Cultural Studies – Previous Year Questions
14 questions from past UGC NET English papers, each with the correct answer. Open any question for its explanation.
Topic-wise mock tests
- Will Wright finds that the professional Western reverses the binary oppositions of the classic Western. Arrange the oppositions in the order John Storey reports them: A. Hero – society B. Outside society – inside societ…
- Assertion (A): Television is the popular cultural form of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Reason (R): Meanings are not simply transmitted but always produced, first by the encoder from the raw material of ever…
- Who called culture 'one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language'?
- Who argued that the audience's power 'derives from the fact that meanings do not circulate in the cultural economy in the same way that wealth does in the financial'?
- Arrange the following works on the essay film in chronological order: A. As You See B. Notebook on Cities and Clothes C. 'The Film Essay: A New Type of Documentary Film' D. 'The Camera-Stylo' E. 'Notes for a Film of Cap…
- Which of the following were written by Ien Ang? A. 'Wanted: Audiences' B. 'Culture and Communication: Towards an Ethnographic Critique of Media Consumption in the Transnational Media System' C. 'The Photographic Message…
- Which four sub-codes does Angela McRobbie identify in Jackie (1978)?
- Match List I with List II: List I: Author List II: Work A. John Fiske I. Watching Dallas B. Rachel Bowlby II. Fiction and the Reading Public C. Ien Ang III. Television Culture D. Q. D. Leavis IV. Just Looking: Consumer…
- According to Jeremy Hawthorn, which work 'prepared the ground for the development of theories of the gaze'?
- Who is of the opinion that the concept of 'ideology' is 'the most important conceptual category in cultural studies'?
- Who coined the term 'Bricolage'?
- Who coined the term 'Onto-Theology'?
- Who designed the 'Panopticon' and described it as 'a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind'?
- Name the theory which assumes that 'culture is not separate from nature, and that there is no hierarchy of actants such that the human is more privileged'.