Across
- 5. Tracing way Punjabi viewers in London find parallels and differences between their culture and an Australian soap. Characters provide a means for talking about taboo or sensitive topics.
- 6. Influence of pop icons to convince people to buy war bonds. Suggests that likability and personal aspect made it more convincing.
- 7. We're moving towards a mass culture, remnants of an urban "of the people" culture is being destroyed by manufactured mass culture
- 8. creating self identity through online fandom and virtual communities. Focuses on use of intertextuality and hypertextuality
- 10. Finds similarities between female Trekkies and Beatlemania fans. However, this group is based on long-term commitment that is deeply rooted.
- 12. Tv show enforces myth that unsuccessful African Americans have only themselves to blame. Audiences quick to point out that its not that easy to just be successful as a minority
- 15. Adolescent explorations of gender, identity and romantic/sexual fantasy. Dramatic first outburst of sexuality to ft. women
- 16. Comic books were a negative form of literature that was a serious cause of juvenile delinquency
- 19. Attempt at intervention analysis intended to capture issues within fan communities. Relationship between readers and text is fluid.
- 20. No legitimate association between depiction of violence and increases of violence in society. Ads must be targeted to be effective, products associated with negative feelings don't succeed.
- 22. Going to films gives women a sense of nostalgia linked to memories of their personal lives.
- 23. Work based on the work of Hall. Uses and Grats is too imprecise, structured in dominance. Preffered, oppositional or negotiate the reading. Accepting some of the programme's encoded values and rejecting others.
Down
- 1. Explores concept of belonging and group identity which unites subculturalists. Small-scale movements and are dissipated by dominant institutions mass market them.
- 2. Patriarchic subconscious shapes our film watching experience, hollywood narrative films use women so as to provide a pleasurable viewing experience for men
- 3. Relationship between Dutch audiences and soap operas. Criticizes Radway of claiming feminism as a solver to women's problems.
- 4. Boomerang effect and shift from mass audience theory to subjective experience
- 9. Studied womens reaction to UK crime shows, increased anxieties and fear of danger
- 11. concentrates on the ways in which religious beliefs and cultural experience affects their reading. Use as escape and confirmation for their values.
- 13. Suggest 2-step flow to reject effects of top-down model. Personal influence is better, only some people are susceptible to opinion change.
- 14. TV is bound to have an impact on the audience. Certain reoccurring myths in tv legitimate a certain social order, like mean world syndrome
- 17. Replace mass public with culture industry. Media content is adapted to mass consumption: commodification of entertainment
- 18. Understanding pop culture through identity creation via material and cultural commodities. Every commodity perpetuates the culture it was made by. Commodification of culture.
- 21. Why and how women read romance novels. Women claim reading is an act of escapism from habitual existence