Women's Studies 2161A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Pearl White, Heredity, Lillian Gish
20 Mar 2018
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Work that deliberately sets out to win favour of people: sometimes it is said to be good because it"s popular but pop culture has been said to be bad for the same reason, mass culture is: Hopelessly commercial - it is mass produced for mass consumption. Represents a hegemonic class struggle: culture is a constant negotiation between mass culture theory and indecent folk cultures. This causes a broader struggle between dominant and subordinate cultures, and. Postmodern in uence: relationship between postmodernism and popular culture is a culture that uno longer recognizes the distinctions between the authentic" and the commercial". Academic study relating to men"s and women"s representations in the media and the effects of this on audiences. The idea that you cannot be what you can"t see. Content of media output and effects of media messages. Tuchman: suppose for a moment that children"s television primarily presents adult women as housewives, nonparticipants in the paid labour force.
