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Culture - Correct Answers-fine art and elite taste: "high culture" that can be acquired/learned -anthropological folkways & material objects -systems of representation both commercial and vernacular/DIY -space of symbolic interaction -everyday practices and styles Ideology - Correct Answers-system of beliefs and values -the common sense of a society; seldom articulated, but widely understood Ideology as "false consciousness" - Correct Answers-Mass culture is a product of the culture industry -Audiences are consumers of ideology -Mass culture is repetitive and infantile, inferior to both fine art and high culture and authentic folk culture -Produces homogeneity and mutes intellectual opposition. -People are cultural dupes lulled by the narcotic effect Implications of false consciousness - Correct Answers-Focuses attention on culture as an integral part of the socioeconomic system -Culture contributes powerfully to how our society is structured -Political economy: the critical study of how economic, political, and cultural institutions together reinforce systemic values Cultural Studies - Correct Answers-Framework for studying ideology and culture -Meaning is made not just by consuming a text, but by decoding it -Shift from theories of ideology to theories of hegemony: common sense must be continually redefined and negotiated -Culture is participatory Cultural Studies Implications - Correct Answers-Meaning is contextual -Consumption is potentially also an act of creation/production; encourages us to see audiences and publics as producers of culture, not simply consumers -Culture is pluralized includes multiple subcultures with interlocking/conflicting values and practices -Culture is an arena of conflict, not consensus Interpellation - Correct Answers-Ideology continually reinforced through everyday practices -Ideology stitches together an imaginary relationship between the self and social institutions that are relatively autonomous, but which together form a flexible fabric-the web of society -Culture "hails" us, and we answer because there are rewards for seeing ourselves in its call -We become social subjects by participating in ideology by consuming media, accepting the values of our institutions Articulation - Correct Answersmeaning is made by linking images/discourses/concepts together in referential chains Intertextuality - Correct Answers-Meaning is referential, based on processes of articulation -Text is not a fully contained work, but a relay point for other meanings, references, associations, ect. -Requires us to read contextually, with an eye toward the literacies and experiences an audience brings to a text -Especially relevant to today's deeply referential and intertwined media culture Paratextuality - Correct AnswersA textual form or expression that is in direct dialogue with, and which informs, a primary text. IE Trailers, Posters, Merchandise, Reviews, Games/Toys, Interviews, Promotional appearances, ect "New Criticism" - Correct AnswersA movement in mid-20th C. literary criticism that emphasized close reading of the text to identify formal strategies, narrative structure, aesthetic style, with less regard to authorial intention "Cultural Studies" - Correct AnswersA movement in the late 20th C. developed in/around media studies, emphasizing cultural contexts of both creation and consumption, and diversity of meanings and experiences Auteur Theory - Correct AnswersOriginally developed by French post-war film critics, who sought to reconsider authorship in the Hollywood system - tries to make sense of why some film directors seemed to rise above the equalizing tendencies of industrial production and take on a voice of their own Wes Anderson Authorial style - Correct Answers-Ensemble repertory cast -Theatrical staging -Highly performative, non-realist acting and dialogue -Flattened, formal mise en scene -Montages -Heightened artificiality; expressive art direction -Extensive use of popular music -Motifs of travel, letters, quests -Themes of nostalgia and childhood -Epic narratives of everyday events -Coming of age stories, unrequited love, alienation -Constant movement from detachment to emotional engagement