WGS271Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cultural Capital, High Culture, White Supremacy
2 Oct 2017
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Not just about consumption reproduced. Cool kids table there"s power attached to it. We will critique + unpack popular culture. Pressure element you need to know about it. Shared knowledge across demographics spectrum of people. Who gets to tell their stories on the biggest platform. Opens up the critiques and stories of marginalized populations. With social media you have a way to respond, gather momentum. Question of what"s popular + what do we mean by culture". Is pop culture a monolith, a big block or is it different categories. It"s not all about the screens, about tv + movies. Tells stories about things we"re not okay with but it also opens other things up to talk about. What does it allow us to think about and imagine. Ie. penny dreadfuls horror stories, considered low culture because they. Corrupted the mind at the end of 1800"s / 20th century. Close to a tabloid, now canonical texts in literature classes.
