1. Be able to define "popular culture" - social and political changes happen and culture makes these intelligible, creates contemporary sensibilities: styles. behaviors, uses of technologies, etc. explains how culture is produced, by whom, and in what ways. cultures is relatively autonomous societi...
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1. Be able to define "popular culture" - social and political changes happen and
culture makes these intelligible, creates contemporary sensibilities: styles.
behaviors, uses of technologies, etc. explains how culture is produced, by whom,
and in what ways. cultures is relatively autonomous societies react to it, politics
does too, or makes use of its emerging valuations and shapes itself accordingly
2. Be able to give a basic or introductory definition for "Cultural production" - -
different groups produce culture under different conditions
-for markets or for consumption (culture industries)
-sneakerheads (nikes)
-or as an expressive practice (articulation)
-These two things are not mutually exclusive. we produce from this culture, too,
and change it
-in this way, culture is material - we do things with it all the time
3. Know the "culturalist" who is responsible for coining the term "structures of
feeling?" - Raymond Williams; affective elements of consciousness and
relationships
4. Know which theoretical foundations is most closely associated with cultural
production - materialism, structuralism, and culturalism
5. Know how the act of interpretation in cultural studies is different from how
other fields approach culture (T/F) - -cultural studies reads the social limitations
and possibilities that inherent within the moment that is produced
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-it reaches beyond these limitations to try to understand the relations, power
structures, and organizational frameworks that are beyond the text or frame
-PASTORAL PAINTING
6. Know what Lawrence Grossberg says about the history or tradition of cultural
studies - -we can understand a history or tradition of cultural studies through its
effective concepts
-there are some concepts in cultural studies across the globe which form 'a history
of real achievements that's is now part of the cultural studies tradition
-He implies that we can understand a history or tradition of cultural studies through
its effective concepts
7. Know how cultural studies conceptualizes language - -Language is a
fundamental form of cultural expression. Without it, we cannot form identity (self-
identify) or represent things (including ourselves) to others; pg 7: 'meanings are not
simply floating out there' rather that are generated through signs
8. Know how cultural studies conceptualizes representation (hint: incorporates
"language") - Representation is synthetic (already constructed, but also constructed
by us) yet material. We can identify with representations and use them to negotiate
social life. Representations are complex assembaleages of languages, clusters of
meanings, that can signify and differentiate one culture
9. Know how cultural studies conceptualizes subjectivity (hint: incorporates
"represenatation") - Subjectivity is the material and meaningful relationship
between ourselves and representations (social categories); we confuse out
individuality with it; subjective it is forms
10. Know what is considered a threat to the political project of cultural studies
(hint: discussion of cultural studies origins in the British "new left" movement) -
Creates a tension between itself and formal academic study
ENGL 211 Exam 1 Review
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