Women's Studies 2161A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: High Culture, Celebrity Culture, Pearl White

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2161A/B
• Professor: Nichole Edwards

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Ws lecture 1 gender, celebrity, diversity, and pop culture. Definitions which, in their different ways, inform the study of popular culture. 1) well liked by many: 2) inferior kinds of work (cid:494)low brow(cid:495) (cid:494)low culture(cid:495, 3) work that deliberately sets out to win favour of people picture. Important to think about how something may have started as low culture but over time has become high culture (and visa versa: mass culture is: imaginable! clubs! charts, british tv shows re-made here message produced women, immigration. Same style of clothes are sold at american eagle, abercrombie, aeropostale, Rock n roll genre, and bands whose politics are at centre of their: not imposed on the people like mass culture - there is intention behind the culture, eg. Unpack this scene with reference to the definitions we(cid:495)ve just explored. Ascribed celebrity fame as a result of inheritance: 2. Achieved celebrity derived from accomplishments in open competition: 3.