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 The politics of a ‘Poncy Pillowcase’: Migration and borders in Coronation Street’

Politics ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandria J Innes ◽  
Robert J Topinka
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Soap Opera ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
And Gender

This article examines the ways in which popular culture stages and supplies resources for agency in everyday life, with particular attention to migration and borders. Drawing upon cultural studies, and specific insights originating from the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, we explore how intersectional identities such as race, ethnicity, class, and gender are experienced in relation to the globalisation of culture and identity in a 2007 Coronation Street storyline. The soap opera genre offers particular insights into how agency emerges in everyday life as migrants and locals navigate the forces of globalisation. We argue that a focus on popular culture can mitigate the problem of isolating migrant experiences from local experiences in migrant-receiving areas.

Hollywood Animation, Late Modernity and Contemporary America

2021 ◽  
pp. 78-108
Author(s):  
Noel Brown
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Similar Function ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Social Commentary ◽  
Late Modernity ◽  
Intertextual Allusion ◽  
Distinguishing Features

One of the primary distinguishing features of post-1990s Hollywood animation is its foregrounding of contemporary culture and society. While many of the ‘classic’ Disney films are set in fantastical or fairy tale landscapes geographically and temporally removed from everyday life (‘once upon a time…’), most animated features from the early 1990s onwards are self-conscious artefacts of late modernity. There are two primary manifestations of the foregrounding of contemporary culture in post-1990s Hollywood animation. The first, and most immediately visible, is (a usually comic) intertextuality that takes the form of an intensified referentiality to other works of popular culture and modern life more broadly. The second form is that of social commentary, which is often satirical in nature and tends to be a more abiding thematic focus than the intertextual allusion. This chapter argues that both forms serve a similar function: they are strategies of proximation that anchor films to recognisable and identifiable situations and events.

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 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 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.

scholarly journals Politics and everyday life: Serbia 1999-2002

2002 ◽  
pp. 307-319
Author(s):  
Zagorka Golubovic
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Field Study ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
War Crimes ◽  
International Community ◽  
Life Situation ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Hague

A field study is accomplished in 20 towns in Serbia by the method of deep interview. The objective of the investigation: to find out how the citizens themselves have experienced the last years of the former regime as well as the change after the 5th of October, 2000. The study is focused on the attitudes of the informants regarding the reasons of the fall of the former regime and the motives which have (or have not) moved them to involve in the struggle for social change; of the experience of the very date of the turnover: of the changes after that period, as well as of the attitudes toward the International community and their opinions about war-crimes, with a particular emphasis on attitudes concerning the Hague Tribunal. The accumulated data will be elaborated by the qualitative method which makes it possible to consider the responses in the context of everyday life situation and preserve their original expressions, different from the schemes from the media and official reports.

РЕПРЕЗЕНТАЦІЯ АРТ-РИНКУ У ПОПУЛЯРНІЙ КУЛЬТУРІ

2020 ◽  
pp. 90-96
Author(s):  
Admink Admink ◽  
Сергій Русаков
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Art Market ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
Artistic Process ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Constant Support

Автор досліджує репрезентацію арт-ринку в контексті популярної культури. Методологічною основою став міждисциплінарний підхід Cultural Studies, зокрема теорія «схема культури», що уможливлює вивчення динаміки сучасної культури. Популярна культура постає як знаковий чинник, що відображає сучасний культурно-мистецький процес та, водночас, впливає на подальший розвиток сфери культури і мистецтва. Репрезентація є важливою особливістю феномена арт-ринку, що потребує постійної підтримки свого дискурсу. Арт-ринок постає як смислотворчий простір для виникнення, презентації і споживання сучасного мистецтва. Для ілюстрації авторської думки аналізуються бестселери про мистецтво С. Торнтон, які розглядаються в якості посередника між арт-ринком і читачем, що сприяють поширенню культурно-мистецьких ідей серед широкої аудиторії і, будучи творами популярної культури, потребують інтелектуальної, емоційної і моральної активності читача. Твори популярної культури активно реагують на бажання людей розширювати свої обрії, пропонуючи все більше нових культурних текстів, що у свою чергу сприяють соціокультурному розвитку. The author investigates the representation of the art market in the context of popular culture. The methodological basis for the article was the interdisciplinary approach of Cultural Studies, in particular the theory of «circuit of culture», which makes it possible to study the dynamics of contemporary culture. Popular culture emerges as a important factor that reflects the contemporary cultural and artistic process. At the same time it influences the further development of the sphere of culture and art. The representation of the art market becomes an important feature of the art market phenomenon, which requires a constant support of its discourse. The art market emerges as a meaningful space for the emergence, presentation and consumption of contemporary art. Sarah Thornton's bestsellers about art are analyzed to illustrate the author's thoughts. Bestsellers about art are seen as a mediator between the art market and the reader. Readers promote the spread of cultural and artistic ideas among a wide audience and. These ideas, as works of popular culture, require intellectual, emotional and moral activity of the reader. Popular culture works are actively responding to people's desire to broaden their horizons. They are offering more and more new cultural pieces, which contribute to social and cultural changes themselves.

scholarly journals STORIES ABOUT SOCIALIST CULTURE AS TOLD BY ‘ESTRADA MUSICIANS’ IN BULGARIA: TWO PERSPECTIVES ON THE PAST FROM 1990-1992 AND 2010-2018

2021 ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Zhana Popova
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Professional Group ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Media

The text presents the results of a study of stories about everyday life during the last years of the socialist past (1983–1989) by representatives of a specific professional group – ‘Estrada musicians’. The main goal is to highlight the differences in the two regimes of history in the memories of the socialist popular culture. The first regime of remembrance (1990-1992) is a time of the emotionally charged anti-communist speech in the media like the Democracy newspaper, and vice versa – a strong defense of socialist values in the Duma newspaper. The second regime of remembrance is after 2010, when “nostalgia for socialism” stands out as one of the dominant emotions.

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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