Exam 3: Entertainment

The mass media can enrich society by disseminating the best of human creativity.

Who was the first play-by-play announcer for Hockey Night in Canada?

Shakespeare was the first writer of romances and mysteries.

Cross-media adaptations almost always work well.

Significant amounts of media content are imitative.

There is more immediate feedback during an authentic performance.

Why can't all media content rank high on an artistic scale?

The time spent __________________ is catching up with the time spent watching television.

Which form of entertainment is catching up with the time spent watching television?

Watching a hockey game on television is an example of __________________ performance.

Genres rise and fall in popularity.

Kitsch is a German word that refers to sophisticated and cultivated material.

Which term is used to describe the music genre that developed in the impoverished Bronx section of New York?

Which term was used in the 1950s to describe French New Wave directors who offered distinctive stories and messages?

Who has been described as "a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel"?

What is a distinguishing feature of high art?

The elitist view argues that the mass media do society a disservice by pandering to low tastes.

Early radio generally ignored the value of music.

The broad thematic categories of media content are called _________________.

Technology has little or no effect on performance.