Questions are in description

1.  Using only your course readings/viewings  and the lecture notes and your critical thinking,  compare and contrast comics and film in terms of how the medium exploits its own possibilities and restrictions.

2. Using only your readings/viewings  and the lecture notes/powerpoints  and your critical thinking about them, discuss how representations of the Hollywood “Indian” in popular culture informed the identities of these  colonized peoples in order to  serve dominant political as well as  aesthetic  interests.   In other words, make sure you discuss how  the produced identity can change according to developments in the media industry, social change, and popular tastes.

3. Using only your readings/viewings and the lecture notes and your critical thinking about them, describe the different sides of the debate regarding mass culture with the advent of television and make clear where you stand in the debate (i.e. what side you are on and why).

4. Using only your readings/viewings  and the lecture notes and your critical thinking about them,  explain how the documentary The Control Room exhibits the fact that news has to be constructed (10 marks) and the difficulty  in achieving the ideals of accuracy and fairness (10 marks) .

5. Using only your readings/viewings  and the lecture notes and your critical thinking about them, discuss how the film Pulp Fiction exhibits four different aspects of postmodernism (5 marks each).

6.  Using only your readings/viewings  and the lecture notes and your critical thinking about them, explain Baudrillard’s concept of the simulacrum (hyperreal) (5 marks).  Use your own examples in your explanation (5 marks). Then turn to the film The Matrix and how the film supports Baudrillard’s  notion of the simulacrum (5 marks) and how it does not (5 marks).

 

 

400- 500 words on EACH question (2600-3000 words), DETAILED ANSWERS, MUST DO RESEARCH ON QUESTIONS AND HAVE KNOWLEDGE ON TOPICS, FILMS AND DOCUMENTARY (THE CONTROL ROOM). MUST HAVE KNOWLEDGE ON JEAN BAUDRILLARD. SEPARATE EACH QUESTION!