MCC-UE 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Learned Helplessness, Italian Fascism, Antonio Gramsci
26 Oct 2017
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Ex: the united states can blow things up in any area at any time because of all of their military bases around the world. Cultural hegemony: the sense of the world that many people in italy had were being shaped by the people in the world that were abusing and mistreating. American hegemony: political morality in a one-superpower world (lea brilmayer) Gramsci argued that the italian fascist government was operating through direct power and indirect power expressed through media, what they were witnessing was cultural hegemony. Using idea and values to legitimate the current order. Ex: cuba the us launched a social network so that people in cuba could be exposed to certain conversations. 25% of all hollywood product for forty years! Now this genre (western) is totally forgotten. Partially because of the idea of the hegemonic model of the world.
