Mass Comm And Society Midterm

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A book that is sold in a bookstore

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Trade

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The book FAHRENHEIT 451 is about

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The importance of knowledge and truth

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A fictional book that is more than 40,000 words

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Novel

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A bookstore that has 100 books and only sells 10 of them then...

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Returns the 90 unsold books to the publisher at no loss to the bookstore.

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This kind of book criticism emphasizes a close reading of the work and divorces the work from the author's biography.

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New Criticism

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A list of great writers and their literature is said to be part of that literature's...

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canon

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Generally recongized as the first newspaper in English

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Oxford Gazette

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Famous London editor famous for wanting to print the truth

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Samuel Buckley

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In 1844, the invention of this device changed the way newspapers worked by making timeliness an important element of news

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Telegraph

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In the 1830s, improvements in printing technology led to birth of cheap daily newspapers. This was the...

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Penny Press era

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This publisher's arch rival was William Randolph Hearst in the Yellow Press era

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Joseph Pulitzer

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In Future Media, futurist and science-fiction writer James Patrick Kelly talks about

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How the internet is rewiring our brains.

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Famous report during the Yellow Press era

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William Hearst

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Most famous WWII war correspondent that wrote stories about the soldiers in the foxholes

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Ernie Pyle

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Newspaper's Style section that began the era of the feature-section writing in newspapers

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Washington Post

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Leonardo Da Vinci may have used this device to help paint his potraits

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Camera Obscura

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Newspapers might be the last bastion of this in the news media

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The marketplace of ideas

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Famous French brothers who made early film clips

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Lumiere brothers

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Early non-fiction films shown during the 1890s

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Actualities

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Early Western film by Edwin Porter

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The Great Train Robbery

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This person tried to control the early film industry by starting the Motion Picture Patent Company aka The Trust

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Thomas Edison

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First filmmaker to tell fictional stories in his movies

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George Melies

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Henry Jenkins wrote this essay that is in Future Media

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Dude, We're Gonna be Jedi!

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Henry Jenkins talked extensively about this way to financially support all sorts of independent media

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Crowdfunding

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This book and this term came up often in Henry Jenkin's discussion

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Spreadable Media

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Henry Jenkins says artists need to be

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Dandelions

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A famous WWII-era film starring Humphrey Bogart

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Casablanca

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A famous Biblical Spectacular featuring a famous chariot race

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Ben Hur

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A famous movie, the best musical ever, starring Gene Kelly

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Singin' in the Rain

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Broke up the monopoly held by the major studios and forced them to divest the exhibition portion of their businesses

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Paramount Decision

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Film theory that focuses on the director's work

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Auteur theory

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Inventor who sketched out a design for a sound recording device that worked on the first try

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Thomas Edison

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Famous Italian tenor, First big recording star

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Enrico Caruso

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A device that helped keep the sound recording industry alive during the Great Depression

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Juke box

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Lt. George Rober Vincent helped create/promote these during WWII

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V-disks

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Technology that was invented by the Germans during WWII

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Tape recording

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We said this early blues artist sand and played guitar as he helped define the blues during the 1930s

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Robert Johnson

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North American folk music emerged from these musical roots

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Celtic

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In Future Media, writer Pat Cadigan talks about what kind of future music artist are known as?

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Rock n roll sinner

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In the 1950s, a white crooner who covered many songs by Little Richard Penniman

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Pat Boone

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Famous early novelist, first English novel, first magazine editor

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Daniel Defoe

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Famous female writer, famous muckrakers

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Ida Tarbell

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Famous churchman/essayist who said the Irish should eat their babies in "A Modest Proposal"

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Jonathan Swift

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What is a critical consumer?

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what we are trying to be

aware or the strengths and weaknesses of the media

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We said this newspaper medium does the best job of offering this important aspect of media news and opinions

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The Marketplace of Ideas

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An author of a trade book usually gets this much in royalties from the cover price of the book

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10-15%

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We cited this particular book as a great example of an illuminated manuscript

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The Book of Kells

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When this man's typesetting machine found success, it bankrupt famous American writer Mark Twain

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Ottmar Merganthaler

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College textbooks are adopted by

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Professors

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This man took a series of pictures of a horse running on a racetrack and then put together one of the very first moving pictures

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Edward Muybridge

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This very famous quote "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship," comes at the end of this film we watched clips from

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Casablanca

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Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst were the publishers who battled each other during this famous era

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Yellow Press

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Fredick Douglass was the editor of The North Star during this famous era

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Abolitionist Press

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The Kiss was a famous early actuality made by this filmmaker

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Thomas Edison

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The Great Train Robbery was one of the very first American films to tell a story. It was made by this filmmaker

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Edwin Porter

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Magazines prosper despite having a high cost-per-thousand ad rate by reaching

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a specialized audience

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The two competing editors for the Federalists and Anti-Federalists were

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Fenno and Freneau

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The Boston News Letter was the first

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Successful Colonial newspaper

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Briton Hadden and this man started Time magazine in 1923.

