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refers to how we make sense of the meanings encoded into cultural texts, and incorporate these into our daily lives. It is frequently used by cultural critics to highlight power relations in an unequal society. Thus, appropriation can refer to the process whereby members of relatively privelegded groups raid the cultural of marginalized groups, abstracting cultural artifacts from their historically specific contexts. Frewuently this involves co-optation, by which a cultural item's resistant or counterhegemonic potential is lost through its translation into the dominant cultural context. Adding insult to injury, appropriation frequently means profit for the appropriator. |
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In terms of critical race and gender studies this refers to the "either or" concepts. Race=black/white gender=masculine/feminine |
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study of culture through use of mediums such as Marxism, film analysis, feminism, critical race and postcolonial theory..study of these mediums forms production and reproduction of these systems of inequality. |
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| Approach to the analysis of social and cultural phenomena that highlights the dominant role of a capitalist economic system, resulting in economic and social inequalities. |
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everything that is apart of critical race and gender studies to indicate how distinctions b/w racial and gender categories are conceptualized. |
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| emphasizes how power relations in societies are sustained by and reflected ways of speaking and writing. The view of social and cultural power operates thru competing and clashing discourses in the 1990s. |
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| multi-disciplinary approach to social analysis, rooted in the contemporary women's movements and the gay/lesbian liberation movement. Emphasizing gender as a major organizing feature of power relations in society, and argues that the role of the media is crucial in the construction and dissemination of gender ideology. |
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| cultural studies combines a feminist view of the centrality of gender analysis with a generally pschoanalyitic orientation to the study of audience reception of film. Gender spectatorship addresses the hypothetical or ideal viewer as either male or female. Male gaze camera at a female object of desire. |
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| gender is a social concept, by which a society defines as masculine or feminine |
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A dominant group in society that stays in power by supressing others with dominance and resistance. developed by Antonio Gramsci |
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| heterosexual expirience at the center of attn. that the heterosexuality is normal and any other sexuality is deviant. |
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| discrimination or prejudice against gay or homosexual people by heterosexual people, heterosexism would refer to the heterosexual ideaology that is encoded into and characteristic of the major social, cultural, and economic institutions of our society |
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| deep seated fear of homosexuality in others or in oneself |
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to refer to the ideas imposed on the proletariet(working class) to consent to their own oppression. "the complex of ideas in society and their expression in social institutions which in turn dominate the way we live and how we understand the world around us" |
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John Fiske- created a theory of expirience a wide variety of media texts as interrelated. Horizantal Vertical |
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term for media critics 1. any representation of social reality 2. a specifically visual representation |
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| the plural of Medium. Images and messages can be created and distributed by producers for later consumption by the masses. ex. radio, tv |
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study of the social impact of the male gender role and is influenced by feminist analysis. emphasizes the view that ideals of manhood are multiple and have caried by race and class |
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| hatred of women embedded in culture to seem natural |
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| to make an object, more figurativly to depersonalize someone. excessive emphasis on body parts and external appearances designed to be EROTIC! |
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| rule by the father, older man had absolute power over all members of the group. |
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| sets out to show how different financial and organizing culture production have traceable consequences for the range of discourses and representations in the public domain, and for audience them |
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| open to various reading or has multiple meanings |
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| interdiscipliary and politically radical approach to which emphasizes the instability and fluidity of gener and sexual categories. queer is adopted in order to reclaim it from derogatory useage to create more inclusive vision in the areas of study |
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| holding or displying prejudiced or bigoted attitudes or indulging in discriminatory behavior towardssomeone else |
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| creation of reality that is recognized as constuctions taken from a specific social and physical viewpoint and materially made out of and formed by the technical processes of the medium and its conventions |
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| coined by the women's movement, sexism refers to prejudicial or disrespectful attitudes of discrimanatory behavior on the basis of gender |
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| used in the 1970s by media criticism and activism to describe and critique reductive, much repeated social imagery |
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| refers to any communicative or expressive artifact produced by the media industries. Texual analysis or a close examination of how particular media texts generate meaning is one of the key activities of contemporary cultural studies |
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| term covering a wide variety of nontraditional or non normative gender statuses |
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