PPT-Cultural Criticism

Terms and Methods Cultural C riticism You will be participating in the larger genre of cultural criticism detailed analysis andor evaluation of popular culture groups events trendsdevelopments people places artifacts. 18 ACOLIT ____________________________________________________________________________________ Notes for the Director. OVERVIEW. Every production engenders a response. Directors need to grow by listening seriously and . thoughfully. to the feedback your production generates. Performance. A production is never finished until an audience watches and . Schools of Literary Theory. What is Literary Criticism?. The study, analysis, and evaluation of a work of literature. Each school of criticism uses a different focus or angle of analysis. Source: Purdue Owl Writing Lab. Ethical Relativism . and. Ethical Absolutism. Presented by: . Nathan Bennett. Terri Small. PJ White . Theory of Relativism. No single moral standard applies equally to all people. There are many codes and standards. Film . Theory . & Criticism. Film Studies. Literary Theory & Criticism. Film Theory & Criticism. no literary equivalent. Auteurism. Thumbnail: . Identification of the primary signatures (thematic, stylistic, geographical) of a given filmmaker, customarily the director. Redaction Criticism. Robert C. Newman. Biblical Seminary. Form Criticism. Terminology. '. Form Criticism. '. is the English rendering of the German . Formgeschichte. . ". form history. ". or . Gattungsforschung. Have you ever been so involved in watching a movie that you react emotionally or feel a part of the action?. If so, then you have been deeply involved with a work of art.. After you see a new movie or TV program you might recommend it to a friend or tell them not to waste their time. You are judging the show and making decisions about why it was a failure or success. . It . fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. . It . calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” . - Winston Churchill. What is Constructive Criticism?. Feedback about someone else’s work. Critique comes in many flavors. Deep or shallow. Broad-based or narrowly focused. Directed toward production/content/social effects. Qualitative v. quantitative (Butler calls this ‘empirical’). Professional v. amateur v. scholarly. lenses. . applied to an object under consideration; they bring certain qualities into focus or call our attention to particular issues.. . Why do we use different forms of criticism?. Literary criticism is an extension of the social activity of interpreting. One reader writes down his or her views on what a particular work of literature means so that others can respond to that interpretation. The critic's specific purpose may be to . Psychoanalytic Criticism . Psychoanalytic.  criticism adopts the methods of "reading" employed by Freud and later theorists to interpret texts. It argues that literary texts, like dreams, express the secret unconscious desires and anxieties of the author, that a literary work is a manifestation of the author's own neuroses. One may psychoanalyze a particular character within a literary work, but it is usually assumed that all such characters are projections of the author's psyche.. In the 1830s the French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville sat down to record hisfresh impressions of a visit to the US One of his conclusions was that since newdemocracies are characterized by a pragma ContentsviiIntroduction 1Chapter 1 Some Notes on Criticism 1111 Criticism An Introduction Literary theory and criticism are interpretive tools that help us think more deeply and insightfully about the literature that we read. Over time, different schools of literary criticism have developed, each with its own approaches to the act of reading..