LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION – VISUAL COMM.

AC 11

SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2008

VC 2802 – THEORIES OF VISUAL ANALYSIS

 

 

 

Date : 22/04/2008            Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 1:00 – 4:00

PART – A

 

Answer  ALL the following questions (about 50 words each):                                      10X2 =20

 

1. Dynamic Unconscious
2. Linguistic sign
3. Defense mechanism
4. Post-modernism
5. Male gaze
6. Vladimir Prop
7. Structuralism
8. Mirror stage
9. Dream work
10. Alienation

 

PART – B

 

Answer any FIVE questions (200 words each)                                                           5 X8 = 40

 

11. ‘Unconscious is structured like a language’ – Explain.
12. Explain the role of ideology in media.
13. Write about the psychosexual stages.
14. What are syntagmatic and paradigmatic analysis?
15. ‘Man made language’ – Comment.
16. What are the many waves of feminism?
17. Explain base and superstructure.

 

PART – C

 

Answer any TWO of the following (500 words each)                                               2X20 = 40

 

18. Explain with examples how women are portrayed in media.
19. Discuss the techniques of dream work.
20. What is postmodernist approach to media?

 

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