Course: Rapid Revision

5 DAY -COURSE
RAPID REVISION
Cultural Studies
Dr Kalyani Vallath
-COURSE
Which of the following is NOT a feature of
Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School?
• It is an anti-dogmatic social critique
• It brings about sociological change and
intellectual emancipation
• It analyses dominant ideologies of the
bourgeois society
• It shows how mainstream ideologies
misrepresent human relations of the real world
• ALL ARE TRUE
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-COURSE
Adorno and Horkheimer employed the ____
myth to show that Myth involves
Enlightenment and vice versa.
• Oedipus
• Prometheus
• Titanomachia
• Odyssey (THE DIALECTIC OF
ENLIGHTENMENT)
-COURSE
Which of the following is a key idea of Herbert
Marcuse?
• In Post-War mass culture there is a disappearance of the original
• In Post-War mass culture, there is a depletion of value of identities
• In Post-War mass culture, there is a profusion of inauthentic
false needs
• All of these
-COURSE
Who of the following was NOT a founding
figure of New Left Review?
• Herbert Marcuse (Father of New Left)

• E.P. Thompson
• Perry Anderson
• Pierre Macherey
-COURSE
Which of the following is NOT a concept put
forth in The Birth of the Clinic? (MSQ)
• Disease are not simple empirical fact
• Disease is related to the social norms that
are current at particular historical moments
• There is nothing called disease; it is a
social construct (NOT FOUCAULDIAN)
• All these are true
-COURSE
Which of the following is a Foucauldian idea?
• Power is an instrument wielded by people or groups (agents) as an

instrument of coercion (NO, FOUCAULT WAS AGAINST THIS)
• Power is diﬀuse and exists everywhere.
• Power creates knowledge and maintains knowledge
(KNOWLEDGE CREATES POWER AND MAINTAINS POWER)
• All of these are true
-COURSE
_____ is the Foucauldian term for the various
institutional, physical, and administrative
mechanisms and knowledge structures which
maintain the exercise of power within the social body.
• Archive
• Episteme
• Biopower
• Dispositif (APPARATUS)
-COURSE
Who of the following is associated with the
book Representation: Cultural
Representations and Signifying Practices?
• Stuart Hall
• Edward Soja
• Paul Gilroy
• bell hooks
-COURSE
Who of the following analysed how 16th century
mercantilism and later 18th century agricultural
revolution led to vanishing countrysides and a
depopulation which reflected in poetry?
• Richard Johnson
• Stuart Hall
• Raymond Williams (THE COUNTRY &
THE CITY)
• Jonathan Dollimore
-COURSE
What is Raymond Williams’ term for Culture as a
body of intellectual and imaginative work by which
human thought and experience are recorded?
• Archival culture
• Documentary culture
• Registered culture
• None of these
-COURSE
The term Cultural Intermediaries is discussed
in the book
• Distinction: A Social Critique of the
Judgement of Taste BY BOURDIEU
• The Long Revolution
• Postmodern Geographies
• Thirdspace: Journeys to Los Angeles and
Other Real and Imagined Places
-COURSE
Edward Soja’s concept of Third Space pertains
to ______
• How people live together
• Mapping and compartmentalization of actual space (FIRST SPACE)
• Representation of space (SECOND SPACE)
• None of these
-COURSE
The term Disjuncture relates to
• Economics
• The transnational movement of people
• Culture
• All of these
-COURSE
Anthony Giddens propounded _____, a social
theory of the creation and reproduction of
social systems.
• Culturalism
• Structuration
• Socialization
• None of these
-COURSE
Paul Gilroy presented Black Atlantic as
(MSQ)
• A theory of blackness
• A counterculture of modernity
• A textual construction of race relations
• A hybrid space
-COURSE
Who of the following is NOT associated with
Visual Culture?
• Nicholas Mirzoeﬀ
• John Berger
• Gillian Rose
• Katherine Hayles
-COURSE
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against
American Women (1991) is a book by ______
• Susan Faludi
• Angela McRobbie
• Judith Butler
• Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
-COURSE
The Politics of Terror and Loss in Media and
Literature is by ______
• Cathy Caruth
• Ann Kaplan
• Roger Luckhurst
• Shoshana Felman
-COURSE
The Rise of a Network Society is the first part
of the trilogy The Information Age. Who is the
author?
• Manuel Castells
• Katherine Hayles
• Stein Braten
• Donna Haraway
-COURSE
Who of the following is associated with Cyber
Feminism?
• Annamarie Jagose (QUEER STUDIES)

• Sadie Plant
• Both of them
• Neither of them

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• Herbert Marcuse (Father of New Left)

• Power is an instrument wielded by people or groups (agents) as an

• Annamarie Jagose (QUEER STUDIES)

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