WGS 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Laura Mulvey, Film Theory, Lgbt
23 Jul 2016
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Popular culture is very seductive; it reflects and creates societal needs, desires, anxieties, and hopes through consumption and participation. Popular culture also provides stories and narratives that shape our lives and identities. Popular culture creates huge multi-billion-dollar industries that themselves regulate society by providing markets for consumption, consolidating power and status among certain groups and individuals. Corporations such as disney spark resistance as woman of color and lgbtq individuals, for example, respond to their absence and misrepresentation in contemporary media. The internet is a global system of interconnected private, public, academic, business, and governmental computer networks that serve billions of users worldwide. In terms of expansion of global capitalist development, online shopping relies upon the cheap labor of millions, especially women, worldwide for much of its commerce. However, the internet also provides market opportunities for artisans and craftspeople (through websites like etsy. com)
