THTRFLM 1T03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Gender Identity, Frankfurt School

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Theatre & Film Studies
• Course: THTRFLM 1T03
• Professor: Peter Cockett

Document Summary

Mass culture, vertical conception of communication and influence. This is not sophisticated understanding of cultural process, but idea of influence key. More complex understanding- culture as a web of interactions. Culture is not natural , it is born of ideologies and creates and affirms ideologies. Ideology: a way we have decided to see ourselves and our world- our beliefs about how the world is. The ideology supported by the people in power. Define what is normal on central issues. Change over time in response to social agency. Even films and plays that do not have an overt political theme are political.