COMN 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Raymond Williams
6 May 2017
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Next week : monday: bring a dollar for the audiobook version for the walkaway book, monday: quiz 1 for chapter 1, wednesday: quiz 2 for chapter 2 and 3. The film follows a washington, d. c. spin doctor (de niro) who, mere days before a presidential election, distracts the electorate from a sex scandal by hiring a hollywood film producer (hoff- man) to construct a fake war with albania. It"s interpreted, it lacks the concrete we often prescribe to it. Culture is an agree upon of the symbolic. There"s two parts of communication raymond williams : culture is the whole way of life. Problem with that it"s that it"s not universal. There cultures within cultures and sub-cultures often resist the norm. Ex : green can mean colour, recycling, money, go. Quiz advice : when finish the chapter, take a look at the questions in that chapter.
