Across
- 1. — Lens analyzing how gender shapes representation and power (p27)
- 6. — Process that turns cultural practices into marketable objects (p11)
- 8. — Groups that resist mainstream style by producing distinct meanings (p27)
- 9. — Simplified representations that circulate as “common sense” (p69)
- 10. — The real-world thing a sign points to when we interpret meaning (p34)
- 11. — (equilibrium) The textbook’s term for settling cultural tensions (p90)
- 14. — Nicher branches of a larger category; how fandoms sort series into micro-styles (p4)
- 15. — Lighter aspects of pop culture often dismissed yet revealing of values (p19)
- 17. — A deliberate nod to prior texts that layers meaning in popular works (p7)
- 20. — A cultural story that naturalizes a value or social order (p42)
- 21. — Class discussion topic: reusing cultural materials in new contexts (in class)
- 22. — Fan practice that enacts and remixes characters at conventions (p17)
- 23. — The selective list of works treated as culturally authoritative (p23)
- 25. — Radical economic alternative often referenced in political readings (p60)
- 26. — Adjective describing how texts carry unstated beliefs and power (p14)
- 29. — George sociologist who explored how money and fashion shape social life (p11)
- 31. — Careful interpretation that evaluates cultural meanings and effects (p60)
- 32. — In class: contested category that pop culture both borrows from and challenges (in class)
- 33. — Old master whose plots and lines are endlessly repurposed in TV and film (p10)
- 36. — A mixed reception that both accepts and reshapes a text’s message (p53)
- 37. — A sign that points to its cause or origin (like smoke → fire) (p39)
- 38. storey — Cultural studies scholar whose work helps map pop cultural analysis (p22)
- 39. — Theory that decodes how signs produce cultural meaning (p32)
- 42. — Repressive state apparatus; institutions that enforce through force (p62)
- 43. — The “critical theory” kit the text offers for decoding pop culture (p59)
- 44. — (shirtwaist fire) A historical event used in class to discuss industrial risks (in class)
- 45. — Position that identities and meanings are socially produced (p66)
- 50. — Claim that identities have fixed, natural traits (p66)
- 52. — When an ideology hardens into unquestioned common sense (p45)
- 53. — The axis of selection where one sign is chosen over alternatives (p35)
- 55. — A viewer stance that resists the preferred reading of a text (p53)
Down
- 2. — How race, gender, class, etc., produce overlapping oppression (p77)
- 3. — The equilibrium outcome when conflicting cultural forces settle (p64)
- 4. — The shared practices and meanings that make everyday life legible to groups (p5)
- 5. Austen — Author whose novels become recurring templates for modern rom-com adaptations (p5)
- 7. — (fashion) Rapid cycles of clothing production critiqued in class (in class)
- 9. king — Prolific horror writer whose works are constant fodder for adaptation (p18)
- 12. — A sign that resembles what it signifies (photo = likeness) (p39)
- 13. — The cultural associations a sign carries beyond literal meaning (p36)
- 16. — Pop culture’s tendency to be both ordinary and deeply meaningful (p20)
- 18. — The dominant common sense that masks power relations (p53)
- 19. — The axis of combination that organizes signs into sequences (p35)
- 20. — (lisa) Iconic artwork frequently referenced and remixed in pop culture (in class)
- 23. — (intelligence) Knowledge produced collaboratively by many users (p91)
- 24. — A sign whose relation to meaning is purely conventional (p39)
- 25. — (appropriation) Borrowing elements from another culture without context (p91)
- 27. — The prized quality fans debate when a reboot “feels” genuine (p12)
- 28. — As in historical materialism: focus on material conditions shaping culture (p60)
- 30. — Critical approach that reads culture through class struggle and production (p27)
- 34. — The straightforward, literal meaning of a sign or image (p36)
- 35. — Mid-century sci-fi name often evoked when discussing genre conventions (p8)
- 40. — Ideological state apparatus; institutions that teach consent (p62)
- 41. — As in Critical Race Theory, a framework exposing racialized power (p77)
- 45. — The economic system that structures cultural production and profit (p24)
- 46. — Social bonds formed around shared media practices and meanings (p19)
- 47. — A system of male dominance embedded in cultural structures (p66)
- 48. — (culture) Fans’ active role in producing and circulating meaning (p91)
- 49. — A cultural item valued primarily for exchange rather than meaning (p13)
- 51. — Theory that destabilizes normative categories of sexuality and identity (p75/p76)
- 54. — Matthew critic who linked culture to moral formation and taste (p22)