MEDIA 231 - QUIZ QUESTIONS

MEDIA 231 - QUIZ QUESTIONS Andrew Ross argues that the first Gulf War was unprecedented because... - It was the first explicitly ecological war in modern history. Andrew Ross attempts to work through the relevance and practical application of an ecological analysis to image and image production. His attempt includes thinking about images in relation to image scarcity, image monoculture and image pollution. True or False? - True. Andrew Ross cites Susan Sontag's work from the 1970s to make an argument about whether or not images can have an ecology in their own right. Which of the following best expresses Sontag's view of contemporary image consumption? - Consuming lots of images erodes or depletes our sense of reality and pollutes our minds. 'Twin Peaks' (David Lynch's landmark television series) was ostensibly a prime-time mystery about the death of homecoming queen Laura Palmer, but Ross suggests that it comments on environmental issues ______________. 1. Through its setting in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States 2. Its recurrent use of protected species as significant symbols 3. Using female characters as transgressive and troubling 'agents' in the storyline 4. Referring to the influence Asian capital has on the townspeople - All of the above. Cornucopians believe that... - There is no environmental crisis. The Sierra Club in the US and the Council for the Protection of Rural England in the UK are examples of... - Environmentalist organisations. Which of the following groups are most sensitive to issues of environmental justice? - Ecofeminists. Marxists would argue that drought is... - Not an objective fact about the world but a function of the will and means of capital. One of the 'myths' that environmental scholars have been accused of clinging to is the idea that natural ecosystems tend toward stability, harmony and self-regeneration. True or False? - True. Which of the following public figures does not appear as a climate change skeptic in An Inconvenient Truth? - George W Bush. Gore parallels discourses of climate change scepticism with those used in which industry? - Tobacco. According to David Ingram libertarians have accused Al Gore of distorting his data through 'sins of omission' and 'sins of commission'. True or False? - True. An Inconvenient Truth has been criticised for presenting science as certainty rather than probability. True or False? - True. Mark Minster argues that Gore's autobiographical anecdotes makes the science of global warming more relatable to his audience but it's really the extended sequences of Gore travelling that makes the film so persuasive. True or False? - True. Minster argues that ecocinema is limited in its scope to portray complex and probabilistic science but its value may not lie in how informative