Online Test: Cultural Studies: Unit 1

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What is culture? What is Cultural Studies? Four Goals of CS

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1. Who observed this: 'Cultural Studies is not a tightly coherent, unified movement with a fixed agenda, but a loosely coherent group of tendencies, issues and questions'.

2 points

Bartlinger, Patrick. 'Crusoe's Footprints: Cultural Studies in Britain and America'. New York: Routledge, 1990

Barthes, Roland. 'Mythologies'. Trans. Annette Lavers. New York. Hill and Wang, 1972

Bhabha, Homi I. 'The Location of Culture'. New York: Routledge, 1994

Botstein, Leon. 'The De-Europeanization of American Culture;. In Sill et al.

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2. Arising from the social turmoil of the 1960s, Cultural Studies is composed of elements of . . . . ..... : all those fields that concentrate on social and cultural forces that either create community or cause division and alienation.

4 points

postcolonial studies

Marxism

Bharatmuni's Natyashashtra

Public policy

Longinus's theory of Sublimity

Aristotle's Poetics

Riti and Auchitya

popular culture studies

feminism

sociology

race & ethnic studies

Film theory

gender studies

Poststructuralism & Postmodernism

anthropology

Indian Aesthetics

Dhvani School

Urban studies

3. Match the ideas from which CS draw its theoretical framework

10 points

nature of literary language

anthropology

binaries hierarchical oppositions

psycholinguistic study of language & power as symbolic systems

Power as whole complex of forces

Michel Foucault

Claude Levi-Strauss

Roland Barthes

Jacques Derrida

Jacques Lacan

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4. Identify one of the goals of Cultural Studies

2 points

Cultural studies transcends the confines of a particular discipline such as literary criticism or history

Cultural Studies encourages the perfections of what was best though and said.

Cultural Studies revives the classical reading of literature based on Aristotle's Poetics

Cultural Studies tends to study the culture on eh bases of Indian Aesthetics

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5. Identify one of the goals of Cultural Studies

2 points

Cultural Studies is in opposition to the political engagement of literary texts

Cultural Studies keeps students away from the political engagement as it leads to unnecessary controversies

Cultural Studies makes students humble and nobel human beings by keeping them away from dirty politics.

Cultural Studies is politically engaged.

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6. Identify one of the goals of Cultural Studies

2 points

Cultural Studies teaches to keep 'high literature' away from popular manifestation of literature in film, TV and web series.

Cultural Studies denies the separation of 'high' and 'low' or 'elite' and 'popular culture'.

Cultural Studies denies the study of everyday life and supports the study of what best was thought and said.

Cultural Studies supports the separation of 'high' and 'low' or 'elite' and 'popular culture'.

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7. Identify one of the goals of Cultural Studies

2 points

Cultural Studies is interested in the literary text which speaks of high culture rather than who the reader is or what the means of productions are

Cultural Studies concentrates on the cultural artefacts rather than on the means of production.

Cultural Studies analyzes not only the cultural work, but also the means of production

Cultural Studies do not analyze who publishes books or who supports the writer/artist or who buys the books

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8. In their introduction to Cultural Studies, who emphasized that the intellectual promise of cultural studies lies in its attempt to 'cut across diverse social and political interests and address to many of the struggles within the current scene'.

2 points

Jameson, Frederic. 'Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism'. Durham, NC, Duke Uni Press, 1991

Huyssen, Andreas. 'After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism'. Bloomington: Indian University Press, 1986

Grossberg, Lawrence, Cary Nelson, and Paula Treicher, eds. 'Cultural Studies'. New York: Routledge, 1992

Levi-Strauss, Claude. 'The Raw and the Cooked'. Trans. John and Doreen Weightman. New York: harper, 1975

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9. Who said this: 'Cultural Studies practitioners are 'resisting intellectuals' who see what they do as 'an emancipatory project' because it erodes the traditional disciplinary divisions in most institutions of higher education'.

2 points

Jameson, Frederic. 'Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism'. Durham, NC, Duke Uni Press, 1991

Giroux, henry, David Shumway, paul Smith, and James Sosnoski. 'The Need for Cultural Studies: Resisting Intellectuals and Oppositional Public Spheres'. Dalhousie Review 64, no. 2 (1994): 472-86

Geertz, CLifford. 'The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: basic Books, 1972

Foucoult, Michel. 'What Is an Author?' From 'Discipline and Punish' from 'The History of Sexuality (Vol 1); and from 'Truth and Power;. Reprinted in Leitch.

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10. The work of Raymond Williams influenced the projects and approaches of the BCCCS in the 1970s. The approach was clearly Marxist, and it adapted theoretical insights from poststructuralism to develop Cultural Studies. What does BCCCS stand for?

2 points

British Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies

Birmingham College for Contemporary Cultural Studies

Birmingham Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies

British Cultural Centre for Contemporary Studies

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11. ________ 's work has been trend setter in Cultural Studies and inaugurated the field in Britain. His early essay, ___________ set the scene for Cultural Studies of the media.

2 points

Raymond Williams's Culture

Raymond Williams's The Long Revolution

Roland Barthes's Mythologies

Stuart Hall's Encoding / Decoding

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12. What difference does a cultural studies approach make for the student?

2 points

It is a common prediction that the culture of the next century will put a premium on people's ability to deal productively with conflict and cultural difference. e. Learning by controversy is sound training for citizenship in that future"

It can help students get an easy job in USA.

It can help students in passing NET / SET exam.

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13. Why teach the controversy?

2 points

Today a student can go from one class in which the values of Western culture are never questioned to the next class where Western culture is portrayed as hopelessly compromised and hence it will be highly problematic to teach controversy.

Today a student can go from one class in which the values of Western culture are never questioned to the next class where Western culture is portrayed as hopelessly compromised by racism, sexism, and homophobia: professors can acknowledge these differences and encourage students to construct a conversation for themselves as "the most exciting part of ltheir] education"

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