COMS 473 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: British Film Institute, Teen Pop, F. R. Leavis
11 Sep 2018
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Day grace: put grace in the subject, day late @ 4pm, always expand on your idea more than you think you have to, July 4th = reading on pg 45-51 of text. Stuart hall = cultural studies birmingham (marxism, semiotics) (development/effect of youth popular culture) Hall has always been committed to reach audiences beyond academics; aimed paper at anyone who worked with youth. Offered practical criticism of pop culture to counter decades of intellectuals" dismissal of the phenomenon. Producers and consumers agendas do not always coincide, particularly in the field of young popular culture. Knowledge of young audiences is necessary for an understanding of young popular culture. Relationship between parents and teens are conflictive and prone to miscommunication. Media are speeding up the fashion cycle among young people. Youth replicate popular culture, and further disseminate pop culture to adults and others. Teens and young people form a class; an isolated group. Teens learning more from peers and media than institutions.
