scholarly journals Historia, problematyka i związki studiów postkolonialnych z badaniami kultury popularnej

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 355-374
Author(s):  
Izabela Poręba
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Culture Studies ◽  
Stuart Hall ◽  
History Of

The article depicts the connectivity of popular culture studies in the field of cultural studies with issues of postcolonial studies. The aim of the work is to answer the question about a possibility to transplant Western cultural studies research to postcolonial popular culture analysis and interpretation. The study begins with a brief reconstruction of the history of pop culture research in the scope of postcolonial methodology — the most important works, conferences, and thematic issues initiating an interest in a research field new to postcolonialism around the 1990s and at the beginning of the following millennium. In the next part of the article, the author points out two main definitions of popular culture (“the popular”) in the scope of indicated optics — by Stuart Hall and John Fiske; the author also considers terminological issues with “the popular” and its non-existent equivalent in Polish. An ambiguous movement written in popular culture was considered as its most important feature (as Hall and Fiske claimed) — at the same time, a dominant system is contained (incorporation) and meets with resistance of people who revolt by the means of the system itself (exportation). Nonetheless, the author shows why believing in the possibility of resistance can be an illusion. Next, the author comments on the stand of Kwame Anthony Appiah, who problematized the relation of postcolonialism and pop culture. The analysis of connections between these two phenomena is followed by a few examples of intertextuality in Alain Mabanckou’s novels.

Jumbos and Jumping Devils

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nisha P R
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Social History ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of

Jumbos and Jumping Devils is an original and pioneering exploration of not only the social history of the subcontinent but also of performance and popular culture. The domain of analysis is entirely novel and opens up a bolder approach of laying a new field of historical enquiry of South Asia. Trawling through an extraordinary set of sources such as colonial and post-colonial records, newspaper reports, unpublished autobiographies, private papers, photographs, and oral interviews, the author brings out a fascinating account of the transnational landscape of physical cultures, human and animal performers, and the circus industry. This book should be of interest to a wide range of readers from history, sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies to analysts of history of performance and sports in the subcontinent.

scholarly journals Repackaging Popular Culture: Commentary and Critique in Community

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tully Barnett ◽  
Ben Kooyman
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Big Bang ◽  
Fan Culture ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nerd Culture ◽  
The Big Bang

Contemporaneous with the collision of Science Fiction/Fantasy with the mainstream evident in the success of nerd culture show The Big Bang Theory (2007- ), Joss Whedon’s The Avengers (2012), the growth of Comic Con audiences and so on, Dan Harmon developed Community (2009- ), a sitcom depicting a study group at a second-rate community college. The show exemplifies a recent gravitation away from the multi-camera, laugh-track driven sitcom formula, alternating between “straight” episodes dealing with traditional sitcom premises, though always inflected with self-aware acumen, and more ambitious, unconventional episodes featuring outlandish premises, often infused with the trappings of genre and geek fandom. The show presents apocalyptic action- and Western-style paintball wars, epidemics that evoke zombie cinema, a Yahtzee game that spirals into alternate timelines, and a high-stakes Dungeons and Dragons game that blurs the boundaries between reality and fantasy.  Both the straight and the unconventional episodes ultimately serve the same purpose, examining the intersection between nerd culture and everyday life. This essay discusses a number of episodes which exemplify Community’s intersections between everyday life and popular culture, charting the show’s evolving preoccupation with pop culture and intertwining of reality and fantasy. It discusses Community’s self-referentiality as a sitcom, its ambitious and elaborate recreations of and homages to pop culture artefacts, and its explicit gravitation towards Science Fiction and Telefantasy in its third season. Through its various homages to popular culture and ongoing depiction of fan culture, we posit that the show is both a work of fandom and a work about fandom, advocating for the pivotal role of fandom in everyday life and for popular culture as a tool for interpreting, comprehending and navigating life. In this respect, the show contributes to the long history of both the sitcom and Telefantasy as vehicles for cultural commentary.

