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CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF RAJASTHAN

Department of Culture & Media Studies

1st Sessional Test (M.A. 2nd Semester)

Paper No: MAC-201 –Introduction to Media & Cultural Studies Research

Max. Marks: 15 Marks Duration: 1 Hour

A. Brief answer type questions (1/2 marks). Answer all questions.

a) What is the importance of hypothesis in any research? b) How is nominal level different from interval level? c) What are the three types of media coverage according to Andrew P.Williams? d) Make a Likert Scale, both positive and negative, on any one research question of your

choice. e) What kind of sampling is most appropriate for finding the use of Maggi Noodles for

breakfast in an area? f) How would you differentiate between internal and external validity? g) What is “fully-only” dilemma in content analysis? h) How is antecedent variable different from criterion variable? i) What is ‘problem of objectivity’, according to Mary Tiles? j) Why is ‘reality checks’ done in media content analysis?

B. Short answer type questions (1 mark). Answer any FIVE.

a) Discuss the five characteristics of scientific method. b) Identify two possible problems in test-retest method. c) What is media framing? What are the four steps involved in it? d) Who gave the concept of ‘marginal man’? What does it mean? e) What is the difference between stratified and snowball sampling? f) Explain with an example, what is a medium variable and a sampling frame?

C. Long answer type questions (2.5 marks). Answer any TWO.

a) What is a social fact? Describe the four characteristics of social fact through any suitable example.

b) What do you mean by intercoder reliability? Researcher A, Researcher B and Researcher C agreed on 45 items while coding various coverage items in a news channel- 20 items on politics, 20 items on corruption, 15 items on sports and 5 items on entertainment. Calculate the intercoder reliability using Holsti’s method.

c) What is sampling error? A researcher surveyed 500 households in a small town and found that 100 households see English news channel at 9:00 p.m. in a composite week of a month. Calculate the standard error of the sample percentage.

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Paper No: MAC-202 –Understanding Rajasthan


A. Brief answer type questions (1/2 marks). Answer all questions.

a) Give the name of any one tool from lower Paleolithic age. b) Give the name of any one tool from Mesolithic age. c) What is the time period of Chalcolithic settlement at Balathal? d) What is a Harpoon? e) Where do we find the evidence of woven cloth and assigned to which period of time? f) Where do we find the evidence of glass bangles and assigned to which age? g) Where is Bhimbetka? h) Where is Chandreshwar?

B. Short answer type questions (1 mark). Answer any FIVE.

a) What do you know about Bairat? b) What material was used for Rock paintings? c) Explain Revetment. d) What is the evidence of cultivation at Ahar? e) What is the evidence of cultivation at Balathal? f) Describe hearths at Ahar and Balathal.

C. Long answer type questions (2.5 marks). Answer any TWO.

a) Discuss what do you know about the Iron Age at Ahar. b) Write about the Chalcolithic age at Balathal. c) Give the chronology and corresponding culture industry of the pre history and proto

history of Rajasthan.

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Paper No: MAC-203 –Folklore and Oral Traditions


A. Brief answer type questions (1/2 marks). Answer all questions

1. Who coined the term folklore in 1846? 2. What are the three basic methods of learning various forms of folklore? 3. Who constitute the ‘folk’ when you say folklore? 4. Who said that ‘folksongs are creation of community'? 5. What do you understand by texture of a folktale or folksong? 6. What constitutes the power base of folklore, according to Richard Dorson? 7. Mention the difference between folk culture and folklore. 8. What is method of study by stages in folklore? 9. According to Alan Dundes, what are the two basic steps in the study of folklore in

literature and in culture? 10. What are the two essential conditions for the effectiveness of folklore?

B. Short answer type questions (1 mark each). Answer any FIVE.

11. What are the four elements or items of folklore? 12. According to Malinowski, which six things are essential to understand folklore? 13. Why is ethnography important in studying the genesis of folklore? 14. Mention two differences between folklore and literature. 15. What is the basic paradox of folklore? 16. Who gave the concept of ‘fakelore’? What does it mean? Give example.

C. Long answer type questions (2.5 marks each). Answer any TWO.

17. Discuss the four functions of folklore, as mentioned by William R. Bascom. 18. Explain the significance of folklore in ‘nativistic movements’ citing the example of

the Indian boy and the British soldier. 19. According to Vladimir Propp, what is the relationship between folklore and social

system? 20. What is the significance of the story of “rat with a thorn in its tail” among the warli

community in Mumbai?

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First Sessional Test (M.A. 2nd Semester) Date: 9/02/2012

Paper No. MAC-204: Documentary Film

Max Marks – 15 Time – 1 hour

I. Brief answer type questions (1/2 mark each). Answer all the questions (20 – 30 words)

1. What is the relation between image and reality? 2. How do you understand the term ‘montage’? 3. Why observational documentary is also called direct cinema? 4. What is the significance of newsreel? 5. Who has coined the term ‘Documentary’? 6. What do you understand by performative documentary?

II. Short answer type questions (1 mark each). Answer all the questions (50 – 75 words)

7. ‘A Documentary is a subjective construct’. Explain the above statement. 8. Why do we need to maintain objectivity and fairness in documentary? 9. ‘Documentary as the creative treatment of actuality’. Comment on the statement. 10. Write a brief on expository documentary? Give example. 11. What are the four fundamental modalities as given by Michael Renov? 12. Briefly explain the interactive documentary with suitable example. 13. What makes a film a documentary?

III. Long answer type questions (2.5 marks each). Answer ANY TWO (200 words)

14. Explain the reflexive documentary mode with reference to Dziga Vertov’s film. 15. Critically analyse Robert Flaherty’s documentary ‘Nanook of the North’. 16. Discuss the concept discourses of sobriety in relation to documentary film.

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First Sessional Test (M.A. 2nd Semester) Date: 7/02/2012

Paper No. MAC-205: Video Post-Production

Max Marks – 15 Time – 1 hour

I. Brief answer type questions (1/2 mark each). Answer all the questions (20 – 30 words)

1. What do you understand by the term Foley? 2. How do acoustics affect an audio recording? 3. What is the advantage of Pressure Zone Microphone over Desk microphone? 4. What is the importance of storyboard in production related work? 5. Why audio/sound is an important production element? 6. How do you understand the term ‘System Microphone’?

II. Short answer type questions (1 mark each). Answer all the questions (50 – 75 words)

7. What are the disadvantages of Lavaliere microphones? 8. Define the term Above-the-line and Below-the-line? 9. What are the key goals and activities associated with Post-production phase? 10. How can wind noise be controlled when recording (audio) outside? 11. Differentiate between Headset microphone and Wireless microphone. 12. What is a planned and unplanned method of production? 13. How Sitcom production is different from news story production?

III. Long answer type questions (2.5 marks each). Answer ANY TWO (200 words)

14. Explain the Linear and Non-Linear Editing system. 15. Explain how Dynamic microphone is different from Condenser microphone. 16. Differentiate between Omnidirectional, Cardoid and Hypercardoid/Supercardoid

pickup patterns with diagrams.

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