WS203 Lecture 1: WS203 – Lecture 1
7 Dec 2017
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Mass culture something imposed on people from the outside: considered inauthentic by cultural critics. Folk culture celebrates culture produced and consumed by the people: focus on authentic traditions. Descriptive definition broad definition of popular culture as an inventory of all people do. A site of struggle cultural identities and forms are produced, reproduced, negotiated and consumed in specific historical contexts and within specific shifting forms of power relations . Mass culture feminist avant-garde film produced in opposition to patriarchal mass culture but also elitist and produced for the people. Folk culture authentic women"s arts and cultural traditions are opposed to commercially-produced pop culture and tends to other or exclude the ethnic women. Descriptive definition femininity as all those things women do or have done.