Reflections on the Development of Cultural Studies in Japan

2006 ◽  
Vol 23 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 293-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomoko Tamari
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
Cultural Intervention ◽  
Current State ◽  
Excellent Research ◽  
New Development ◽  
History Of

Although Japan had its own distinctive ‘pre-history’ of cultural studies, which produced some excellent research on popular culture, which can be traced back to the 1920s, the current state of cultural studies has been criticized by conventional mainstream academics; whereas the younger generation has been attracted by cultural studies as a new academic trend. An important new development in cultural studies in Japan is Cultural Typhoon. This new movement seeks to avoid institutionalization and create an alternative academic public sphere alongside broadened cultural practices, social activities and political interventions. Cultural studies in Japan can be seen as a part of a new diversity in cultural studies, which has some potentialities to move beyond the academy and open new dialogical spaces for communication and cultural intervention.

scholarly journals The Monobloc Chair: Democratising the Practice of Sitting

Res Mobilis ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 3-18
Author(s):  
Carsten Kullmann
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
History Of ◽  
Multiple Meanings ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Middle Ages

This article examines the cultural history of chairs to understand the many meanings the Monobloc can acquire. The history of chairs is traced from post nomadic culture through the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment period and the French Revolution. Subsequently, I will examine the Monobloc from a Cultural Studies perspective and demonstrate how its unique characteristics allow multiple meanings, which are always dependent on context and discourse. Thus, the Monobloc becomes an utterly democratic symbol of popular culture that can be appropriated for any use.

scholarly journals A Feminist Love Letter to Stuart Hall; or What Feminist Cultural Studies Needs to Remember

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elspeth Probyn
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
Woman Question ◽  
Feminist Critique ◽  
Women Studies ◽  
Stuart Hall ◽  
Feminist Cultural Studies ◽  
Conceptual Work

I need to preface these brief remarks with a caveat. I was to write of Hall’s contribution to forging feminist cultural studies, the intellectual project I have felt affiliated with across my academic life, and certainly that which has inspired and formed me. But I don’t feel entitled to write of ‘feminist cultural studies’ in the way that others, such as Lucy Bland, Janice Winship, Angela McRobbie and Charlotte Brunsdon can. I wasn’t there when the Women Studies Group at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies struggled with ‘the dilemma’ of ‘whether to conquer the whole of cultural studies and only then to make a feminist critique of it, or whether to focus on the “woman question” from the beginning’. The group did conceptual work across the disciplines of history, anthropology, psychology and literary studies, and grappled with theoretical movements influenced by figures as varied as Lacan, Marx and Foucault and across sites such as popular culture, regimes of gendered work and eighteenth-century novels. At the same time, and in their words, ‘the Group also felt it wanted to do concrete work rather than engaging theoretical wrangles’. Across the chapters in Women Take Issue I see dedicated feminists poring over texts, their own and others, and then heading to the streets, the factories and girls’ bedrooms to understand how, where and with what effect gendered relations were being reproduced. It is a picture of scholarly intent a bit at odds with Hall’s description in hindsight of how feminism roared into the project of cultural studies:For cultural studies (in addition to many other theoretical projects), the intervention of feminism was specific and decisive. It was ruptural … As a thief in the night, it broke in, interrupted, made an unseemly noise, seized the time, crapped on the table of cultural studies.

Popular Culture and Cultural Studies

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Madhava Prasad
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Culture Industry ◽  
Culture Studies ◽  
Intellectual Interest ◽  
Anglophone World

At the core of what we know as popular culture studies today is the work of scholars associated with or influenced by the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. Popular culture itself and intellectual interest in its risks and possibilities, however, long predate this moment. Earlier in the 20th century, members of the Frankfurt School took an active interest in what was then referred to as “mass culture” or the culture industry. Semiotics, emerging in the latter half of the 20th century as an exciting new methodology of cultural analysis, turned to popular culture for many of its objects as it redefined textuality, reading, and meaning. The works of Roland Barthes and Umberto Eco are exemplary in this regard. The work of the Birmingham school, also known as British cultural studies, drew from both of these intellectual traditions but went on to forge its own unique methods drawing on Marxist and poststructuralist theoretical legacies. Quickly spreading across the Anglophone world, Cultural Studies is now widely recognized, if not as a discipline proper, as a distinctive branch of the humanities. Other methodologies contemporaneous with this trend are also now clubbed together as part of this generalized practice of cultural studies. Important among these are feminist approaches to popular culture exemplified by work on Hollywood cinema and women’s melodrama in particular, the study of images and representations through a mass communications approach, and ethnographic studies of readers of popular romances and television audiences. A minor, theoretically weak tradition of popular culture studies initiated by Ray Browne parallelly in the Unites States may also be mentioned. More recently, Slavoj Zizek has introduced startlingly new ways of drawing popular cultural texts into philosophical debates. If all of these can be taken together as constituting what is generally referred to as popular culture studies today, it is still limited to the 20th century. Apart from the Frankfurt School and semiotics, British cultural studies also counts among the precursors it had to settle scores with, the tradition of cultural criticism in Britain that Matthew Arnold and in his wake F. R. Leavis undertook as they sought to insulate “the best of what was thought and said” from the debasing influence of the commercial press and mass culture in general. But the history of popular culture as an object of investigation and social concern goes further back still to the 18th and 19th centuries, the period of the rise and spread of mass literature, boosted by the rise of a working-class readership.

