WGS200Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sut Jhally, Jean Kilbourne, Pole Dance
21 Feb 2017
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What it means to be consumed, specially women"s body. We consume immediate images of body on television. Seductive, violent ways and we look at it race, class and individuality. Sut jhally: how black women"s body is portrayed in tv. We get converted into objects that can be consumed. In between shows is tons and tons of advertisements and propels to want things. They seep into our unconscious (shampoo, cosmetics, the faces and images) In politics image of the individual becomes important. American elections (starts paying attention to clothes that they wear, clothes of the wives comes in the market, their parents). Obama-cult of image-this appearance sleek good looking leader. If you have a good looking leader speaks out to what kind of society we have (looking good, clean, steady kind of society) Toys (for girls dolly or a tea set) things that makes your mind works.
