Midterm Exam (FRIDAY ONLY)

VM 200 Friday Midterm Exam

I. Objectives (30 pts.)

a. 5 Quotations: match the author.

b. 5 fill-in the blank

c. 5 Identifications (Pick 5 and define it and tell how it fits into a larger theory)

II. 2 Short Essays about Film Art (30 pts.) You will choose two to write on.

III. 1 Long Essay (40 pts.)

Stuart Hall, Karl Marx, and Walter Benjamin are all students in Media Criticism and Theory! And Professor Shattuc has offered to reduce their number of blogs if they would debate. They all jumped at the idea.

Here is the question: Does the pilot of The Wire support dominant ideology?

1. Create a debate.

2. Be precise about their theories—similarities and differences.

3. Quote them where possible.

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Keywords

• appropriation
• representation
• syntagmatic code
• representation
• reproduction
• false consciousness
• codes
• denotative
• connotative
• myth
• sign
• signified
• signifier
• iconic sign
• symbolic sign
• aesthetics
• ideology
• economic base
• discourse
• nationalism
• spectator
• realism
• structuralism
• negotiated reading
• oppositional reading
• Dominant Reading
• Negotiated Reading
• Oppositional Reading
• aura
• exhibition value
• authenticity
• cult value
• referential meaning
• explicit meaning
• implicit meanings
• symptomatic meaning
• Encoding
• Decoding