Exam 6: Media in Everyday Life

While Joseph Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union, Socialist Realism was the only approved artistic style in the country. Socialist Realism glorified the state through realistic paintings of happy, healthy Soviet workers. Stalin condemned other views and styles critical of state ideology. Those who continued to make non-Socialist Realist works were questioned, persecuted, imprisoned, and sent to work camps. Similarly, ____________ enforced policies in the United States that punished those with views deemed progressive or critical of the media industry's political and economic basis.

What was John McMurria's response to cable's apparent expansion of choice in the 2000s?

In 1995, Nestor Canclini proposed that we should observe the engagement of ____________ with Western media and cultural processes in ways that are complexly mixed and not simply reproductions of the processes and structures of the dominant industry and its economy.

Byron Kim's Synecdoche is an ongoing project in which he paints small portraits of the skin color of his subjects. All images are square and presented in a grid. The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego commissioned Kim to create a grid of portraits of the Board of Trustee's skin, resulting in a collective image that was more light than dark. By exposing that which is usually unseen, Kim's piece for MCASD is most similar to whose work?

In 1980s France, the term "____________" was used to describe propertyless industrial wage earners who emerged as a class distinct from both the landless agricultural worker and the bourgeois.

____________ was a group of British scholars who refused to write off popular or mass culture as debased forms reflecting dominant interests.