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OK,Whatever, No Way! Capturing & Creating Consent Onscreen. Dr. Marilyn Yaquinto Associate Professor, Truman State University September 20, 2014. Media & performativity. What is consent ? a legal definition? a political concept? or a cultural (or lived) experience?.
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OK,Whatever, No Way!Capturing & Creating Consent Onscreen Dr. Marilyn Yaquinto Associate Professor, Truman State University September 20, 2014
Media & performativity • What is consent? • a legal definition? • a political concept? • or a cultural (or lived) experience?
What about informed consent? • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAdu6GHV3tQ
Political … I’m a citizen, aren’t I? Clarence Thomas confirmation hearing
Media rules! But whose media? • MySpace? My apps? • Liberal bias? Political control? • Corporate or commercial control? • Push vs. pull media
But whose culture? • Hegemony • political, economic, cultural dominance • but control by force? • or through cultural consent? • Claire’s video • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzc-jbFI_eM
Consenting to mainstream culture? • Commodification • Cultural Appropriation • … Mylie Cyrus (start at 3:50)
Normsendures … through culture • Current list of Hollywood’s hottest stars under the age of 25 • same old same old
Frontier hero onscreen • THE URBAN FRONTIER … • Dirty Harry
Next generation … • Yippee Ki Yay • Add a buddy of color
The “norm” endures … • Noble end justifies ugly means …Dark Blue
Fact/fiction … same narratives • SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR • Brandishing Blackness/Larry Wilmore
LESSONS? • Become media literate … understanding that all media (fictional or journalistic) have effects • That media products/images are constructs … NOT the “way things really are” • Seek out a variety of voices and perspectives!