scholarly journals Conservative Islam Turn or Popular Islam? an Analysis of the Film Ayat-ayat Cinta

2010 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-128
Author(s):  
Lukman Hakim
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Religious Context ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Way

This paper offers a film and cultural studies analysis of the Indonesian religious film Ayat-ayat Cinta. It examines the way in which the film represents Islam in the context of the globalisation of the media industry, the wider cultural transformation and religious context in Indonesia. This paper argues that the film Ayat-ayat Cinta represents “popular Islam”, which resulted from the interaction between the santri religious variants and the film industry, capitalism, market forces and popular culture in Indonesia. Santri religious variants in this film are rooted in traditionalist, fundamentalist, modernist, and liberal Islam in Indonesia, and those Islamic groups which have undergone a process of conformity with capitalism and popular culture. As a result, the representation of Islam in this film is pluralist, tolerant, and fashionable.

scholarly journals Beaches as borders and Beaches overcoming Borders: An Appeal of the Humanities for more Humanity

Oceánide ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 72-77
Author(s):  
Peter Osterreid
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Ivory Tower ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
High Culture ◽  
Practical Impact ◽  
The Way

This article investigates the cultural potential of the beach as a concrete place, a meaning-laden space, and finally as a metaphorical setting of idealistic vision. In conjunction with the politically heated dimension of beaches as borders to fugitives, the relevance that the humanities play in society is discussed placing particular emphasis on the role of cultural studies. Quite a number of cultural products both from the canon of high culture and from popular culture reaching wider audiences will be examined in the way they centre on the pivot of the beach. Cultural studies, it will turn out, is able to significantly contribute to discussions on morals and, beyond that, to the question of what attitudes in Western societies can be considered ethically acceptable. Thus, in contrast to many other academic disciplines, cultural studies is closely linked to reality and politics so that it is a discipline away from the ivory tower of academia because it deals with life and, most importantly, can have a practical impact on it.

scholarly journals The Loss of the Popular: Reconstructing Fifty Years of Studying Popular Culture

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 228-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joke Hermes ◽  
Jan Teurlings
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Voting Behavior ◽  
Defining Moment ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Media Objects ◽  
The Media ◽  
Filter Bubbles ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The One

This article starts from the observation that popular culture resides in a contradictory space. On the one hand it seems to be thriving, in that the range of media objects that were previously studied under the rubric of popular culture has certainly expanded. Yet, cultural studies scholars rarely study these media objects <em>as</em> popular culture. Instead, concerns about immaterial labor, about the manipulation of voting behavior and public opinion, about filter bubbles and societal polarization, and about populist authoritarianism, determine the dominant frames with which the contemporary media environment is approached. This article aims to trace how this change has come to pass over the last 50 years. It argues that changes in the media environment are important, but also that cultural studies as an institutionalizing interdisciplinary project has changed. It identifies “the moment of popular culture” as a relatively short-lived but epoch-defining moment in cultural studies. This moment was subsequently displaced by a set of related yet different theoretical problematics that gradually moved the study of popular culture away from the popular. These displacements are: the hollowing out of the notion of the popular, as signaled early on by Meaghan Morris’ article “The Banality of Cultural Studies” in 1988; the institutionalization of cultural studies; the rise of the governmentality approach and a growing engagement with affect theory.

scholarly journals Contemporary Culture and the Undoing of Feminism: Review of Angela McRobbie's The Aftermath of Feminism: Gender, Culture and Social Change

1970 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Gender Culture ◽  
Corporate World ◽  
The Media ◽  
Feminist Cultural Studies

A
 couple
 of
 times
 a
 year
 (usually
 around
 International
 Women’s
 Day
 or
 the
latest
 gender
 controversy)
 there’ll
 be
 a
 journalist
 on
 the
 phone,
 asking
 me,
 ‘where
 is
 feminism
 now?’ 
Angela 
McRobbie’s
 The 
Aftermath 
of
 Feminism: Gender,
 Culture
 and
 Social
 Change
 provides
 the
 perfect
 answer,
 though
 one
 that
 probably
 won’t
 be
 dutifully
 reported
 in
 the
 pages
 of
 the
 Courier­ Mail.
 McRobbie
 has
 always
 been
 a
 preeminent
 figure
 in
 feminist
 cultural
 studies,
 and
 this
 work
 highlights
 her
 continuing 
importance.
Indeed, The 
Aftermath 
of 
Feminism
 reminds
 us 
of 
the 
power
 of 
feminist 
cultural
 studies 
to 
explain
 what’s 
going 
on,
whether
 this 
is 
in 
the
media,
 popular
 culture,
 everyday
 life,
 governmentality,
 the
 corporate
 world,
 or
 their
 interrelationships.
 And
 McRobbie’s
 diagnosis
 of
 ‘a
 social
 and
 cultural
 landscape
 which
 could
 be
 called
 post‐feminist’
 
is
 uncompromising,
 far‐reaching 
in
 scope,
 and 
deeply 
disturbing.

