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This is my academic blog on thinking Activity of cultural studies unit 2 five types of cultural studies. This task given by Dr. Dilip Barad head of English department.
Five types of cultural studies
Cultural studies is the science of understanding modern society, with an emphasis on politics and power. Cultural studies is an umbrella term used to look at a number of different subject. Categoeries studied include media studies including film and journalism, sociology, industrial culture, globalization and social theory. To pursue cultural studies is to try to decipher the world that we live in.
- British cultural Materialism
- New Historicism
- American Multiculturalism
- African American writers
- Latina writers
- American Indian literature
- Asian American writers
4. Postmodernism and popular. culture
5. Post-colonial studies
Q : 1 What is your understanding about British cultural Materialism?
Cultural studies is referred to as "Cultural materialism" in Britain, and it has a long tradition. In the later nineteenth century Matthew Arnold sought to redefine the "givens" of British cultural. Edward Burnett Taylor's pioneering anthropological study Primitive Culture argued that "Culture or civilization, taken in its widest ethnographic sense, is a complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society ".
Q : 2 What is contribution of Michael Foucault in new historicism?
From Foucault, new historicists developed the idea of a broad "totalizing" function of culture observable in its literary texts, which Foucault called the episteme. For Foucault history was not the working out of "universal" ideas: because we cannot know the governing ideas of the past or the present, we should not Imagine that "we" even have a center" for mapping the "real. "
Q : 3 How can new historicists help in answering the question raised against Laputa episode in Gulliver Travels?
In "The Flying Island and Female Anatomy : Gynaecology and power in Gulliver's Travels ," Susan Bruce offers a reading of Book III that makes some new historicist sense out of swift's use of Laputa. Bruce examines a four -volume commentary on Gulliver's Travels by one Corolini di Marco, in which the author gives a fairly dry account of his observations until he gets to the episode in Book IV, " A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms, " in which Gulliver captures rabbits for food.
Q : 4 Exemplify four types of analysis of popular culture. Apply it on popular artefacts.
There are four main types of popular culture analysis :
There are four main types of popular culture analysis :
- Production Analysis
Production analysis ask the following kinds of questions :
Who owns the media?
Who creates texts and why?
Under what constraints?
How democratic or elitist is the production of popular culture?
What about works written only for money ? Etc..
2. Textual Analysis
Textual analysis examines how specific works of popular culture create meanings.
3. Audience Analysis
Audience analysis asks how different groups of popular culture consumers, or users, make similar or different sense of the same texts.
4. Historical Analysis
Historical analysis investigates how these other three dimensions change over time.
Q : 5 Difference between modernism and postmodernism.
Modernism was based on using rational, logical ways to gain knowledge, while postmodernism denied the application of logical thinking. In modernism, art and literary works were considered as unique creations of the artists. Authors were serious about the purpose of producing art and literary works.
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