From culturalism, Marxism, political economy, structuralism, and post-structuralism, to feminism, critical race theory, and postmodernism I have found that our unit on postmodernism was the most difficult and confusing area of theory for me to grasp this semester. I had a hard time grasping the definition of pastiche and nostalgia in relation to popular [...]
11. November 2009.
Fashion and Postmodernism
Elizabeth Wilson’s “Fashion and Postmodernism” reveals a critique of Fredric Jameson’s argument concerning pastiche and nostalgia, in relation to the aesthetic world of fashion and postmodernism. Jameson explains that pastiche can be sharply related to parody, which is the humorous or stair imitation of a serious piece. Pastiche, then, is the imitation of style [...]
11. November 2009.
Ur a “JERK” if U think Ur fashion is new
Postmodernism is a cultural and intellectual phenomenon which caused a shift in society. It is marked by a lacking of clear hierarchical principles. It establishes an era of complexities, ambiguity, and interconnectedness which is reflected in may faucets off life. This movement is also reflected in the term postmodernity. This is namely the development of [...]
30. October 2009.
The Family that Preys Together
In relation to ethnic communities we see a collection of different ways to establish culture. Herman Grays does so by using three lens to describe them. Assimilationist, the first, is a statement of invisibility. Here we see the minority culture adapting to the point that its cultural norms are fused with those of the majority. In this [...]
30. October 2009.
Critical Race Theory
The assimilation and the discourse of invisibility treat the black race as invisible and unimportant. This is shown commonly in older television shows and historical past times. The environment between the white and black race is shown as mostly white with black characters/people as the support system, the help, or even the laborers. The pluralist [...]
22. October 2009.
Sex and the City really???
Looking through the lens that is the critical tradition we have a compellation of feminist views we see a variety of reflections on popular media. It is given to us through this lens an ideology of Mass Culture and its influence through commercialization. These pieces both focus on the thought that the ideologies are fulfilling [...]
20. October 2009.
The Proposal and Feminism
Ien Ang’s Dallas and the Ideology of Mass Culture, an analysis of the American soap Dallas, is concerned with the idea of female pleasure in relation to enjoying popular culture. Ang identifies the ‘ideology of mass culture’ as an ideology that stems from the professionally created theory on American television series, a theory which [...]
20. October 2009.
Reception and Experience and those Stairs
Lana Rakow expresses her discontent for the institutionalized perspective of rhetoric. She validates the need of the newer perspective of rhetoric, noted as the ‘popular culture of debaters’. She states that the former of the two was lacking in quality, such as the voice of women and the lacking of patriarchal societal influence. She then [...]
5. October 2009.
“S” on his Chest
Structuralism is the study derived from the theoretical works of linguist Ferdinand de Saussure. Saussure’s work looks at two different emphases when studying under this form. The first is the relationship between signs and their meaning. The second objective is to look at the ways signs are interplayed in relation to one another to create [...]
5. October 2009.
Structuralism : Signs and Myths
What are some signs in popular culture today?
When I think of a significant sign within our popular culture today that conveys a wide range of meanings, I think of a computer. Storey explains that meaning is always the result of interplaying relationships. What a computer signifies to a person or culture is based on [...]
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