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Chapter 9
Entertainment
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Internet/New Media
Undergraduate 1
10/26/2011

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Auter
Definition
A filmmaker recognized for significant & original treatments
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Highbrow, middle brow,&low brow
Definition
Levels of media content sophistication that coincide with audience tastes
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Mediated performance
Definition
A performance modified and adjusted for delivery to an audience by mass media
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Popular art
Definition
Art that tries to succeed in the marketplace
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Pornography
Definition
Sexualy explicit media depictions that are protected from government bans
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Genre
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Broad Thematic categories of media content
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Kitsch
Definition
Prejorative word for trendy,trashy,low art.
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Rhythm&Blues
Definition
Distinctive style of black music that took form in 1930s
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Rockabilly
Definition
A splicing of rock n roll & hillbilly, used for early rock music
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Studio System
Definition
A production-line movie system devised by hollywood in the 1920s
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Dwight Macdonald
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Said al pop art is Kitsch
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George Carlin
Definition
Comedian whose satires on vulgarities promoted rules on radio programming to shield children.
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Dwight Macdonald
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Said all pop art is Kitsch
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Roone Arledge
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ABC television Executive responsible for Wide World of Sports in 1961
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Sam Phillips
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A memphis music producer who recorded & promoted early rock music
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Susan Sontag
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Saw cultural,social value in pop art
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James Gordon Bennett
Definition
New York newspaper publisher in 1830's; first to assign reporters to sports regularly
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Loss Leader
Definition
A product sold at a loss to attract customers
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obscenity
Definition
Sexually explicit media depictions that the government can ban
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Pacifica Case
Definition
U.S. Supreme Court ruling to keep indecency off over-air broadcast stations at times when children are likely to be listening or watching
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Elitist
Definition
Mass media should gear to sophisticated audiences
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Populist
Definition
Mass media should seek largest possible audiences
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Mediated message
Definition
Adjusted to be effective when carried by the mass media
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Herbert Gans
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Said social, economic & intellectual levels of audience coincide
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Low art
Definition
Can be appreciated by almost everybody
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High art
Definition
Requires sophisticated taste to be appreciated
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Popular art
Definition
Art that tries to succeed in the marketplace
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Pop art revisionism
Definition
The view that pop art has inherent value
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