Cultural as text

Question 1

DEFINITION

Answer 1

the production and consumption of cultural production is constructed by gender, age, race, religion, politics

Question 2

MASS CULTURE

Answer 2

produced from print, photography, television, it is the popular culture

Question 3

FRANKFURT SCHOOL

Answer 3

detected a parallel between authority and growth of mass culture, they believed audiences were passive and easily manipulated

Question 4

HISTORY

Answer 4

in the 1950’s mass culture was seen as negative and degraded values, therefore many Hollywood movies were blacklisted (Chaplin)

Question 5

BIRMINGHAM SCHOOL

Answer 5

• reading can be seen as interactive text
• they produce a more complex understanding of culture as a web of interactions
• introduced a subculture in relation to mass culture

Question 6

IDEOLOGY

Answer 6

• a system of ideas that guided individuals behaviour in both conscious and unconscious ways
• ethical, legal, epistemological, racial
• plays are always political