CMN2160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Pierre Bourdieu, Laura Mulvey, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
26 Jan 2018
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Media: oral culture, oral storytelling, high culture, texts for an aristocratic audience, encyclopedias and other reference works, popular printed material: newgate calendar and cheap repository tracts, new journalism: periodicals with photo reproductions and celebrity interviews, today: moving pictures! Theorists: engels and marx, williams (in class, althusser, gramsci (in class, today: adorno and horkheimer, today: mulvey. Serial fiction (which lays the ground work for episodic radio and then television) New journalism is the name of the new style of newspaper or magazine that offer readers celebrity interviews, and photographs: with netflix we continue to have episodic tendencies (cliff-hangers) Journalism (cid:374)e(cid:449) (cid:862)fluff(cid:455)(cid:863) (cid:272)o(cid:374)te(cid:374)t: celebrity interviews, shocking expose. Creating and making money from contemporary anxieties about body image: body builder, hols onto the strongest man title for only 13 months, goes into the corsets business, makes a lot of money making people insecure about their body.
