1) Compare and contrast Graham Murdoch’s framework for understanding citizenship as a complex ideal of modernity with Anna McCarthy’s framework for understanding citizenship as a Cold War discourse for governing. Identify the central conceptual framework for each. Compare how each is concerned with neoliberalism. Identify one strength and one weakness in both frameworks. (Read the Lecture 2 powerpoint)
2) Answer 2a OR 2b:
2a) How did commercial television engage with, and seek to transform, ethnic working class life in postwar America (as elaborated in the George Lipsitz article)? Include in your answer what constituted ethnic working class memories and what constituted the postwar consumer ideal. How did the The Honeymooners episode (“The Blond”) negotiate working class ethnic identities (and their memories) and postwar consumerism?
2b) Regarding Steven Classen’s article, how did the civil rights campaign to end the racist practices of television in Jackson Mississippi use the concept of consumer rights to challenge these racist practices? How did the concept of consumer rights within the framework of “legal liberalism” limit the FCC’s response to African American struggles for civil rights? How were these differences between consumer rights and African American demands for civil rights evident in the NBC documentary Sit-In.
3) Elaborate Pierre Bourdieu’s framework for understanding taste hierarchies. What is the significance of these taste hierarchies in thinking about television and citizenship? Use an example from the Ouellette reading and one from the Newman/Levine reading to illustrate your points. Use an example of your choice (that is not from the reading or from class lecture) to illustrate your points.
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