COMM 1F90 Lecture : Lecture 16.docx

• School: Brock University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 1F90
• Professor: Marian Bredin

Document Summary

Irony: meaning is the opposite of appearance, cultural representations quote" (intertextuality) from other cultural forms to subvert them eg. south park, mad men, images of the american dream that reveal its dark side, self reflexivity, cultural texts are self aware, everything is relative, nothing is deemed original, explanation can never be completely rational eg. x files the truth is out there , pleasure, humour, wit, experimentation, hedonism are acceptable forms of cultural and political expression. Simpsons parodies: postcolonialism, recognizes that we are shaped by history of colonialism, that colonial relations still continue, postcolonial refers to emergence of formerly colonized people through new forms of culture and politics, eg.