FEM 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Darth Vader, Sound Film, Culture Jamming

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 2110
• Professor: Kathryn Trevenen

Document Summary

Voguing: where lgbt men replicate model poses in ballrooms. Sarah hunt and bell hooks: representation and appropriation: definitions of pop culture. Culture is the social productions and reproduction of sense, meaning and consciousness. The sphere of meaning, which unifies the spheres of productions (cid:523)economics(cid:524) and social relations (cid:523)politics(cid:524) . Culture is not so much a set of things novels and paintings or tv programs and comics as a process, a set of practices. Primarily, culture is concerned with the production and exchange of meanings the giving and taking of meaning between the members of a society or a group. Meanings of about them, the stories we tell about them, the images of them we produce, the emotions we associate with them, the ways we classify and conceptualize them, the values we place on them. Culture, we may say, is involved in all those practices meaningfully interpreted by others, or which depend on meaning for their effective representations.