ENGL 275 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Massachusetts College Of Art And Design
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High culture shakespear, works of art, etc. Popular culture changes our bodily processes: ex. crying watching a sad tv show or racing heart in a horror movie. Critics: pop culture not worth studying because its such mass media. Should be called mass culture instead of popular culture. A mass art form is going to be disconnected from the people by definition. Is imposed by a corporation and is manipulative by nature (propaganda). Formulaic nature of mass culture (romance novels have a formula). Popular culture should be of the people by the people. Mass culture shouldn t be called popular culture because it doesn t come from the people. The study of popular culture is not just want is on screen, but instead it is the reaction of the people to what they are seeing: ex. Kirk and spock porn: anthropology and textual analysis on our own culture.
