Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Working Class Culture, Prison Notebooks, Dominant Culture
30 Oct 2016
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Week 5 berger, williams, gramsci october 17th 2016. John berger: painter, writer, novelist, academic art criticism writer and fiction writer, british tv star, celebrated intellectual within the uk through his work with the bbc. Hegemony: marxist idea that is related to ideology. Important for marxist cultural criticism in media studies. Italian 1891: his father was imprisoned for embezzlement when he was 7. Left school at the age of 7 to work. Suffered with serious health problems throughout his life. Went back to school and then attended university. Became one of its leaders: mussolini comes to power extreme right wing party, faschist power jailed gramsci. In jail for the rest of his life 11 years. Died in jail: his most famous work. Does this thinking under not ideal conditions. Everything he wrote went through prison censors so he disguised the ideas: relationship between marxism and culture. Hard to understand what he was saying due to the adverse.
