REPORTAGE- Rhythm & Gender
by zipthwung, 05.17.04 05:58 pm
Key Terms
Migrant Mother
Mimetic vs. Social Constructionist approaches toward representation
Semiotic Analysis
Signifier and Signified
Myth
Ideology
Five components of Marxian thought
Shift in theories about ideology (Marx, Althusser, and Gramsci)
Hall's three approaches toward consumption
Ideological labor: Bricolage and textual poaching
Three terms of spectatorship (scopophilia, voyeurism, and exhibitionism)
Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic theories
Male and female gaze
Foucault's institutional gaze (discourse and panopticon)
Colonial gaze: Edward Said's "exotic other"
Victorian era and the "Grand Style" of imagery
City Beautiful Movement
Lithographic "Bird's Eye" views
Photographic Balloon views
Multi-plate panoramas
The cultural fiction of panoramic imagery
Perspective (impact of scientific gaze)
Abandoning the goals of realism and authenticity
Changing values associated with images
Midterm
The role of spectacle in mass society
Media Spectacle constructs a sense of identification among audience members that encounter an extraordinary event marked by change and mystery.
Three critiques of media: media-as-narcotic, media-as-false consciousness, media-as-cultural imperialism
Habermas and the notion of "public sphere"
Four components of modern consumer society
The "flβneur"
Rereading consumer society - Marxist, Pop Art, Psychoanalytical, and Foucauldian approaches
Bricolage
Three reasons why we are architectural critics
Architectural terms: tripartite, domestic, mimetic, regional/historic, art deco, streamlined, international, googie, environmental, postmodern
Four approaches toward modernism
Four components of modern architecture
Five contests of postmodernism
Simulation and simulacra
Pastiche culture and intertextuality
Truth and the themed environment
Market segmentation
Postmodern pastiche
Theme malls: Shift from urban to suburban life
Theme airports: places built on movement
Theme airports: From train stations to shopping malls
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