Theory of visual, image, and text analysis

Instructions

Purpose

This quiz is created to help you to clarify the historical and theoretical concepts we have learned about theoretical frameworks for visual analysis and historical construction of the theories for ideology.

This quiz is high stake (50 points) but you can take it twice if you wish. It is an open-book, open-notebook, quiz that you can ask other classmates for help. If you have questions regarding the quiz, use the discussion thread, and ask your classmates the questions. If you know the answer to the questions on the discussion thread, please reply and help each other.

Knowledge

This assignment will also help you measure your level of familiarity with the following important content knowledge in this discipline:

• Content knowledge item 1: Theory of visual, image, and text analysis
• Content knowledge item 2: Concept of culture
• Content knowledge item 3: Theories of ideolgy

Quiz Details

This quiz covers the following readings.

1) Sharp, The Brief Guide
2) Hall, Representation
3) Hall, “The Whites of Their Eyes”
4) Marx and Engels, “German Ideology”
5) Gramsci, “Prison Notebook”
6) Althusser, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses”

This quiz consists of two short-essay questions (10 points each), one PEAR paragraph of the image (10 points), 5 multiple-choice questions (4 points each), It is an Open-book, open-notebook quiz. And you can talk to your classmates, too! But please don’t copy+paste answers for the essay question. Use your own words to describe.

You can:

• Take the quiz up to two times. Canvas automatically saves the highest score.
• View questions all at once or one at a time.
• Freely navigate forward and back through the questions.
• You can ask your classmates about the quiz and questions on the discussion board (I won’t check it. The board is only yours to help each other.)