Popular Culture
What is popular culture? Class is key to understanding this.
Culture vs Popular culture
Arnold Leavism - Bourrgeous defence of culture against working class threat
Frankfurt School - Mass culture, culture industry, maintains social authority, social drug, depoliticises working class
Related to design
Graphic designers are a product of popular culture
Fine art is very much on par with Arnold Leavism.
Cities and Film
The city in modernity (Chaplin 'Modern Times')
Dystopian / Utopian
'Flaneur' - W. Benjamin
The city as an aggressive inhuman mass of machines that do not allow happy and free lives.
The distinction in modernism and postmodernism within the city, different interpretation of the city.
Individual acts can redefine the city.
- Space of consumerism
- Space of performance
- A designed space
Your work can be altered by the space that it is put in, as well as how your work will effect the space around it.
Subcultures and style.
Minority Vs. Majority
Minority were neglected by mainstream which gained a sense of identity.
Subcultural language of style.
Subculture is created when a minority is neglected by the mainstream.
Does this mean that Subculture is now redundant?
Begin a threat or a 'symbolic challenge' to some form of order. (football hooligans, goths, any one who come together as a group with one shared vision / message.)
Incorporation - Ideological , commodity
Dick Hebridge
Celebrity Culture
19th Century - Artists / poets as celebrities
20th Century - Warhol
21st Century - Anyone can be famous
Clark Gable Vs Lady Gaga
Celebrity as product of consumer culture.
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