Vocabulary

Authenticity

of undisputed origin

Appropriation

the action of taking something for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission 

Avant garde

works that are experimental or innovative,particularly with respect to art,culture, and politics.

Binary opposites

The oppositions through which reality has traditionally been represented eg male/female and mind/body

Bricolage

A construction made by whatever materials are at hand. Something created from a variety of available things.

Broadcast media

Broadcasting, the distribution of media or video signals which transmits programs to an audience. The audience may be the general public or a relatively large sub-audience such as children or young adults.

Capitalism

An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

Cinema verite

A style of documentary filmmaking, combining naturalistic techniques with stylized cinematic devices of editing and camera work, staged set-ups, and the use of the camera to provoke subjects.

Classical art
 the style, traditions and qualities of ancient times, primarily concerned with geometry and symmetry instead of individual expression.

Code (in visual culture)

Colonaliom

the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting iteconomically.

Commodification

the transformation of goods and services.

Commodity fetishism

Is a state of social relations that occurs in capitalist market based societies. The social relationships are transformed into an objective relationship between commodities or money.

Connoisseur

an expert judge in matters of taste.