Reality Show

My favorite reality show is The Hills. What made me watch it is the drama and seeing how the rich live their lives, there is not a dull moment on the show and I continue to watch it every week because of that reason and because as I watch every episode, I want to see what happens next, who ends up with who. I would love to have the money aspect they have, going out and buying whatever I want. However I would not want the drama in my life, I do fine without it.

Chapter 50 Summary

In this chapter, Representation adn Difference by Stuart Hall, he explained that how society makes sense of what is happening in the world is through differences. Hall goes on to divide these into 4 main catagories and theories on how we differ things:

1. Linguistics- The essential of knowing what difference is is to know the opposite of it, ex: dark and light

2. Language- We know what differences are because we can put them to a dialogue.

3. Anthropological- Cultures giving different items a meaning.

4. Psychoanalytic- The "other" is to our identity as a subject and our sexual identity

Chapter 49 Summary

This chapter, The Society of Spectacle, by Guy Debord, was about illusions and sacredness and that our society is bombarded with a mass amount of images and representation. These have become such a dominate part in our lives that we are forgetting about our own personal experiences.

Favorite Song Lyrics

Love Story
by Taylor Swift

We were both young when I first saw you.
I close my eyes and the flashback starts:
I'm standing there on a balcony in summer air.

See the lights, see the party, the ball gowns.
See you make your way through the crowd
and say hello;

Little did I know
That you were Romeo; you were throwing pebbles,
And my daddy said, "Stay away from Juliet."
And I was crying on the staircase,
begging you, 'Please, don't go.'"

And I said,
"Romeo, take me somewhere we can be alone.
I'll be waiting; all there's left to do is run.
You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess
It's a love story - baby just say 'Yes.'"

So I sneak out to the garden to see you.
We keep quiet 'cause we're dead if they knew.
So close your eyes; escape this town for a little while.
'Cause you were Romeo, I was a scarlet letter,
And my daddy said "Stay away from Juliet,"
But you were everything to me; I was begging you, 'Please, don't go,'"

And I said,
"Romeo, take me somewhere we can be alone.
I'll be waiting; all there's left to do is run.
You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess
It's a love story - baby just say 'Yes.'

Romeo save me - they're tryin' to tell me how to feel;
This love is difficult, but it's so real.
Don't be afraid; we'll make it out of this mess.
It's a love story - baby just say "Yes.'"

Oh.

I got tired of waiting,
Wondering if you were ever comin' around.
My faith in you was fading
When I met you on the outskirts of town,

And I said,
"Romeo save me - I've been feeling so alone.
I keep waiting for you but you never come.
Is this in my head? I don't know what to think-"

He knelt to the ground and pulled out a ring and said,
"Marry me, Juliet - you'll never have to be alone.
I love you and that's all I really know.
I talked to your dad - go pick out a white dress;
It's a love story - baby just say 'Yes.'"

Oh, oh.

We were both young when I first saw you...

Chapter 42 a& 43

Chapter 42 Summary:

Chapter 42, The Power of Rock Music by Simon Frith, is about that people focus on the words of rock music when we must understand it as a form of music. People look at the words and analyze the song from that. But in actuality the impact of rock music is in the the music itself. There are two important parts in the music, sounds and music. And overall rock music is made "in order to have emotional, social, physical, commercial results" and not just music for the sake of it. We listen to music for the emotional aspect of it.

Key Terms:

-Rock Music: A primitive form of music that is made of sound and music
-Words: The lyrical aspect of rock music
-Lyrical Analysis: Analyzing the words and lyrics of the music for the meaning
-Prelinguistic Devices: The sounds and rhythms of the music


Chapter 43

In chapter 43, Artistic Texts by Yuri Lotman, Lotman explained why art is considered as text and that art is a complicated matter. Art contains messages and we as a society see everything as art, nothing is bad art because each hold a message. The message is interpreted in different ways depending on the person and since it is complicated we take a small message the first time and go back to uncover more.

Key Terms:

-Art: Art is a text because it contains a message for the viewers

Chapter 32 Overview and Key Terms

In chapter 32, The Postmodern Eye by Jack Solomon, he states that as a result
of the postmodern style the narrative as we know it is no more. Post modern is
the age of instant communicatin, as Solomon says, for example tv, radio and
cinema. There are no narrative and it essentaily is just a series as "skits".
Solomon says that as a result of this the narrative has lost its power and
that life is now "decentered" because the narrative is no more. He goes as far
as saying "life is nothing more than a decentered, narrativeless course of
waiting for death" basically saying that now our life has no more meaning, not
like what it once was.

Key Words.

-Postmodernism: instant communication for example tv and radio
-Postmodern Eye: viewing the world through the tv lense or movie lense
-narrative: creating meaning to meaningless and makes sense of things that do
not make sense
-decentered: losing the narrative no longer revolving around it, which was what
we centered ourselves around before postmodernism.

Chapter 31 Postmodern or Modern

Chapter 31

Picture 1- Postmodernism because of the mix of high culture and pop culture

Picture 2- Modernism because it is abstract expressionism and it is "serious"
art

Picture 3- Modernism because there is a unified style, there is an overall
narrative and it is harmonious.

Picture 4- Postmodernism because of the fragmented style and local narratives
in the painting.

Picture 5- Postmodernism because it is pop art and it a "punk" feel to it.