Paper8 Cultural studies
- 1. Name: Keraliya Kajal Roll no: 18 Paper-8 : Cultural Studies M.A: Sem-2 Enrolment no: 2069108420180030 Year: 2017-19 E-mail id: [email protected] Submitted to: S.B. Gardi Department of English Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University Four Goals of Cultural Studies
- 2. Introduction • As far as cultural study is concerned , it has border meaning because we see from various perspective then an individual can know what actually it lies in the meaning. • Generally it means way of living life or it can also be said that the life style of people and Matthew Arnold also quote about culture that it is a march towards perfection .
- 3. What is Cultural Studies ? • Cultural studies is composed of elements of Marxism, Post structuralism and Post modernism , Feminism, Gender studies , anthropology, sociology ,race and ethnic studies, film theory, urban studies, public policy, popular culture studies and Post colonial studies : those field that concentrate on social and cultural forces that either creates community or cause division and alienation.
- 4. Interdisciplinary studies Four Goals Separation of high and low or popular culture Means of Production Political Engaged
- 5. Interdisciplinary • Cultural studies transcends the confines of a particular discipline such as literary criticism or history. • Practiced in such journals as critical inquiry, representations and boundary, cultural studies involves scrutinizing the cultural phenomenon of a text. Like: Italian Opera or A Latino telenovela. • According to Lawrence Gross berg, Cary Nelson and Paula Treichler: • " Cut across diverse social and political interests and address many of the struggles within the current scene."
- 6. Continue.... • Intellectual works are not limited by their own "BORDERS" as single texts, historical problems , or disciplines and the critic's own personal connection to What is being analyzed may also be described. • Henry Giroux and others write in their Dalhousie Review manifesto that cultural studies practitioners are " resisting intellectuals" who see what they do as "An emancipator project" because it erodes the traditional disciplinary divisions in most institutions or higher education.
- 7. • Cultural critics see themselves as "oppositional", not only within their own disciplinary but to many of the power structures of society at large. • The questions inequalities within power structure and seek to discover models for restructuring relationships among dominant and minority. • Individual subjectivity is culturally constructed. Cultural Studies is Political Engaged
- 8. Continue.... • Such a notion taken to a philosophical extreame, denies the autonomy of the individual. • Whether an actual person or a character in literature, a rebuttal of the traditional humanistic " Great Man" or "Greek Book" theory. • A relocation of aesthetics and culture from the ideal realms of taste and sensibility into the arena of a whole society's everyday life as it is constructed.
- 9. Cultural studies denies the separation of "high" and "low" or Elite and popular culture: • Cultural critics today work to transfer the term culture to include mass culture, whether popular, folk or urban. • Jean Baudrillard and Andreas Hussein, cultural critics argues that after world war 2 the distinction among high, low and mass culture collapsed. • Often only reflects prevailing social ,economic and political power bases.
- 10. Continue...... The images of India that were circulated during the colonial rule of the British raj by writers like Rudyard Kipling seem innocent, but reveal an entrenched imperialist argument for white superiority and world wide domination of other races especially Asians. Transgressing of boundaries among disciplines high and low can make cultural studies just plain fun. "The Birth of captain Jack Sparrow" An analysis for sources of Johnny Depp's funky performance in Disney's pirates of the Caribbean.
- 11. Cultural studies analysis not only the cultural work but also the means of production • Marxist critics have long recognized the importance of such paraliterary question: • • 1. Who supports a given artist? • 2. Who published the book? • 3. How are these books distributed? • 4. Who buys books?
- 12. Continue... • Janice Radway's study of the American romance, novel and its readers , reading the romance, women, Patriarchy and popular literature, which demonstrates the textual effects of the publishing industry's decisions about books that will minimize its financial risks. • Cultural studies thus joins subjectivity. • Culture in relation to individual lives with engagement, a direct approach to attacking social ills. • Though cultural studies practitioners deny "humanism" or "the humanities" as universal categories, they strive for what they might call "social reason". • Often resembles the goals and values of humanistic and Democratic ideals.