our reality?

Answer 6

No.

Question 7

Are aspects of Canada’s representations based on reality?

Answer 7

Yes.

Question 8

What helps Canada remain unique?

Answer 8

Myths and icons.

Question 9

What is an imagined nation?

Answer 9

A unified nation based on certain icons and characteristics.

Question 10

What erodes the once stable identities tied to things such as class, family, religion and community?

Answer 10

Rapid economic and technological change.

Question 11

What erodes national and local boundaries and identities?

Answer 11

Global capitalism.

Question 12

What are we offered in place of stable identities?

Answer 12

False, consumer identities.

Question 12

What does pop culture distort?

Answer 12

The truth.

Question 13

Who suggests that our identity is ‘produced’ via culture?

Answer 13

Freudian Psychoanalysis.

Question 14

What are our identities shaped by?

Answer 14

The capitalist, patriarchal society.

Question 15

What can pop culture be considered a mix of?

Answer 15

Freud and ideology.

Question 16

What dominant ideologies are being reinforced to consumers?

Answer 16

The nuclear family, phallic authority and the development of the individual.

Question 17

True of false, content is the only thing that matters?

Answer 17

False, styles and structures are also important.

Question 18

What are the structures of pop culture texts shaped by?

Answer 18

Cultural ideology.

Question 19

What did Lacan suggest?

Answer 19

That any understanding of our identity is based on codes since we have no means of ‘seeing’ ourselves unless through some form of representation (mirrors, film, etc.)

Question 20

What does the MTV aesthetic suggest?

Answer 20

That youth rely on ‘speed’.

Question 21

What is youth culture all about?

Answer 21

Shutting out adult culture.

Question 22

What offers youth ideals?

Answer 22

Mass culture.

Question 23

What are metanarratives?

Answer 23

The broader cultural narratives (tied to hegemony).

Question 24

Define agency.

Answer 24

The capacity each of us has to shape our own life.

Question 25

What are the three ways women appear in pop culture?

Answer 25

Trivialization, Condemnation and Absence.

Question 26

Define verisimiltude.

Answer 26

Similar to the real world (often films).

Question 27

How does pop culture reflect society?

Answer 27

The way that the dominant culture wants to see it.

Question 28

What are the problems with content analysis?

Answer 28

It counts representations, does not consider wider context, not qualitative and does not reveal the wider social structure.

Question 29

What are the aspects of high culture?

Answer 29

Masculine, production, work, intellect, activity, writing.

Question 30

What are the aspects of mass culture?

Answer 30

Feminine, consumption, leisure, emption, passivity, reading.

Question 31

Why is mass culture often considered negative?

Answer 31

It is feared to be too 'feminine'.

Question 32

What was the first wave of feminism?

Answer 32

Older movement for voting rights.

Question 33

What was the second wave of feminism?

Answer 33

The more radical feminism of the '60s and onwards.

Question 34

What is the third wave of feminism?

Answer 34

Avoids universal definition of 'woman'.

Question 35

What were the 3 key historical co-ordinates Stuart Hall suggested to understand Black pop culture?

Answer 35

1. European 'high culture' is displaced. 2. Rise of USA as a world power. 3. Decolonization.

Question 36

What did Matthew Arnold fear?

Answer 36

High culture being displaced.

Question 37

Who was Oscar Micheaux?

Answer 37

A key film maker in black film circuit of late 1920s into 1930s.

Question 38

What does Tricia Rose stress?

Answer 38

Aesthetics must be examined in relation to (and often in tension with) historical context.

Question 39

What reinforces one's idea of nation?

Answer 39

Popular culture.

Question 40

What does globalization do to local culture?

Answer 40

Erodes it.

Question 41

How has an audience change?

Answer 41

They you to be viewers or spectators, now we refer to them as 'users'.

Question 42

Define subaltern.

Answer 42

Those who are marginalized from power in society.

Question 43

Define homology.

Answer 43

The fit between the ideals and the aesthetics of a subculture.

Question 44

What does punk meaning rely on?

Answer 44

Homology.

Question 45

True or false, domestic space of the home is often gendered?

Answer 45

True.

Question 46

What is domestic often associated with?

Answer 46

Women.

Question 47

Define moral panics.

Answer 47

Perceived threats to the dominant social order.

Question 48

What are the positives of globalization?

Answer 48

Increased communications opportunities, availability of new cultural forms, world music, ethnic cuisines.

Question 49

What does globalization change?

Answer 49

Our relationship to the world and our sense of identity?

Question 50

Define monoculture.

Answer 50

Ideologies and corporate aspects that create a culture.

Question 51

True or false, one must consider all aspects of pop culture when determining meaning?

Answer 51

True, it is not simply one directional meaning making.