SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Student Debt, Costco, Global Warming
12 Jan 2017
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No Ch. 8
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Study Ch. 6 and 7 in depth
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50 of 70 MP on second half
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Reading on race and apocalypse on D2L
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The narrative around the course: started with structural/systemic questions abt pop culture
(who, how) -> issues of identity -> apocalypse.
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Watching people work together to survive
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Fighting for power
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Moral questions
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Why do we enjoy apocalyptic movies?
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Go to bar (you won't feel it)
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High elevation, crowbar and protein
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Raid a COSTCO
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Alliance w/ hardcore people
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First Aid Kits
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Strategies
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2045 The Singularity
Robots - artificial intelligence
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Unsustainable debt
Rioting, chaos
Financial collapse
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Global warming - planetary destruction, planetary colonism, lack of resources
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Cures for cancers
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Killer viruses
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Corporate slavery - meaningless work
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More technology - WWIII
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What we usually think about: Student debt, bad job market, can't buy a house
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The Future
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Case Study: Snow Piercer
Genre refers to a category or type of text that follows a unique set of narrative and/or visual
patterns.
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The idea of "genre" goes back to the Ancient Greeks:
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Hero goes out on journey but they don't grow as a person
TRAGEDY (the fall of the hero)
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Combines element of TRAGEDY and COMEDY
EPIC (heroic characters, grand scale of time and space)
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Not just funny - but a society where there's a threat to the society and society
bands together and
The threat is threat to marriage.
Threat to social order in romance movie is a threat to marriage, a social
institution where ppl get together and form families. It's the organizing
principle of society
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Grounded in romance genre.
COMEDY (integration of society; the romance)
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Mocks the elements of the above to produce new kind of experience
PARODY (imitating the style of other forms in order to mock)
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Aristotle divided poetry and literature into 4 categories:
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Apocalypse has become meaningful - it has tragedy but also has sense of comedy (or was it
epic)
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Pop Culture Genres
Answer: the golden age of Hollywood.
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Why are the dominant genres the dominant genres?
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Movies were dominant form of popular culture - 350 films/year.
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Each studio had its own back lot wardrobe department, props and contract actors.
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Many writers writing one movie
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Need to do it quickly = studios were modeled on factories, using assembly line techniques and
strict division of labor.
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Hollywood Studio Era (1930-1949)
Week 12 - Apocalypse
Friday, April 8, 2016
10:11 AM
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Document Summary
The narrative around the course: started with structural/systemic questions abt pop culture (who, how) -> issues of identity -> apocalypse. Global warming - planetary destruction, planetary colonism, lack of resources. What we usually think about: student debt, bad job market, can"t buy a house. Genre refers to a category or type of text that follows a unique set of narrative and/or visual patterns. The idea of genre goes back to the ancient greeks: Aristotle divided poetry and literature into 4 categories: Hero goes out on journey but they don"t grow as a person. Epic (heroic characters, grand scale of time and space) Not just funny - but a society where there"s a threat to the society and society bands together and. Threat to social order in romance movie is a threat to marriage, a social institution where ppl get together and form families. Parody (imitating the style of other forms in order to mock)