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Henry Luce

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The author who wrote the famous American "The Last Mohican" was

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James Fenimore Cooper

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Hitler's filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl made this famous film

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Triumph of the Will

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Which of the following brothers were involved in the invention of moving pictures?

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The Lumiere Brothers

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Codex as an early form were invented by the

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Romans

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Movable type was invented by

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Johanne Gutenberg

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The Dime Novel format was invented by

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the Beadle brothers

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Upton Sinclair was the muckraking author of what famous book

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The Jungle

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By 1930, most films were being made inside, in sound studios. Why?

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Limitations of sound technology

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We said magazines had truly become a mass medium around 1900 when this magazine could boast of a circulation of one million

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Ladies' Home Journal

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We talked about this as one of the best Roman-era spectacular films

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Spartacus / Ben Hur?

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We said this Roman-era Spectacular was so expensive that it's box-office failure brought the era of Roman movies to a temporary end

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Cleopatra

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We said this film ushered in the era of the "talkies"

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The Jazz Singer

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We talked about how these kinds of writers go about selling articles to magazines

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Freelancers

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We said the slush pile is a term used by editors of

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Magazines

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This man was among the first to actually tell stories rather than to just show actualities. Among his famous films was A Trip to the Moon

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George Melies

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This man's monopolistic MPPC was one of the reasons that the film industry moved to California early in the 20th century

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Thomas Edison

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We said this famous and best selling author of the 19th century English novelist worked out a way to sell every novel twice, first issuing it in installments that readers bought and received in the mail, and then reissuing each work as a complete novel

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Charles Dickens

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We said these kinds of newspapers died out during the 1970s

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Afternoon newspapers

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This man invented roll film, which was crucial to the invention of moving pictures

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George Eastman

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Hays Code had to do with

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violence in gangster films

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We said the Egyptians invented this kind of paper

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Papyrus

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According to your Books chapter, scholars think this culture invented writing

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Mesopotamia

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We said that editor Samuel Buckley's Daily Courant in London in 1704 was the first newspaper to try and print this kind of material

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The Truth!

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Publisher Henry Luce started this importantly specialized magazine in the 1950s

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Sports Illustrated

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We credited Ibn Al Haythem with the invention of this critical early component that would become, centuries later, photography

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the camera obscura

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We said this was the first modern magazine form of the early 1700s in London

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The Gentlemen's magazine

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This famous founding father started the second magazine in America, his General Magazine

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Benjamin Franklin

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We said that this is what we call of anything gets in the way of the message as it goes from encoder to decoder

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noise

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The Kiss was a famous actuality made by this filmmaker

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Thomas Edison

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This famous artist is acknowledged as the creator of rock n roll guitar sound

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Chuck Berry

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Emile Berliner invented this device for the sound recording industry

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Flat disc

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The filmmaker who made Birth of a Nation was

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D.W. Griffith

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Documentary filmmaker Robert Flaherty made this famous film

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Man of Aran

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A significant breakthrough for African-American artists in popular music came with the establishment of this company.

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Motown

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During the 1830's, the penny press was made possible by

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Steam-powered press

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During WWII, we said this was an important morale booster for the soldiers

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Victory-Discs

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This man was the most famous big-band director during WWII

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Glenn Miller

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The Gazette of the U.S., a federalist newspaper, was founded by

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John Fenno

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Scholar Henry Jenkins often focuses on these kinds of communities in various media, and that is the focus of the essay in Future Media.

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Fan Communities

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What is crowdfunding?

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A way to financially support all sorts of independent media

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What is media literacy?

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You are literate if you know the media, you understand why some medias are better than others

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What is a filter?

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To filter is to change the message to fit your needs

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What is a gatekeeper?

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People who work for the media that stop the message from getting out. Ex: Editors, Directors

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This man was the first English person to work as a printer and the first to introduce a printing press in England

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William Caxton

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What printing press made modern magazines?

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Rotary Presses

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This book was made by monks who copied manuscripts to preserve knowledge, and they drew pictures out of boredom

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The Book of Kells

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Daniel Defoe's most famous novel was

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Robinson Crusoe

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What are the penny dreadfuls?

