FEM 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Powerviolence, Misogyny, Jacques Derrida
10 Oct 2015
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Cultural analysis as being about the construction of reality, not just the. Cultural analysis isn"t about the truth/reality about the text. It"s how reality is constructed through cultural products: 2. Meanings are not fixed : they are fluid and changing. Nothing has the same meaning for everyone and meanings change over time: 3. Relations of power and knowledge behind representation. Representations aren"t innocent, ex: apple macbook commercial doesn"t appeal to hipsters by accident. Bell hooks: a movie adaptation cast a young black man as the thief although there was no reference to the thief in the book as a young black man: accumulated meanings/intertextuality. Another way to talk about the fact that representations don"t exist in a. We use a history of imagery and narratives that are gendered, sexed, raced, vacuum able-bodied, desirable. Ex: a young, blond, thin woman has a certain role in a movie and we probably already know what that role is.
