PCUL 1F92 Lecture Notes - Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Frankfurt School, Reggie Watts
Document Summary
Barrymore"s character, lucy, needs to have her sense of who she is reconstructed for her every day. Akin to our relationship with cultural text. Our position as viewer whose place in the narrative and in wider culture is constructed for us via the surrogate figure in the text. Our position as viewers or listeners is constructed for us by the styles and structures of the text. These structures may echo the ideology of the system that creates them. Our place as spectators is constructed by the text: we are led to follow what takes place based on how it is presented to us. Codes such as genre (romance in the case of 50 first dates) assist in this. Content and style help reaffirm social normal or hegemony. Founded in 1923 as institute for social research at the university of frankfurt in. Election of hitler in 1933 led to move to new york (columbia university)