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They are the same concept as dime novels, but England didn't have dimes

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This author wrote romantic fiction

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Jane Auesten

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This American author wrote "Red Badge of Courage"

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Stephen Crane

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This newspaper was the first in the American Colonies, but failed after only one issue

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Publick Occurences

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This man invented the telegraph

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Samuel Morse

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This press was a co-op news press that transmitted news of the civil war

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Associated Press

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This was the first comic strip created by Joseph Pulitzer and soon followed by William Hearst

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The Yellow Kid

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This financial wizard believed that small city newspapers still have a future

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Warren Buffett

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This poet and essayist wrote "The Rambler"

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Samuel Johnson

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A one-page letter with credentials sent to the editor

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Query Letter

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This has been named America's best weekly magazine

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The New Yorker

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Clark Perry is a writer for which sci-fi show?

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Defiance

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Ladies' Home Journal was created by

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Edward Bok

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FlashForward is a science fictiion novel written by

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Robert J. Sawyer

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What is an elevator pitch?

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It is to pitch your idea within 30 seconds

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What is a Spec Script?

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It is a sample episode of a show

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Who is the person is in charge of running day-to-day operations of a TV series?

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Show-runner

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This man invented the first successful disk technologies for tv transmission

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Paul Nipkow

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At only 14 years old, this man drew a sketch that would create television

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Philo Farnsworth

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Philo Farnsworth's TV idea was copied by

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Vladimir Zworykin

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This man created the first mechanical television

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John Baird

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The three eras of television are

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Mechanical, Electronic and Digital

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Who ran NBC, RCA, and was named the most important man in TV?

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David Sarnoff

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A list of television networks

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CBS, ABC, BBC, DuMont, RCA, WTBS, CNN, FOX, MTV, HBO

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In 1948, too many network lines were colliding so this communication put a hold on tv called

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FCC Freeze

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This man was a very popular variety show host. To be on his show, it was said that you officially made it in the business

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Ed Sullivan

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The star of "I Love Lucy" and the reason New York live studios moved to Hollywood sets

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Lucille Ball

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The executive of NBC and creator of ad breaks

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Sylvester Pat Weaver

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The first adult western

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Gunsmoke

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Bill Cosby was the first black star in this series

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I Spy

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A series that ran for seven seasons on CBS starring two women

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Cagney & Lacey

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A show about a L.A. police detective

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Dragnet

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An American comedian and actor in the 70s. He had his own show named after him

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Flip Wilson

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Founder of the first 24 hour cable network CNN

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Ted Turner

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Crushed beatles from south asia created this, but was soon replaced by polyvinyl

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Shellac

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After much debate, all record players play all 3 of these speeds

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33 1/3 rpm, 45 rpm, 78 rpm

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This was the first tape recorded machine

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Radio Frankfurt

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This man helped the German's with developing magnetic tape-recording

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John Mullin

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He created the Compact Disc

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James T. Russell

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He created the MP3

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Dieter Seitzer

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This famous American singer bought the rights to tape-recording and was the first to pre-record on magnetic tape.

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Bing Crosby

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Four tracks and eight tracks were obsolete after the invention of

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Cassettes

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Known for military and patriotic (band) marches

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John Phillip Sousa

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He was known as the father of blues

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W.C Handy

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Who is best known for his compositions of Jazz

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Eubie Blake

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Known as one of the greatest jazz guitarist

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Django Reinhardt

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Along with Django Reinhardt, this man was a famous French jazz violinist

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Stephane Grappelli

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The singer/song-writer of the Folk song "This Land is your Land"

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Woodie Gutherie

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An American Jazz bandleader

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Count Basie

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Hank Williams and Patsy Cline are famous for what style of music?

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Country

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This man is the creator of Motown and believed white kids would buy black music if it was good

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Berry Gordy Jr.

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The originator of the Wall of Sound production method

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Phil Spector

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What is the meaning of sell music not plastic?

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To lower prices of production cost and sell mp3s

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Daguerre and Niepce were the inventors of

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cameras, they also produced positive film

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This man was a competitor of Daguerre and created this

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negative film for cameras

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First documentary maker

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Robert Flaherty

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Coined the term documentary

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John Grierson

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The founder of Universal

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Carl Laemmle

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Michael France is the American screen-writer for this movie

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Cliffhanger

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This was a very important year for film, color, sound, acting, etc

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1939

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Press invented by Carl Stanhope in the 1800s

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Cast Iron Press

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Henry Jenkins focused on these communities

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Fan communities