scholarly journals An advertiser's dream

2013 ◽  
pp. 69-88
Author(s):  
Ciara Chambers
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
Psychoanalytic Theories ◽  
World Records ◽  
The Way

Mercedes Gleitze was a British endurance swimmer who garnered huge public interest in the 1920s and 1930s. Celebrated for her athletic endeavours and philanthropic work, she was one of the first sportswomen to endorse a range of products, and most famously became a “poster girl” for Rolex. At a time when Edward Bernays was developing the psychoanalytic theories of his uncle, Sigmund Freud, to expand the fields of advertising and public relations, the media became increasingly interested in celebrities and the products they promoted. This article will examine the way the media covered Gleitze’s attempts to break world records and how coverage of her in the press and newsreels expanded beyond her athletic prowess to delve into her personal life and financial affairs. It will also consider how Gleitze became a symbol of expanding consumerism and explore how the tensions between her “new woman” status and her commodified persona were framed in the cinema. The article will also offer a consideration of how newsreels, a resource that has been underutilised by film scholars and historians, can help to inflect debates about contemporary popular culture, shifting female identities and burgeoning consumerism.

scholarly journals The woman body in review: the imperative of beauty

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rúbia Guimarães Ribeiro ◽  
Maria Henriqueta Luce Kruse
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Balanced Diet ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Ways Of Life ◽  
The Way

The media challenges us, creating ways of life and showing us how to behave in various situations. Therefore, we propose to understand the investments on beauty conveyed on Para Ti magazine, in 1940, reflecting on the possible conditions of such messages and the way they circulated producing a subjective mindset and teaching their readers how to be beautiful. We understand that the media provides material with which people forge their identity. This is a qualitative study based on post-structuralist cultural studies. The research corpus consists of issues of the Argentinean magazine Para Ti, from 1940. A cultural analysis was carried out based on concepts suggested by philosopher Michel Foucault, such as power and discipline. These analyses were organized under the marker named "the imperative of beauty". Considering the content presented by the magazine, it is possible to understand the relationship we have with today's image of a beautiful body, associating it with thinness, a balanced diet, exercise, normality, and health.

scholarly journals KONSENTRASI DAN INTEGRASI KEPEMILIKAN PADA INDUSTRI MEDIA INTERNASIONAL DALAM PERANG FORMAT HIGH DEFINITION OPTICAL DISK

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Fajriannoor Fanani
Keyword(s):  
Market Share ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
High Definition ◽  
Classic Problem ◽  
The Media

<p><em>High definition technology development in the entertainment industry, especially film industry, has produce classic problem about format consensus in the media industry. This situation eventually creates the so called “war of format” between the two most popular high definition formats, the Blu-ray from Sony/Hitachi and the HD DVD from Toshiba. Unlike the war of format before, for example is VHS versus Betamax war, that determinated mostly by the consumer, the format war between Blu-ray and HD DVD is strongly affect by the abilities of the companies behind the two format to consentrate and integrate their business moghul and also to make alliance between competitiors. Concentration of ownership is appears in the trend of holywood studios to merge with the bigger studios, which is creates a few conglomeration in the movie business. Integrations of business could be seen from the owners of the big studios that not only have the studios, but also many other business that relate or not with the entertainment business. And least, the alliance could be seen from this big studios alliance to support one of the format.</em></p><p><em>Initially the HD DVD was on the fruitfull position because has been back up by the studios like Warner Bros, Paramount, and Universal that have more market share in US that the studios that support Blu-ray format, which is Sony, Walt Disneym and 20<sup>th</sup> Century Fox. Fortunately for Blu-ray, Sony already sells millions of PS 3 console that ingeniously could read Blu-ray disk; this means there’s already millions of Blu-ray reader device in the hand of consument, something that Toshiba could not generate. In the end, the victory of Blu-ray format is accelerate by the switching side of Warner Brothers studio to the Blu-ray follow by the others big studios.</em></p><p><em>Conclusively, the success of a new technology, especially the media industry, is sometimes not depends on the quality of the technology itself. Often, the success is determined by the availability of the industries that support the technology. The war of format between HD DVD and Blu-ray definitely show the determination of media industry in the development of new technology.</em></p>

scholarly journals PERTARUNGAN IDENTITAS (KELUARGA) SAPI MADURA

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Ardhie Raditya
Keyword(s):  
Family Members ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Industrial Product ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Cultural Industry ◽  
The Media ◽  
Struggle For Recognition ◽  
Close Family ◽  
The Way

