Ideological Criticism, Cultural Studies (Discussion) - Revision history

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Jeremy Butler at 16:21, 16 November 2020

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 ##Ricky and Denise, in terms of LGBTQ/race politics.
 #How did ''you'' read Mark and Nina's conversion at the end of the episode?
 ===Cast (from IMDb)===

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 ==Ritesh Mehta, "''Master of None'': Negotiated Decoding"==
-#Mehta<ref>Katie Way, "I went on a date with Aziz Ansari. It turned into the worst night of my life," ''babe.net'', https://babe.net/2018/01/13/aziz-ansari-28355</ref>
+#Mehta offers "dominant", "oppositional", and "negotiated" "readings" of Asian-American Dev's relationships with various white women over the course of the series (pp. 147-148). Describe those three readings in your own words. How do those readings apply to Dev's relationship with Nina in "The Other Man" episode?
-#Mehta argues that the second season of ''Master of None'' "privileges" (offers a preferred reading, one might say) a different decoding than the first. How so? And can you see this in "The Other Man" episode, which is from the first season?
+#Mehta argues that the second season of ''Master of None'' "privileges" (offers a ''preferred'' reading, one might say) a different decoding than the first. How so? And can you see this in "The Other Man" episode, which is from the first season?
-#''Master of None'' compared/contrasted with ''My So-Called Life'':
+#If we compare/contrast ''Master of None'' with ''My So-Called Life'', what preferred readings do they offer regarding:
-##Compare/contrast Angela and Nina, in terms of gender politics.
+##Angela and Nina, in terms of gender politics.
-##Compare/contrast Ricky and Denise, in terms of LGBTQ/race politics.
+##Representations of adultery.
-##Compare/contrast representation of adultery.
+##Ricky and Denise, in terms of LGBTQ/race politics.
 ===Cast (from IMDb)===
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 ==Strengths/weaknesses==
-List two strength(s) of ideological criticism, cultural studies and/or production studies. List two weaknesses of these approaches. '''Answers in boldface are the best ones.''' Email them to jbutler@ua.edu .
+List two strength(s) of ideological criticism, cultural studies and/or production studies. List two weaknesses of these approaches. '''Answers in boldface are the best ones.'''
 *'''Group 1 on production studies:'''
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 #Ethan Thompson & Jason Mittell, eds., ''How to Watch Television'', second edition (2020):
 ##Ritesh Mehta, "''Master of None'': Negotiated Decoding," second edition, 144-152.

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 #Mehta<ref>Katie Way, "I went on a date with Aziz Ansari. It turned into the worst night of my life," ''babe.net'', https://babe.net/2018/01/13/aziz-ansari-28355</ref>
 #Mehta argues that the second season of ''Master of None'' "privileges" (offers a preferred reading, one might say) a different decoding than the first. How so? And can you see this in "The Other Man" episode, which is from the first season?
-#Compare/contrast Angela and Nina, in terms of gender politics.
+#''Master of None'' compared/contrasted with ''My So-Called Life'':
-#Compare/contrast Ricky and Denise, in terms of LGBTQ/race politics.
+##Compare/contrast Angela and Nina, in terms of gender politics.
 ===Cast (from IMDb)===

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 #Mehta argues that the second season of ''Master of None'' "privileges" (offers a preferred reading, one might say) a different decoding than the first. How so? And can you see this in "The Other Man" episode, which is from the first season?
 #Compare/contrast Angela and Nina, in terms of gender politics.
 ===Cast (from IMDb)===

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 #'''Group 3:''' Perform a ''negotiated'' decoding of ''My So-Called Life''. What would be the result of your reading in terms of representations of gender and sexuality, ethnicity, and youth (vs. middle age)?
 #'''Group 4:''' What do you feel is the ''preferred reading'' of this episode? What is the preferred reading in terms of representations of gender and sexuality, ethnicity, and youth (vs. middle age)? ("Hall and others often presume that the preferred reading encoded on the text by the television apparatus will be from the dominant position," but in this case it probably is not.)
 ==Ritesh Mehta, "''Master of None'': Negotiated Decoding"==

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 #Jeremy G. Butler, ''Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture'' (NY: Routledge, 2018).
 #Ethan Thompson & Jason Mittell, eds., ''How to Watch Television'', second edition (2020):
-##Ritesh Mehta, "Master of None: Negotiated Decoding," second edition, 144-152.
+##Ritesh Mehta, "''Master of None'': Negotiated Decoding," second edition, 144-152.

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		+	==Ideological criticism: key terms==
		+	#Ideology
		+	#Hegemony
		+	#Discourse, as defined by John Fiske:
		+	##"a language or system of representation that has
		+	##developed socially in order
		+	##to make and circulate
		+	##a coherent set of meanings about an important topic area."
		+	#Encoding and decoding, as defined by Stuart Hall
		+
	==Decoding (or reading) a text==		==Decoding (or reading) a text==
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 ==Decoding (or reading) a text==
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 File:Encoding decoding of broadcast structures.jpg|alt=Stuart Hall's encoding/decoding model.|Stuart Hall's encoding/decoding model.
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