Flashcards in Test 2 Deck (15):
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How do literature, art, and other forms of media influence our daily lives?
They reflect, reinforce, and subvert dominant ideologies and systems
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What does "soothing the masses" mean?
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?
The process where information is filtered of rdissemintation
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How is digital technology affecting the world?
Allows the sharing of knowledge, collaboration, and brings up issues of imperialism, accessibility, capitalism, e-waste, and forced adolescence
5
How does television affect the world?
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?
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?
She examined Freud's scopophilia; there is an active male and passive female
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What is scopophilia?
The pleasure involved in looking at peoples bodies as objects
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How does music influence the world?
Genre and identity, political resistance, male dominated
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How was print media influence the world?
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"?
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?
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"?
Pop culture is a site of education, critique, and analysis
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What does the book talk about with Twilight?
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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