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In concise answers address all the following questions. I don’t need an intro or conclusion, but develop your answers and thoroughly as possible. Whenever possible use your own words to explain your answers and cite when needed. Single-spaced answers are fine. Answer in full sentences at all times. Make sure to define all the main terms that you use. Each question will be marked out of 10. 1. How is Boss carnivalesque? Explain what is meant by the carnivalesque and how Boss challenges stereotypes of black individuals in popular cinema. In your answer make sure to acknowledge the limitations of the carnivalesque as well talk about which race frame it uses to challenge stereotypes. Use all examples from class to formulate your answer. 2. With reference to the in-class discussion and film clips we screened, what were the conditions by which the star system was created? How does medium theory help us to understand the creation of the star system? Who were the first stars and who were some of the first movie stars of the silent and early sound era and what kind of screen personas did they establish [Talk about all the stars we talked about in class]? To what extent is this legacy evident in contemporary movie stars and to what degree are aspects of it still alive? 3.In Stars Down to Earth, Theodor Adorno writes: “…the [fetishization] of gadgets is indirectly narcissistic…gadgets provide the subjects with some memories of early feelings of omnipotence”. What does he mean by this quote? Fully explain the quote defining the main terms that you use. Additionally, how can this quote describe the use of online social networking in our current digital age? There is no specified page length for Test 2. Develop your answers thoroughly and precisely. I don’t need any intros and conclusions in your answers. Use your own words to answer the questions. If you have to quote, embed the citation and put a works cited at the end. Please use Anatomy of FIlm – Chapter 5 (page 119-133) for question number 2, as well as powerpoints for each question. Another useful source to relate the answers to class content is this below. Uski, Suvi and Lampinen, Airi Lampinen. (2016). “Social norms and self presentation on social network sites: Profile work in action”. New Media & Society, Vol. 18(3). Pp. 447-464.
