Introduction to Popular Culture
Instructor: Mark Singleton
Mentor: Chris Ross
Spring, 2004

Take Home Final Exam

Instructions: Give a stipulative definition for fifteen (15) of the terms below and provide a well substantiated example from popular culture for each. Be sure that you provide an innovative example and explain why it illustrates your stipulative definition.

Remember: A stipulative definition is your working definition of the terms. Be sure to provide your own work and outlook, your own words in defining the concepts for this class. Each definition with example should be no more than around half a page, typed and double-spaced.

Due Date: In class, Thursday, June 3rd, the last day of class. Any exams turned in after this will be considered late and 1/3 of a grade will be deducted from the final grade of the exam.

The terms are taken from our reading packet, the two books, and classroom discussion.

1. Intertextuality
2. Myth reader
3. Myth consumer
4. The Canon
5. Semiotics
6. Postmodernism
7. Simulacra
8. Hyperreality
9. Hegemony
10. Carnivalesque
11. Spectacle
12. Semiotic Guerilla
13. Culture Jamming
14. Art and Mechanical Reproduction
15. Reification
16. Fetish
17. Waning of Affect
18. Titillation
19. 2^nd wave feminism
20. 3^rd wave feminism
21. Rogue Fan
22. The Talent Myth
23. Consumerism
24. Television Magick
25. Commodities as a communication system
26. Time as a commodity
27. Starvation Economy
28. Authenticity
29. Metonymy
30. Fabrication of reality
31. Multiple surfaces
32. Plasticity
33. The power of being different
34. The Fake as Real
35. Hyperbole
36. A feature of Eternal Fascism (pick one)*
37. Sluthood vs. old paradigm
38. Demographics
39. Commodification of Dissent
40. An approach to film analysis (pick one)*
41. The abstraction of exchange
42. Difference
43. Culture of exception
44. The ordering of things
45. A promiscuous stereotype (pick one)*

*You can only do one of these.