FEM 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Culture Industry, Feminist Media Studies, Intersectionality
6 Feb 2016
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Douglas kellner [quote] it is important to learn how to interpret and criticize its meanings and messages bc it forges our identities . Everything is political ex; the us dominates the media. The things that you take in shape the way you view the world exportation of american values power (unequal power) divide pop culture. Given diverse audiences the skills necessary to analyze and question the ideologies that often operate at the sub-textual level media texts. Subtext: underlying message or theme in a text text related to context. Birmingham centre for contemporary cultural studies (england) 1960s/ 70s: focus on interplay of representations and ideologies of class, gender, race, ethnicity, and nationality in cultural texts, including media culture. Culture must be studied within the social relations and system through which culture is produced and consumed text-context. Age, race, class all matter in high culture . Small number of giant media conglomerates that own majority of media outlets.
