Test 2 Flashcards

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How do literature, art, and other forms of media influence our daily lives?

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They reflect, reinforce, and subvert dominant ideologies and systems

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What does “soothing the masses” mean?

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Energy and opposition of the status quo are redirected; don’t listen to/believe what the media tells you

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What is the gatekeeping theory?

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The process where information is filtered of rdissemintation

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How is digital technology affecting the world?

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Allows the sharing of knowledge, collaboration, and brings up issues of imperialism, accessibility, capitalism, e-waste, and forced adolescence

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How does television affect the world?

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It encourages passive interaction and changed family life; represents real world and influences people’s understandings of others; unlimited viewing options

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How do movies influence the world?

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Romantic comedies, action, and dramas reinforce gender norms, as well as horror films, which also normalize violence

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What did Mulvey do?

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She examined Freud’s scopophilia; there is an active male and passive female

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What is scopophilia?

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The pleasure involved in looking at peoples bodies as objects

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How does music influence the world?

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Genre and identity, political resistance, male dominated

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How was print media influence the world?

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Women’s magazines sell beauty products, beautiful homes and good housekeeping; stereotypical and reinforces gender norms

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What is the importance of “Thinking About Shakespeare’s Sister”?

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States that if he had a sister, she would have not been recognized in those times; pervades poetry, but is absent from history

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What is the importance of the article about Rush Limbaugh?

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He called women sluts and prostitutes after they testified in front of congress

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What is the importance of “Vampires and Vixens”?

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Pop culture is a site of education, critique, and analysis

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What does the book talk about with Twilight?

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That it incorporates postfeminist qualities; Bella is tough and smart when safe, but Edwards comes and saves her; sexualization of violence

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What is enlightened sexism?

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Empowers roles of women; aimed at younger women and consumerism; purchasing power and sexual power stronger than political power; takes the gains of women’s movement as given, then uses them as permission to resurrect retrograde images of women

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