Women's Studies 2161A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Print Culture, Action Hero, Hollywood Girls
31 Oct 2016
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Women, celebrity and popular culture: 1) well liked by many. Use numbers to see what is popular album sales, ratings, box office. Quantifying numbers do not give us the full picture i. e (number of watchers does not include younger generation that stream later on: 2) inferior kinds of work. High culture is considered more elitist because less people are interested (aka opera, symphony) Something to be high brow, it has to be difficult. Pop culture is second best, for people who are unable to appreciate. Something is said to be good because its popular and bad because of the same reason overplayed song, hipster. Mass culture is : hopelessly commercial mass produced for mass consumption, superhero movies, british tv shows made here, same styles and different stores, 4) made by the people for the people. Pop culture as folk culture" authentic culture, grassroots.
