Thinking Activity:CS : Unit - 2 five types of CS

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Warmly welcome to my blog. cultural Studies is wider subject that hard to describe. Because the word "Culture" itself is so difficult to pin down. Although the five types of cultural Studies is given below.

✴ five types of cultural Studies 

Cultural Studies basically divided into the five part, which are conected with one another and have a different view of Culture.

So let's  discuss in detail the all the Questions of cultural Studies which is relevant with the five types of cultural Studies.

1. What do you understand of British Culture Materialism in your own worlds.

In the British cultural materialism cultural study is referred to is cultural materialism in Britain and it has a long tradition and letter 119 CM Matthew Arnold redefined the givens of British culture And British culture Edward Burnett Tylor's Pioneer anthropological study primitive culture 1871.

The importance of culture Is that must situate within the controlling myth  of social and political reality of British Empire as the sun never set on ideology left over from the British previous century. 

There is a two directories for a culture in Britain.

💠 one is that to laid back to the past and the feudal hierarchy is that ordered community in the past year culture acted in its standard function is the Prisoner of the past.

💠 Another is that trajectory leads to word our future socialist Utopia that would end you all the distinction between labour and leisure classes. And make transformation of status not fixity the norm.

Cultural materialism begins in earnest in the 1915, with the work of F.R leavis and and influenced by Matthew Arnold's analysis of bourgeois culture. The concept of culture hegemony referring to relations of domination not always visible as such and William noted that hemoney was a sense of reality for most people beyond which he it is very difficult for most members of society to move.

So sometimes causes the power to change and ultimately in control of people that the main function of ideology is to reproduce the society's existing relations of production and that function is even carried out in literary text.

That is a lots of literary theories would define the British cultural materialism in a different way feminism was also important part of cultural materialism Which shaped by power structures such as a patriarchy.

2. What is contribution of Michael Foucault in New Historicism.

Micheal Foucault has given the structure of new historicism as new Historicists developed the idea of broad "Totalising" function of culture observable in its literary  text, which Foucault called the episteme.

For Micheal Foucault for history not the working out of "Universal" idea: Because we cannot know the governing ideas of the past or the present. We should not imagine that "we" even have a "Centre" for mapping the "real". For the mall history itself is a form of social operation, told in series of ruptures with previous ages.

3. How can new Historicists help in answering the question raised against Luputa episode in Gulliver's Travels?

There is given the example of 'Laputa' which is a third part of Gulliver's Travel by Jonathan swift the reading of prostate how some new hysteresis sense out of Swift use of laputa. He consider the laputa is a flaying Island in third Voyage of Gulliver's Travels science fiction aspect of that Iceland still amuses us and may be is the answer is show in new historicism is the right approach to understand Laputa.

In his essay "The Flying Island and Female Anatomy: Gynaecology and power in Gulliver's Travels", Susan Bruce who pointed out that the Laputa in Gulliver's travels  is seemingly desperate the events of the 1727. The loading relationship between 18 century midwives and physicians and famous candle involving a monstrous birth that rocked the royal Court and there is a micro observation of Houyhnhnms.

4. Exemplify four types of analysis of popular Culture, Apply it on popular artefacts.

In 1960 at that time popular culture was not widely spreaded and not studied by academics. It is just well known as a popular culture.

After changing the perspective of looking it American Studies programs at first and then letare on many disciplines, including semiotics, literary criticism, film studies, anthropology, history, women's studies, ethic studies and psychoanalytic approaches, critics  examine, culture and media as pulp fiction, comic books, television, film, advertising, popular music and computer cyberculture. 

Whereas popular culture also works in other ways and there is some factor which is related to the popular culture is like ethnicity, race, gender, class, age, religion, sexuality and shaped by and reshaped in popular culture.

These four aspects which work in popular culture and they analyse Seek to get beneath the surface meaning in examining more implicit social meaning Through the view culture as a narrative or a storytelling process.

In which particular text or a cultural artefact, It works consciously or unconsciously link themselves with the larger stories so the basic idea of popular culture is depicted through the popularity of things for commodities in popular culture.

It consists of a wider perspective in which it exposes the culture and breaks the image of society which is largely connected to some phenomenon.

📕 Textual Analysis 👉 It examines how specific works of popular culture create meanings.

📜 Historical Analysis 👉 It
investigates how these three dimensions change over time.

🏭 Production Analysis 👉 It following the such kind of Question:

1. Who owns the media?

2. Who creates texts and why?

3. What constraints?

4. How democratic or elitist is the production of popular culture?

5. What about works written only for money?

👥 Audience Analysis 👉 It asks how different groups of popular culture consumers or users make similar or different sense of the same texts.

5.Difference between modernism and postmodernism if possible give example. 

Modernism eliminates the idea of early decades of 20 century and goes along with the new cultural Trends and changes.

Modernist literature rejected the Victorian aesthetic of prescriptive morality and using new techniques Drawn from Psychology experimented with point of you time space and stream of consciousness writing.

Which affects modern industrial life. It refers to creating new materials at work and techniques which provide new tendencies that are associated with the human life and progress of society or a nation.

⭐ Example:

For example, the modernism presented a fragmented view of human history  as in Eliot's "The waste land"(1925)in mention that was seen as a tragic despite their pessimism modernist work still hope following Matthew Arnold a generation before that are they may be able to provide the unity and coherence and Nation have failed to do.

Postmodernism like post structuralism and reconstruction is a critique of aesthetics of a proceeding age but besides married critique postmodernism celebrates the very act of dismembering prediction.  Postmodernism questions everything rationalist European philosophy. Held to be true It borrows from modernism disillusionment with given of society and penchant for irony the shelf conscious within the work of art. 

And the Molly Bloom section that closely Joyce's "ulysses" in contrast postmodernism. Not only do I not lose meaning but the activity of fragmentation postmodernism prefers Mini narratives of local events similarly in battery Lal describes "simulacra" .

Modernism and postmodernism extent constructed by it realism was the predominant style within  the 18th and 19th century like

🔶️ Market Capitalism 

🔶️ Monopoly Capitalism 

🔶️ Consumer Capitalism(Information Age)

postmodernism marks of culture composed "of desperate fragmentary experiences and images that constantly bombarded the individual in music video television advertising and other forms of electronic media speed and ease of Reproduction of these images means that they exist only as a image, devoid of depth, coherence for originality" and it also reflects both the energy and diversity of contemporary life as well as its frequently lack of coherence and depth.

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