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Theory and Theorists
(Post)Modernism
Marxist Theory
Wild Card
What Else?
100
This postcolonial film genre rejects both American-style Hollywood filmmaking and European influenced avant-garde cinema.
What is Third Cinema?
100
The key aspects of postmodernity include: -Loss of meta-narrative -Identities are fragmentary and contingent -Surface is as important is structure
What is new is always a recombination of the old (bricolage).
100
The particular use a commodity has in a particular society (i.e., a rake).
What is use value?
100
This concept, which is related to biopower and biopolitics, has been explained as science allowing us to visualize various parts of the body, rendering new ways of imagining humans and the natural world possible.
What is scientific gaze?
100
This sub-genre of photography instructs people on how to occupy unfamiliar spaces.
What is architectural photography?
200
Donna Haraway is associated with this term, which describes how all truths are limited by our particular ways of seeing the world.
What is situated knowledge?
200
It has been referred to as a period of questioning meta-narratives and of the premise that unified accounts and theories could adequately capture the human condition.
What is postmodernism?
200
Things are valued not for what they really do, but for what they are worth in abstract monetary terms.
What is exchange value?
200
A social space (which may be virtual) in which citizens come together to debate and discuss the present issues of their society. However, there are still barriers to entry and rules of participation.
What is the public sphere?
200
This is an example of how digital visual spaces have been used to promote specific religious figures and organizations.
What is religious branding?
300
Introduced by French theorist Guy Debourd to describe how striking and awe-inspiring representation dominate contemporary culture and all social relationships are mediated by and through images.
What is society of the spectacle?
300
Time period and world view beginning approximately with the Enlightenment. It is a time of dramatic technological change that embraces a linear view of progress as crucial to human kind's prosperity and an optimistic view of the future at the same time that it embodies an anxiety about change and social upheaval.
What is modernity?
300
This operates when images are allied to particular products and the product-images are then deployed as signifiers of particular relations or experiences. Contemporary theorists argue we do not consume commodities, but rather this.
What is commodity sign?
300
Ousmane Sembène's 1966 film "La Noire de..." (Black Girl) challenges representations of black women in cinema. This is an example of what?
Reversing the gaze.
300
What conceptual term that we learned in class connects to Sven Haakansen's lecture on the Nenet people of Siberia, in which he used photography and ethnoarcheology to describe site formation in indigenous communities.
What is situated knowledge, orientalism, the Other, the myth of photographic truth, the scientific gaze, etc.
400
Ways that power is enacted on a collective social body through the regulation and discipline of individual bodies in realms such as social hygiene, public health, census-taking, etc.
What is biopower?
400
Walter Benjamin theorizes "modernity" through the strolling of this character through the arcades.
What is the flaneur?
400
This interpellates consumers, addresses a lack and promises a particular future.
What is advertising?
400
This is a 187-foot-tall symbol of mass media as a centralized producer of shared images and representations that reach mass audiences.
What is a Tesla Tower?
400
A way to visualize types of people by combining numerous individual examples of that type.
What is composite portraiture?
500
A group of scholars and social theorists who were interested in applying Marxist theory to new forms of cultural production and social life in twentieth century capitalist societies. They critiqued the mass production of culture.
What is the Frankfurt School?
500
What is a metanarrative and how does it relate to modernism and postmodernism. Give an example.
What is Marxist theory, Freudian psychoanalytic theory, Adam Smith's market theory, etc.
500
Process by which mass-produced goods are emptied of the meaning of their production and then filled with new meanings in ways that both mystify the product and turn it into a fetish object (i.e., designer clothing as a representation of wealth and socioeconomic status).
What is commodity fetishism?
500
WeChat is one example of the ways that media can connect geographically dispersed people, giving them a collective sense of a "village."
What is global village?
500
The new world of images made possible by photographic technology and revealing of aspects of the ordinary world impossible to see with the unmediated human eye.
What is the optical unconscious?