POL369Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Lord Voldemort, Millennials, Rubeus Hagrid
Document Summary
The 2 ways to make sense of popular culture acing as a type of political communication: what does this pop. cult communicate about contemporary politics, how is pop cult portrayed. When dealing with textual analysis, it can be upfront ie house of cards, or implied like beauty and the beast. 4 narrative styles of representing the political: quest. Achieving a goal and challenges the protagonist goes through: conspiracy. Hidden forces running everything that are unaccountable and have hidden self- interests ie alien and government conspiracies: buearocracy. Politics is a system run by rules: soap opera. Focus on relationships and interactions and use politics as the stage. Revealing the political: when politics is revealed in a story. Ie walking dead is revealing a political narrative. Influencing the audience happens through politically dramatizing to energize people to become politically engaged and political positioning the audience.
