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Assignment:
1. What is the phenomenon known as the "persistence of vision?" Group of answer choices
- Because the retina retains an image for an instant after it is seen, showing more than 12 similar images in one second is interpreted by the seer as movement.
- Because the retina retains an image long after it is seen, a seer can perceive the same image if shown a plane of white after showing an image for only one second.
- Because the retina retains an image long after it is seen, a seer can perceive the same image if shown a plane of white after showing an image for only 12 seconds.
- Because the retina retains an image for an instant after it is seen, showing more than 16 similar images in one second is interpreted by the seer as movement.
2. Correctly pair the innovator with the moving-image apparatus or event they created.
- Thomas Edison, 1891
- Auguste and Louis Lumiere
- Dziga Vertov
- 'See it Now' and CBS
Here are the choices:
- Cinemotographe, 1895
- Split Screen, 1951
- Flimes screened to rural audiences from a train, 1919
- Cutting up photographs, mounting them, and projecting light through them, 1888.
- First live television broadcast, 1929.
- Kinetoscope, 1891
3. At the first Lumière Brothers screening of a train arriving at a station, the viewers were so startled by the image of a train moving towards them, they fled the theater. Group of answer choices
4. Briefly summarize in your own words, how are the age of railway expansion (1847-57) and the invention of moving pictures related techno-social developments?
5. In the visual language of cinema, what have trains or the railway symbolized? Group of answer choices
- Transporting the Nazi's victims of the Holocaust to their deaths.
- Closed worlds, in Cold War historical events play out.
- Technological and social progress
- A synthesis of human and machine.
6. How do you assess Mirzoeff's argument about how trains have been used as settings and metaphors in films? Does his evidence help you understand the power of cinema? Is it a distraction from the topic of the chapter?
7. In this chapter, what is the significance of satellites? Group of answer choices
- Telstar, some of the first communications satellite was a transnational project.
- They created the possibility of broadcasting events from around the world live, in real time.
- They were connected through networks to create the Internet.
- They created a "global village" that continues to grow to this day, in which millions experience the same media simultaneously.
8. Briefly state in your own words, according to Mirzoeff, why is wearable technology like Google Glass important to think about in terms of social and economic inequality?
9. According to Barry Lord, what is unique about the Arabia in terms of the connection he makes between energy sources and culture? Group of answer choices
- Unlike the United States and Western Europe, the cultural change from coal during industrialization did not affect the region first.
- Unlike the United States and Western Europe, people in this region are less engaged in conspicuous consumption of consumer products.
- Long after their popularity waned in the United States, Levi's jeans and rock music were considered luxury goods.
- They relied on wood as an energy source until the 1930s, had a brief reliance on coal, and have been using and producing oil since the 1950s.
10. Why was the discovery and development of oil critical to the success of automobiles? Group of answer choices
- Because steam power was impossible inside an internal combustion engine; it had to be a chemical reaction, and refined oil- gasoline- was the most reliable and efficient fuel.
- Because coal power was impossible inside a compression engine; it had to be a chemical reaction, and refined oil- gasoline- was the most reliable and efficient fuel.
- Because the extraction of coal required a massive organization of workers, while the extraction of natural gas requires fewer workers and can be piped across land.
11. Briefly state in your own words, according to Lord, what is the "culture of consumption?"
12. What is your relationship to the culture of consumption?
13. What is "post-modernism?" Group of answer choices
- An intellectual attitude that rejects functionalism, political or social class systems, and material fidelity, embracing culture as a buffet to indulge and re-mix as one sees fit.
- An intellectual attitude that rejects ornament and historical references, embracing a culture of material fidelity and universalism.
- An intellectual attitude that deconstructed modernists' historical accounts and added feminist and post-colonial perspectives.
- An intellectual attitude that does not see everyone as generalized consumers as modernists did, but as identifying with hyper-specific brands.