FEM 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cultural Appropriation, Darth Vader, Frankfurt School

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

Document Summary

Lecture 2 popular culture and cultural appropriation. Culture: the social productions and reproductions of sense, meaning and consciousness. Popular (shared) meaning, which unifies the spheres of production (economics) and social relations (politics). Popular culture: any cultural product that has a mass audience. The frankfurt school (of cultural theory) theodore adorno, max horkheimer and mass culture. The industrialization of the culture industry and the rise of mass produced (instead of artisanal production) products has led to an elimination of creativity and individuality. Thinking about propaganda in the context of fascism. For culture now impresses the same stamp of everything. Films, radio and magazines make up a system which is uniform as a whole and in every part. Even the aesthetic activities of political opposites are one in their obedience to the rhythm of the iron system. Real life is becoming indistinguishable from the movies.