FEM 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Roxane Gay, High Culture, Low Culture
7 Feb 2019
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Why pop culture matters andi zeisler: pop culture is any cultural product that has a mass audience, high culture: art, literature, classical music made for the educated elite and supposed to inform, enrich and inspire. The spectacle of the other" stuart hall: one photo can carry several different meanings, meaning floats and it cannot be fixed; attempting to fix it is the work of a representational practice. Inter-textuality: accumulation of meanings across different texts: binary oppositions have the great value of capturing the diversity of the world but are a reductionist way of establishing meaning. Feminist killjoys sarah ahmed: the idea that women are happy doing housework justifies gendered forms of labour, the image of a happy housewife accumulates affective power in which she is a minority that has. The production of popular culture: the production of culture has a big impact on today"s economics (ex.
