CMST 2BB3- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 27 pages long!)

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: CMST 2BB3
• Professor: Dilyana Mincheva

Document Summary

Rather than a means to differentiate the elite from the mass, arnoldian culture assumes the elite and the mass have a shared humanity. World war ii: nuclear arms race in the post-war era, stalin"s great purges, holocaust, alienation, rootlessness, loss of values, cultural studies and modernity, cultural studies emerges out of attempts to understand modernity in all its ambiguities and contradictions. The main anxieties of modernity become intellectual passions for inquiry in the interdisciplinary landscape of cultural studies: topics: language, power, representation, materialism, identity, subjectivity, ideology, media, popular culture. Representation: cultural representations and meanings have a certain materiality. they are embedded in sounds, inscriptions, objects, images, books, magazines and television programmes. Power: processes that generate and enable any form of social action, relationship or order. Material culture: main concerns, who owns and controls cultural production; the distribution mechanisms for cultural products; the consequences of patterns of ownership and control for contours of the cultural landscape;