École de la Communication Introduction to Media Studies ICOE2005 Fall 2012 Mondays 14:45–16:45 Professor: Joseph Bender Course Description What is/are the media? Who produces and influences them and under what circumstances? How do the media represent reality? What effects do they have on the audience? To what extent are the media globalized or different across countries? What is new about the new media? The course considers the nature of mediated communication‚ historical transformations
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Avantika Dobhal Pooja Negi M.A. English(Semester-2nd) 15th April 2014 Black women:- from a writer to her protagonist I have to cast my lot with those who age after age‚ perversely‚ with no extraordinary power reconstitute the world.
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Clearly‚ Inception is a highly accomplished movie - for a Summer blockbuster. No one can possibly be so dulled to the dazzle of special effects and stellar cast‚ and the fast-paced action sequences‚ not to appreciate it at some level. The question that Nolan’s unusually intelligent thriller wants us to ask of it‚ however‚ is whether this is a good‚ thought-provoking film by any standards‚ not just Hollywood’s own seasonal one. Certainly‚ the film teases at the limits of its viewers’ intellect‚ with
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The Veil and The West When it comes to Women in Islam much has been written about their dress‚ hijab‚ veils and burqas. Katherine Bullock and Asma Barlas are examples of such examiners; these two women investigated the veil and western politics of the body. Katherine Bullock observes veiling in her book “Rethinking Muslim women and the veil” by critically examining western media’s representation and perceptions of the veil. She also takes it one step further by interviewing sixteen Muslim women
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Critical Social Policy http://csp.sagepub.com/ Capitalist globalization‚ corporate social responsibility and social policy Leslie Sklair and David Miller Critical Social Policy 2010 30: 472 DOI: 10.1177/0261018310376804 The online version of this article can be found at: http://csp.sagepub.com/content/30/4/472 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and information for Critical Social Policy can be found at: Email Alerts: http://csp.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions:
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Edward Said has argued that the Orient was “almost a European invention” and crucial to the colonial project. Samuel Huntington argues that the world is being driven towards an evitable “clash” between essential cultural differences. What do race/ethnicity‚ culture and difference have to do with global capitalism? Global capitalism is the key to how society operates today. The impact that global capitalism has created relies much on the past in relation to race‚ ethnicity‚ culture and differences
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Tiwari 1 Janmejay Kumar Tiwari Research Scholar Department of English & MEL University of Allahabad‚ Allahabad Colonial Enchanter: Postcolonial Enchantress Postcolonialism is a relation of centre and margin‚ oppressor and oppressed‚ colonizer and colonized or in the words of Aime Cesaire “relations of domination and submission.‟‟ Postcolonialism is largely concerned with the politics of culture and postcolonial studies “involves the critical examination of European representations of colonial
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Turquerie was the Orientalist fashion that arose during 16th to 18th century in Western Europe. It is a ‘French term used to describe artifacts made in Turkey‚ or in France by Turkish craftsmen‚ and by derivation the influence on French design of elements from the Byzantine Empire‚ the Saljuq Islamic period and the Ottoman Empire.’ 1 In music‚ the influence of Turkish culture in European society also spurred composers like Mozart‚ Haydn and Beethoven to write music with the used of Alla Turca style
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Islamism: A set of ideologies holding that Islam should guide social and political as well as personal life. The goal of Islamist movements is to establish an Islamic state to implement the Sharia law. They are however not a unified movement and encompass different groups with different political agendas and interpretation of the religion. Mohammad Mossadeq: Prime Minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953. Led the nationalization of Iran’s oil industry and rejected neocolonial domination of Iran in the
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WEEK 5 QUIZ- DIVERSITY AND RACE: HISTORICAL INSTRUCTIONS This Quiz is made up of Multiple Choice and Essay Questions based on this week’s discussion‚ reading and video assignments related to your assigned readings in your text book Racial and Ethnic Groups. This quiz is a possible total of 100points. Place a mark next to your choice of response or use the highlighter. Do not underline or place an asterisk or mark more than one response‚ if you do your response will be counted as incorrect
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