J 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Human Interest Story, Streisand Effect, Dissociative Identity Disorder
2 Jul 2018
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Circuit of Culture
Regulation: attempts to control culture through formal and informal controls
•Stanley Kubrick
•Known as one of the most innovative, influential filmmakers in the history of cinema
•A Clockwork Orange
•in 1971, set in the future, focused on Alex’s Story
•Drinks milk laced with drugs and goes on crime sprees with his friends that involve ultra-
violence
•sent to prison and chosen for an experiment (see slides for rest)
•Kubrick explained that the ultra violence was necessary to provide a moral dilemma about
whether society should remove someone’s ability to make a moral choice
•Pulled movie from theaters because of pressure on his family
•Cultural Byproducts Advocacy Model: A framework for understanding the intersection of
production and regulation (PR from and activist perspective)
•Pollution: The cultural producers of a text experience pressure because they have violated
the rules of the social order
•Guilt: The cultural producer is uncomfortable with eh violation or accusation and feels the
need to do something about it
•Purification: The cultural producer processes the guilt through a path
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Document Summary
Synecdoche: a gure f speech that is used when part of something stands in for the whole: orangutan was a synecdoche for environmental devastation, animals are a more persuasive image. Why use a synecdoche: concrete images are more powerful than abstract references, synecdoches lend themselves to visual communication. Distortions: gs cookies account for less than one one-hundredth of 1% of global palm oil use. Still got media coverage: well known organization, led to good human interest story. Could suggest that gs cookies are a big deal: slave- and child-labor issues were not prominent in media coverage. Large issues in the cultivation of palm oil. Media isn"t talking about this issue: cognitive dissidence-we want to ignore slave and child labor issues because we don"t wanna deal with it/face it. Greenpeace vs. nestle (related case: orangutans are the spokesperson , nestle"s pr fans the ames intially. Tried to get the video removed from youtube due to copyright infringement.
