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Intro to Cinema and Media Culture
Weeks 1-4
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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 1
02/22/2011

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Duck Amuck (Week 1: Myth)
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Chuck Jones, U.S., 1953
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Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show (Week 1: Myth)
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Edwin S. Porter, U.S., 1902
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The Matrix (Week 2: Viewers Make Meaning)
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Wachowski Brothers, U.S., 1999
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Listen to Britain (Week 2: Viewers Make Meaning)
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Jennings, McCallister, U.K., 1942
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The War of the Worlds (Week 3: Media and Community)
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Orson Welles, U.S., 1938
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Barthes (Week 1: Myth)
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Ideology, Myth
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Danahay and Rieder (Week 2: Viewers Make Meaning)
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Marxism/Capitalism in the Matrix
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Habermas (Week 3: Media and Community)
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The Public Sphere (Conversation and Synthesis)
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Benjamin (Week 4: Reproduction and the Copy)
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Studium
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information of an image. - Barthes
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Denotative Meaning
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Literal meaning of the sign - Barthes
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Connotative Meaning
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Personal take, based on cultural knowledge. - Barthes
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Semiotics
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Signs are vehicles for meaning. (Theory that images carry meaning (ex. Rose -> Love))
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Signified, Signifier
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The idea of a cat --> The word "Cat"
Signified Signifier

- Saussure
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Sign
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The Signified and Signifier. - Saussure
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The song of Styrine (plastic bead film)
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Resnais, France, 1958
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Employees leaving (Week 2)
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Lumiere Brothers, France, 1895
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Baby's Dinner
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Lumiere Brothers, France, 1895
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Tables Turned On Gardener
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Lumiere Brothers, France, 1895
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Bourgoisie (Marx)
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Own the means of production.
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Proletariat (Marx)
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Laborers.
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Alienation (Marx)
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Workers don't recognize the products of their labor or that they are forced to work. (ex. Assembly line)
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Ideology (Marx)
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Dominant class owns mode of production and controls ideas.
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Dialectics (Marx)
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Conflicts that are productive. (Thesis, Anti Thesis, Synthesis)
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ISA (Althusser)
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Idealogical State Apparatus. (religion, family, politics, law) - Gives you the impression that you are acting freely.
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RSA (Althusser)
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Repressive State Apparatus, (Police, Jail, consequences). - Restrictions
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Subject (Althusser)
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Individual with a sense of Self.
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Interpellation (Althusser)
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Process of which ideology recruits Subjects.
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Always-Already (Althusser)
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We're always already subjects because we understand ourselves to be apart of an ideology through ISA.
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Hegemony (Gramsci)
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Ideology arrived at through negotiations over meanings, laws and social relationships.
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Appropriation (Gramsci)
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The act of borrowing and changing meaning.
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Ella Wattson (American Gothic)
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Appropriation.
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Imagined Community (Anderson)
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We'll never know other members but we have a sense of the larger community (ex. Reading newspaper)
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Warner (Publics)
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Can become part of a public unknowingly (just by walking by lecture).
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Hypodermic Needle/ Magic Bullet
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The theory that media travels to you directly. (same as Dominant hegemony, media flows from the medium to the viewer directly with no outside source tampering with the message)
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Propaganda
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Moving people in calculated ways to enlist them in precise political beliefs.
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Night Mail
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Watt, Wright, General Post Office Film Unit, U.K.,1936
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Modern Times
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Charlie Chaplin, 1936
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Modernity (Benjamin)
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The Man with the Movie Camera
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Vertov, USSR, 1929
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Berlin, Symphony of a City
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Ruttman, Germany, 1927
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