Thinking Activity: Cultural studies 2: Five Types of cultural studies

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This task given by Dr. Dilip Barad sir head of department of English Maharaj KrishnaKumarsinhji Bhavnagar University.

1) Your understanding of British Cultural Materialism, in your own words ?

    Cultural materialism began in earnest in the 1950 with the work of F.R. Leavis heavily influenced by Matthew Arnold's analyses of bourgeois culture. Cultural studies is referred to as "Cultural Materialism" in Britain , and it has a long tradition. Popular Cultural -T.V. , Films, stage. Mutrial is not cultural.

British cultural studies:-

Two Trajectories:-

1) present past

2) Future socialist utopia

2) What is contribution of Michel Foucault in new historicism ?
                                

Michel Foucault-' power & knowledge' -know, I know, we know, other know. Michel Foucault says power. Foucault's concept of power. Greenblatt and Foucault both worked at Berkeley in the 1970. So , probably, it was there that two 'atomic' particles' in the' universal' of cultural studies collided and thus produced a' new historicism' or 'the poetics of culture'.

3)How can new historicists help in answering the questions raised against Laputa episode in Gulliver's Travels?

                                  

 Laputa-"the whore." What did Jonathan Swift mean when he gave that name to the flying island in the third voyage of Gulliver's Travels? It is a question that has tantalized readers since the eighteenth century. The science fiction aspect of that Island Still amuses us, but why "the whore"? There may be an answer, and as we will show later, new historicism is the right approach to answer this question.

4) Exemplify four types of analyses of popular culture. Apply it on popular artefacts?

Production analysis asks 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? Textual analysis examines how specific works of popular culture create meanings Audience analysis asks how different groups of popular culture consumers, or users, make similar or different sense of the same texts Historical analysis investigates how these other three dimensions change over time.

1)production analysis

2) Textual  analysis

3) Audience analysis

4) Historical analysis

There are four main types of popular culture analyses: production analysis, textual analysis,audience analysis, and historical analysis. These analyses seek to get beneath the surface (denotative) meanings and examine more implicit( connotative) social meanings. These approaches view culture as a narrative story-telling process in which particular texts or  cultural artifacts consciously or unconsciously link themselves to larger stories at play in the society.

5) Difference between modernism  and postmodernism. If possible, give example also?

Modernism began in the 1890s and lasted till about 1945. Postmodernism began after the second world war. Especially after 1968. Modernism was based on using rational , logical means to gain knowledge while postmodernism denied the application of logical thinking. Rather, the thinking during the postmodern era was based on unscientific, irrational thought process, as a reaction to modernism. A hierarchical and organized and determinate nature of knowledge characterized modernism. But post modernism was based on anarchical, non-totalized and indeterminate state of knowledge. Modernist approach was objective, theoretical and analyticalcal while the postmodernism approach was based on belief. The fundamental difference between modernism and postmodernism search of an abstract truth of life while postmodernism thinkers believe that there is no universal truth, abstract or otherwise.    

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