[English 2017] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 59 pages long Study Guide!

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 2017
• Professor: Riley Mc Donald

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Lecture 4 the history of popular culture (continued) Popular culture is not a one-way transmission, but a crowded field of multiple actors and groups negotiating and renegotiating the terrain. Popular culture is a process, one that emerges over time (and changes throughout the duration) rather than a single, stable final product. Central to all analysis of culture that you will come across. Ideology as a fundamental aspect of how we look at culture. Ideology is the way in which ideas that have history to them are presented as being natural facts of existence. Ideology in each case is the system of ideas appropriate to that class raymond williams, Ideology presents historical notions to people as though they were natural. Ideology represent the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of experience louis althusser, ideology and ideological state apparatuses .