So far, studies on the identity of Madurese bulls have not been adequately identified, especially the way of seeing of the Madurese bulls family. Madurese bulls are often seen as a secondary complement to the life of the Madurese. In fact, historically, metaphysically, and politically, Madures bulls are part of the 'close family' of the Madurese, whether we realize it or not. The power of the media industry, which has an impact on the cultural industry, has changed the identity of Madurese bulls as an industrial product. The advertisements for "Marjan" and "Samsung Galaxy" are an actual phenomena of the influence of the cultural industry and media culture because both advertisements show Madurese bulls. The Madurese bulls family in Sapodi (the legendary island as the best Madurese Bulls producer in Madurese bulls race Island) perceives the commercial viewing of “Marjan” Madurese bulls and “Galaxy” Madurese bulls with different seeing among their family members. This reception resulted in a struggle for recognition between them so as to create an unstable meaning of Madureseness identity because the audience of the two commercials represented each other as determining the 'authenticity' of Madurese bulls, although basically the 'authenticity' had been lost by the magic of the mass media.Keywords : Struggle of Identity, Madurese Bulls, and Madurese Bulls Family 

False Confessions in Popular Culture

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Pfeffer
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Visual Cues ◽  
Police Department ◽  
False Confessions ◽  
False Confession ◽  
Average Person ◽  
The Media ◽  
Fictional Story ◽  
The Way

Stories involving false confessions can be emotional and moving, as they appeal to our innate desire for justice. As such, stories of false confessions can be powerful tools in books, films, and televisions shows. The way that a false confession is framed, and the context in which it is introduced to consumers (whether as readers or viewers) makes a big difference in how a false confession will be perceived. In fictional stories in print or on screen, typically the viewer (or reader) has some sense of a person’s true innocence or guilt. In a television show, the viewer may have already seen a clip of the crime with the true criminal. Other musical or visual cues may also give viewers clues as to the true guilt or innocence of an individual offering a confession to a crime. Because viewers know, or will know, the true identity of the person who committed the crime in question, the use of an interrogation or a false confession (or both) can be used to demonstrate the moral character of the confessor. In exactly the same way, the use of a false confession in a fictional story can be used to demonstrate the morality of a police officer or even a whole police department. For example, a scene depicting the interrogation of a suspect that viewers know is not guilty may be used to demonstrate the use of immoral, coercive interrogation techniques by television detectives. In nonfiction, the exploration of false confessions is often used to demonstrate the fallibility of the justice system. Because the idea that an innocent person would confess falsely to a crime that they did not commit seems incredibly counterintuitive to the average person, in-depth explorations (whether in documentaries, podcast series, newspaper or magazine expose, etc.) of the process by which false confessions can happen can be instrumental in helping people understand the reality of the phenomenon. The way a case or a confession is framed in the media and understood in popular culture also impacts our social construction of that person’s guilt or innocence.

The Marginalization and Exploitation of Women in Media Industry

2020 ◽  
pp. 75-94
Author(s):  
Mirjana M. Tankosic ◽  
Ana V. Grbic ◽  
Zilijeta Krivokapic
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Female Identity ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Poor Women ◽  
The Media ◽  
Naked Body ◽  
Roma Women ◽  
Women Disabled

The woman in media is still a face that symbolizes the field of popular culture and hypersexualized naked body, and it is most often presented in the media as a victim. In the last decade, the representation of women and the women`s movement in the media has managed to get some progress. In the media, we will not see Roma women, disabled women, we will not see poor women, because they are not topics that manage to sell media content. The only topic that sells newspapers is the topic of violence against women, first of all because it is a type of secondary victimization, where female identity through media content is again represented as ‘another', and through the identity of the victim. The dead or scorched female body and the continuum of violence satisfy the logic of market capital. The main areas that were highlighted in this research paper are the portrayal of women by the media, the marginalization of women in mass media, the image of women in media, the influence of media on the views of the gender, and the stereotypes of girls and women in the media.

scholarly journals Brand Machiavelli

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. p36
Author(s):  
Michael Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Niccolo Machiavelli ◽  
Niccolò Machiavelli ◽  
The Media ◽  
Common Parlance ◽  
The Common

In this paper I analyze the reputation of Niccolò Machiavelli against the criteria of celebrity found in the Cultural Studies literature. Applied to Machiavelli these criteria include the detachment of his name from any substance of his works, life, or thought; trading on the recognition of his name; the appetite for biographies of him; and the integration of his very name into the common parlance in the adjective “Machiavellian” and the noun “Machiavellianism” which are widely used as self-explanatory in the media, press, and You Tube videos, music, and social media. The evidence adduced for these conclusions is mainly in books—print and digital—but incorporates film, plays, music, and commerce. In short, Machiavelli has accumulated sufficient media capital to be internalized into the popular culture and so rendered an immortal celebrity, i.e., that is Brand Machiavelli.

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