scholarly journals Book Review: Freedom of Speech: Reflections in Art and Popular Culture

2018 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 226
Author(s):  
Edward Whatley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Freedom Of Speech ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Private Citizens ◽  
History Of ◽  
Creative Products

For a country that prides itself on the freedoms it bestows on its citizens, the United States has a surprisingly extensive history of censorship. As Patricia L. Dooley’s Freedom of Speech: Reflections in Art and Popular Culture demonstrates, the arts and pop culture have long been favored targets of censors. Sometimes the censors are private citizens or organizations acting as self-appointed guardians of morality. More ominously, they sometimes are government entities intent on controlling the dissemination and consumption of creative products.

bourgeois bohemians in china? neo-tribes and the urban imaginary

2005 ◽  
Vol 183 ◽  
pp. 532-548 ◽  
Author(s):  
jing wang
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Youth Culture ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Market Segment ◽  
Culture Studies ◽  
Critical Questions ◽  
Consumer Segmentation ◽  
Urban Imaginary ◽  
Shed Light

this article treats an understudied subject in popular culture studies: the mutual feed between lifestyle cultures and marketing through an examination of the bobo fever in urban china. how did an imaginary class of “bourgeois bohemians” emerge in a country where the bourgeois base is statistically small and where the bohemian equation is non-existent? to shed light on this pop-culture-turned-marketing-fad syndrome, the article introduces the concept of the “neo-tribes” and maps the pathways that link style cultures to consumer segmentation. a couple of critical questions arise from this exercise. first, is the separability of taste from class symptomatic of a “chinese leap of faith”? and secondly, is the hottest market segment today – the “neo-neo-tribes” – preparing us to address the convergence of a global youth culture?

scholarly journals Lawrence Grossberg and Cultural Studies Today

E-Compós ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana Braga
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Keynote Speaker ◽  
University Of North Carolina ◽  
Stuart Hall ◽  
The University

Lawrence Grossberg is a scholar at the University of North Carolina (USA) and one of the most prominent exponents of American Cultural Studies, having worked with Stuart Hall, Richard Hoggart and James W. Carey. Author of Mediamaking: mass media and popular culture (with Charles Whitney and Ellen Wartella, Sage Publishers, 1998) and Caught in the Crossfire: Kids, Politics, and America’s Future (Paradigm Publishers, 2005), in June, 2013, professor Grossberg has been the Keynote Speaker of the 22nd Annual Meeting of Compós, in Salvador, Brazil. In this interview, Lawrence Grossberg speaks of his influences and of contemporary challenges for a cultural studies perspective. Keywords Cultural Studies. Communication Theory.

scholarly journals Długie trwanie wieku XIX – (pop)kulturowe rekonstrukcje przeszłości w najnowszej fantastyce

2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-258
Author(s):  
Dariusz Piechota
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
History Of

Contemporary popular culture eagerly returns to the era of steam and electricity. The pop-culture imagery of the nineteenth century functions in two variants (realistic and fantastic) and takes the form of intertextual games, providing material for postmodern collages and remixes. New genres, such as steampunk and mashup, were quickly adapted and modified by Polish writers. Victorians were replaced by positivists who saw modern inventions as an effective weapon in the fight against the invaders. In addition to works presenting an alternative history of the January Uprising, fantasy authors eagerly refer to the works of Bolesław Prus. The further fate of The Doll appears both in the steampunk and mashup conventions. An interesting realization of the mashup is also the anthology Other worlds, inspired by the works of Jakub Różalski, which combine fantasy with realistic poetics straight from the paintings of Józef Chełmoński. In the alternative world of Polish graphics there appear monstrous machines, characters from another dimension (like dwarfs). 

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