Earlier Exam Questions
Spring, 2001
Explain Bourdieu's analysis of newspaper reading as cultural consumption. Discuss further how media consumption contributes to the reproduction of the distinctions and power relations in society.Autumn, 2001
Give an account of what Roland Barthes understands with his concept of myth. Discuss further what the potential the concept of myth may have in analysis and critique of mass mediated expressions. Use Barthes' own analyses in Mythologies as your starting point.
Spring, 2003
Discuss how the analytical framework of Roland Barthe's Mythologies may be seen as a form of ideology critique.
Compare further the critical approach in Mythologies with Adorno and Horkheimer's Cultural Industriy.
Spring, 2003, postponed exam
Compare Roland Barthes' and Pierre Bourdieu's views on the role of popular culture in society. Feel fre to bring in other parts of the curriculum. Use examples.
Spring, 2004
Compare Theodor Adorno's and Walter Benjamin's views on how technological development influences on the relation between elite culture and popular culture.
Autumn, 2004
Andreas Huyssen describes how postmodernism has lead to the breakdown of what he names the great divide. Describe the fundamental characteristics of this divide as presented by Huyssen, and discuss how pop art has played a role in this breakdown.