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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