SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, Film Studio, Dysfunctional Family
3 Jul 2018
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Week 3: ownership
Chapter 1 and 5 ways of seeing
Lecture for classes 1,2,3
Class dismissed video … first half, looks at how tv transforms our idea of American dream,
before wasn’t about the ability to buy products, consumerism blew up by advertisers (a product
that people want next to their shows) to make consumerism seem glamourous, and surround
yourself with products
Part 2 working class stereotypes and why it isn’t portrayed on tv, and they are not shown
instead they are shun and how that has played out over the 70 years of tv.
Last week tonight with John Oliver (net Neutrality)
Article
25 m/c questions
5 characteristics
> lack of intelligence
>bad taste
>anti education, lack of politics
>poor work ethics
>bad family values, dysfunctional family
has to get an audience right away, happy to use formats that other shows have used because it
has been tested and historically stereotypes have worked
key point: the art of any period tends to serve the ideological interests of the ruling class (86),
chapter 5
According to Levi-strauss what was the function of oil paintings for renaissance artists see page
86
According to berger, why was there so much ‘hack work” among traditional oil paintings. See
page 88. Commissioned to do so by wealthy patriants
How did European colonial interests influence renaissance painters, see page 95?
Why did painters include allusions to classical mythology, where the rich are portrayed
interacting, some sort of god or statue in paintings
Now consider the depiction of lower classes (103-104)
How does it differ from the depiction of the aristocracy?
Concentration of ownership in the hands of a few destroys expressions of diversity
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Document Summary
Part 2 working class stereotypes and why it isn"t portrayed on tv, and they are not shown instead they are shun and how that has played out over the 70 years of tv. Last week tonight with john oliver (net neutrality) According to levi-strauss what was the function of oil paintings for renaissance artists see page. According to berger, why was there so much hack work among traditional oil paintings. Why did painters include allusions to classical mythology, where the rich are portrayed interacting, some sort of god or statue in paintings. Now consider the depiction of lower classes (103-104) Concentration of ownership in the hands of a few destroys expressions of diversity. Vertical integration is the merging of two companies that operate within the same industry but carry out different roles in the production and/or distribution of the industry"s commodities. > is valuable to media conglomerates because it reduces the risk of financial failure.
