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US American Culture - Coggle Diagram
US American Culture
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Slavery
History of Slavery and Civil War, "THE US AMERICAN TRAUMA "
"Antebellum"
- Creation of race chattel system (property)
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- Managing contradiction, containment, compromise
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In the center of the state at the heart of he national project, almost 1mio deaths
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Photos
Photography technology
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Daguerrotype
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Tried to get exposure reduced, 30 then 1minute
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Phototheories
Walter Benjamin
Aura
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Mass existence is substitute for a unque existence, which makes the one thing worth less
We do things with things, a ritual, but with reproduction, circulating an image, this is lost
Ritual and cult value
Lost by reproduction, thus gettign an Exhibition value
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The more you see you shouldnt see, the higher the value
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Rosalind Krauss
Index
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physical relationship
can be compared to a trace or footprints, that lead to somebody, something
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Uses
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"the eye of history"
"harvest of death"
composition
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foreground vs background, center of attraction
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Reason for slavery
capitalism -> advantage, couldnt compete otherwise
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Stereotypization
Multidimensionality is taken and turned into a flattening carricature that is repeeated over and over again
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Expanded to being a part of culture and politics, which expanded their spread
Blackface Minstrelsy
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Singing, dancing, performing sketches
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Jim Crow is a character from this, who is later used as an emmbodyment for "anti-nonwhiteism"
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Definitions of Culture
Cultivation of land, and derived senses
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Culture with capital C
Matthew Arnold
Didn't mean to create a hierarchy of quality, it was made out of his model
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Sweetness and light
Culture not as something that is pressed in your mind, but rather something that is pleasant and delighting
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Potentially problematic
Hierarchy
If there is a best of any kind a hierarchy is easily created with the most valuable things in every category decreading the value of other thoughts or creations
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"CULTURE IS ORDINARY"
Everything is culture, not just a piece of art in the museum
Culture is in everybody and comes together again in even the easiest things we do in life like cleaning and cooking
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Potentially problematic
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Expansion
If everything is culture, how can I study it?
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Expanding the nation
18th/19th Century
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Quasi-Wars
Impressment
French stelaing sailors, seizing, etc.
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Moving pictures
Techniques
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Thomas Alva Edison
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Kinetoscope
had to look into it, didnt beam
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Phases
- Introduction of Kinetoscope Parlor (1890s)
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- Emergence of the Movie Palace
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Definitions
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scene = Action in one place, time
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"Birth of a nation"
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infamous for context, famous for film making ambitions
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