MECI1302 Quiz 1 (Practice)

What is cultural production?

• Industrial production of cultural commodities

• Commodification of cultural products

• Production of commodified culture

• None of the above

Why is cultural production ‘strange’?

• Culture is something dynamic.

• Culture is something experienced.

• Culture is something static.

• Culture is something traditional.

How do lifestyle magazines instruct on the culture of beauty?

• They inculcate minority values.

• They restrict popular ideas.

• They explain what is ‘hot’ or ‘not’.

• They demonise unpopular principles.

What is the genre of films accused of exploiting Black culture in the 1970s?

• Blaxploitation

• Ozploitation

• Sexploitation

• All of the above

Which of the following industries are adopted by governments as part of their cultural policy?

• Cultural industries

• Copyright industries

• Content industries

• Creative industries

Which academic defined the idea of imagined community?

• Benedict Anderson

• Joseph Nye

• Tanner Mirrlees

• Akira Toriyama

Which concept is the ‘influence wielded by a nation through the projection of a culture, society and more’?

• Imagined community

• Cultural imperialism

• Soft power

• All of the above

Which of the following is not a tifo created by football fans in the lecture slides?

• Gundala

• Superman

• Godzilla

• Dragonball

According to the slides, what do mass media industries do?

• Reflect a one-way export of products

• Push back against forms of cultural imperialism

• Create space for marginalised identities

• Project hard military power

Which Indonesian show is used as an example in the slides?

• Stranger Things

• Nightmares and Dreams

• Agak Laen

• Gadis Kretek