PS 3135 Review – Keil – Exam 3 – Fall 2010

Overview:

• Please bring a number 2 pencil. • The exam will begin at 2:00 on December 15th. Please do not be late. • The paper is due in class on December 15th as well. • I will be available to answer questions by email ([email protected]) over the weekend and on Monday & Tuesday. I will also be available in my office, J- 105D, to answer last minute questions on Wednesday, December 15th, from 1:30- 2:00.

NOTE – We’re so close – please register and/or tell people who might be interested:

• Register for PS 4100: Seminar in American Government (W 1:55-4:25) for Spring 2011! It will be a great course. If you do not register, please tell someone who you think might be interested. Here is information about the books for the course:

1) Air Wars 1952-2008: Television Advertising in Election Campaigns http://www.cqpress.com/product/West5e.html (Note: Less expensive options for purchasing this book are all over the web.)

2) Winner Take All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer – and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class. http://books.simonandschuster.com/Winner-Take-All-Politics/Jacob-S- Hacker/9781416588696 (Note: Less expensive options for purchasing this book are all over the web.)

Winner Take All Politics was featured in Bob Herbert’s recent op-ed piece in : http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/02/opinion/02herbert.html

Format:

Multiple Choice: 20 – 25 Short Answer: 5 items + an optional bonus

In Class Topics:

• Paper #2 Presentations • Economic Inequality and Political Participation • Political Participation and Political Outcomes • Domhoff’s Analysis of the Liberal/Labor and the Corporate/Conservative Coalitions

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Readings:

Gray et al.: Satire TV

• Chapter 4: And Now…the News? Mimesis and the Real in

o What is mimesis? What is its relation to the Daily Show? o Is one of the targets of the Daily Show a lack of substance behind much political discourse? If not, what is one of the primary targets of the Daily Show? If so, how does the Daily Show target this primary target? o Is an “everyman?” What does this mean? Does it mean he is always the voice of the majority?

Video Clip for Chapter 4: Ed Helms and Samantha Bee at 2004 RNC in NYC - Mentioned @ bottom of p. 89

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-september-2-2004/indecision- 2004---media-control-

• Chapter 5: Jon Stewart and The Daily Show: I Thought You Were Going to Be Funny!

o Epideictic rhetoric is usually associated with entertainment and emotions, while deliberative rhetoric is usually associated with politics and making appeals to logic and reason. o Given the above, does the Daily Show use epideictic rhetoric? Deliberative rhetoric? Neither? Both? Explain.

Video Clip for Chapter 5: Jon Stewart on the former CNN program Crossfire. This incident in this clip is the inspiration for the title of Chapter 5. This clip is also mentioned in Chapter 4, p. 98

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE

Video Clip for Chapter 5: Daily Show “correspondent” Samantha Bee with Bush Administration consultant Frank Luntz (known for his use of language in politics). This clip is mentioned on p. 110

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-april-19-2005/bee---hall-of-same

• Chapter 6: ’s Parody of the Postmodern

o What is parody? What is its relation to ? o What is the central argument of postmodernism? o How does Colbert’s show relate to postmodernism? 2 of 3 PS 3135 Review – Keil – Exam 3 – Fall 2010

o Note: This chapter relates to Colbert’s White House Correspondent’s Dinner video we watched in class, mentioned on p. 134.

Video Clip for Chapter 6: Colbert’s The Word, a parody of O’Reilly’s Talking Points: Will/Shall (described towards end of p. 130)

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report- videos/182235/september-11-2006/the-word---shall

Video Clip for Chapter 6: Colbert’s The Word: Truthiness (described towards top of p. 135)

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/24039/october- 17-2005/the-word---truthiness

• Chapter 7: Throwing Out the Welcome Mat: Public Figures as Guests and Victims in TV Satire

o What is the celebrification of politics? What are examples of its different forms? o Are there pros and cons with the celebrification of politics? If so, what are they? If not, why not?

Video Clip for Chapter 7: Sacha Baron Cohen plays character Bruno (who is a host of an Austrian fashion show) at Fashion Week NYC – see p. 154 in the middle of the page and fig. 7.11 on p. 157

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/adcd4716ef/bruno-at-new-york- fashion-week-from-aligshow_fan

• Chapter 9: Why Mitt Romney Won’t Debate a Snowman

o What is the convergence culture? o What are some possible benefits of using popular entertainment in politics? o What is astroturfing? How is it related to the hybrid media environment and the active circulation of content beyond its points of origin? Should this be a cause for concern for politics and political participation?

Video Clip for Chapter 9: CNN Story about the Snowman and Romney

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmVIm_JRHH4

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