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Cultural. STUDIES AND APPROACH. REPORT BY: BAELS 2A.
CULTURAL STUDIES.
CULTURAL STUDIES is an academic discipline which combines political economy, communication, sociology, social theory, literary theory, media theory, film studies, cultural anthropology, philosophy, art history/ criticism etc. to study cultural phenomena in various societies..
Representation is a key concept and denotes a language in which all objects and relationships get defined, a language related to issues of class, power and ideology, and situated within the context of “ discourse ”.
NOTE: Commodities are signs of identity and lifestyle and consumption begins before the actual act of shopping; it begins with the consumption of the signs of the commodity..
1) transcend the confines of a particular discipline such as literary criticism or history.
Cultural Studies is interested in the process by which power relations organize cultural artefacts (food habits, music, cinema, sport events etc.)..
CULTURAL APPROACH.
Cultural Criticism is another critical lens through which any text can be viewed. This form of criticism examines how different religions, ethnicities, class identifications, political beliefs, and views affect the ways in which texts are created and interpreted..
Since culture is now considered as the source of art and literature, cultural criticism has gained ground, and therefore, Raymond Williams’ term “cultural materialism”, Stephen Greenblatt’s “cultural poetics” and Bakhtin’s term “cultural prosaic”, have become significant in the field of cultural studies and cultural criticism..
"Cultural Approach to History is a great tool to use in the classroom to tackle complex issues.“.
THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS REFLECT FOUR COMMON ASSUMPTIONS IN THE USE OF CULTURAL CRITICISM AS A LENS FOR UNDERSTANDING LITERATURE..
1. Ethnicity, religious beliefs, social class, and so on are crucial components in formulating plausible interpretations of text..
Since Cultural Criticism examines texts from the position of those individuals who are in some way marginalized or not part of the dominant culture, studying the following poem by Luis Rodriguez will provide insights on this perspective..
By reading the poem entitled "Speaking with Hand" we already know what was the poem is all about, by understanding it thoroughly the poem is simply all about a social class of a certain group of people who lives in one area, in which their way of living can be describe in words which is "people who live in a poor area"..
Upon reading the poem we may able to say that the writer itself did a great upon showing something that was really happening in our society in which there are improper equality especially when it comes to our social class..
. CORPUZ, JOYCE ANN RAMOS, NICA INCOGNITO, GEMMA LYN LARDIZABAL, ARIANE JOSE, KEITH DACURAY, JONA RROSE CABALTICA, MARY CRIS.